A kind e-mail correspondent offered the following…
If I may could I pose a question to you? What do you feel are our
creative tools that we can bring into play on a particular issue we are
working on? How would you describe the creative arsenal of a human
focus?
I hope this makes sense, I sometimes get lost in so much material
and I love your way of summarizing Kris’ descriptions of our abilities.
Dear Correspondent
Thanks for your kind words about my take on Kris. The payoff for me
is making something I find so amazing accessible and practical for
others.
Regarding your questions about the creative tools we have to ‘bring into play’ [nice!], as human beings on any particular issue, allow me to make the following comments and suggestions...
First let’s acknowledge a word used that may reveal a belief system very much in need of addressing.
“How would you describe the creative arsenal of a human focus?”
The use of the word ‘arsenal’ is instructive because an arsenal
is where we keep weapons. This is not meant as a put-down of our correspondent’s point of view. In fact appreciation is in order
because this language beautifully highlights the underlying belief so many
of us hold.
The belief that there is a separate world 'out there' [and often seemingly ‘Out To Get Us!’]
influences us to create a lot of confusing perspectives and discordance
in our lives. This is quite unnecessary. To quote Kris, “The world is not about the World, it’s about you!”
Or as Elias has said, “There IS no outside of you!”
I understand that nobody is suggesting taking a weapon to
ourselves here. But this imagery hints at the underlying belief systems
most of us have bought into, about the nature of the tasks before us as
human beings. Why do we need a bunch of ‘tools’ to successfully address
the issues that come up in our lives? [What about just living our lives, without much infrastructure at all?] Recall that the language of our neo-conscious is metaphor and symbolism.
Metaphorically let’s think of taking a socket wrench or
t-square to address some problem with our physical bodies. This is clearly a silly thing to try to do. As an aside,
I am realizing that nobody benefits from an adversarial relationship
with any part of ourselves at any level. As Kris is perhaps a little
fond of pointing out recently, ‘If you pick a fight with yourself, you will certainly lose!'
There are processes offered by Kris that I have found
to be very helpful, though. Many of these tools and techniques are described in detail in
the Toolbox at KrisChronicles.com. The material there is excellent and my
comments here are my current take on some of these tools.
Practice of Perspectives
Kris often refers back to this practice because it is a masterfully powerful
method for effectively engaging situations in our lives that we find
challenging. At the heart of this practice is our ability to consciously move our
attention - I call this our ‘god power'.
Moving our attention - choosing a new perspective on something - is
the core creative act we use as human beings to direct our reality creation mechanisms. Adroit flexibility of perspective could be thought of as... well, an awesome
weapon we can use to smite our problems... [kidding!]
Triple A
Kris offered this technique years ago and for many of us it has
become second nature. When something catches our attention that we
don’t like, we first Acknowledge it, that is to say we acknowledge that the issue exists [and is a meaningful creation of our own.]
Next we Address ourselves to it, ‘What exactly is the
issue here?’, ‘What is the feeling?’, ‘Are there any relevant
associations?’, ‘Is there a metaphorical meaning?', Is this related
somehow to another part of my life?’, ‘What is being valued here?’, etc.
All along we allow ourselves to Accept the issue in whatever way
we can, accepting also ourselves for creating and experiencing this scenario.
Our acceptance in a situation typically goes through ‘holding our nose’, so to speak, because we really don’t like it, to more and
more awareness and understanding of what is being expressed and valued about ourselves, and eventually recognizing and aligning ourselves with our
original intent in creating the beliefs and behavior patterns in question.
We come to realize that the issue, whatever it might be, is really a
loving presentment by our whole selves, offering us an opportunity to
accept and nurture neglected aspects, and thus move our
whole self towards inner and outer congruence. [Nothing is an accident and everywhere we happen to place our attention is very much to the point.]
We are the Captain of Our Own Reality
We are each the captain of the ‘ship of reality’ we are creating for ourselves. 'There are no outside agencies!'
This is great on one level because we are the boss in our reality! In another way it
is a bit sobering because we are also responsible for everything! [Everything is a meaningful and essentially unlimited opening for us to move towards greater wholeness. Our outer and inner experiences are the answers to the questions we are asking ourselves.]
It is understandable then, that accepting this perspective can be a bit bracing for someone who has
been taking comfort, however meager, from thinking of themselves as victims of their
lives. This is but a momentary blip though, like tearing off a bandage in one swipe, because accepting our responsibilities as creator of our realities means that in every moment we get to choose something new! [The unlimited scope of the possibilities of this perspective can not be overstated.]
The potential applications of this understanding are fantastic. We can steer our attention, and intentions, in ANY direction we choose, and our ship and crew [the neo-conscious mind constructing the ‘outside’ world],
will effortlessly generate the desired experiences for us. Not only
that, but if we are watchful, we will notice opportunities along the way that
vastly enrich and expand on our original intentions.
Always More than the Sum of Our Parts
I love this one because it gets me off the hook in important ways.
The idea here is that even as essence or Source or whatever name we
give our wider selves, we are always part of a process of continuous
newness and change without limitations or preconditions. [The joys of bursting into the unknown are an integral part of the game we are playing.]
We don’t ultimately know the ‘answer’ as essence any more than we do as this focal personality. ATI doesn’t even know the answer! [As
hard as it is to credit, we’re all in this together, nobody is the boss
of anybody, and we’re all more than we ever dreamed!]
Don’t Fight, Invite!
Gentleness towards ourselves is one of the most impactful and
emotional messages the ‘dead guys’ are offering. We are so unnecessarily hard on
ourselves! And when we begin to understand that we are eternal,
immortal divinity, this begins to look like a very unfortunate and limiting
perspective.
Getting back to our initial comments, when we really understand that
we are [I AM] all that we encounter in our realities, we lose a lot of our old
vehemence about getting things fixed, putting things right, and sorting
things out, once and for all. If it’s all me, do I want to be so quick
to judge and fix things? Can’t we just appreciate the ‘diversity within
unity’ of ourselves and everything around us?
The thing that most people find challenging is understanding that
everything we don’t like in our lives, inner and outer; all the
people we have been blaming or judging or fighting with, all the frightening
inner urges and ‘tendencies’ we don’t want to admit to, these are all
aspects of ourselves we have been rejecting and denying. [some of them are bent out of shape because we have successfully ignored their more polite and decorous interjections]
When we stop opposing these aspects of ourselves and invite them to
join us for a cup of tea, our acceptance and generosity creates the
opportunity for a warm and frank discussion of the options we see going
forward together. This shared new perspective invariably includes new awareness
of efficient, and perhaps hitherto invisible options allowing
everybody to get what they really want! [such is our power]
Using Metaphors as a Bridge to the Neo-Conscious
This final tool is fresh from Kris’ latest presentations. We can
talk directly to our neo-conscious mind using metaphors. This process
is greatly assisted by learning to make use of various trance states
which Kris has been describing and using for some time.
Understanding that we are always in a trance of some kind is very helpful. [Even essence is in a trance, in a manner of speaking.]
The crucial thing here is that various trance states have different
qualities that are useful to know about. In some states we are very near the unconscious, or
neo-conscious, and can communicate very efficiently and directly with
our reality creation mechanisms. The key is to know the language.
What really catches the attention of our neo-conscious is our
intentional transformation of a meaningful metaphor. The idea is that
we create a meaningful, metaphorical representation of a real issue, and then
deliberately allow that metaphor to transform itself in the direction
of our intent.
I say ‘allow’ because this is not about trying to push the metaphor
in the desired direction. This is about allowing an 'organic'
transformation to emerge in our awareness based on our allowance and our intention to
nurture the aspect in question.
This kind of deliberate alchemical transformation of a resonant,
meaningful metaphor immediately activates and energizes the material
creation energies of our neo-conscious to start generating the
probabilities we desire, [not least because we have allowed the neo-conscious an important part in the proceedings!]