Activate Potentials
You have tilled the soil, you have planted the seeds, and you have begun to pull out the weeds and the constraints. And it’s time today to begin to fertilise and nourish the soil so that the seeds of greatness, these deeper potentials within you, can begin to come forward.
We are creating a space from which we can activate, we can ignite, we can nourish, we can fertilise, we can energise the deeper potentials of who we are with our attention, with our care, with our presence.
Taking a moment, if you’re somewhere where it’s safe to do so, to put everything to one side and bring your attention back to yourself, fully inside your own body, all the way down into your hips, down into your legs, down into the souls of your feet, and into the earth. Taking your attention off your to-do list, off taking care of other people’s needs. Coming back to yourself.
Stepping into an awareness that all of life is organising around your success, even though you can’t yet see the how-to. Allowing yourself to align with that idea and step into how you would breathe and move and open if you absolutely know that that’s true. Allowing your awareness to expand outward to the edges of our space here, where you can feel a connection to me, to the people who are in your life who care about you.
You are already connected to a field of support, of resources, of love, of power, of championing for the greatest possibility of who you are. Allowing your awareness to open, to receive this knowing in each and every cell.
Breaking Out of Lack: the feeling of being disconnected from a higher power creates a feeling of insufficiency, or scarcity in ways that have us doubt ourselves, really doubt that there’s support for life. It has us being in a very disempowered and stressful relationship with uncertainty and has us feel the sense of: “It’s too late,” “I’m out of time,” “I don’t know enough”.
Becoming a co-creator
Where we’re unable to be receptive to the deeper flowing currents of our life. We’re unable to be receptive or open to synchronicity or alternate deeper ways of knowing. Or if we have those ways of knowing, we’re not paying attention, or we’re not trusting, or we’re not willing to face what we already know.
So here’s the thing I’ve deeply seen and know: You cannot create these possibilities on top of a contracted and disconnected ways of knowing and relating to life.
Activating creative presence is about learning how to shift our attention to ourselves as a co-creator and to do this in a real way versus in a conceptual way. The first thing we want to do is to step into becoming a powerful creator and shifting our lived experience, where our attention, where our awareness is, into this empowered relationship with an intelligence and energy in the universe that’s bigger than you.
I’d love to invite you to put everything to one side and take a nice deep breath. Allow your awareness to drop all the way down into your hips, down into your legs, outward to the edges of the room.
I want to invite you to think back to one of the deepest spiritual experiences that you have had in your life.
If you can’t identify a spiritual experience:
It might be an experience of awe or wonder when you were in some incredibly beautiful place that let your heart open and expand.
It might be an incredible experience of art or creativity when you were at the symphony, or you were hearing an artist perform an incredible song.
It might have been an experience in a traditional religious context or practice.
I want to invite you to take a moment to take a step fully back into that experience as if it’s happening right now, stepping back into your body. See if you can experience in this expanded space, a connection to a higher power. And knowing that there’s nothing you could do or accomplish, or achieve, or give to become any more worthy of being loved, of being supported, of taking up space, of having all of life in its wisdom, power, creativity, magic organised around the fulfilment of your greatest possibilities.
For 13.7 billion years, this intelligence has been expanding, evolving, creating. There is an impulse at the very centre of this intelligence that is moving toward greater levels of wholeness, of connection, of awareness—to make manifest through you and through your life and through your beingness the highest expression of our human potential, to make manifest the good, the true, the beautiful in our world.
To awaken to your power as a co-creator, I invite you to shift into an orientation of being a partner with this intelligence in an equal power dynamic, making the shift, you and the universe a part of this much bigger event.
Instead of asking “What is my purpose?”, try “How can I help the Universe fulfil its purpose?”
Activate your deeper desires
The deeper desires that you have are the seeds of your creative potential. Most of us have not learned how to activate our magnetic power. The first is that many of the things we want or desire, or envision, or imagine, or have as goals, are being sourced from a sense of insufficiency.
Many of these things are larger cultural values as well, about what success looks like. Many of the images that we have in the media about wealth, about power, about success, about what there is to aspire to, have this influence that has the things that we’re wanting or desiring being sourced from a place of insufficiency and not enough-ness. For example, “Oh, I need to have a best-selling book so that I can feel…”
So it’s not that having a book, finding love, or being healthy, vital and alive are not wonderful things to have, and your deeper potentials and destiny. It’s just that our motivations for creating so many things have been sourced in and rooted in lack. Which has us be in reaction versus in creation.
The second part of what’s problematic about how we’ve been creating is when they’re sourced and rooted in lack, what happens is we try to create them from the outside in. This creates the experience of being in lack. For example, there’s something that we want or desire, and it’s out there and we don’t have it. And there’s the sense of, when we figure out how to get it, then we’re going to have the experience of being worthy, whole, complete, and becoming ourselves. Now, interestingly, the Latin root of the word to want means “coming from lack.”
We’re stepping into a whole new relationship with our desires from a place where you can know that all of life is organising around your success. You can step into, right now, the experience of being powerful and feeling the impulses, the yearnings of what it is that you are desiring to create, coming from this place of wholeness, coming from a place of fullness. We begin to activate the magnetic power of these deeper desires, these seeds of our potentials, by feeling them.
You are coming from a place of knowing that there is nothing you could do or accomplish or give that’s going to have you become any more lovable or worthy of taking up space, of participating in the goodness of life. That you have plenty of time, that you have plenty of support, this experience of wholeness and fullness.
The source of the creative process is inside of us, these deeper desires coming out, and we’re curious about the form it might take.
And from this place of connection to yourself, of receptivity, of curiosity, becoming curious, open, wondering about what it is that you desire to create in the area of your intention.
We’re going to start with asking yourself from this place of curiosity, receptivity:
What is it that I most deeply desire to experience in this area of my life?
Letting your heart expand as you feel yourself and all of life vibrating. No need to figure out how to fulfil them. You might see lights or images, or colours, or sensations. Let yourself fully feel it. And writing it down in your journal.
What is it that you most deeply desire to contribute through having and creating, and manifesting this vision?
And don’t be discouraged if you haven’t yet received deep answers in the practice today. If you had any difficulty, it’s simply revealing the disconnect from this larger field. This is great. This is progress.
Trust your intuition and cultivate the courage to act on it.
To manifest and create at the level of destiny, we need to tap into a source of knowing and wisdom that is deeper than our mind. One of the first things you need to know about intuition, as a navigation system at the level of destiny, is intuition and a deeper knowing, and support from this larger field of life, it is responsive to our desires and intentions rather than directive.
When you activate your deeper desires, what starts to happen is, suddenly—there is an awareness that’s present about the next step to bring it forward that previously wasn’t there before you activated and ignited your deeper desires and your power as a creator.
How we expand our power as a creator and be able to rely on intuition and our deeper knowing as a navigation system is by understanding what it really is. How we can cultivate a discernment to have the confidence to be able to act on what we know and turn toward what we know.
What is Intuition?
Research has shown us that there are three dimensions to what we might call “intuitive knowing,” and it’s important to make these distinctions.
The first is it’s a deeper level of your own mind or your unconscious.
There are all of the knowledge and skills and capabilities that you have cultivated throughout your life. There are things that you know, but you don’t know how you know them that have come through your own life experience.
There is also a lot of information that’s going on that we’re taking in on a sensory level, like social cues we’re getting from people. Where someone might be upset, we pick up on their voice tone, their body language. All of these things we’re unconsciously processing. When we have feelings, “Oh, maybe something’s not right in my relationship with that person,” and that’s not necessarily coming from a mystical source, we could hear it in their tone of voice.
There is often an aspect of intuition where we want to be able to source the deeper levels of our own awareness. Particularly, in areas that we have a lot of skills and expertise in, tapping into the deeper levels of our own unconscious mind—is powerful when we want to create in different and new areas.
2. The second level of what’s called “intuition” is sensitivity to energetic fields.
There has been a lot of research in this area, for example, that people can feel when they’re being stared at. You’re not necessarily seeing that person with your eyes, or you know that they’re there, but we have an awareness somehow. There’s a way that we know about things without being conscious of what they are.
3. And the final aspect of intuition, is what is often referred to as “non-local ways of knowing.”
The idea is, as part of this interconnected field, we’re creators. We’re not separate from this larger event of the universe.
The deepest part of you and me, and all of us, shares the same source. We are a part of this deeper intelligence. And as such, we can access a knowledge that is beyond our mind, an awareness that’s beyond our own mind that is sourced from the collective consciousness, that is sourced from past, present, and future. Physics has shown that past, present, and future are happening simultaneously.
There are non-local ways of knowing where we can know about things in relationship to the future. We can tap into the resources of the collective unconscious, and skills and capabilities and talents that are part of this larger experience of life. This is something that we can also begin to distinguish, and learn to consciously do and to tap into.
And when we connect with and we activate our power as creators we’re able to tap into this much bigger and deeper source of knowing that begins to magnetise, that begins to create, that creates a flow of their fulfilment that we can consciously create with and align with.
To create from being.
Starting from a place of listening and receptivity and curiosity, the next step is to embrace this sense of, “All of life is organising around my success,” that “I have enough. I am enough. I have the limitless power to create. The desires that I have are seeds of my potential.”
I’m going to ask you a question that’s going to help you tap into your intuition:
What is it that you already know?
What is it that you already know about what your next step is to manifest in the area of your intention?
Writing it down, from a place of curiosity, receptivity, and taking time to journal this week, stepping back into these deeper desires.
What’s your deeper knowing about what your next step is?
What does your body wisdom know?
Once you have connected to a new awareness, a next step, I want to invite you to take courageous action, to take action on the knowing that you have that may take you outside your comfort zone.