Dancing in the Now: November 2009

Saturday, 7 November 2009

Death to the victim

I have spent much of the last 8 days with pain in my legs, tired and mourning the lack of people who come to my groups or who use my 'services'. From there I fall once more into feeling the victim with the associated expectations and blame on others. "People don't send me clients, the clients I have don't come back, ...."

I got some loving support to be able to connect with and talk about these feelings before the dance group on Friday morning.... so that when we went into the warm-up phase, I found myself already in an 'altered state' swimming, well writhing, in the mud of my arrogance, expectation, judgement and blame. When we came to the introductory sharing round in the group, I felt the need to do a 'Ho,'oponopono' with those present (as symbolic representatives of many others). I now connect with this and offer these feelings to you the reader, right now:
- I'm sorry for how I expect things from you, judge you and blame you
- Please forgive me. Let there be forgiveness for us all.
- Thank you for being in my life and all I learn from our relationships
- I love you

In the rest of the session I danced out all these feelings, re-connecting with myself in the now, re-finding my power and love.

I'm sorry; please forgive me; thank you; I love you

Dance the crisis

Art of now

Human crisis happens within a context. The contexts we live in are a complex balance of our personal beliefs, our emotions, our body and our relationships. But our personal context lives, grows and dies within a wider complex balance of thought, emotion, the economy, the earth & its ecology, our family history and other cultures on our planet.

Much human thought and action is based on the idea that we can know the 'mind of God'. We have believed that we can control the complex web of life in our favour. Crisis is, and always has been, an opportunity for change and learning. But in western cultures we try and isolate ourselves from pain and change with: anaesthetics, insurance policies, prisons, walls, security systems, drugs, border police, institutions, plastic surgery and so on.

These attempts to control or separate ourselves from the pains of life usually displace the crisis: some having the benefits of this control and others suffering the pains. And indeed every day, trying to control our pains, we eliminate elements of this complexity (plants, animals, species, earth resources, cultures, languages, …). Our global ecology, economy, demography and relationships are now being stretched to their limits.

We simple humans do not know how to solve this crisis. Our priests, politicians, economists, industrialists and other so called authorities are as lost as most of the rest of us. We cannot know the depth of complexity involved in this global dynamic balance. We need to ask for help from greater spiritual authorities.

This is Dancing in the Now. Only by moving beyond our comfort zone in the Now to fully feel the pains of our crisis we begin to wale up and feel again. In this way we receive guidance on how to move and act. It cannot be found through thinking and planning.

Dancing in the Now

Saturday, 7 November 2009

Death to the victim

Dance the crisis

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