Legacies and Love
The truth is we are awakening into our highest selves and love. However the old frames of irony and deconstructing are sticky. Sincerity helps, here is a wild ride for having it all in the now.
It’s common to get caught by our old selves. For me these are pieces of my past that are comfortable, safe and well past their use by date :-)
For example, I’m leading a scientific journal special issue on Mindsets of Transformation.1 It’s about what our inner worlds create, what we are holding and framing and, beyond this, what we’re feeling is actually going to happen.
That’s to say, we create conditions that represent ourselves. Why not speak to what we can be in our natural abundant states of love and awakening.2 We need to connect with this and speed up realising such futures.
Consequently a good subtitle for Mindsets of Transformation is:
Our multiplying and interconnected eco-social crises are met through awakening and love: bigger realities, ways of thinking, being and doing.
Except, I was caught by my legacy, a socialised expectation that I critique the difficulties. The subtitle I used was:
Our multiplying and interconnected eco-social crises will not get solved with old ways of thinking, being and doing!
It was safe. It fails to honour your and my biggest self and positive exploration. I apologise. Mindsets of Transformation is about taking these opportunities and calling in what we are creating, bringing it into the present, right now.
This is common, spot the irony in my Balance is a dirty word video summary:
Argh, I’ve done it again: the content is about abundance, feeling a time when all of our needs are met and being in our bigger selves.3
I can summarise it from what’s manifesting:
Creating from responsibility and wholeness
There’s a bigger frame here too. When we’re doing this work we are shifting our realities, returning back to our natural state. This is our natural state of abundance, it includes living from authenticity. That’s a place so many people are shifting into, loving themselves for who they are and being loved for who they are. As opposed to being loved for what they do.4
I felt the gap when I saw my mindset messages above. I went small and safe rather than bold—brave enough to stand up and say:
This is my vision.
I am doing this for humanity and the aliveness I feel when I do this.
I know we can all feel this aliveness.
This makes it easier for the next person to shift and then the next person. It’s our heart awakening, living in our heart.
Heart awakening
Try it, if you like, for a moment (start the audio at 3’10” mark):
Take a moment and close your outer eyes.
Feel into your heart. Feel what it is like to have metaphorical eyes in your heart.
What do you see around you?
As you drop your eyes into your heart.
What do you feel and sense around you through your heart’s eyes?
You may have words for this. You may be able to name emotions of the felt resonances. It might feel like a vibrations or set of sensations beyond your skin and auraed around you.
It might just be a sense of peace or momentary pause, wholeness or nothingness.
Whatever it is, is just fine.
Be with these sensations for a moment. Sit with whatever is around you as you feel and see from your heart. Give it the sensations some names, for yourself, and notice the connections between your seeing, inner senses of your heart and what your heart is seeing and feeling around you.
When you are ready come back to the room or space around you and gently open your eyes.
Realities
What we feel is a reality. When I choose to call in a flourishing world through awakening and love: bigger realities, ways of thinking, being and doing (my subtitle) I’m evoking those feelings. When I chose to feel abundance, a time when all my needs were met, I’m strengthening those muscles, realities that are part of my highest self.5 When I feel the space in and around myself, from my heart, I’m letting myself be with my more multi-dimensional self and feel the reality that we are all one while simultaneously unique individuals.
The more I do this work, the more we all do this, the faster it shifts.
This is, additionally, a call to be in service of 30 to 40% of people around us who are experiencing awakening.
Waking From Sleep is about 150 interviews, first person narratives of these people and these experience… Newberg's book, How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain. He did an online survey of 1,500 people… there's larger general surveys of how often people have these kinds of experiences and they range in intensity but it's around 30 to 40% of the population.
John Vervaeke6
I notice this shift particularly as a lot more questioning and curiosity, people actively exploring how to understand themselves and the world around them disoriented by the old frame which clearly does not work.
We really need these new frames now, those with the courage to go big, curiosity to wonder about bigger realities, the world needs you now.7
Consequently my apologies, I got caught by the old and I give myself this permission slip for saying yes and going deeper into these gifts and services.
Please take one too, a permission slip! Awakening and Love are wild rides.
Pictures: Bansky graffiti photos, unknown photographers.
A mindset of transformation, last call for papers by July 31: Holding and manifesting the world. Extensions may be available! Blog article: https://actionresearchplus.com/last-call-for-arj-special-issue-papers-by-july-31-on-mindset-transformations/
The short video links to my substack https://benevolution.substack.com/p/balance-is-a-dirty-word and is moment of meditation for abundance.
In developmental terms we call this the Transforming Passage. It’s when people are shifting out of their mastery, out of being loved for what they do, into wholeness and creating with and from responsibility, into loving themselves for who they are and being loved for who they are. This aligns with Robert Kegan (Harvard) shift from self-authoring to self-transforming. It’s potent to work with that: see footnote 7.
A moment of meditation for abundance https://benevolution.substack.com/p/balance-is-a-dirty-word
Transforming Passage: Approximately 3 to 5% of our population are making this mindset change. That’s powerful and perspectives vary, 3 to 20% is enough to change the world.
These developmental models of mindsets are amazing and deep. I use
‘s beautiful core as the most precise and actionable framework I know of, by an order of magnitude (from 20 years of applying nearly all of them). Please feel free to reach out for more email>