Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Sweet Surrenders



Reflections from the first Sweet Surrender Sessions

One year ago, I shared a vision with a few of my dearest friends.  That vision was to open the Center for Karmic Joy in my home. And now, one year later that dream is being realized.  This month, I kicked off Sweet Surrender Sundays and I am delighted to share that it was a most nourishing experience for all who participated, myself included.  

For November's Sweet Surrender, we contemplated our connectedness and/or disconnectedness  to the Source within the Source of Ourselves and took a moment to refresh that connection through breath awareness and arts based introspection. We conversed about the nature of the Life Cycles that challenge us.  It was helpful to be reminded that Life is a Cycle of Becoming One and Coming Undone and that within this cycle we are continually faced with our own unique Creative Life Processes to cope with the phases of breakthrough and breakdown, of knowing and not knowing, of forgetting our worth and remembering our value.  We re-discovered that Sustaining the Self is not about maintaining a constant state of bliss, but rather about sustaining an awareness that Life is a Cycle and a connection to the Source Within the Source of Oneself, for better or for worse, as we move through each and every phase of that cycle. 


Shifting from contemplation to conversation and then to artistic exploration allowed participants to dialogue with, re-vision, re-define or re-design their relationship to themselves within their unique Creative Life Process.  In a short time, all present were able to realize and impart some Pearl of Wisdom for themselves or to share with another-whether it was setting herself free of worries and finding self contentment in the act of drawing wings upon her technological devices and homework so that they could fly away into the sunrise, or turning a desire for more discipline and routine into a quest for infusing her parenting life with the richness of ritual, or bringing forth a bursting image of divine serendipity that moves off the page beyond words to dance the universe, or scribbling out the fire and frustration of stagnation and then transcribing the sequence that leads from that place to a space of surrendering, softening, centering and submerging in order to resurface with renewed hope and anticipation, or simply realizing that she is seeing and being simultaneously, at once bearing witness to her connectedness while living at the center of herself, and discovering at that center a source of love, so deep, so strong, so gentle.


Sweet Surrender allows us the time and space to bring forth the beauty of each person's unique Karmic Creation. At the Center for Karmic Joy we use the raw material of our lives to create a sustainable life of substance.  For, in the words of Ayi Kwe Armah, "Beauty is in the creative purpose of our lives."

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