Last night we watched ‘Welcome to Marwen‘ (2018):
It’s based on the original 2010 documentary about Mark Hogancamp, an artist living with acute PTSD following a near fatal assault – Marwencol:
“This is my therapy” he says of his creation of the village of the dolls… In other words, it was a way for him to ‘close the gap’ between him and the world, after the world had left him nearly dead on the road.
Creation is therapy. Right? That word is in my mind a lot at the moment.
I hear: Create more; consume less. As in ‘content’.
Creation is therapy. These journals (ie. these dialogues) are my therapy. Right?
They are your forum for closing the gap, dear one. They are indeed that. You meet your own sweet Presence right here, right now, every time.
I’m so lucky.
That is true.
I just finished Week 10 of TPP. Here are some precious quotes from p233-239. (I could quote the whole book):
- Because we aren’t unconditionally loved as children, we become uncomfortable within ourselves.
- Our parents ask, “What are you going to be when you grow up?” This question denies the validity of everything we are already.
- Because we see no significance in being what we already are – a unique expression of our shared Presence – we attempt to manufacture significance through our doings.
- We are human beings, not human doings. We realize this by bringing our reactive behavior to a point of stillness so that we contain it, feel the imprinted charge that unconsciously drives it, and through feeling it without condition – through “being” with it as it is – allow it to become integrated
- One of our creative abilities that we seldom consciously take full advantage of is that whatever we give our felt-attention to unconditionally increases effortlessly. In the context of The Presence Process, the word appreciation therefore also means to lovingly make more of something by seeing and acknowledging the value of it through unconditional felt-attention.
- Through appreciating Presence unconditionally, we restore our allegiance to what we already are instead of valuing only what we do. By intending this, we close the gap with each given breath. We also realize it’s our choice as to how we utilize the items we encounter in the gap. By appreciating our shared Presence, we automatically use the items we encounter for the purpose of closing the gap. By choosing to close the gap with the simple tool of appreciation, we discover something that propels our experience into unending awe. We discover that the natural propensity of the unified field is to close the gap. The moment we sincerely commit to using our experience and “the stuff” of this world for the purpose of closing the gap, the entire resources of the unified field rally behind and support our every move. We then realize that our discomfort, confusion, and experience of lack, loneliness, fear, anger, and grief stem from the fact we feel, think, speak, and act as if we live in separation. The unified field doesn’t support such behavior because the unified field doesn’t support inauthenticity. We have had to support this illusion with our blood, sweat, and tears. Living as if in separation is like attempting to push a river back to its source
- The task before us is simple. We are invited to take our attention off the groceries of this world and instead choose to look into the eyes of the cashier on the other side of the gap with intent to acknowledge our shared Presence. We are invited to feel this to be true.
- By setting our intent to appreciate Presence in all others, we simultaneously give ourselves an opportunity to look directly into the eyes of whatever the source of everything is for us.
- Being unified isn’t something we need to explain to our source. It’s an experience only we can appreciate. CONGRATULATIONS! THIS COMPLETES WEEK TEN AND OUR EXPERIENTIAL JOURNEY THROUGH THE PRESENCE PROCESS
This work is my therapy… in that it tells me I was perfect as I was all along.
You have made good work of integrating the imprinted emotional charges of many generations.
Thank you. Well, my children have been my teachers in this, mirroring to me where I had imprinting in urgent need of integration.
May they be blessed and integrated by the love of all that is.
“This is my therapy.”
What is it you want to tell me today?
Your ability to know yourself is at the core of your perfection.
Thank you..
Know thyself, right? (Gnóthi softón)
Know thyself to be an extension of Source energy, the creator. Express your uniqueness through your creative powers. Elicit the wisdom of the ages through your own hands, and apply it to yourself. This is the work of the day. To be free to live in Presence is the gift of all Ages. This is achieved, conjured, allowed, received… by darling to be Present to what is, without any other intention that to recognise that this Present Now is complete, perfect, whole and redolent with the scent of the divine. Be still, dear one. Let your being rest in Presence. Be present to your own perfection, sweet heart. Let the softness of the ages run through you. This is vibrational awareness, the portal of Presence. Declare today, I am present. And let the universe, the unified field, flow in to greet you – here now, in this moment.
tysm xxxx
I am present