Manifestation

Manifestation and what it means to manifest has been rolling around in me lately.

Specifically, seeing my body as a tool for manifestation. How grand does the manifestation need to be to count? Or, how outside of my comfort zone does it need to be. In other words, in terms of the Work, what exactly is it I need to be doing?

There’s a part of me that keeps telling me I should make the effort to volunteer my time with some worthy organization. Soup kitchen, homeless shelter, something like that. Step up and step out.

Informing My Actions

Then there’s the “listen for what is being asked” voice, which hasn’t been very loud of late. Or my listening hasn’t been acute enough. When I am attuned, that listening can inform how my actions manifest.

So where do I take my cues from? My head says soup kitchen, my heart says listen. My body wonders if none of the above is the answer. Should I spend more time doing nothing? According to Mr. Bennett, less is more in the “retirement” phase of our lives.  (See Dramatic Universe, vol. four.) Caveat: doing nothing in the sense of spending less time “doing” and more time contemplating.

In part, I’m wallowing a bit in “not knowing” where my work is right now. Allowing space for something to come in that will inform me. Leaving myself open to being informed not from my head, from “should,” but more from the whole of myself, as Gurdjieff would say. I suppose the practice of saying yes to what people ask of me allows for that too.

Manifesting could be picking my grandson up after school. It could be helping a friend celebrate a birthday. Agreeing to lead a morning exercise. Or committing to a weekly blog.

Acting From Another Place

Manifesting could be any number of things. So, what makes it different, what makes it Work? Intention and presence, for one thing.

I’m beginning to see a need to relate to my body as a tool to be used by my higher self. Too often it’s my body that the rest of me is serving. If I believe the sense and purpose of this Work is to transform myself into “a real human being,” the thing that is real needs to oversee the human being, not the other way around.

Lining up the three lower centers is the first step. Connecting them with my higher centers is the second.

Only then can I live to manifest “what is being asked” because there will be one clear voice directing my manifestation.