I can’t believe I’ve found another way to get into a flow state and that’s DJing. Curating a set is getting me to listen to music in ways I haven’t before. I listen and visualise what it will be like for people to hear these songs together. I wonder if and how people will dance, how I would dance. Sometimes I get up and dance to see how it feels as we transition from one song to the next. I visualise being in the background while people are chatting and catching up. I think about music that would support connection. What are your portals into a creative flow?

I think yoga helps me access this flow state. I feel like through the practice of yoga, from asana to contemplating philosophy, I now see the world through a magical lens that let’s the Earth’s beauty enter my soul all while still holding the pain and grief of the world. Operating from this more blissful place I see beauty in the small things, the day to day, I was driving the other day and I just couldn’t believe how differently I perceive the world. It’s like an awakening to the minute, the tiny and the subtle.

From this place of noticing beauty, a deep gratitude for life arises and I think it’s here that more space is created in my being to access flow states. Those moments of losing myself to something creative, just like what happens here when I write Teacups. I think this is the premise of Bhakti Yoga: the Yoga of Beauty, I am yet to explore this type of yoga beyond a 2-hour MAGICAL workshop singing Kirtan with Mx Puja. Mx Puja was a guest teacher on my yoga teacher training and they practice and share Bhakti Yoga with the world.

For today’s reading we’ve received the card Ace of Pentacles.

Ace of Pentacles

The Ace of Pentacles is an invitation to open ourselves to receive. It could also be the sign of a new beginning, whether be a new friendship, job or a new way of understanding and seeing the world. I wonder in and amongst the pain of the world, the grief and violence we are witnessing on an hourly basis, that we don’t forget to remain open to receive the magic of the world. It is so important to keep rooted in our bliss body as we gently march toward a liberated world.

There is real skill in learning how to hold multiple truths. It is for sure easier said than done. Holding multiple truths that are seemingly binary opposites, two ends of the spectrum, is even harder. The skill of being able to hold the pain, depression and grief in one breath and create enough space for joy and bliss is hard work, especially when pain can make us feel like we have no space at all, like we are suffocating from the lack of space.

I think about the ‘love and light’ people, the people that tell us that talking about genocide is of a low vibration and the people who say we can just manifest ourselves out of poverty. These people are not a monolith and they will all have differing motives and I think they clearly have not spent time creating the space required to hold multiple truths. Ignorance is bliss sort of vibe. This option most certainly comes from having privilege, to just ignore is a privilege and not something many of us can afford.

For me, the greatest magic of all this spiritual work that I do is that I’ve created spaciousness in my being. It’s an expansiveness that allows me to hold multiple truths, differing opinions and discomfort in ways that doesn’t always affect my nervous system. There’s a part of me that remains unchanged, in yoga philosophy this is Purusha, a part of me that cannot be harmed as I’ve nurtured enough space for that to be so. Everything clicked for me when I heard Prentis Hemphill say that they heal so that there is a part of them that cannot be touched even if they are touched, a part of them that cannot be hurt even when they are hurt. I think it is through this that we can hold multiple truths among many other things that come with cultivating this way of being.

An invitation this week to practice holding multiple truths, when you are feeling exhausted with grief about the world, can you invite a moment of bliss into your being? Maybe that’s through a deeper breath or noticing something in nature that brings you gently to wonder. Often when I experience joy I get moments of guilt creeping in that makes me immediately reckon with my privilege. An invitation to hold the guilt tenderly and create space for the joy to continue. An invitation to hold these truths and notice what happens in the body, you may feel there isn’t enough space to hold all your truths at once, what can you do to create more space? This is a lifelong practice.

Prayer

Together, may we shape Change through creating sacred space in our being to hold multiple truths. May we recognise the spaciousness of universal consciousness and lean its’ infinite teachings. May we apply these learnings to help us navigate the complexities of marching toward a liberated world in a world that’s dominated by people who don’t want liberation as a reality.

May we each heal in a way that we discover the part of us that remains unchanged. That cannot be harmed. That is blissful. That cannot be stolen. That is ours.

What are your thoughts about this reading? How do you create more space in your being to hold all that we need to hold to move through this world? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

In solidarity, with love & care

Amy