You can win a free ticket to the whole event.
That includes the two calls – clearing and opening a space to listen in, and attuning to the response –
…and their recordings
…and a copy of the music Eliana just recorded at an ancient well in Galilee, especially for use in divination
…and the follow-up ecourse on Changing your mind from Lynne Tolk
– the whole shebang, in other words.
To enter, just answer this question:
“Why is it important to you to open space for change?”
Post your answer in the comments to this post; the author of the comment that moves us most will win a free ticket.
Please go ahead and enter a) even if you’re already signed up (if you win, you get a refund 🙂 ) and b) even if you can’t make it to the calls, because you can enjoy the recordings. And if you find you have more than one answer, please post them all.
I have a blatant ulterior motive in this, of course – people’s responses to this question can be pretty amazing. Eliana and I ran a ‘first round’ of the contest on our event page at Facebook, and the responses are inspiring… not least in the way there are no two the same, and none of them says what I would have said:
“Years ago when I was a corporate careerist I structured every single free second. Looking back I got a lot done and yet I felt so sad and empty all the time.
These days I leave a lot of free space in my schedule because I want to allow for the unexpected: good and not so good. It gives me space to find life lessons in what happens and to feel more at peace.”
“I believe that Eliana’s songs, sung in the resonating depths of an ancient well in Galilee, can help me manifest my True Divine Self. To help it emerge, so I can go with the universal flow and not against it.”
“When I think of change I often experience both excitement and tremendous resistance so “opening” a space for change speaks to me, speaks to my need to “allow” it to evolve, to flow, to be.”
“I don’t think of it in terms of change, though I think it is probably the same thing. I see living as a process of more or less conscious unfolding as one of a gazillion faces of God. This unfolding requires space, both space for encountering my current experience and space for the unfolding. The grand dance of life takes space.”
All the answers are thought-provoking… it’s daft, really, to talk about ‘contests’ and ‘winning’. It’s just a nice excuse to invite someone along for free – and we’ve invited Molly, to start with, since her answer resonated with both of us.
(It reminds me of that quotation from Georgia O’Keefe that I have in my notes next to Hexagram 20:
“Nobody sees a flower-really-it is so small it takes time-we haven’t time-and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”)
That was ‘round 1′. Now we’d like to give another place away, and so this is ‘round 2′, which you are warmly invited to enter right here. (Or on Facebook. Or even on Twitter, if you like – just add #osc to your tweet so we can find it. Or on your own blog if you have one, linking back here. Or all four.)
“Why is it important for you to open a space for change?”
Allow an opening
and we can hear change approach.
It’s a weather system all its own,
vast and limitless,
blowing in singing birds who have been waiting forever for us to listen.
I don’t open space for change. Space already resounds with change, if only I open my ears to hear.
@miakoda – lovely, thank you.
I asked Yi the other day what the essential gift was that Eliana and I could provide, together, and received 62 unchanging. Transitions in small ways, the attention to small works that allows great good fortune… and the flying bird. (I imagine you and Yi are talking about the same birds 🙂 )
@Brian – right… it’s hard to ask the question without writing a book. Why open space [in our own time/ thinking/ habits/ routines/ listening] for change?
“Because it’s there” is a pretty good answer…
Well thanks. I suppose I came off as a bit pithy, but I figured, “short and sweet.”
But really, I think all of this involves getting out of our own way. Quite an accomplishment, when done. 🙂
Short and sweet is good.
I think there are two movements: ‘out of our own way’ and ‘into our own space.’ But I don’t want to sidetrack this and start entering my own contest… that’d just be confusing… 😕
Yes, I was thinking of the little bird flying low and the weary one with drooping wings who goes for three days without rest (which I identify with most of late) and 30’s bright bird of omens, as well as the finches in the garden and the doves that joined Eliana in the cave to call along.
Btw, when I played the snippet of her singing, my dog Brillo sat up, alert and listened intently until it was done….
Well I have experienced that change happens whether I like it or not. I’m going through a big one right now and in automatic resistance. Sometimes change is a total blast, other times more than difficult. So being open to what comes enables me not to waste precious energy on resistance. But I have to really be mindful about that every minute. Consulting the I Ching is a huge help in this process for me.
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…Miakoda!
for her breathtaking response that resonates with what Yi had to say about our event.
I feel a bit silly doing this ‘winner’ stuff, what with the whole notion of a ‘right answer’ or ‘best answer’ being complete twaddle. But I’m very happy to be sending Miakoda her access details, anyway. 🙂
By the way – when I asked Hiro Boga this question on Twitter, she sent back,
That struck me as a pretty good use of 140 characters. Maybe related to what Brian was saying.