Coordinates: Templo del Sondio in San Felipe, Oaxaca. I’m still in my bathrobe and have had three cups of tea, two were Earl Grey and one was ginger peach.
I don’t wanna hear from any haters about the Earl Grey…
Today I spontaneously guided my house guest through one of my favorite practices for breaking through blindspots and finding your true inner compass. It was so powerful I had to share it with y’all.
She and I had been talking about those nasty issues we find ourselves stuck on for two or three forevers. Our ego never gets us beyond, no matter how convincing it might be that this time it has the answer. The ego can only counterfeit the actions that arise effortlessly from our essence. It keeps us circling the same poison mulberry bush.
You can use the exercise below as a daily practice to see through those deceptions. If you’re already journaling or doing morning pages, this is a powerful upgrade.
embodied journaling
Close your eyes and scan your physical body head to toe.
Locate the place in the body with the most intensity.
Get curious about it. Does it have a color, taste, smell, texture, temperature, density? Can you tell what material it's made of? Can you sense what kind of object it is?
Send love to that physical place in your body, watching to see if the sensation or mental images stay the same or change. Neither is right nor wrong. You only need to witness whatever is happening.
When you're ready, let your consciousness drop towards that location in your body. With every breath, sink a bit further until your conscious awareness is housed in that place.
Feel yourself come into presence with this sensation.
When you're ready, let this place in your body write your journal entry. Put the pencil to paper and write without stopping. For the love of all that’s worthy, do not edit it. Let it say anything it wants to say.
If/when you get to a stuck place, ask to experience the higher octave expression of this object. You can ask your soul’s deepest wisdom to help you see and feel it transformed into something more whole. See the path illuminated to activate this aspect of yourself as a gift instead of a ‘problem.’
Now let this high-octave expression write an answer to any questions the low octave may have been stuck on.
If you like, the low and high octaves can have a dialogue going back and forth.
Don’t worry about getting through all of the steps, especially in the beginning. Get as far as you get and trust that’s perfect. When you’re finished, offer gratitude for your body and deepest wisdom. Your process is complete.
If this seems like it can’t possibly deliver the goods, I’d recommend you try it a time or three before you decide. Your ego is good at talking you out of embodied exercises by pretending it knows how it’s going to go. What I know from guiding people through hundreds of sessions… your ego is flat-out wrong.
a favor
Please hit reply and let me know a question that’s been dogging you in your business partner or love relationships. What are you stuck on? I’ll use your answers to inform the work I’ll be offering in the coming months.
This. Will. Not. Be. 2020. Part. Three.
new offering
Also, I’m going to open up a handful of 90-minute Enneagram typing sessions for $222 each between now and Feb 11th. These have been super powerful for my clients as they take the blindfolds off of the nonsense your ego has been getting away with your whole life. These enable you to make permanent breakthroughs on your toughest stuff! I’ll give you about three months’ worth of homework and resources to complete a whole life pivot.
If you’re already using the Dragon deck which is based on the Enneagram… this will connect some serious dots. If you’re intrigued or have questions, send me an email and we’ll go from there.
Ciao for now,
Cris and Team Dragon