The Breath of Creation

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1 The Breath of Creation Module 3 [0:00:00] Hello, everyone. It's Edward here. Welcome to the third module in this Breath of Creation, this first run-through. I am very excited to have you here with us today, with me today. I'm excited to be here with you today. We're going to be diving into the third phase of The Breath of Creation, which is the fullness, the fullness, the ripeness at the top of the breath when you are completely full. We'll be exploring that in depth as we move through this call. Let's begin. Before we get there, we've got a few things to do. Let's start out by coming together, coming into resonance, coming into alignment, coming into our collective field together here, so that we can all grow and learn and take in as much of this information, the insights, the energy, that will come through today on this call as possible. So give yourself a moment to settle in, to let go of the thoughts, worries, concerns, doubts, fears, tasks, to-do lists that you may have waiting for you. I know I have a long list of things that I have to do today, and I'm going to give myself permission to let go of those for this next 90 minutes or however long we're on the phone. I encourage you to do the same. Just really give yourself permission to let go, to be fully present. What could be more important in your life than learning how to come into alignment with the divine process of creation, the process of creating in alignment, in resonance, in collaboration with the creative force that moves through all things in this universe? I can't think of anything that I would rather do than spend time deepening my relationship with the creative force, deepening my relationship with that spark of creation, that Breath of Creation that allows us to manifest, to bring forth into this physical world that which previously has been just in the realm of spirit, in the nonphysical realm. What a gift, what a blessing that is that we as humans have the capacity to take something from the nonphysical, to visualize it, to envision it and then to create that to bring it into form into the physical world, what a gift that is! And we are here today to deepen into our capacity to open and expand into our ability to do that more effectively, more efficiently and with more joy and love and excitement.

2 Transcript The Breath of Creation 2 [0:05:05] So let's come together into this field. Let's come together with intention, with presence, with openness, with our full attention on this process that we are diving into the cycle, this Breath of Creation that we are exploring together. Let's begin just with that breath, just very quickly. We'll come into resonance with two or three cycles of the breath to bring us into rhythm. What a wonderful way that is as we come in to the rhythm of the breath to really come into alignment, come into resonance with this field. So as you circle back around, let's all pause at the bottom of the breath, and now let's all take a deep breath in. Pausing here at the top of the breath and releasing. Pausing at the bottom of the breath, the place of emptiness, and opening to receive through the inhalation. Pausing at the top of the breath, the fullness, the ripeness, and releasing, relaxing your body with the exhale. Pausing again in the emptiness, the stillness. Drawing in the breath of spirit, inspiring, breathing in spirit, feeling the fullness. Pausing in the fullness, basking in the fullness at the top of the breath and releasing and relaxing again with the exhalation. Continuing to breathe normally, naturally, at your own pace. Feeling our breath, weaving this field together, weaving us together. Feeling a protective boundary around us, surrounding this field. Whether you are listening live on this live call, whether you are listening to the recording, know that you are safe, protected, held, encircled in a field of unconditional love, here to support you, hold you, protect you, and ensure that whatever we do today on this call, whatever we do, whenever you listen to this call, that it is in alignment with the highest good of all; that all energies that come through, that all insights that come through that all awakenings that come through are for the highest good of all and for your highest good. Beautiful. Let's all in this moment just give thanks, just give thanks for all the blessings that already in our lives. Give thanks for the blessings in your life, the abundance. Give thanks for the creations that have already come through you. Think of all that you have created thus far in your life, all the beauty you have created, all the joy you have created. Everything that you have in your life is an outpicturing of something you envisioned and created. What an incredible experience. What a beautiful blessing. So give thanks for that even if as you open to the desire to create even more, to create even more fully in alignment with your highest expression, your highest essence.

3 Transcript The Breath of Creation 3 [0:10:06] Good. Beautiful. Thank you, thank you all so much. Wonderful to be here with you again today. I'm going to open it up for questions about either of the first two phases, the first two phases that we went through, the first phase at the bottom of the breath, the emptiness, stillness where you are immersed in the field of infinite possibility, the field of unlimited potential and that emptiness where you receive the spark of creation, the divine impulse that comes in that is the conception point for your creation. And then moving from that conception point, transitioning into phase two, the inhalation, when you are breathing the spirit, when you are being inspired. Spirit, God, the divine, the great mystery is inspiring you in that phase in phase two. You're playing, you're exploring, you're experimenting, you are opening to new ways of thinking, new ways of being, new ways of interconnecting ideas and expressions of creativity in that phase of inspiration. And today we'll move to phase three, the fullness, the ripeness, the place of completion in the inner world, in the nonphysical world, as you are ready to express and birth out into the physical world. So if you have questions, you can press *2 on your phone. If you're on the webcast you can type in your questions in the box and I will look in the chat box and see your question. And while you are raising your hand and typing those in, I just want to share a little bit of what happened for me this weekend. I went away completely unplugged for the weekend, which was so wonderful. It's a rare treat I have. Usually every other week I take a night and half a day off where I completely unplugged; but to get a full, almost three days in with no computer, no cell phone, was really just a wonderful experience. And to be communing with the elements and with nature up in the High Sierras and soaking in hot springs was, as you can imagine, a very opening creative weekend. And it was really interesting to notice the downloads, the insights, the new information that came through about The Breath of Creation because I'm so immersed in working with you, and at the same time, I'm also working on this other program that I'm going to be releasing, "The Spirit of Abundance." It was really interesting to begin to see how these two programs really weave together in ways that I hadn't quite crystallized. So it's exciting for me, and this is really the first time that I've allowed myself to do this, to create. I am creating this program, this Breath of Creation program with you. You're along with me for the creation. This is not a program that I had fully fleshed out before I invited it to you, and I'm very

4 Transcript The Breath of Creation 4 [0:15:13] excited that with your feedback I'm going to make it even better before I release the full version in the fall. But this weekend it was really interesting to feel these insights coming through and to get the clarity that The Spirit of Abundance is actually just the latter half of The Breath of Creation cycle. The Breath of Creation has four phases, and The Spirit of Abundance has the four elements and the four manifestation keys and I was just kind of like assuming that the four phases of The Breath of Creation and the four elements and the four manifestation keys could all map together. And this weekend, I realized they couldn't. I saw that The Spirit of Abundance really is just final two phases of The Breath of Creation cycle. It's the fullness phase that we're going to be talking about today and the creation phase in the physical world. So that was really interesting to see how the creative process unfolds and evolves as you are creating it. It really made me open to the truth that creation is never done. You're never complete. You might complete something like a book, or a story or a song. But then there's the next one. And that's what The Breath of Creation does. Obviously we're going in the cycle. So as you complete one creation, you move into the next creation. And as you move through these cycles, your understanding of something may evolve, may shift. So as you create, let's say you write a book; and as a writer I know this is true, and I would imagine that most book writers feel this that what they wrote early in their careers does not reflect their understanding of things as they write later in their career. I know it' very true for me. When I look back on courses and programs that I offered and I thought early in my coaching and teaching career, I can see the seeds of ideas that have blossomed now. But my understanding now has shifted so much that what I thought back then was very different than what I'm teaching now. So this cycle of creation is always evolving, always changing. That can be a tricky thing for people who are on the fast track of evolution and personal growth, because as you grow and change often, and this has been one of my difficult issues, often by the time you get to the phase, the fourth phase, where it's time to release your creation in the world, well, guess what, you've already evolved internally in a way that what you're going to release in the world feels kind of old. It feels like you're already passed that. You've moved beyond that. And so it's very easy to get into this kind of -- from an abundance perspective, it gets you into the place where you can sabotage yourself because you don't

5 Transcript The Breath of Creation 5 complete that creation, because internally you feel like you've already moved past that and you're ready to move on to the next creation. So when we get into the fourth phase on Thursday, I'll talk more about that and why it is so important, it's critical that you follow through and bring your creation to completion. You follow through on that fourth phase. It's very, very important for a number of reasons that we'll talk about on Thursday. But today we're going to be talking about the third phase. Wow, there's a hummingbird just right here. Oh, my gosh, it's coming right up to the glass door in my office and just looking through. That was so cool. Sorry, I got distracted. That was very special. It's just been very cool for me to feel how even as I'm creating this, you guys are getting to watch and experience the process of creation while I'm actually doing it and you're now in this sort of first run as it goes through, and you'll automatically get the full version when I release it in the fall, hopefully in the fall. That's my intention. And you'll get to see how it evolved and changed. And it's likely going to be very different. It's definitely going to be a more expanded program, but it's likely going to be very different because of things that come through both through my own insights as I'm going through and teaching you and your input and feedback as I go through and read that and take that in and then put that into the final program. So, the really, really exciting process for me -- and I really do appreciate that you're here with me for this first run-through and you're getting to actually experience what it's like to be in this place of creation. So, let's see. We've got a couple of hands up and let me see if we've got questions. No questions on the webcast. So if you do have questions on the webcast, go ahead and type it in. We do have people on the webcast today, so that's a good sign. I sent out the correct link for the webcast which is good. Let's see. We've got Nancy with your hand up. Nancy, you're unmuted. Hi there. Nancy: Yeah, hi, Edward. I love everything you're saying. I'm so in alignment with you. I mean, when you asked at the beginning, what's more important than being with the divine? I agree there's nothing. There's nothing, absolutely nothing. When I watch the news, when I see what's going on in Gaza Strip, when I see killings and bombs and people crying in agony and body parts gone, and how America thinks they're in safety here -- oh, there goes a butterfly, I just got distracted.

6 Transcript The Breath of Creation 6 You got a butterfly, I got a hummingbird. I think we're in sync. We were in sync last week too, Nancy. What happened last week that was really interesting? I forgot but it was cool. Anyway, yeah, it's interesting. I'm going to jump in here because it's interesting. Actually, the e-zine article that I'm sending out, getting ready to send out tomorrow morning for the weekly e-zine, is actually about that. Last Thursday which was the day that Israel actually invaded Gaza and it was also the day that that airplane was shot down in the Ukraine, and I woke up Thursday morning just feeling like crap. My ankle hurts for no reason. My back hurt. My energy was low. I was like tired all day, and I had to just totally rally myself to come to this call because we have the call on Thursday, so I had to use every tool I knew off to get my energy back, to come back to center, to ground, to really come into a place where I felt like I could show up and be with you guys. [0:19:55] It's really interesting how as we are stepping into this greater level of creation, it's like we're being pulled in two directions. We're being pulled to open more, because that's what we're doing is we are creating and as we're opening to the divine spark, as we're opening to the divine impulse, we are asked to open more so that we can receive the download, receive the spark, receive the impulse and the inspiration from the divine. So we're being asked to expand into that, open into that. And yet, as we open more, as we open our energetic space, as we open our chakras, we open in our sensitivity to what is happening in the world, and it is absolutely at times very overwhelming. It can be very overwhelming when we open in that way. So one of the things that is very, very important and I haven't actually talked about this in The Breath of Creation, and I'm not going to go into it too much in the work that we're doing in these four modules, but it may very well be something that comes in when I do the full course, but the importance of regulating and actively and intentionally knowing what level of openness you are as you move through the cycles, as you move through the phases. So for instance, when you are at that bottom of the breath, that empty phase, that is the phase where ideally you want to be very open. So in your life, you want to set up times and places where you can have the space to open. For instance, this weekend, in the mountains at the hot springs was a time where I could really pretty much fully open up. I was there, there were no electronic signals, there was no rush and buzz and frenetic energy.

7 Transcript The Breath of Creation 7 [0:25:05] So that's what I did. I completely opened up and there were so much insight, so much restoration in that place, because when you open up, you tap in really to source, you tap into that restorative energy of source. It was beautiful. And then I was so basking in this open space that I just spaced on the need to close down. And my partner and I, we stopped in Truckee, which is a little town outside of Lake Tahoe, and I just got blasted by the energy and I felt horrible. And we were going to stop and my idea was, "Oh, we'll just stop in Truckee, it's not quite civilization, and then we'll stop and reintegrate a little bit and I'll check my for the first time," and bad idea. So we got out of there. We stopped. We went for a hike. I regrounded and then I consciously closed down and recalibrated. So learning to know how to set your energy systems as you go through the cycle is very important because especially when you come into the fourth phase that we'll be talking about on Thursday, that's the time when you really do have to be more closed down because it's an active phase. When you're in the world, you're interacting with other people, there's a lot of opportunity for criticism, for judgment to come from outside, for people to pooh-pooh what you're doing. And it's so important for you to be able to be focused and to stay solid and centered in your space. So it's really important to know where you are in the cycle and to intentionally, consciously give yourself times in each of the cycles and to open or close as appropriate. With that said, I will just mention, Nancy, and to all of you, that with all of the news, all the stuff that's going on in the world, we're all modern day mystics. We're all people who are open, we're intuitive, we're attuned, we're open, we're highly sensitive to what's going on in our own environments, the energies, and also to the world at large and the energies that flow through the world. So more often than not, it's advisable to actually pretty intentionally and actively close yourself down when you are in the "real world," in the physical world. When you're engaging in the physical world, it's a really good idea to just take the time to close yourself down and to learn how to work with your energy systems in a way that you can open a needed and in ways that are needed so that you can sort of move through your life in a really powerful, positive protected way and yet still give yourself a time to open to receive the information and the inspiration that you need from the divine. Nancy, was that kind of where you were heading with that? Nancy: No, actually just the opposite.

8 Transcript The Breath of Creation 8 Nancy: Nancy: No. Good, all right. I'm open to the opposite. Where were you heading again? Well, everything you said, I understand, and it's true. The only thing is I can have all the good intentions of everything you just said. I'm too realistic and too practical. I have to remember too that other people have their agenda. Other people, they don't want to close themselves down to what's going on. And they think it's a good idea to instill fear. They think it's a good idea to uncreate let's say the love of nature, the love of spiritual mastery. So how does that impact you, Nancy? Well, facing reality that the Muslims hate the Christians, the Christians hate the Muslims, the Jews hate this and the others hate that. I have to face that reality and I ask myself all these people want to uncreate peace, uncreate safety. I'm in a safe country. It's easy to talk about safety in America, but it's not realistic. It's pulling the wool over our eyes. Our government could go bankrupt just like that. Nancy, I'm actually going to jump in here because I totally, totally hear what you're saying. And I was actually having this conversation with my partner on the way home last night about the balance between sort of facing "reality" versus coming into where we have the ability to make a change. There's that phrase or that anecdote, "Change what you can but know what you can't change." I forgot how it goes, but you know the one I'm talking about. We don't have control over what's happening in Israel right now. You and I don't have any control over that. So facing reality, recognizing what is real can be a good thing. Recognizing that there is hatred, that there is violence, that there is war in the world, that can be a good thing. We need to know where we're starting from; we need to know sort of the playing field that we're operating in and sort of shutting down, putting the blinders on to the place where we're just kind of la la la la la la la. Pollyanna isn't really going to help. However, getting into the place where we feel like we're responsible for that or somehow that we need to be the ones that change that or taking -- I don't know if you saw the video I did for the first Abundant Mystic back in the fall where I had the weight of the world on my shoulder, and I said it's time to take the weight of the world off our shoulders. So many of us spiritual seekers and mystics of the world feel like it's our responsibility to really change the world. The reason that I'm doing this course, The Breath of Creation, is because the way you change the world is by creating what comes through you from that divine impulse, that divine spark. We don't create the world by getting so wrapped up in what's happening in

9 Transcript The Breath of Creation 9 [0:29:58] Israel or what's happening over there, what's happening over there. We don't change the world by getting so caught up in that that we're too tied up and knots to open to the goodness that wants to come through us, the creativity, the creation that wants to come through us. The way we change the world is by recognizing yes, there are things about this world that I wish were different. There are a lot of things about this world that I wish were different. When we were driving home, I was talking about how I wish drivers would just have more courtesy and common sense and just be nice. It's just a little thing, but I stopped at CVS Pharmacy to pick something up that we needed. I needed a contact lens solution before we left. And the woman in front of me had one little teeny tiny box of something and the bagger took two plastic bags, double plastic bags, to put this little tiny boxes. And I just was like, "Really? Really you're going to use two plastic bags for that little teeny tiny box?" And so it gave me the opportunity to breathe and remember that's not mine to solve. We all have our path. We all have our journey. My path is to come as much as I can into my center open to receive the divine spark, the divine impulse that's coming through me because I'm the only one who can translate it in the way that I can. And the more that I'm getting distracted by someone double-bagging a little box and getting frustrated and angry and irritated at that, or the more I'm getting frustrated and angry and irritated at drivers who are inconsiderate and not paying attention and just off in La La Land, that's a waste of my energy. It's a waste of my time. I'm not going to tell you that I'm perfect at it. I'm far from perfect at being fully in my center and fully in my creative space. Every time a driver does something that irritates me, it's a reminder. It's like, "Can I do something about that?" No. I can't do something about that. I can't make that driver change. It's not even something I want to waste my time on. What can I change? I can change my inner experience. I can change the way that I'm responding to that situation. I can spend more time focusing on what I want to create in the world and what God, what the divine, what the creative force want to create through me in the world. And that ultimately is how I will contribute to changing the world and that ultimately is how all of you, all of us will contribute to making this world a better place. So Nancy, I'm going to move on because we have a couple of other questions but beautiful. It's something that I wrestle with a lot, Nancy, this idea of how much attention to pay to what's happening out there and how much attention to pay to what is happening in here, in me that wants to come out into the world. And I don't have an answer. I don't think anyone has an

10 Transcript The Breath of Creation 10 [0:35:03] answer. I think it's only something that you can play with and explore and experiment with in your own life. So thank you, Nancy, so much, and I love when the butterfly came right as you were sharing. Okay, let's go ahead and move on. Let's see. Robin, I see that your hand is up. I'm going to first take this question from Terry in Salt Lake City. Let's see. It says, "Stuck in the first phase. I've been correlating this with my medicine wheel where the North is the place of creation. I see how I've been stuck here all my life. Good at sitting still, reading, good at dreaming, but reluctant to actually create anything because it just dies. Thank you for the insight that it's supposed to. Perhaps now I can let go of the pack rat and trust I can create." Terry, beautiful. Yeah, there are so many reasons why we get stuck in that place. And I would venture to guess, Terry, that you're not stuck just in phase one. I would say you're probably stuck in phase one and two and even essentially a little bit into phase three where we'll be today. It's likely that you've actually created things on the inside. You've taken that spark of creation, that creative impulse that comes through in phase one and you've actually played with some ideas. This is kind of intuitively what I'm getting that you've actually played with and explored ideas, and actually you might have even be felt full of like, "Oh, I want to write that book," or "Oh, I want to write." Whatever it is, whatever that creative expression that is, you may have gone to the place where you are almost going to let it out into the world. And then it's almost like in pregnancy, it's like there's this miscarriage. The baby, the creation within you dies when you don't let it out. And we'll talk about that today when we get into diving into the third phase. So, Terry, there are lots of reasons why you might be holding it in. It can be a fear of seeing it die. But once you move into that place of recognizing, once you let it go, it's not yours anymore, it's not yours. You're birthing it into the world; and as you birth it, there's a period where you have to nurture it but after that you let it go, you let it go, you let it go, and it goes off on its own. So there's that. There's also the fear that it will be criticized or that it won't be accepted or that it will be judged or that you'll be judged. There're lots of reasons why we want to hold on to our creation. As I've said earlier in the opening meditation, sometimes it's just that by the time you get to the third phase, which we're going to explore today, by the time you get to the third phase, you've already realized that what you are planning to create or what's coming into vision in you, it's already old, it's already like, "Wait, wait, there's

11 Transcript The Breath of Creation 11 new information that has come in." So you're like, "Wait a second now." So you don't want to create it. You just want to go back to the bottom of the cycle, get the next impulse, and let it come through." But as we'll talk about on Thursday, it's really important that you complete. This completion process is very important. So, Terry, I would really encourage you just to get into the place of just creating. Just create things. Just get into the habit like a little kid. My daughter used to just create, create, create; write, write, write; draw, draw, draw; and then just throw them out, just let them go. So, get into the habit of that, whatever it is. When I was more actively writing songs, there was a phase where I was just like I was just going to do one -- I think it was one a week. I tried doing one a day and that just didn't work. But for a while, I was just one a week. I'm just going to write one song a week, and I knew that the vast majority of them would be total crap; and once in a while, one of them would be like, "Oh, okay that's actually a pretty good song." And there's a wonderful anecdote about -- I forgot the poet's name now, I'll look it up and send it out to you. But he was a poet and then he became a professor for a college, Sarah Lawrence maybe, I can't remember. And the first day of class when the students came in, he assigned them the job of writing one poem a day for the entire semester, one poem a day, and inevitably one student would raise their hand and say, "That's impossible. How can I write one poem a day? That idea of creating that much, that intensity of creation, that consistent putting out of creation, how can I do that?" And his answer was very simple. "Lower your standards." So, for any of you out there who have perfectionist tendencies as I do, I encourage you to actually lower your standards, to let go of the need for your creations to be perfect. They will never be perfect. They will always be evolving. As you birth one creation in the world, you will already be moving on to the next creation and seeing ways that this creation that's coming out in the world could actually be better, could actually be improved. And yet, you still need to create it, you still need to complete it. It's very important for a number of reasons. So, Terry, thank you for that question. It's something that I'm sure many other people can relate to. Okay, Robin. Let's take you and then we'll move on. Robin, you are on the line. Robin: Hi, Edward. How are you?

12 Transcript The Breath of Creation 12 Robin: I'm great. Thank you. What's up? Right. I want to let you know that I'm so grateful to learn from you. You're a great teacher. And when you explained about the proper breathing, like the belly go out when you breathe in, that kind of thing, I practiced that over the weekend, and noticed that I'm able to open up, to breathe deeper with the belly. [0:40:10] But I notice in the back, it was not open, only the front. And I say, okay, that's the first thought, because I'm healing my health anyway. And I said to myself, I was able to feel the shift of the energy, and I like it. I notice that things are changing, something. I don't know what it is. So whatever it is, I'm not complaining. I'm happy. I'm so glad, Robin. I'm so glad that you've worked with the breath and especially the belly breathing. Just keep practicing. Your back will begin to expand. Just practice with your hands on that soft part of your back that is just above your hipbones. Just put your hands there, kind of wrap your fingers around there. And as you breathe just feel, you'll start to get more sensitive and you'll start to feel when the air begins to expand. It's almost like your hipbones actually kind of spread out and expand, and then you feel the fleshy part, that soft part begins to puff out in your back. I'm doing it right now. And that's when you know you're taking in that really good deep breath. It absolutely will help your health. It will just open, it will relax your body. It's amazing what a good deep breath will do. As I'm sure most of you know if not all of you know, stress is related, stress in the body, stress in the mind is related to like, I forgot the number, about 95% of illness and disease have a connection to stress. So, learning how to breathe deeply and learning how to relax your body using the breath is a very, very potent way for bringing health, increasing the health and well-being of your body. Beautiful. Thank you, Robin, for sharing that. I appreciate it. Let me just check the webcast. Okay, we're good. So let's go ahead and move on because we're already 40 minutes in. I so appreciate your questions and your comments. It's so great. It's really helpful to me to hear the places where you guys are really resonating with this.

13 Transcript The Breath of Creation 13 [0:45:00] After Thursday, I'll send out a survey and a questionnaire for you to fill out so that you can provide me with feedback, so that when I do release this full program in the fall, a much fleshed-out version of it, I will definitely be taking in and incorporating as much of your feedback as I can. So thank you for that in advance. All right, let's first talk about the third phase and then we'll go into a meditation. As you know, we've gone through the first two phases. Just to remind you, the first phase is the bottom of the breath, the emptiness, the stillness where you really open. It's also a place for restoring, for rejuvenating, for resting, for within all of the cycles there does need to be a place of rest, for rejuvenation, to restore your body to prepare for the next cycle. And that's a big function of the bottom of the breath, the emptiness. It's also the place where you open to receive the creative impulse, the spark from the divine. That's the point of conception and that really is the transition point between phase one and phase two. When that sparks come in, when that conception happens you move into phase two, which is really like the gestation period. If you were pregnant, that would be the phase where things are happening, things are shifting, but it's all internal, it's inside. You're playing with ideas, you're exploring ideas, you're opening to possibilities, you're opening to images and thought and designs. Whatever your creation might end up being, you're opening in this phase and it's growing, and it's crystallizing, and it's coming together. And then you move. As you come through that gestation period, you come into the third phase. This third phase is this place of ripeness. It's this place of fullness. It's that place that as a pregnant woman you would feel like, "Oh, I'm so ready. I'm so ready." I remember when my ex-wife was pregnant with our daughter, just those last few days and even a couple of weeks, three weeks before our daughter was born, just that feeling, you could kind of feel it in the air, you could feel it in her this ripeness, this readiness, this just fullness. It's just this experience of ready to let it out into the world but not quite. It's almost ready. It's almost cooked. It's like the cake is in the oven and it's almost baked. It's almost ready but not quite. So that's this full place here. You're in that place and you're putting the final sort of internal tweaks that are happening. As it all comes together, then boom, it crystallizes into the vision of what is going to be released into the

14 Transcript The Breath of Creation 14 [0:50:02] world. It crystallizes into the vision of what you were going to create in the world. You've been playing with it through this gestation phase and then you come into this fullness phase. In this fullness phase, then here comes the "yes," this is the, "yes," the vision of what is to be created. This is the intention that this is going to be created. The third phase is really interesting because it's a narrowing. This whole process, this whole cycle is a narrowing. Remember we talked about the downsampling from this vast, vast expression, infinite expression of creativity that comes from the divine as a divine spark, as a divine impulse, the creative spark that comes through you in emptiness. That impulse is so vast, there's no way that it can be comprehended by the human mind. And then you move from that, from that place of conception into the gestation phase, the inspiration phase. Breathing in. In that inhalation, inspiration phase, you're narrowing down. You're still open, you're still very open to the ideas, to new ideas, to unique ways of bringing things together. This is still an exploration phase, a playful, open, exploring of possibilities and moving the pieces around in ways that haven't been moved around so that you come out with something new, and unique, and creative, and original. And then in this third phase that we're exploring today, in the third phase, at the top, the fullness, this is when you narrow it down even more. This is when you're ripe, you're full. There's only one creation that can come through in each cycle of The Breath of Creation. There's only one creation that can come through. So you have to narrow down even more, you have to downsample even more. And you have to choose. This is where the vision goes into intention, coming into the fourth phase. We'll talk about that next week more. Because you're narrowing all these possibilities down to one expression of your creative impulse. So the divine creative impulse comes in at the bottom. You open to the ideas, the exploration, and the gestation. You come into ripeness, you come into fullness. And then you as the creator in the physical world, you translate the divine impulse into physical form, one expression, one physical form that comes through in each cycle of The Breath of Creation. And then when you express it, when you create it, when you complete it, then you come back and you rest. You restore and you open again to receive the impulse so that you can go through the cycle again.

15 Transcript The Breath of Creation 15 So the third phase that we're talking about today is really a narrowing of the field. You've played, you've explored, you've experimented, you've been open; and now in this fullness you're ready. You're ready, you know, you're at that point, you're a pregnant mother. Whether you're a man or a woman, it doesn't matter. You're pregnant with this creation within you. You still don't know exactly what it's like, what it's going to be like, but that this is the place where you begin to focus. All these other ideas, all these other potentials, they're going to have to wait, and you are going to have to narrow the field. Terry, you were talking about one of the reasons that you get stuck in this place of just you've got all these ideas you want to create, but they're not coming out. Another reason why as creative people we sometimes don't let things out is there are too many ideas. We don't want to narrow the field. We don't want to make a choice. We don't want to downsample so much that we miss all these other ideas. But you have to. You have to. You have to make a choice. You have to come to the final vision at the top of the phase, and then set your intention that "Yes this, this, this idea, this song, this book, this course, this poem, this painting, that, this thing is what I'm going to create now in the fourth phase." And you let all the other possibilities, all the other potentials, you let them go. You let them go for now. Knowing that the ones that are supposed to come back will circle back around and meet up with you at the bottom of the breath back in the emptiness. And you narrow, you get your vision, you set your intention, and you focus for the fourth phase of The Breath of Creation which is when you're actually manifesting your creation in the physical world. So that's where we are today. We're in this third phase at the top of the breath, this fullness. Just everyone, take a deep breath in right now. Let's just feel that together. Deep into the belly, feeling that fullness. Do you feel how full that is? When you're totally full, it's like it's almost hard to hold the breath. Hold it as long as you can. It's like there's an urgency, there's a desire to let it out. It's like, "Okay, now I'm going to let it out." Letting it out into the world feels so good. Let it out. It's like, "Yes!" letting it out. That's what creation is like. It's like that "Yes!" letting it out into the world. But there also needs to be the holding at the top because it's very important. It's very important that you have the experience of fullness because this is another thing that gets back to our reason why we hesitate to let our creativity out into the world. Because as I've said, once it goes out into the world, it's not ours anymore. And once it goes out into the world, it's likely that it's going to be criticized and it's going to be judged by other people. It might even be judged by ourselves. We might judge our own creations. And so that's why this third phase is so important, because when you are full inside, when you get to experience the fullness in this third phase, it's like

16 Transcript The Breath of Creation 16 [0:55:06] you're experiencing your creation already created inside of you. And inside of you, your creation is perfect. Take a moment to feel that. Feel the perfection of the creation that is wanting to come through you as you're in your fullness. It hasn't been created in the outside world, in the physical world. But within you there is a knowing, there is a resting in this completion, this fullness within yourself, this perfection of the creation. And that experience at the top of the breath, that experience of the perfection of your creation allows you to then release it into the world with a solid sense of okayness, of rightness, of acceptance, of allowance. You've had the experience of the perfection inside yourself. You have the experience of knowing, knowing deep within you that your creation is perfect, that it's right, that it's good. So you can release it out into the world knowing that whatever anyone else thinks doesn't matter -- doesn't matter. For any of you who have a strong inner critic or who have a strong reaction when other people give you feedback. Getting very, very comfortable and intimate with this third phase, this third phase in The Breath of Creation is really important. You get very comfortable with this phase of fullness and really, really experience the perfection of your creation before it comes out to the world. It's really important. Because when you have that strong, strong solid connection to the rightness of your creation inside, then you're likely to succumb to the impulse, the tendency to stop your creation, to block your creation, to turn your creative duties off and the creative process off. In the fourth phase, if you get hit by a criticism or a roadblock or a judgment, you'll still be willing to follow through to complete the process or birthing your creation in the world. Okay. Let's go ahead and go into the process. I'll give you the opportunity to actually experience this third phase on deep level. So, go ahead and find your way into your comfortable place if you're not already there, seated or lying down. If you're lying down, it's probably best to be on the floor so you don't fall asleep, that's possible. Make sure that you're in the place where you won't be disturbed. If you're driving of course, please don't do this process now. You can listen to the recording later and get this process later after you stop driving. Good. Okay. So, let's go ahead and come back into resonance. Come back into our field. Again, releasing, letting go of thought, worries, concerns, fears, doubts. Giving

17 Transcript The Breath of Creation 17 [1:00:10] yourself permission to be fully present for this process, fully present for this experience of creation. Feel yourself fully present within this protected field. And I will reground us together and restrengthen, if that's a word, restrengthen the boundary around us, the protective bubble that surrounds us all as we sit in this sacred space, this sacred circle. Again, no matter when you're listen or where you're listening. It is as if we are sitting together in circle surrounded by a beautiful field of unconditional love, grounded into the earth, protected by positive energies who want only our upliftment, who want only what is in the highest good for each one of you and for the highest good of all So feel yourself here. Let yourself ground into the earth. Let yourself feel your connection to the physical world, this physical place where manifestation occurs, the physical world where our creations ultimately are made manifest. Feel the force of gravity pulling you down, pulling you down to the center of the earth. Feel that force and let go. Stop resisting that force. Let yourself actually sink down more fully into the earth. You might want to breathe out and relax your body as you drop down into the earth. And as you let the force of gravity pull you down, feel it pulling your energy down, your spirit down into your body. Feel it aligning your spirit, your body. Feel it aligning all aspects of your being in your center, your core, deep down in your belly. It's another reason to practice breathing deep down into your belly. That's a wonderful place to activate an alignment of your systems, your body, your emotion, your energy, your spirit. Lock them in; align them down in your core. There you go. That just shifted energy, the whole field. Good. Find your way into your intuitive space now that you're locked in in your low belly; find your way intuitive space in the center of your head that golden flame right in the center of your head between your ears. Let it move down and back. It's behind and below where most of us spend most of our perceptual time. Throughout the day we tend to be in the front of our head, perceiving the world from that place. In this moment, let's all drop down and back to the center, the center of your head. You'll know when you find your way there. Your body will kind of let down shifting, quiet, softening, a chatter in your mind drifts off into the distance. You may actually feel like the lights get a little bit brighter even when your eyes are closed, because when you come down into this intuitive space, you actually open your intuitive perceptions;

18 Transcript The Breath of Creation 18 [1:05:00] you open your ability to perceive and it actually enhance your sensitivity. Good. Okay. Let's go ahead and begin to come into resonance with the breath, and then we'll move through a couple of cycles of the breath together and then I'll take us through, again, each of the four cycles and then we'll focus on the third phase breath, the fullness. So let's all meet at the bottom of the breath with your next exhale pause there in the emptiness. And then let's all take a deep breath in, meeting at the top of the breath in fullness and releasing gently, relaxing the body as the air moves out. Meeting again in the emptiness, the stillness, the quiet, and allowing the breath to gently begin to move into you naturally, breathing in coming to the top of the breath in the fullness, holding there, feeling the fullness and gently releasing, letting your body relax. One more cycle, coming into the empty phase, the stillness, the quiet, the resting phase, and then opening to receive the inspiration, opening to breathe in -- breathing in spirit, filling yourself up with spirit, feeling the fullness, feeling yourself full of spirit and then releasing, letting go, relaxing your body coming back to rest, and now allowing the cycle to return to a natural rhythm, natural pace, normal pace without forcing it. And as I go through each of the four phases quickly, give yourself a little time, a little extra time in each of the phases, so we'll begin with the first phase at the bottom of the breath with emptiness. Let yourself feel this emptiness even as you go through the complete cycle of the breath. Give yourself a little extra time to pause in the stillness at the bottom of the breath cycle. Feeling yourself restoring, resting, rejuvenating in this place, feeling yourself opening to the infinite possibilities, the infinite potential in this field of emptiness. Emptiness does not mean there is nothing there. It just means that the vast potential has not yet been organized. So when you are in this place of emptiness, you are in a field of unlimited possibility and potential that has not yet been organized, but there is vast potential for restoring your body, rejuvenating your body, and it is in this place that you open to the impulse of the divine, the spark of creation comes in -- boom, and there is the conception point and there is the impulse to breathe in, to move to the second phase, to inspire, to be inspired, to feel spirit filling you as you breathe in feeling spirit filling you, feeling the ideas, the images, the concepts beginning to percolate, to flow, to open, sparks

19 Transcript The Breath of Creation 19 [1:10:11] coming and going, ideas coming and going, different pieces crystallizing and coming in to relationship with one another. This is the playful phase, the exploratory phase, the phase where you are opening to ideas, to possibilities. You've narrowed the field from the vast, vast incomprehensible creative spark of the divine in the first phase, but you're still open. You're still open to possibility in this phase, the phase of inspiration, of inhalation. And then as you fill up, as your body fills completely with spirit you come to a place of fullness. You move into the third phase, the phase where you are ripe, you are full, you are pregnant with possibility. Your idea has still not been released into the world; but in this phase, in phase three, when you've moved into this place of fullness, this is the place where your idea must crystallize. This is the place where you come more into you, meaning the human you comes more into an active role in the creation because you're narrowing the field, you're narrowing the field, your vision comes in. And as your vision crystallizes -- boom! There, now, the intention releases the breath into the fourth phase, and you begin to create your creation, manifest your creation in the physical world. That is the fourth phase, where you are actually building, creating, manifesting your vision, your intention in the world. You're also letting it go even as you're creating it. You're letting it go because it will never match the perfection of your vision. It will never match in the physical world the perfection of your vision in your inner world. So even as you are creating it, you are letting it go, letting it go, releasing it, offering it up in service, in beauty, in love, in joy to the world. As you release it, as you let it go, you come to completion. Feel that completion as you drop down back into the emptiness, the stillness, the quiet, the rest at the bottom of the breath. And then the cycle begins again. You open to receive that spark of inspiration, that spark that conceives. The seed is planted in that field of potential and that is the conception point. And then you go back into phase two, back into phase two, that place of gestation, of play. And then we come back to the fullness and we will spend more time here in this place of fullness today. So as you continue to move through the cycle of the breath, take a little extra time to pause at the top. Pause in the place of fullness. Feel this place of fullness. Feel yourself full, and feel the ripeness. Feel like what a super ripe