🍓Explorations Oracle # 69

Focus on YOU & enjoy delicious changes (+ Live CALL)

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Before I give you your next Explorations Oracle prompt, I want to invite you of the May Creatrix Coterie CALL coming up on May 21 at 5 pm Paris = (8am Vancouver, 11am Toronto, 4pm London).

During the first part of this 90-minute Creatrix Coterie call, I'll be introducing the Creatrix Business Model - the perfect framework to weave a well-run innovative business together with your legacy-building craft. It's very simple, quick to design & easily allows you to do your creative work AND work with clients while enjoying spacious days as well as plenty of time for exploration & fun.

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As always, we'll play with some creative exercises, do some expansive visioning & start thinking about your (one-day-soon) business in new ways.

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• big-picture business visioning

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And, now on to the Oracle Prompt~

The Explorations Oracle is a collection of 122 questions which touch on the 3 main elements of Creatrix Living – WORK, LIFE & CRAFT.  The “prompts” often relate to one or more of these which offers you a wide scope for looking at your daily life, creative projects & your business in new ways.

Here’s your Oracle prompt :

# 69 - Which actions do I choose so I can be fully present in all areas of my life?

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As with the other oracle prompts, you can interpret this exactly as you wish.

It’s a good idea not to wait around thinking too much about the “perfect” answer.

Instead, sit down & get writing. See what comes through naturally before your logical brain has time to start trying to remember all the various “departments” of your business, what you’ve read elsewhere, &/or what you’ve already written about this in a previous attempt to find the answer.

I also try to approach a question like this as though I’ve never thought of it before. Go for “beginner’s mind”!

Before you start writing a giant “Things To Do So I Can Be Fully Present” list - take a few moments to feel into the question. Take it slowly & pay attention to the order in which your preferred actions arise. How many are your “regulars”? How many seem to come out of “nowhere” (these are new ones, btw!)?

Watch for the hesitant ones which hover at the edges of your awareness, they’re probably always there but your incredibly efficient logical left brain (I like to call it my LB 😉) has dismissed them so many times you’ve gotten used to ignoring them. Pause & take a look, you may be pleasantly surprised…

We’ve been taught that meditation & embodiment practices (yoga, Somatics, Pilates) are THE ways to be more present. Yes, they’re great centring methods but they can often lead to getting too caught up in perfection/form/rules which can lead to the LB wandering - it loves to slip into autopilot whenever it can. Of course, you can become a master of as many methods as you wish but trying something new will almost guarantee that you’ll be fully absorbed by the activity = fully present.

Some fun & powerful actions/activities you can do to be more fully aware of how you’re living your life & enjoy it more:

• luxurious deep sleep (in complete darkness, if you can)

• dawdle, gather wool, putter about (your LB may protest but keep going!)

• enjoy a long, hot, soaky bath (+ Epsom salts to open your cells)

• eat organic, lovingly grown & prepared food (variety is the spice of life)

• head out for some forest bathing (bonus if there’s a body of water!)

• play with some automatic or intuitive writing (I do this in tearooms all the time)

• listen to uplifting chanting (Hildegarde of Bingen) or beautiful music

• use your hands to make/craft/cook/garden/tend loved ones

Think about what being “fully present” in your life means FOR YOU.

For me, it looks totally different than what I see on social media!

If you want to go deeper - consider the various ways you compartmentalize (or not) your life.

A few years ago, I realized that every time I embarked on a “self-improvement” spree, I’d start out by writing lists of all the things which I thought would better me, my work & my life in general. I’d imagine a perfect version of me that (if I could only attain it by doing this & that) would transform my current life into a movie-worthy epic.

Today, I simply look at 3 areas of my life (the same ones which I use for my business & this oracle) - WORK, CRAFT, & LIFE. Work is about what I share publicly & with clients, Craft relates to the topics I research & my creative projects & Life includes everything else I do (for myself, friends, family, pets, the earth…).

Naturally, they’re interlaced & each affects the other, but I find looking at them separately shows me where I’ve been “checking out” & where I’ve been “tuning in”. This makes it very easy to choose which actions will increase my sense of being fully present in ALL parts of my life.

PLUS When you’re playing with this prompt, you can also choose how often you do the various activities you’ve listed - daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally, annually? Remember, you don’t have to start doing grand, complex things to be awake & aware. Sometimes a seemingly tiny action can ripple throughout your entire life!

As you begin to focus on you FIRST (& I mean more than a quick 30 minute “self-care” appointment at a spa !!) you’ll notice how your life transforms - just like magic.

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You may be wondering how this ties into your business. 

I’m sure you’ve heard all about “filling your cup” before you give to others. Today’s prompt will help you realize that that proverbial cup is already full, actually, it’s so full that it’s overflowing and you’ve been so distracted that you haven’t noticed!

When you shift your focus from looking to fix things in your life, to en-joying what’s already there, your vibration rises and people can feel it. The more you truly experience your life, the more they’ll want to work with you.

Yes, business success can really be that simple.

If you have some great AHAs or have another activity you’d like to add to my list, go ahead & share. Just reply to this email or leave a comment below.

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The next Creatrix Coterie CALL is on May 21 at 5 pm PARIS.

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Bring your business & energetic questions along with your tea/coffee/cacao, pen(s) crystals, tarot(s) & journal and let’s play!

Elizabeth 🍓

PS Yes, I found that perfect strawberry in my front yard yesterday! Yum!

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