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February 19, 2006
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Translate Intuitive Experience
An Artist's Embrace
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I
think with intuition. The basis of true thinking is intuition. Indeed,
it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition
tells a man his purpose in life. One never goes wrong following his feelings.
I don’t mean emotions, I mean feelings, for feelings and intuition
are one.
~ Albert Einstein (b 1879) |
Our Earth and a most engaging sun,
both capable of sensitive cognition,
will from their bond reflect to us any
imaginable human intention. ~ DM |
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There's nothing remarkable about it.
All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time
and the instrument plays itself.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach (b 1685), a German composer and
organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra
& solo instruments drew together almost all of the strands
of the baroque style and brought it to its ultimate maturity
Whether I was in my body or out of
my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.
~ George Frideric Handel (b 1685), a leading German Baroque
composer of concerti grossi, operas, and oratorios
(*) Philip Golabuk;
from
The Art of Embracing.
Reprinted with permission,
the Field Center at fieldcenter.org
© 2006. All rights reserved.
Neither a lofty
degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go
to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul
of genius.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b 1756), a Freemason,
among the most significant and enduringly popular composers
of European classical music
Music is the one incorporeal entrance
into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind
but which mankind cannot comprehend.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven (b 1770), a German composer widely
regarded as one of history's supreme composers, producing
notable works even after losing his hearing; one of the greatest
figures in the transition between the Classical and Romantic
eras in music
Simplicity is the final achievement.
After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes,
it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
~ Frederic Chopin (b 1810), one of the most famous, influential
and admired composers for the piano, and Poland's most significant
composer
I am convinced that there are universal
currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere
and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.
~ Richard Wagner (b 1813), a German composer, conductor,
music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his groundbreaking
symphonic-operas; compositions notable for their continuous
contrapuntal texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and
elaborate use of leitmotifs: themes associated with specific
characters or situations
Without craftsmanship, inspiration
is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
~ Johannes Brahms (b 1833), a German composer of Romantic
music, often regarded as one of the last bastions of the Romantic
Period, a champion of form and logic in contrast to the opulence
and excesses of many of his contemporaries
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Greetings Everyone,
While listening to classical music on an Internet web cast out
of Denmark, I’m writing this ezine with hopes its messages
will be welcomed music to your ears.
After reading through the Staying Awake archive, I think
the ezines in toto resemble a musical composition in development,
with ebbs and flows of emotional contrasts in musical tones and
feelings. I can’t imagine more suitable movements in various
Staying Awake newsletters than an emotional ocean flowing
onto the beach, and back; rushing onto the beach, and back, again.
That’s not so unlike the artistry of the pianist inside me,
and maybe you can relate to that, too?
I like playing with poetry. As you take a moment for letting a
poem do its magic, you may feel like taking a deep breath, and read...
Respites ease into quiet’s deep,
Feel your presence feathered with light;
Songs hover hushed on ocean’s drift,
You and I winging, sparkling white.
The sense of a hovering benevolent presence makes for truly pleasurable
respites between moments of overload. That’s why I believe
groups, whose members listen and acknowledge intuitive moments,
find trusting intuits can lead to refining choices for all involved
in their business and play.
The intention of Translate Intuitive
Experience is a deeper understanding of the telegroup's
shared intuitive experiences. It’s likely the participants’
expressions will be similar to others' or maybe not - we look forward
to being surprised! We might also be surprised by moments of deepened
awareness. Just staying awake to our expanding dreams is enough
to keep us busy!
Translate Intuitive Experience telegroup
declines qualifying and quantifying intuitive moments. The group
is a person to person discussion, building a collection of shared
intuited moments and interpretations with a model of compassionate
coaching felt in the background of conversation.
Imagine the possibilities during our sessions…
- Each of the seven participants and facilitator listen deeply
to the others. We remember how we might have learned to translate
and retranslate intuitive moments, or how we've dismissed them,
entirely. We remind ourselves to nurture one another for the courage
to look inside, and to stay awake to our dreams.
- Exercising our imaginations reminds us of our physical bodies
and feelings through simple sensory exercises. We pinpoint moments
we experience feelings or nudges, and locate the sensations in
our bodies.
- Also, we may practice depending on inborn sensing capabilities
between sessions. For those who want to track their experiences
and results, a ready chart is prepared as a handout.
- Everyone benefits from discussing the times we paid attention,
and acted (or not) while in the moment. It wouldn't surprise me
when we experience an instant profound impression, we'll reconnect
ourselves to ourselves, and expand our concepts of what's available
in our business and personal lives.
- The telegroup experience points to the choice for trusting
ourselves in the act of sensing. We become curious about thoughts
that prompted intuits and nudges while in business meetings and
conferences, writing emails and ezines, talking with the spouse
and children, reading, cooking, fishing, talking on the phone,
showering, putting on makeup, stroking or walking the pets, thinking
quietly, running errands - those ideas are just starters!
Translate Intuitive Experience
telegroup begins March 7th at 12 noon Eastern Time for three consecutive
Tuesdays. Read
a lot more about the telegroup and register, here.
People who walk on stage to perform opera, ballet, a recital, or
instrumental solos with symphony have a secret. I’m feeling
emboldened enough to summon words as best as I can while adding
another writer’s thoughts. There’s an intention going
on here, and, that is, wanting to connect you with the imagination
and expression of an artist’s embrace.
Many artists, whether in the performing arts or creators of silent
arts (like sculpture, painting, writing), describe the movements
of creation as something that comes through them, not something
that comes from them. Artists quietly quiver an abundance of energy,
and their sensibilities are ever-ready receptors of a constant flow
of unseen energies. The senses and body respond, allowing entry
for the energies’ creation to be seen, heard, and felt. It’s
an exquisite alliance, in all.
… Western culture especially (though
certainly not only) is big on taking charge, on our ability to
get out there and make things happen. The Puritan ethic is founded
on it. Supported by the principles of Romanticism, democracy,
capitalism, free will, and various ethical systems including the
Church (especially post-Reformation), this idea of going out and
embracing life in the first-person-active-voice is proffered as
the remedy to sloth, irresponsibility, and other character traits
regarded as failings if not as sins. In this forced choice between
the virtue of willfully embracing on one hand or passively missing
opportunities on the other, the third, artistic option is entirely
overlooked – the option that allows us, through our willingness,
to be embraced by and to express something greater than our will.
(*)
Performing artists feel repeatedly, instant after instant, the
dance between surrendering the physical body to the demands of the
musical score and emotions. There’s a constant tension, until
there’s no tension between the performer and what might be
called one’s benevolent worthy opponent: The embrace of the
artistic creative presence that is greater than one’s will.
At the instant an artist’s physical surrender waltzes to
the embrace of the unseen, a truly gratifying, opulent, undivided,
competent intuit happens every nanosecond.
The same can be present as you manage your personal and business
missions with others.
- What do you sense when you’ve enjoyed your work?
- What do you sense when you’ve been embraced by the work
you’ve chosen?
- Have you gambled that someone else’s counsel and management
were better than you intuited?
- Have you reluctantly accepted an institution’s or a group’s
directive, or a friend’s ideas as your own?
- Do you think of being compassionate, patient, and loving while
imagining the course for your day?
And think not you can direct the
course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your
course.
~ Kahlil Gibran (b 1883), a Lebanese author, philosopher,
poet and artist
When doing daily business activities that are enjoyed, relying
on and listening to the intuitive, or to the heart of a matter,
can result in choices well directed, articulated, and embraced by
sensibilities of all involved — your enjoyment and light-heartedness
are reciprocated, not unlike the (performing) artists’ experiences.
... Our destiny, for example, or purpose in life, may
not be something we choose, but something that, if we’re willing, chooses
us. If so, the ability to recognize when one is being chosen would be essential,
an ability without which we could only live an incomplete and unfulfilled
life. And in all our running around to embrace this or that, we might miss
the one embrace that matters most. (*)
The performing artist witnesses the creative spirit as a presence that is fascinated
with enjoying itself: It craves that one embrace that matters most. An artist’s
embrace of work makes for a range of feelings from deep satisfaction to sometimes
consternation when the body just won’t respond in the way it’s directed
by the brain. The artist keeps practicing until finally the physical responses
show up in synch with the inner waves of the creative, musical presence.
Swirling around, upon, and inside the physical body during performance, elegant
weaves of abstract intention, physical mastery, and vivid memory, all, a union
of beauty and grace become an effortless embrace within a world of artistic
ecstasy. An embrace is physically felt as the joy of being in the moment, and
of a job magnificently achieved.
… These things are measured by subtle
standards, chief among them beauty and grace — that is,
by artistic standards. It is far more beautiful, far more graceful
to become attractive and receive than to chase things and shove
them into one’s pockets. Because receiving is more beautiful,
more graceful than taking, it is infinitely more gratifying. Being
embraced is more beautiful and graceful than throwing one’s
arms around something. We are not talking here about a physical
embrace, though it may apply there, too. We are not even ruling
out embracing things in the metaphoric sense, only noting that
our embraces become more beautiful and graceful when we’re
willing to release our will and wait to be embraced first by whatever
we want to embrace — in other words, to embrace in return.
(*)
Respites ease into
quiet’s deep,
Feel your presence feathered with light;
Songs hover hushed in artistic embrace,
You and I waltzing, sparkling white. |
