English is our common language for this course, but as well as the different ways English usage varies in English speaking countries, we don't all necessarily have English as our first language in the first place. We have also all come together from different places and backgrounds, where different ideas co exist. In this section I have brought together a list of common terms and ideas we will be exploring and using throughout the course to help guide us in our understanding. It may evolve and expand but represents my current thinking and language.
Birth Blueprint - The map of your Soul's energy in form that is formed during the formative period of time that stretches from your conception to a few weeks after birth. The Birth Blueprint is the term I use to refer to the imprints, patterns and programmes that are formed in this time stage of your life. Mostly in this programme we are focussing on dissolving and undoing the negative impacts of events during this time but the Birth Blueprint will also reveal the strengths and qualities that your Soul brings with it when it incarnates.
Note on the end of the Birth Blueprint Focus
There is an energy shift that happens around 6 weeks after birth that is ritualised in many cultures as the end of the time of adjustment for the mother and marks her return to everyday activities. In the UK, the only vestige of this is seen in the 6 week check up performed by your doctor. I feel that this is the approximate time period for the Soul to come fully into the body and adjust to life here and for the mother and baby to complete that stage of separation. Of course we are dissecting what in reality is an ongoing flow. There are more stages and rites of passage that continue and are also important. However, I feel that they are in another energy category that is outside of the Birth Energy and time period.
Soul - The animating energy that pours into the physical body.
Soul's Pure Essence - This is a term I use often, and is very similar to the concept of the Higher Self. It is really just the Soul still. And as we are always experiencing our Soul through our human filter and any activated imprints, this can sometimes warp our perception of who we are. Connecting and reconnecting with our Soul's Pure Essence, helps to remind us we are not the imprints and habits that we are used to. It give sus a greater clarity, a sense of our innate wisdom and energy that wants to come through.
Although it is very similar to eliciting the Higher Self, when I connect to my Soul's Pure Essence, that elicits a more embodied direct sense of the energy pouring through me without engaging any leftover hierarchial type thinking. ( see note below)
Higher Self and a note on hierarchy- The higher Self is a useful concept for connecting to an energy greater than the everyday self who may be operating with many outdated programmes and imprints. And due to our current society with its in built power imbalances and competitive nature we can find ourselves transposing that onto our ideas of who we are in relation to our Higher Self. Something like, if that is our Higher Self out there then we must be the lower self down here. This can lead to us feeling lesser than in comparison. In my work I am aiming for us to step out of hierarchial, better than thinking completely. And in this vision Higher Self is not better than or even more wise or valid than the everyday human self. Your Higher Self is a good source of wisdom and alternative perspectives though. And I am often will speak of connecting with the Soul's Pure Essence and bringing that energy fowards as this not elicit hierarchy in me.
The Human You - The combination of your Soul energy housed in your physical body creating the everyday you that you know in the physical form that lives on the planet in the physical plane. I see the human you with your personality, quirks, likes, dislikes, aspirations, as equally valuable as the Soul
Liminal
We are often working in liminal spaces and energy fields in this work. Liminal means occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold. It also relates to a transitional or initial stage of a process. In this work the liminal energy of creation often feels to me as very slow, deep and wise. It has a great vastness that you might equate with the energy of a Creator or God , depending on your beliefs. It is a quiet but very powerful space of creation.
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