Are You Creating or Destroying?

Are You Creating or Destroying? ©2017 Joan M. Newcomb, CPC

This planet is a playground, an adventure in density and effort. It is here for us to experience physical reality in all it's glory.

The primary energies at play are creation and destruction.

If you look at nature, you see examples everywhere. Trees fall over in the forest and become hosts for new saplings. Waterfalls erode their rocky beds. Birds spread seeds, bees pollinate plants. And predators cull overpopulated prey.

Destruction is needed in nature. Forest fires release seedlings that otherwise would not grow. Volcanoes spewing lava create new islands. Destruction can actually be very creative.

It's a fundamental truth that if you want to create something in your life, you have to destroy something.

We have tremendous ethics around destruction. It's bad. When in reality, what may need to be destroyed in order to create, may be your limiting thinking.

Destruction feels like death, and in some ways it is. It may be death to an aspect of your identity. It may be death to a dream that wasn't even yours to begin with.

If you want to expand, you have to knock down a few walls.

The energy of destruction need not be violent. And it need not involve other people.

Often when someone wants to expand in their lives, they think they have to destroy their current relationships. They think others are holding them back.

When you release whatever is inside you that is holding you back, often people around you change. You've released the limiting pattern and the people in your life transform accordingly.

Sometimes you shift to a new level and friends fade away, with new friends showing up. You don't need to reject anyone, only those who match your new vibration are in your new reality.

People enmeshed in old paradigm power games don't understand the gentle grace of Consciousness. Consciousness is bringing expansion, always evolving with benevolent intent.

As greater Consciousness comes into this world, old ways are disintegrating. Those who are strongly identified with dominance and limitation are having a difficult time right now. To them it feels like *they* are dying. They are fearfully trying regain structures that no longer exist, that cannot be held in this new world.

If there is something you'd like to let go of, you don't have to 'burn bridges' or 'kill your darlings'. Focus on what you'd like instead, and watch your reality reorganize itself to accommodate your new desire.

The new way of Creating as Consciousness is very subtle yet very profound. As you shift your focus, it shifts your energy, and what no longer has your attention will disappear from your reality. And what focus on will manifest.

It doesn't have to be a perfect vision, in fact it often shows up more quickly when you focus on the feeling. When Creating as Consciousness it's helpful to have broad intentions.

When you're overly specific, you're often resisting what you don't have. Open-ended requests allow you to create more than you can possible imagine.

Play with this for the next week and see what happens!

Catastrophy/Create & Destroy

©2011 Joan M. Newcomb

There seems to have been an awful lot of natural disasters recently.  I read about a Swedish couple that went on a four month honeymoon, starting in Munich, Germany during Europes worst snowstorms in history.  They left and went to sunny Australia only to get caught in the torrential rains and cyclone in the South East.  So they fled to Perth, which had wild fires.  Their next stop was Christchurch, New Zealand in the midst of their earthquake and the final part of their trip was in Japan, which had an earthquake, tsunami *and* a volcanic eruption!

Blizzards, Cyclones, 'quakes and Tsunamis, oh my.

What does this mean?  Is it the end of the Earth?  Is the 2012 disaster movie a predictor of things to come?

Hardly.  From the planet's POV, it's no big deal.  It's been rumbling and shaking, belching lava and changing temperature since the beginning of time.

It seems excessive to us, because every human being has a camera on their phone and can immediately share with the world what's happening in their little part of the planet.  We see it and it feels like it's happening to *us*, as well.

Like a house under constant remodel, creating and destroying is Earth's main activity.  It spews lava and creates new land masses.  It ignites wildfires, clearing hectares of land and releasing seedlings that otherwise would never grow.  Certain insects, plants and animals need frozen winters as dormancy and hibernation are part of their natural cycles.

Our bodies/personalities view things with a narrow focus directly related to our survival.  As a species we seem driven to change, fix and improve our circumstances.  Using our creation of airplanes, we've learned to seed clouds to create rain, and release retardents to quench fires.  We add dirt onto oceans to extend areas to build on.  We see temperatures changing and take it personally, as if it's something we've done rather than the Earth's own gradual growth out of yet another ice age.

A monarch butterfly doesn't sink into depression because it's lost some of it's natural habitat in Mexico.  Nature adapts to changes.

We, on the other hand, resist it.  How's that working for us?

Actually, it's spuring us to create alternative fuels and come up with ways not to contribute to the destructive aspect of the planet.

But in other ways, resistance is futile.

It's helpful for us to realize that we, as Consciousness, create this reality series of Life on Planet Earth.  It's important for us to know that we can handle big changes.  Destroying can be as creative as creating.

When you can view Earth's changes from Divinity's loving neutrality, it's easier to go with the flow.  When you can "Love What Is" and appreciate the immense power of Creation, you can shift into a place of agreement.  When you agree with what's going on, it feels a lot better and the birth into newness happens a lot more quickly and effortlessly.

Although I've focused on nature and the weather, you can apply this to the emotional storms and circumstantial disruptions in your everyday life as well.  It may seem that your world is collapsing because you've lost your job or your marriage or your car or your home, but You, like the Earth are simply expanding into something New.

This week, take a Cosmic Conscious viewpoint on your life.  If you were viewing things from the Moon, what would it be like?  If you were looking back on the point in time from a hundred years in the future, how important is it?

Make choices, take action, from a Greater perspective and see what happens!