Tools and Resources
Venus Stream Journal
Pick up a physical journal and begin to explore your contemplations through free form writing, drawing, poetry, coloring, diagrams, or an actual diary of your experiences as you walk the Golden Path.
It is also a helpful practice to write down your Dreams each morning. Our subconscious is constantly providing symbols and signs to help liberate stuck patterns and open to more balance and coherence within our inner and outer worlds.
We will continue to offer inspirations and examples of creative contemplations
Create Free Video Blog Entries with Youtube
One of the profound gifts of our new age of media is the ability to instantly capture, upload, and share videos of ourself. Being witnessed by the camera is a profound tool for introspection. Many people instantly change how they act or speak when they feel they are being “seen” by the video camera. This intense scrutiny of the external lens reminds us that all of our words and actions are being recorded. It is a holographic example of how all of our thoughts, words, and deeds are indeed being archived in the great Living Library. With forgiveness and compassion, we can enter in the doorway of being witnessed, and offer our stories, our songs, our insights and challenges to the altar of grace. You can choose to share these videos publicly, or just to this community. Or you can keep them private and simply watch them on your own.
We will add more instructions for how to best use youtube as a free resource for creating your own contemplation videos.
One of our community members Paige set up a Community Youtube account for anyone who wants to upload their videos into this collective video gallery.
Youtube account login is VenusStreamBreakout@gmail.com
Password is Iloveyousomuch
Upload your Music or Audio to Soundcloud
Soundcloud is another free media resource that lets you upload audio files and share them with others. Maybe you play an instrument, or perform poetry. Maybe you just want to record your own insights and contemplation on a particular key. Whatever your inspiration, we encourage you to get a free account and begin sharing your audio contemplations!
Life As Art – Creative Contemplations
Use the comment field below to share your Creative Contemplations of the Gene Keys
You can share with words or external links to video/audio entries
Having listened to Amma Li’s presentation for Life as Art, I reflect that my art generally has a great deal to do with my body expression. I am physically active, at least I used to be and gave up for awhile. I was simply exhausted. There is one GK in my profile that talks about that, perhaps in the Purpose where my key is 5.6, Rebirth/Revolution/Reaction. It has to do with the bones. I have sailed this summer and began instructing adults by the third week of the course. I simply have too much to offer not to and I was invited to step forward. The lessons are absurdly “chinging” thru me.
I also love to paint and draw and decided that over the next two weeks I will do as Amma Li suggests and record my experiences using words, pen and ink and photography. No matter that we are on the 5th of the VS. I am working the Prime Gifts also. Spaciousness is key. I’m going to be doing this for a lonnnnggggg time! I am choosing to honor my penchants transmuting the obsession to be perfect. Besides, I already am. So are you. <3
Christie
Hello fellow journeyers,
This morning, fragile, restive, busy minded, short tempered and a bit weepy, I see the SQ and EQ at work again. My consciousness of these quotients is deep and thorough. I blindside myself sometimes and want to deny the palpable feelings that emerge. I stay self connected. Several times I have felt panic, controlling, too responsible and tired of the pattern battles all at once.
Curiously, my EQ and SQ are the same Gene Key 47, with different lines. Later for the lines! Blessedly, I am also patient and loving with these feelings as others call me on aspects of their experience of me in what I recognize as oppressive behavior. Ugh. I accept what feedback I can and wrestle with one who reflects this aspect of myself with so much fire and intolerance for others, I am unable to breathe through his feelings. It’s all too on the surface and personal right now. I acknowledge the best I can, I am unavailable presently; didn’t recognize what was being asked of me. It’s a tough friendship… We do each other the favor of walking away in peace. I’m traveling on holiday and he’s here to help with my kitty for almost two weeks…
What is clear are the features of Oppression, the Shadow of 47. While I recognize the deep seated feelings as fear, early sadness, early neglect, learning to be dogmatic and intolerant right back. Intolerance, as a protective aspect (4th GK, my Radiance) of control exercised over me physically, emotionally and mentally, the pattern of oppression is witnessed, finally and allowed to express, but with their threads of physicality loosening as I breathe and observe. Giving time for the situations that show up, to simply play themselves through and feeling grateful to new people in my life, male sailing students, who want also to be in control…
I have also seen flashes of other worldly times when I imagine my very DNA was re-wired. All of these stories I recognize as now. Now I can be present with the feelings that accompany that impulse to control, to take charge with no space for other, taking care of self when their seemed no one else was there to help and it was up to me to survive. 0-7. That’s the story. It was not a safe environment and yet having done TONS of previous work, I am learning forgiveness for that aspect of this Gene Key that I choose to transmute. Of course, my holiday this next two weeks is with family! I am gifted with a dear friend with whom I get to stay and who will join me for the four day wedding. It will be a great joy to share in these festivities and remember to give myself and others whatever space we need to carry on as who we are in the larger plan.
Okay. Bye for now. Thanks for being here with me.
Christie
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Extraordinary the grace emitted from the Seven Seals meditation by R. Rudd. Exquisite. Connecting simultaneously with the words, ‘we are now connected’ helped me identify the experience specifically as I truly did feel that connection moment. Thank you so much for the beauty expressed and the profound direction and communion of this meditation. Words do not suffice.