One of the joys of Richard Bartlett’s ‘home-study’ course (“The Matrix Energetics Experience”) is a set of 20 Contemplation Cards. The one that has been a challenge and a delight to me lately is Card No. 15 entitled “Honor Your Space.”
Here I quote it in full:
“It is the way that you honor and show up in a particular space that makes it sacred. If you show up with all your preconceptions, you’re not in the moment; you’re in the past.”
Not sure I can begin to do justice to the changes this concept has wrought in my life – but I’ll give it a shot!
It’s about honoring everything as ’sacred space’ – especially if something that’s just happened appears to be totally disappointing, discombobulating or even downright physically painful!
As soon as you honor and accept it as Sacred Space (or Sacred Event) everything instantly changes and this can be nanno-second-fast on some occasions. At first for me, the transitions were more gradual and began in my garden:
I decided to remember to consciously ‘honor’ where ever I was and whatever I was doing, as Sacred Space – and the garden proved the perfect place to practice. At first I’d be resting on a bench after a long stint of weeding or something equally physically demanding and I’d remember and say in my mind – “I now honor this place as Sacred Space” and then as I relaxed and just gazed and admired, there would be a subtle shift in my perception which became more refined and noticeable each time I did it. SO hard to describe, because we are all preceptors of ‘different stripes’ and what I may see and feel and gradually expand my awareness into – may not be the same as your experience.
It’s as though in the Sacred Space mode, the garden became much more than my usual left-brain cursory glances….almost as if I slipped into a greatly enhanced, parallel dimension of my own garden. I could directly feel the energy of the different trees and plants, as though their Devic-spirits were welcoming me and recognized that I had entered their own specific realm of reality. With practice all this became more palpable and expanded, to the degree that I could bring others into the experience with me and they were amazed at the difference in their own transformed perceptions.
You begin to see things you have never seen before – how light falls on branches and dapples them with magic; colors change, soften or intensify – you see shapes and forms and patterns that begin to change the way your brain observes things……you are yourself becoming Sacred Space. And the more difficult things – the tasks you don’t particularly relish doing, regarding them as Sacred Space Tasks renders them suddenly effortless.
As they say in Zen – you become the “Doing without Doing.”