Amara Isis
"Changing people. Transforming our world."Archive for December, 2011
If you only ever travelled to place you had already been, would you ever travel anywhere at all?
Amara~Isis
“Changing people. Transforming our world.”
What can I share with you about Inspiration? You either have it or you don’t. You know when you have it and you know when you don’t. You cannot force it. You can only invite it into your life. But, all this I don’t have to tell you. All this you know already.
Yet, there is something that I can tell you about inspiration. Inspiration comes from the Soul. That is why we cannot evoke it at will. That is why so many creative people live in fear and awe of it. They know that inspiration will grace them with her presence, if and only if, she finds them worthy. If she finds them ready. I know that I am adopting that irritating habit of referring to anything that we find illusive, evasive, difficult to fathom as female. Yet, for me inspiration is a feminine quality.
The voice of the heart and of the Soul are quiet yet insistent
That is not to say that men, too, do not have it. That would be silly. But, inspiration has that illusive quality that all qualities falling within the spectrum of the Divine Feminine seem to have. It is light, clear, ephemeral. It is powerful, yet intangible. It can profoundly change the world, yet never been seen, felt or touched. Ideas are inspirational. Change is inspirational. Inspiration calls to us with the quiet, insistent voice of the Divine Feminine. If the voice of the body and the mind are loud and demanding; then, the voice of the heart and of the Soul are quiet yet insistent. That is what fools some people. And, leads them to a frantic life of distractions – designed to keep them from the call within to do something magnificent with their lives. Something that they will be proud to leave behind them. A legacy that has nothing to do with progeny.
Yet, we resist this with a force of nature close to an emotional Tsunami. Why? Because embracing our inspiration is simply the most terrifying thing that we humans can do. No other creature on earth worries about its greatness (or lack thereof) as we do. The greatest and smallest of the world’s creatures reflect their full glory without any self-consciousness at all. Therein lies the challenge. The challenge of self-consciousness.
At the heart of all self-consciousness lies the illusion of ‘separation’ as a concept. When you feel at one with the world, you do not feel separation between yourself and your environment. This may be but a slither of a second in time. A moment in which everything is perfect. Where, if time were to stand still, you would know yourself to be completely at peace. That feeling of oneness is as close as I get to experiencing a sense of wonder that some call God.
Inspiration, like divinity, has to be trusted implicitly
But, what has all this to do with inspiration? Well, everything actually. Because, inspiration, like divinity, has to be trusted implicitly. Inspiration chooses us. We do not necessarily deserve it. Certainly, we have rarely done anything to deserve it. To focus on its blessing is actually to miss the point. There is nothing more futile than the question; Why me? Why not You? Inspiration visits us because it wants us to do something with it. To use it to make a difference in our world. We are surrounded by inspiration, yet often we do not see it. Every single man-made thing that exists in the world was the result of someone’s inspiration. Intended or otherwise.
Think about that. Every single thing. Even the happy accidents (Post Its spring to mind) were created as a result of someone’s inspiration. The experiment went wrong apparently. Yet, there is nothing to say that, had the experiment turned out as intended, it would have been as big success. In this case, not only did an inspiration generate the original product, but when it turned out ‘wrong’, a second inspiration turned it into something extremely useful.
Imagine how little change there would have been in the world if people only innovated when the outcome were guaranteed. Almost none would be my guess. Imagine if all creativity lay dormant inside us until there was absolute certainty of success. Again, not much innovation would be generated in these circumstances. So, if you are looking for change in your life or in our world, what’s stopping you? What guarantees of success do you need to bring your change into the world? And, why do you need them? Is your inspiration not gift enough? If not, why not? If you only ever travelled to a place you had already been, would you ever travel anywhere at all? No, I suspect not.
What guarantees of success do you need to bring your change into the world?
Yet, think of the great works of creative genius we have enjoyed through the ages. The incredible music, art and writing. The medical and scientific breakthroughs. The works of stunning spiritual beauty. The amazing feats of human endeavour. The difference people, ordinary people like you and like me, have made in the world. Because they trusted their inspiration. Followed its guidance. Were willing to honour it, no matter the cost.
Then, ask yourself the question: what inspiration are you ignoring in your life? What difference might you make in the world if you were to honour it? To trust it implicitly. How does that saying go: “Please do not die with your song unsung within you!” You don’t have to, You know. The choice is yours.
Amara~Isis
© 2011 Heather Salmon and Amara Isis Ltd
“Change. Yes, we must!”
Amara~Isis
“Change people. Transforming our world.”
I promised Phil that I would write my first blog today.
I don’t always keep my promises, although I do try. In this case, I really want to keep my promise, because Phil is a really good guy. People say that there are no good guys left in the world, but they are wrong. Phil is a really good guy. He cares. About me and about you. He cares. He cares enough to put himself out there to make a difference in the world. In that, amongst other things, he inspires me. I love to work with him. Or, perhaps I should say, I love that he choses to work with me.
Once you decide to write a blog, you have to decide what to put in it. For me, that was easy. I am passionate about Change. And, about people who make Change. Change that makes a difference in the world. Our world.
It sometimes feels as if we have given up on Change; simply stopped believing it can happen. We used to expect our politicians to do it for us, but most of us don’t expect that anymore. We’ve been too disillusioned. Or maybe, we just expected too much of them – expected them to do it all for us, so that we could get away with hanging out, not doing our bit. We have seen the folly of this. That is not the way to do Change.
Change happens when ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Change happens when ordinary people do extraordinary things. When ordinary people refuse to accept the way life is, just because it has always been that way. This is what we call ‘innovation’. Every time there is innovation, someone decided not to accept the status quo. Someone decided to be open to the possibility that things can be different. If we dared to imagine, to believe and to act on our inspiration.
I have done that many times in my life. Dared to believe that life could be different and reached out for that other life. I have done this for myself and I have done this for others. And, I’ve loved it every time. I have learned that the only thing stopping us from making a world that we love to be in is our own belief that it cannot be that way. Because it can absolutely be that way. It can be any way that we want it to be. We just have to believe.
Add a vision to our inspiration, cloak it in faith and take action to make it happen.
So, this first blog is for all you Change-Makers out there. All you who have not given up on this sad old world of ours. If I were writing President Obama’s opening speech for his next election campaign, I would not abandon his “Change. Yes, we can” message. I would enhance it to: “Change. Yes, we must”. Because, the world has changed and we must change with it, if we are to have a hope of surviving in it. This is not optional. The world will not stop and wait for us to catch up. Or, decide that we want the Change. It does not matter whether we want the it or not. It is simply here. And, it is not going away.
All we can decide is how we are going to live it.
All we can decide is how we are going to live it. Ride it like the crest of a wave. Or, drown in it. Be swamped, dragged under, by it. But, why should we? We have a choice. A glorious, empowering choice, that is ours to make. The only question is: Do we have the courage to make it? Do we have the courage to stop blaming everyone else for the stuff we don’t want in our lives and start holding ourselves accountable for making things different? That was my moment of freedom. The moment I realised that I had a choice. Not just intellectually, but emotionally, spiritually and physically too.
I have spent the last several years embodying that choice and now I am ready. I am ready to help you in whatever way that I can. To recognise your choices. The changes you want to make and the power you have to make them.
I have written a story for you. It is called: ‘NewBorn: A Modern Fable’. I will be posting it soon. But, in the meantime, let me know how you are doing. What change are you wanting to achieve? What is your inspiration? Do you have a vision and the passion required to drive it? Are you in action around your vision? Or, are all your distractions getting in the way? We have all been there. Write to me. Share with me your dreams of a different world and what you are doing to make this happen. I believe in you. I know that you can do it. Make a difference, where it really counts.
The only question is: do You believe it too?
Amara~Isis
© 2011 Heather Salmon and Amara Isis Ltd
