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On Being
Passionately Alive by Nicholas de Castella
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transcript:
"What does it mean to
be Passionately Alive?
Passionately Alive is
about reawakening the full human experience of life.
Passionately Alive is
about being in relationship. Being in relationship with ourselves, each
other and with life. It's about a deep state of connection and it's not
about hype or drama
I think that alot of
people imagine being Passionately Alive is like being on a high being
right out there on a peak experience all the time, being happy and
being rosy but for me being Passionately Alive means embracing life as
it is. Embracing the exxperience that is rising in this moment . It 's
about a deep state of connection, allowing us to be authentic moment to
moment .
There seems to be two
kinds of experiences: peak experiences and valley experiences Peak
experiences are when we are right out there and the adreniline is
running and we are on a high and that is a kind of rare experience for
most of us and not a sustainable one for human life.
Valley experiences on
the other hand are much more sublte, and involve a finer energy that we
are talking about it's in a quiter place usually about being deeply
connected to ourselves and the to the experience rising in the moment .
A valley experience may be felt when we our in a relationship with
somebody and we are just holding each other in love and we experience
this soft vibration energy in this intimate imbrace.
A valley experience may
also arise when we are sitting in quiet meditation, when we have this
gentle rise of energy welling up through us. Peak experiences would be
like bungie jumping or being in a dramatic experience maybe like an
argument or maybe being an athelete winning a race or getting married
or giving a presentation in front of everyone - it's being right out
there .
Now you may know people
that are often seeming to be on the wave of a peak of experience and
they might appear to be Passionately Alive but my question would be
"Are they really in touch with themselves?" In those moments because
often as the energy arises within us we actually lose touch with the
actual experience with what's happening for us and we get caught up in
the drama
So the work that I do
in Passionately Alive is about reconnecting with an authentiv
experience of ourselves, as we are, not neccessary being on a high or
being on a peak the work divides into two basic areas
The first part looks at
life as being made up of this masculine principle the masculine
principle is related to conciousness and awareness and there is the
feminine principle which is related to energy and matter.
In general terms men
identify with this masuline principle and women identify and express
predominately the feminine principle but this is a generalisation and
it is important to note that men and women both have the masculine and
feminie within us and we are exhibiting both principles.
But to give you a
clearer example, I think that it is fair to say men have this sense of
contaiment about them and a sense of conciousness and purpose and
direction within their being
Women on the other hand
tend to exhibit more energy and matter. They exhibit more movement,
there's more flow, and more emotion where as the masculine principle is
more associated with conconciousness, stillness and silence.
It's important to live
a healthy and balance life to have both these masculine and feminine
principles working in balance. In it's essences if you go into the
masculine principle and you sit in stillness and you raise
concioussness then there's a gateway there to mystery.
Mystery is one of the
deepest places that opens that opens in this masculine field masculine
principle
And conversely in the
femimine principle we find that there is energy and matter and instead
of stillness we find that there is a constant dance or movement
happening and so the feminine principle in it's essence is exhibiting
passion, emotion, energy.
Being Passionately
Alive in my mind is about embracing this masculine principle of
conconcious awaressness of who we are moment to moment and also
embracing the free expression of our feminine energy our passion, our
emotion.
Being Passionately
Alive is about being open to life and embracing what is...
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