Embodied Presence Exploration 8: Completion

I am so grateful for the presence that you have brought to this inquiry.  It is truly a blessing to explore the power of presence with each of you.  I have felt presence during this time the field has been open in a way that has been increasingy exquisite and more sweetly supported. Thank you for the ways you have been showing up in Presence in this inquiry and in your life.

And now, this is a moment to Presence Completion. 

We begin by taking a Baseline.  Bring your attention to what is, in your body.  Notice your breath, and any sensations in your body, without trying to change them.  Take a baseline now.  

Once you have established your baseline, we attune to Source, simply by intending to do so.  Attune to Source now. 

We have gathered our attention and attuned.  Now, we turn toward completion.  I have heard from many of you about the resonance of this theme in your now.  It -- completing -- is happening, big time. 

What are your patterns around completion?  Turn to your body and to your intuitive knowing, rather than to your intellect here.  How have you tended to complete?  Is there anything in your pattern of previous completions that you feel particularly good about?   

What does it look like for you to be complete in a good way?

At the time of creating this Presencing Completion lesson, I was in clear prayer around how to complete my work at the congregation I served as spiritual leader in a good way.  My own patterns of completion - longing to leave but not being able to fully detach, setting boundaries and then transgressing them, offering mixed messages -- to spirit, to myself, to the community -- about what I was available for, were showing themselves strong.  The more I could presence to this patterns around completion ... and to the emotions inside them --- fear, grief, longing --- the more range of motion I was able to access toward moving well through this completions.   

I’ve discovered that for me to complete in a good way, I often first need to presence to what I am moving toward.  I have to immerse in the new way of being, experience it, understand the beginnings of what is possible in this new way, and then once I have that taste and ground, I am more clear about leaving what is no longer resonant.   Your way may be similar.  Or you may simply know you need to complete and close the door before the next one to open has taken shape.  

We each have ways we have accustomed to completing.  What do you love about your way?  What do you want to be different in how you leave?  How can you bring additional presence to your completions, that they may complete in a good way?

What are the current completions you are inside of?  What feels right and ripe in them?  What aspect of how you are completing are you ready to transform? 

What does the dance between completion and pace look like for you?  Completion connects to each exploration we’ve touched in realms of presence.  How do you complete in space?  How do you complete in time?  How do you complete in flow?   

What would it look like for you to give significant attention and focus to what you love and are beginning and creating, and allowing the completion pieces to be tended from that larger yes?  Just like when clutter-busting, we can be been supported by the reframe of focusing on what we love and need, and let the rest drop away, rather than focusing on what we are letting go of, the same is true around completion.

For years, as I worked to release and complete the pulpit job, focusing on that work and community that I was attempting to leave pulled me into that vibration and made the completion all the more challenging.  Giving space to cultivating and immersing in the vibration of what is new and next and allowing the somatic experience of what that new and next feels like can allow what needs to complete to do so with additional grace. 

Presencing to what is beginning as we allow for completion was potent for me as I sat in full presence with my dying cat, and also as I sat drumming in spiritual connection with a dying friend/ally.  I found that giving attention to their processes of birth that necessitated death, rather than death that meant new birth, was an important reframe.  After many days being with Sarah in her falling away, I shifted my prayers to inviting the ancestors and holy beings beyond to welcome her in her next journey, and created the space as a birthing room, rather than a deathing room.  This eased her transition so much.  And with my friend Michelle, rather than focusing on her leaving her body, I created a strong sonic drumscape for her spirit to ride into it’s next journey. 

In this reframe of what we are moving toward rather than what we are completing, it is superimportant not to gloss over completion in a way that our society often does -- valuing and giving attention to birth over death out of fear or distancing from natural process.  At the same time, giving attention to the vibration we are in, and are creating and supporting, is essential. 

The reframe toward new rather than being mired in old requires us to take clear action and to set boundaries.  While in some situations we can embrace new and simply let old drop away, often the completion needed requires clear, defined boundary work.  I suggest doing that work internally, to support the external clarity and delineations be strong and clear.  With the pulpit I left, I gave notice multiple times over two years.  Each time, my resignation was met with a request to return and I said yes.  I didn’t have the internal capacity or readiness to meet the completion I was requesting.  Iwas still building up my yes strong enough to be able to hold my no.  The clearer I became internally -- about the no and also, mostly, about the yeses that needed the no -- the more the boundary became not something to hold fast, but simply something that is.   

I am walking this week, and this way of Presencing Completion with you.  I want to learn with you.  I want to witness you. Those immersed in Kohenet have explored initiation theory -- that rites-of-passage include a separation, an ordeal and a welcoming as new.  Without that third stage, the one of being witnessed and welcomed by community as new, one can get stuck in a cycling of the first two stages.  The witness of completion is SO important.  I encourage you to feel into what witness you need for your completions?  Is there a way our circle may offer that?  Or, who in your life is your support for this. 

I also invite you to explore anything present for you as we presence the completion of our Embodied Presence journey together.  What are the threads of connection that came for you here that you want to nurture and continue to be in relationship with?  And what is dropping away? 

Thank you again, so fully, for your presence in this journey and for all the ways you have showed up to play. 

Blessing the completions that are held so well by what is now and what is new. 

With abounding love,
Taya