A Power Greater Than Ourselves

 

When we allow ourselves to experience “a power greater than ourselves” as we live it NOW, we get a new, fresh sense of it. As we stay with whatever is emerging from within about this Power greater than ourselves, we relate to it in a new way, each time! All you have to do to get the FEEL of a power greater than yourself is STOP and WAIT for something to come from inside you about that. As you wait for this vague feel to come into focus, you may get an image, or a body feel, or a metaphor, body posture, memory, song, feeling tone, or phrase that captures it, or describes it just so — what some Focusers call a “handle,” like a cup handle holds the whole cup. Your “handle” of the felt sense holds the whole “more” of your experience. Once you do this, stay with how your body is living this right now. Describe the sense inside. If nothing comes in your body, no problem. This is normal. You will nevertheless find meaning and enjoy a new “sense” of your Higher Power, simply by being with how it is inside you now. I love how we never know what we will find when we go on our Focusing Journeys. Felt sensing is so fascinating! Here are some felt experiences of “a power greater than ourselves” as they came during a Recovery Focusing process last week. I got an image of the Arenal Volcano in La Fortuna, Costa Rica. The feel of this volcano for me today was “calm, majestic, quiet…natural.” Inside, I felt “humility, awe, and gratitude,” and I felt as if I was “part of it all.” My body felt completely at ease and at rest. Person A: Saw the “entire universe still expanding” and had a sense of “all power, all knowledge, all forgiving.” He had a sense of “destiny.” That he somehow fits in in all of this. Person B: Had the phrase, “It can bring you from darkness and despair to peace and light.” It would enable her to act with compassion. Person C: Saw the face of the Wizard of Oz and the brick road leading to it. She had a sense of satire or humor…”speaking in rhymes.” The phrase that came to her was “You come to me for you to be so very kind for all to see.” Person D: Experienced this power as “collective synergy” and felt awe and gratitude. He saw two people sitting together, creating “more” than the two. “One plus two equals infinity.” Inside, he felt open and connected to all things, “to the collective conscious.” He saw concentric circles of light, beginning inside his heart and expanding out to his family, his friends, and outward, “encircling everything.”  He said, “I am in their circle, and they are in my circle.” So, as we see, we each sense “a power greater than ourselves” in our own unique way. Whatever comes has special meaning for us now. I’ll go inside now and see what comes. I am seeing an image of a “wave of energy” moving across me and all around me. I see a piece of art I have on my bathroom wall, of this energy in front of this woman who has her eyes closed and butterflies are flying around her. I have a sense of “lightness of being.” As I stay with this, a deep sense of peace and calm flows through my body. I take a deep breath. My body feels “ready to move.” Calm, yet ready. I have another deep breath. Being with my sense of my higher power right now evokes in me a sense of being calm, yet ready. I like the expectant aliveness in this. I smile. So, take some time now to be with this “power greater than yourself.” Just wait patiently. What comes to you about this now? Describe it. Notice your inside body space. What is the sense that is forming? Describe this. Enjoy the felt meaning of what has emerged for you, from your body’s natural aliveness! Please share with me if it feels OK to do so.