W O R K B O O K
W O R K B O O K
Developed by
Lisa Michaels Author of Natural Rhythms
™
Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
lemental onnection
s you begin working with the elements, they like to introduce themselves so you can become familiar with the feeling of each of their essences. To begin your personal work with the elements, allow yourself time to go outside in nature and connect with each one individually. The following pages contain journaling exercises for each element. Space is provided in the book for your answers or you may choose to answer the questions in your personal elemental journal. Begin by taking your book and your elemental journal or some blank paper and going outside to your favorite place in nature. Sit on the ground. If possible, go to a place near a body of water. If one is not available, do the journal exercise with water the next time you are in the bathtub or have just taken a shower. When you get comfortable, open your journal and begin the sacred journey of deepening your connecting with the forces of nature.
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pirit Take time to feel, to touch, and to connect with the spark of Spirit that flows through all things. Allow your consciousness to feel the energy of Spirit and ask it to reveal its essence to you. Thank Spirit for the amazing gift of life.
Notes on Reflection with Spirit:
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
Personal Spirit Realm Exercise for personal connection to Spirit : In seated or in moving/dancing meditation, connect with the spark of Spirit that is you. Honor it as sacred. No other spark exists the same as you. Ask it to reveal to you a way or ways in which you can more deeply honor the spirit of your uniqueness in your life.
How well do you create in life?
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Are there ways in which you now choose to create your life more powerfully?
How in tune do you feel with your life essence?
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
arth Take time in nature to feel, to touch, and to connect with the element of Earth. Allow your awareness, your consciousness to sink deeply into the soil beneath you and deeper down into the earth’s body. Ask the earth to reveal her essence to you. Then just wait and listen. When you receive a message, write down the message from Earth without filtering it. Remember to thank Earth for all that you receive from her bounty.
Notes on Reflection with Earth:
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
Personal Earth Realm Exercise for personal connection to Earth: In seated or moving/dancing meditation, connect with your physical body. Honor it as sacred. Thank it for all it does for you by containing your spirit in the world of form. Ask it to reveal to you the ways in which you can more deeply honor in your life the element of Earth.
Do you need to adjust or balance the physical matter in your life, body, foundations, or finances in any way?
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Are you grounded and taking solid steps toward your life desires?
Do you need to take more time for quiet and reflection to balance all the “doing” in your life?
How in tune do you feel with the element of Earth in your life?
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
ater Take time in nature to feel, to touch, and to connect with the element of Water. Allow your consciousness, your awareness, to sink deeply into the water. Ask Water to reveal its essence to you. Then just wait and listen. When you receive a message, write down the message from Water without filtering it. Remember to thank Water for the rich substance it provides.
Notes on Reflection with Water:
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
Personal Water Realm Exercise for personal connection to Water: In seated or moving meditation, connect with the watery realm of your feelings and emotions. Honor them as sacred. Thank them for all they do for you. Are there areas of your life where you need to feel what is going on more deeply?
Are there ways in which you need to adjust or balance the water in your life, such as going more with the flow, or honoring your intuition?
Do you need to clear any emotional baggage by clearing up past relationships, etc.?
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
Are your emotions balanced?
Do you create space for your feelings?
How in tune do you feel with Water and the emotional realm in your life?
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
ir Take time in nature to feel and to connect with the element of Air. Allow your awareness to merge with Air. Ask Air to reveal its essence to you. Then just wait and listen. When you receive a message, write the message from Air without filtering it. Remember to thank Air for all that you receive.
Notes on Reflection with Air:
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Personal Air Realm Exercise for personal connection to Air: In seated or moving/dancing meditation, connect with your breath. Ask Air to reveal to you the ways you can more deeply honor the element of Air in your life.
Are you working with the mental realm and Air effectively, holding a positive vision for your life?
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Are you using prayer, meditation, and intention to consciously set the tone of your life?
Do you feel a sense of freedom in your life?
How balanced is the exchange of giving and receiving in your life?
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
ire Take time in nature to connect with the element of Fire. To do so, use the sun, a candle, or build a fire. Allow your consciousness to connect with the fire. Ask Fire to reveal its essence to you. Then just wait and listen. When you receive a message, write down the message from Fire without filtering it. Remember to thank Fire for all that you receive from its essence.
Notes on Reflection with Fire:
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
Personal Fire Realm Exercise for personal connection to Fire: In seated or moving meditation, connect with your life force. Honor it as sacred. Thank it for all it does for you to keep your life fired up and alive. Ask it to reveal to you the ways you can more deeply honor the element of Fire that is in your life.
Are you passionate about your life or perhaps burning yourself out? Do you need to adjust or balance Fire in your life in any way?
How are your vitality, sexuality, and sensuality?
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How easily do you handle the process of transformation?
Are you in tune with Fire in your life?
Are you taking powerful action in the world?
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
eneral eflections What did you notice about how the elements felt in comparison to one another?
Were some elements easier to connect with than others?
With which elements do you feel you need the most work?
Did you hear their responses equally, or were one or two of them more difficult for you to connect with and to hear?
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
As you move forward with your elemental work, allow your increased awareness to guide you in your development with each of the Elemental Forces of Creation. In the course of expanding your awareness of these forces, Spirit and the elements will introduce you to each of their mystery school teachings. A mystery school is a body of knowledge that is said to be beyond full human understanding. To facilitate understanding, each element has multiple training paths that are designed to reveal more about itself and its mystery school lessons. People are drawn to a training because it works in harmony with their own energy. Notice which training path you are drawn to, and how it fits your unique energy. The elements also will share with you their key words and powers, as well as the soul qualities their training develops. Your important task revolves around beginning to understand and embody the element’s fundamental teaching and doing the element’s developmental task. Eventually you will have a strong conscious awareness and some degree of fluency in working with all of them. If you perform the power activations suggested for each element, please note that those elemental powers will be awakened within you. You will, therefore, need to take additional responsibility for using them wisely. It is imperative that the elements and their energies be used for the highest and greatest good of all and never against anything or anyone. Your intention is vital to what you are creating and bringing forth in your personal life, as well as to the energy it adds to the human collective. It is time for each of us to claim our power as co-creators of our experience and to begin focusing our energies on our desired outcomes. To do so, let’s begin in the next chapter with Earth to discover a deeper understanding of each of the elements and their mysteries.
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Amplify Your Capacity to Create Natural Rhythms™ Connect the Creational Dance of Your Life to the Pulse of the Universe "Learning from the forces of nature helps us to deepen our inner gifts and skills, as well as express our increased cocreational abilities in the outer world. Natural rhythms will encourage you to develop a relationship with nature. Not only will learn about the elements of our great mother earth, you will learn how to implement their properties into your life to create a reality you have always wanted. Michaels includes wonderful easy to use exercises that will wake up your spirit and you will discover your connection with your elements of mother nature. Ultimately resulting in an abundant spirit and life!” Robin Marvel ✦ Discover ways to release old emotional baggage, improve your relationships, focus your intention for creation, activate your ability to take action, and increase your ability to thrive. ✦ Deepen your alignment with the natural rhythmic cycles of the sun, moon, and stars. ✦ Move your life into greater levels of health and wellness, creativity and wholeness, and inner peace and balance. ✦ Open to the guiding insights of the natural world and begin dancing your life to profound levels of aliveness. ✦ Keep this powerful reference book on hand to help effectively work with the elements and time your creations to the rhythms of nature. Manifest your dreams, goals, and desires by aligning with one of your most powerful teachers -- the force of nature.
Buy this book NOW from these fine booksellers: sacredspaces.org and amazon.com
Developed by
Lisa Michaels Author of Natural Rhythms
™
Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
lemental onnection
s you begin working with the elements, they like to introduce themselves so you can become familiar with the feeling of each of their essences. To begin your personal work with the elements, allow yourself time to go outside in nature and connect with each one individually. The following pages contain journaling exercises for each element. Space is provided in the book for your answers or you may choose to answer the questions in your personal elemental journal. Begin by taking your book and your elemental journal or some blank paper and going outside to your favorite place in nature. Sit on the ground. If possible, go to a place near a body of water. If one is not available, do the journal exercise with water the next time you are in the bathtub or have just taken a shower. When you get comfortable, open your journal and begin the sacred journey of deepening your connecting with the forces of nature.
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
pirit Take time to feel, to touch, and to connect with the spark of Spirit that flows through all things. Allow your consciousness to feel the energy of Spirit and ask it to reveal its essence to you. Thank Spirit for the amazing gift of life.
Notes on Reflection with Spirit:
4
Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
Personal Spirit Realm Exercise for personal connection to Spirit : In seated or in moving/dancing meditation, connect with the spark of Spirit that is you. Honor it as sacred. No other spark exists the same as you. Ask it to reveal to you a way or ways in which you can more deeply honor the spirit of your uniqueness in your life.
How well do you create in life?
5
Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
Are there ways in which you now choose to create your life more powerfully?
How in tune do you feel with your life essence?
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
arth Take time in nature to feel, to touch, and to connect with the element of Earth. Allow your awareness, your consciousness to sink deeply into the soil beneath you and deeper down into the earth’s body. Ask the earth to reveal her essence to you. Then just wait and listen. When you receive a message, write down the message from Earth without filtering it. Remember to thank Earth for all that you receive from her bounty.
Notes on Reflection with Earth:
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
Personal Earth Realm Exercise for personal connection to Earth: In seated or moving/dancing meditation, connect with your physical body. Honor it as sacred. Thank it for all it does for you by containing your spirit in the world of form. Ask it to reveal to you the ways in which you can more deeply honor in your life the element of Earth.
Do you need to adjust or balance the physical matter in your life, body, foundations, or finances in any way?
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
Are you grounded and taking solid steps toward your life desires?
Do you need to take more time for quiet and reflection to balance all the “doing” in your life?
How in tune do you feel with the element of Earth in your life?
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
ater Take time in nature to feel, to touch, and to connect with the element of Water. Allow your consciousness, your awareness, to sink deeply into the water. Ask Water to reveal its essence to you. Then just wait and listen. When you receive a message, write down the message from Water without filtering it. Remember to thank Water for the rich substance it provides.
Notes on Reflection with Water:
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
Personal Water Realm Exercise for personal connection to Water: In seated or moving meditation, connect with the watery realm of your feelings and emotions. Honor them as sacred. Thank them for all they do for you. Are there areas of your life where you need to feel what is going on more deeply?
Are there ways in which you need to adjust or balance the water in your life, such as going more with the flow, or honoring your intuition?
Do you need to clear any emotional baggage by clearing up past relationships, etc.?
13
Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
Are your emotions balanced?
Do you create space for your feelings?
How in tune do you feel with Water and the emotional realm in your life?
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
ir Take time in nature to feel and to connect with the element of Air. Allow your awareness to merge with Air. Ask Air to reveal its essence to you. Then just wait and listen. When you receive a message, write the message from Air without filtering it. Remember to thank Air for all that you receive.
Notes on Reflection with Air:
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
Personal Air Realm Exercise for personal connection to Air: In seated or moving/dancing meditation, connect with your breath. Ask Air to reveal to you the ways you can more deeply honor the element of Air in your life.
Are you working with the mental realm and Air effectively, holding a positive vision for your life?
17
Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
Are you using prayer, meditation, and intention to consciously set the tone of your life?
Do you feel a sense of freedom in your life?
How balanced is the exchange of giving and receiving in your life?
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
ire Take time in nature to connect with the element of Fire. To do so, use the sun, a candle, or build a fire. Allow your consciousness to connect with the fire. Ask Fire to reveal its essence to you. Then just wait and listen. When you receive a message, write down the message from Fire without filtering it. Remember to thank Fire for all that you receive from its essence.
Notes on Reflection with Fire:
20
Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
Personal Fire Realm Exercise for personal connection to Fire: In seated or moving meditation, connect with your life force. Honor it as sacred. Thank it for all it does for you to keep your life fired up and alive. Ask it to reveal to you the ways you can more deeply honor the element of Fire that is in your life.
Are you passionate about your life or perhaps burning yourself out? Do you need to adjust or balance Fire in your life in any way?
How are your vitality, sexuality, and sensuality?
21
Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
How easily do you handle the process of transformation?
Are you in tune with Fire in your life?
Are you taking powerful action in the world?
22
Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
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Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
eneral eflections What did you notice about how the elements felt in comparison to one another?
Were some elements easier to connect with than others?
With which elements do you feel you need the most work?
Did you hear their responses equally, or were one or two of them more difficult for you to connect with and to hear?
24
Elemental Forces of Creation Wookbook © 2009 Institute of Conscious Expression
As you move forward with your elemental work, allow your increased awareness to guide you in your development with each of the Elemental Forces of Creation. In the course of expanding your awareness of these forces, Spirit and the elements will introduce you to each of their mystery school teachings. A mystery school is a body of knowledge that is said to be beyond full human understanding. To facilitate understanding, each element has multiple training paths that are designed to reveal more about itself and its mystery school lessons. People are drawn to a training because it works in harmony with their own energy. Notice which training path you are drawn to, and how it fits your unique energy. The elements also will share with you their key words and powers, as well as the soul qualities their training develops. Your important task revolves around beginning to understand and embody the element’s fundamental teaching and doing the element’s developmental task. Eventually you will have a strong conscious awareness and some degree of fluency in working with all of them. If you perform the power activations suggested for each element, please note that those elemental powers will be awakened within you. You will, therefore, need to take additional responsibility for using them wisely. It is imperative that the elements and their energies be used for the highest and greatest good of all and never against anything or anyone. Your intention is vital to what you are creating and bringing forth in your personal life, as well as to the energy it adds to the human collective. It is time for each of us to claim our power as co-creators of our experience and to begin focusing our energies on our desired outcomes. To do so, let’s begin in the next chapter with Earth to discover a deeper understanding of each of the elements and their mysteries.
25
Amplify Your Capacity to Create Natural Rhythms™ Connect the Creational Dance of Your Life to the Pulse of the Universe "Learning from the forces of nature helps us to deepen our inner gifts and skills, as well as express our increased cocreational abilities in the outer world. Natural rhythms will encourage you to develop a relationship with nature. Not only will learn about the elements of our great mother earth, you will learn how to implement their properties into your life to create a reality you have always wanted. Michaels includes wonderful easy to use exercises that will wake up your spirit and you will discover your connection with your elements of mother nature. Ultimately resulting in an abundant spirit and life!” Robin Marvel ✦ Discover ways to release old emotional baggage, improve your relationships, focus your intention for creation, activate your ability to take action, and increase your ability to thrive. ✦ Deepen your alignment with the natural rhythmic cycles of the sun, moon, and stars. ✦ Move your life into greater levels of health and wellness, creativity and wholeness, and inner peace and balance. ✦ Open to the guiding insights of the natural world and begin dancing your life to profound levels of aliveness. ✦ Keep this powerful reference book on hand to help effectively work with the elements and time your creations to the rhythms of nature. Manifest your dreams, goals, and desires by aligning with one of your most powerful teachers -- the force of nature.
Buy this book NOW from these fine booksellers: sacredspaces.org and amazon.com
