The transition phase
The creative guidance part of Ngakau, was birthed through my experience with labour.
The colour of the brand is the blood of life or the first women in Maori culture who was made from clay.
And this 12 week program Putanga ~ Emergence relates back to this idea also.
The creative phase can be likened to when we are pregnant and going into labour.
When we are in the phase of the transition, which is a fairly short period of time where we feel like we can no longer go through with our labour, we feel like we can't do it anymore and that we aren't able to birth our child and that we just want to give up.
This happens seconds before the baby is about to crown on its head, and we could be one contraction away from actually having the baby earthside.
This to me feels like the creative process, when we are creating an idea, business or some sort of offering that we want to bring into the world.
It is very much like this, we feel our calling and believe in it so strongly, and then we some how reach this point where we are so close to it becoming a reality.
Then, we reach this freeze response where we feel like we can't do it, or we hit a massive block and it feels super difficult to shift through that.
Still trusting of divine timing and the weaving of light and dark.
Yet, from an outsider's point of view looking in, I can often see how close people are to bringing their idea to life.
They are only a couple of steps away from actually making it happen, or the actual amount of time that they need to spend on perhaps a few action steps, is quite small in terms of what it can achieve them.
Often once those small action steps are taken, that's the hardest part and the idea can be brought to life (birth). This can become something that we offer and that becomes a tangible thing, that can earn money and that can fulfil what had been intended.
It is soo sad to see when people give up when they're so close.
This is something that I feel from going through childbirth three times now. It feels very linked to the creative process.
With love, Jay