What are the Five Key Channels of Change?
The Five Key Channels of Change are the biggest slices of the pie. They are the foundational journeys one will go on in The Life Spiral. They are the essential portals to walk through to transform into a more resourced, authentic, joyful and connected person. They are the building blocks of translating and building that personal experience into a Collective Culture.
Breaking Cycles
Becoming Embodied
Freeing Expression
Tending Spirit
Aligning Dreams
are these five Key Channels
They each encompass many layers, thirteen in fact, that act as mini lessons and supports along the non-linear journey of Change in that Channel.
They each are associated with one of the five Anchor.
They do not need to be followed one after the other.
They each have their own unique relationship to each other.
One opposite each other tend to need to be balanced out. If your are working on Breaking Cycles, it is helpful to Tend to Spirit in doing so. If you are Aligning Dreams, it is helpful to use your body and expression as the root, the resource, the aquifer that informs and gives life to your dreams.
They do also sometimes precede each other. In order to Free our Expression, we may need to Become Embodied. In order to Break Cycles, we must Align our Dreams: the vision, the why we have for making these changes.
Each of the Channels
Aligning Dreams
Aligning Dreams, is the both the prologue and ending to the Full & Plenty Joy Life Spiral. It is number Zero and number Five of the Key Channels of Change: Breaking Cycles, Getting Embodied, Freeing Expression, Tending Spirit, and Aligning Dreams.
It is the preparation stage in the recovery journey where you've decided you need help and are beginning to seek it. You know you want to break cycles, but are getting clear first on your Why. Your vision for change - for a better life and world.
The Aligning Dreams Key Channel of Change is the spaciousness and energy created from Becoming Embodied and Freeing Expression. It is the container for our spirits, our souls, our blood and movement ancestors to speak through us, call us to root into our roles in the Social Change Ecosystem, and commit to drawing down our dreams rooted in the liberation of all.
It is the practice ground for visioning, for planning, for experimenting with new systems and rituals and routines of the future, but in the here and now. It is generative, experimental, inspired energy. It is where we learn that our liberation is bound up in everyone else's. That there is no separation in Truth. That we are the change we wish to see in the world so we get to work on making our dreams come true. To building fully aligned life.
It is where we become devoted to addressing all problems at their root: to become radical. It is the North Star we return to, to stay aligned. It is where we become students of The Dream: a world where we all get to be, and are ready to discard, release, compost all beliefs, illusions, entanglements and distractions that tell us otherwise.
It is where our Soul's Service comes to Expand.
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Breaking Cycles
Breaking Cycles, is the beginning of the Life Spiral Journey. It is number One amongst the Five Key Channels of Change, but only in sequence, not in importance. However, if we never break cycles then are we really fully tending to our spirit or aligning our dreams or becoming embodied or freeing our expression?
Probably not considering the thousands of years of conditioning that's been built into a system keeping our full potentialities hostage to our own survival instincts. The invitation is to be conscious to the instinct and instead respond expansively, when possible. A practice for life.
The power of the Breaking Cycles is the fact we have made a decision to not continue with business as usual. To dare to not only dream, but enact a different way now, in this moment and the next, and the one after that.
It is humbly, devotedly and yes even begrudgingly showing up to our healing work each week whether that is therapy or a family meeting or a town hall. It is the work of recovery, and holy guacamole have you been recovering something important. Or something is knocking at your door, calling for your attention, your presence and your courage to reclaim.
It is a cycle of life characterized by choice. Choosing Recovery. Every damn day. Choosing consciousness and consistent change. Choosing to value something you were asked to throw away or was taken from you with threat or consequence.
Breaking Cycles is done within ourself, our relationships and our communities - not all at once, but over our lifetimes. It is the death journey - the death of who we were told to be or thought we were. It is an underworld journey as we become a Phoenix.
It is supported by Aligning our Dreams, always coming back to The Why. It is essential to move through this channel in order to Become Embodied and Fully Expressed. It is in deep symbiotic relationship with Tending Spirit, developing faith, and surrendering to the unknown.
It is often referred to as "the work" because it is hard and takes commitment. But Change is already on it's way. Healing your lineage, resolving your pain, and embodying "the best apology is changed behavior" is the way of Breaking Cycles. You are stronger than you think. Your ancestors call you to this powerful work and are cheering you on.
Will you make space for their support in your journey?
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Becoming Embodied
Becoming Embodied, is the second Key Channel for Change in the Full & Plenty Joy Life spiral, IF you are going in a linear fashion. It appears after Breaking Cycles and before Freeing Expression- a channel it has a symbiotic relationship with while the two support the Key Channel of Change: Aligning Dreams, like an Aquifer deep underground. It is where you learn how to tap into your Authenticity to support your dreams, your connections, and your experience of being resourced.
It is the period in the recovery journey where you have really changed so much, and yet you are just realizing this is just the beginning. Not in an exhausted way, though exhaustion definitely arises throughout the process of transformation. More so the kind of realization of infinite potentiality that excites you to keep going, to keep learning, to keep deepening, to keep seeking the truth of your wisdom and power that so fully lives inside of your bones waiting to be contacted.
Becoming Embodied is the radical reclamation of your Whole Self. A Self that historically has been dominated by the mind because of needing to survive this society. It is the Channel of Change that reconnects you to your wisdom, your experience, your felt sense, your resilience, your memories and heart and pain and truth.
It is not a comfortable thing, at least not at first. But you know this and you do this still: come back to your body, back your Self and within that wisdom remember the feeling of unconditional love, which pours out into the collective.
It is the practice ground for sensation --> emotion --> thought informed responses that give more potentiality for repair in our relationships and true strength in our communities. It is where we learn, really feel, what it means to show up - to be present, again and again, and again.
It is where we become devoted to the intelligence of not only the body, but our BodyMindSpirit as ONE highly intelligent system that does know a way forward and for all. It awakens us to this compass that can help steer not only our individual dreams, but the ones we hold for our collective world.
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Freeing Expression
Freeing Expression, is the third Key Channel for Change in the Full & Plenty Joy Life spiral, IF you are going in a linear fashion. It appears after Becoming Embodied and before Tending Spirit- a channel which has a symbiotic relationship with Breaking Cycles: the first Key Channel of Change. Freeing Expression has a deep relationship with Becoming Embodied, as both of them support the development of the final Channel: Aligning Dreams. Together, they make an Aquifer full of authenticity to draw upon as a resource for living an aligned life.
Freeing Expression is the part of ongoing healing where we learn how to express our authentic selves in ways we were often told not to. This could be expressing emotions or creativity, our gender or sexuality, our relational type or talent in life. It is a season of joyful flow of the divine pouring out of you into some form. Often creatively, but also relationally.
It is not an easy thing, at least not at first. But you know this and you do this still: express yourself authentically through body, voice and energy in a way that fortifies your Pride, processes your pain, and emanates out into the ethers which we all breathe in to heal.
Thank you.
It is the practice ground for play and imagination. It is where we learn who we were as children and follow them through and through.
It is where we become devoted to the power of collective storytelling through whatever vehicle has chosen you. Your job is simply to allow the call to come through you. To be moved.
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Tending Spirit
Tending Spirit, is the fourth Key Channel of Change in the Full & Plenty Joy Life Spiral, IF you are going in a linear fashion. It appears after Freeing Expression and before Aligning Dreams. It is across from the Breaking Cycles Key Channel, and as such, has a symbiotic relationship with the lessons learned there. In many ways, it is a necessary resource and balance, what we must keep coming back to, if we are to break cycles, and definitely if we are to align our dreams.
We see this reflected in so many aspects of society. From 12 Step programs to Yoga classes to Weekly Horoscope Podcasts and Dance Jams. Tending Spirit is tending to our souls and the spirits we come from who helped us be here. It is about going inward, so we can shine outward. It is about Accessible Joy and Re-membering our Magic.
It is a season of life characterized by putting the puzzle pieces back together like a detective about the truth of the magic you are descended from. For example, my mother was a ballerina and my father was a drummer. My ability to express myself through dance and music is part of re-membering my magic. Learning about my Great Uncle who became a socialist after WWII and rejected his inheritance is a part of re-membering my magic as an Advocate. And further and further and further back, so far back, that Tending Spirit becomes an intuitive practice affirming your own magical rituals and practices and beliefs.
It is about learning to be in awe of the magic that surrounds each and every day all around, but using the tools learned in Breaking Cycles and Becoming Embodied. And then the lessons of Freeing Expression to allow your unique magic and spirit and JOY to come through as a resource.
It is a sacred liminal space for touching into the unseen and allowing its loving support back. There are messages for you from beyond that want to help you expand into Aligning Dreams. Can you get quiet enough to hear them? Feel them? And brave enough to trust them? Affirm them?
Tending Spirit is where we stop gaslighting our inner children who have always known the way of magic in the world, and begin taking them quite seriously. We no longer skip over or hold "disbelief" in this aspect of our Being. We learn our Spirits are real and need tending to like everything else.
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