Hugging Russell Brand /December 6, 2013

ugging Russell Brand

I have put two pieces in this week. The first is in response to the large number of newcomers to aCREATIVEspace who enjoy our newsletter but wonder what aCREATIVEspace is. The second is my attempt to 

No.1 What is aCREATIVEspace?

A wise man once said there are only two things money can buy. The first is time and the second is space. 

When asked what we do at a aCREATIVEspace our preferred answer is that we sell space. 

I wrote a blog entitled What is aCREATIVEspace? back in March 2012 after being interviewed by Sandie Sedgbeer and I have re-posted the blog in full on our web-site, but to give a sense of how we perceive our work here are a couple of lines from the blog.

So what do we offer? 

Simply stated we are selling space. In effect we are selling no-thing. A truly Creative Space In which your essence will be able to breathe, be able to express and connect to the infinite possibility that you are. You will see through the illusion of limitation and there is literally no price tag on that.

Do not engage with aCREATIVEspace to remove a problem. Engage as a demonstration that all problems are an illusion. 

Each time you buy something to remove a perceived lack, to remove a concern or surpress a fear you are cementing the reality of lack and buying into the fiction that there is something to fear.

Be brave enough to buy something because there is no lack and that the something you buy will make no difference to your external world. Shattering the illusion of lack will release you to create any experience you choose, it will catapult you into the field of possibility, or into a truly creative space.

No. 2 Hugging Russell Brand

I picked up Catherine my 17 year old daughter from school on Wednesday and she said she had had the weirdest day. It was as if everyone was not themselves...quite literally.  The meek were aggressive, the boisterous were timid, the confident were shy. She described it as if everyone had put their identity in a bag and drawn out another at random. Apart from being a little disoriented she actually found it quite amusing, managing to avoid the drama (despite it being a drama school!) and be curious as opposed to trying to change things in order to feel comfortable.

I have experienced a similar disconnect from from the usual script. A conscious decision to place my attention firmly in the heart has lead to a disorientation similar to Catherine's experience on Wednesday, except at a more personal level. My decision to commit to the heart immediately threw up a bunch of circumstances and events which were, retrospectively, designed to move me out of that heart intelligence and back into more familiar territory (read patterns). However, expected reactions and attachments failed to materialise and it felt like my identity had somehow changed.

In the last week I have attended an amazing talk on the Fractal Brain and Artificial Intelligence, met my favourite financial journalist (well second favourite) and hugged Russell Brand. None of these events were planned and all showed up at the last minute. If the new identity continues to generate experiences like these I thoroughly recommend it! 

With love 

Bill  

p.s. yes ladies I now get what all the fuss is about (how's that for a change of identity?)