Shiva Nata: the Dance of ShivaNeedles in haystacks. More patterns.
But first a story.
The baseball diamond.
I was maybe eight years old.
My parents had invited a visiting professor to dinner and he was explaining something about his work (which I assume was in the field of psychology or sociology).
It was about how people find things.
About tracking what we do when we look for things, and what the most efficient or rational methods are.
I may be missing all sorts of important aspects or implications here. But then again, I was eight.
Imagine you’ve lost a button on a baseball diamond.
That was the exercise.
The professor asked people to map out how they’d go about looking for the button.
Some people start at home plate and pace counter-clockwise around the edges.
Some people go up and down in lines.
You know, people vary .
But not that much.
My mother took the pen and the drawing of the baseball diamond…
And covered it with chaotic incoherent scribbles.
The professor looked at her, confused.
“I’ve never seen anyone do that before,” he said. “Probably because that’s not the most efficient way to do it .”
“Yeah, but she’d find the button before they would,” my father pointed out.
And anyone who knew my mother knew that this was true.
Patterns.
There are patterns in the shapes things take.
Patterns in the way we relate to the shapes things take.
Patterns in what we think is relevant to our relationships with the shapes things take and with our own patterns.
There is a genius in being able to operate in chaos.
To operate only in chaos? Not so good.
But to be able to operate in chaos is one of the things that Dance of Shiva gives you.
Order from chaos.
And new chaos from the order you just created.
That is Shiva Nata.
You can’t bring things into being without having a little bit of comfort with chaos.
Fortunately, doing Shiva Nata will untangle whatever internal patterns you have that make it uncomfortable for you to be in chaos.
Or uncomfortable to be in structure.
There is always another pattern within the pattern. And there is power in intentionally going to the places where you can’t see the pattern.
Because you are the pattern.
Twitter: kimianak
I have a new baby of a thing, and now you’ve got me really curious about noticing the patterns in the shape(s) it’s taking, and how I’ll relate to those shapes.
It’s so right that new chaos comes out of newly created order! I’ve been noticing it a lot lately: I take a step forward, and what was fuzzy becomes clear – but then, new possibilities surrounding the newly cleared thing appear, in all their fuzzy chaotic glory. It’s a very interesting process.
“And there is power in intentionally going to the places where you can’t see the pattern. Because you are the pattern.” Yes! That reminds me of those times when I could feel I was in the eye of the storm after our intense Shiva Nata sessions at the Destuckification retreat. Oh, it would make sense that the pattern would be there too, in that place of calm and order, surrounded by chaos… Food for thought…
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“And new chaos from the order you just created.”
I just created an order for the Starter Kit. Well, the other day. And got an email this morning saying it’s on its way.
Coincidence? YOU DECIDE!
ALL the materials have been printed and put in lovely clear plastic protector sheets in a lovely blue binder and had a while being petted while The Spouse looked on in amusement.
I was thinking it’d be a good idea to write a blog post or an article on my scrawny, defenceless little website for my new baby thing so people would know what it’s about. And all my ideas were:
* It’s all about patterns
* It’s all about the stories we tell ourselves (in repeating patterns)
* It’s all about love and fear (and the patterns around them)
And My Pattern kicked in: Loads of ideas, lots of fear around putting them out there.
I can’t wait for the DVD. Because I am in the midst of simultaneously deconstructing and constructing both chaos and order, and it’s wild.
Twitter: Embodhi
Oh my goodness.
I just put my website url and Twitter links IN PUBLIC. Like, to people I DON’T KNOW.
I don’t know if I want to throw up or punch the air.
This blog and the Fluent Self blog’s pretty much the only place I feel safe doing that right now. Probably my head won’t fall off or the entire world point and laugh mockingly, and I’ll do it again somewhere else at some point. Right now, though?
Holy cow.
Thanks, Havi.
Twitter: havi
@Josiane – Yeah! “in all their fuzzy chaotic glory” = perfect. So, so perfect. Exactly like that.
@Karen – :)
That reminds me of when I got my first business cards ever. Like, for my business. And I was equal parts ashamed, terrified and proud. Like ohmygosh it’s a real thing and how can I ever give one of these to anyone without wanting to die?!
Hooray for learning more about patterns. Hug for the hard and YAY for everything else.
Twitter: None
“And new chaos from the order you just created.”
I just created an order for the Starter Kit. Well, the other day. And got an email this morning saying it’s on its way.
Coincidence? YOU DECIDE!
ALL the materials have been printed and put in lovely clear plastic protector sheets in a lovely blue binder and had a while being petted while The Spouse looked on in amusement.
I was thinking it’d be a good idea to write a blog post or an article on my scrawny, defenceless little website for my new baby thing so people would know what it’s about. And all my ideas were:
* It’s all about patterns
* It’s all about the stories we tell ourselves (in repeating patterns)
* It’s all about love and fear (and the patterns around them)
And My Pattern kicked in: Loads of ideas, lots of fear around putting them out there.
I can’t wait for the DVD. Because I am in the midst of simultaneously deconstructing and constructing both chaos and order, and it’s wild.
Twitter: jessicamullen
It’s becoming one with the chaos, but of course!
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