#C4ward March Blogathon (Day 11): Seeking grace-full people, places, and activities

FINDING GRACE AT DANCE CHURCH. (photo by Tony Martin)

Hallelujah for resources (see C4ward March prompt below) that support our journeys! On my creative journey, I seek the "physicality of grace." This is the term that Phil Porter and Cynthia Winton-Henry created to define the open, relaxed, calm, and creative feeling we experience in our entire bodies when we are engaged in doing what we love.

EVE AFTER THE FALL. This is a statue that I saw at the Art Institute of Chicago yesterday. For me, what the Old Testament Eve is experiencing here is the opposite of GRACE. Let me be clear, the GRACE I am seeking and what InterPlay means by the "physicality of grace" is not religious. However,  the feeling expressed in this figure who has fallen out of God's grace definitely displays the negative impact that stressful emotions have on our bodies. (photo by Hallelujah Truth, sorry I did not get the name of the sculptor)

WHAT IS PHYSICALITY OF GRACE?
As I train to become an InterPlay leader, I am focusing on embodying the concepts from Phil Porter's book, Having It All, and these concepts come from the chapter, "Grace Is Physical":

BODY DATA
We all know when we experience grace--the opposite of stress. It is acknowledging "the good" in the moment that we are feeling. This physical feeling is body data.
 
BODY KNOWLEDGE
Then when we recognize 
WHERE this physical well-being of grace occurs...
and WHAT we are doing...
and WHO is bringing us grace...
this is body knowledge.

BODY WISDOM
Once we have BODY DATA and BODY KNOWLEDGE, we can practice BODY WISDOM. Yes, we can choose to increase the physicality of grace in our lives! We can make the choice to be in spaces, engage with people, and do those activities that bring us energy, peace, calm, and creativity.

FOR MY LIFE AND WORK, WHAT RESOURCES DO I NEED TO ENGAGE IN THE PHYSICALITY OF GRACE?
Great question! This C4ward March Blogathon prompt has me asking pertinent questions and is helping me clarify the direction of my life's work in seeking the physicality of grace. 
 

SECOND SATURDAY ATLANTA INTERPLAY (March 2014) I feel the "physicality of grace" when I do InterPlay. (photo by Callahan Pope McDonough)

To be an InterPlay leader in the Atlanta community, which would bring me grace, I need the following:

1) Training in InterPlay, which requires time, money, and teachers. 

2) Once trained, I need spaces, players, collaborators to conduct InterPlay.

In addition to being an InterPlay leader, I want to be a creativity coach. Then there is my desire to continue growing as an artist who "draws from the source" and the support I need around that soulful experience. 

I see now that I have a lot of body data to collect to be able to determine the resources I need to embody the physicality of grace I am seeking in my work to earn a livelihood exuberantly and easefully.

That's Coffee with Hallelujah! SOUL BLOG with me. Tell me about your experience with grace. Where, when and with who do find that wonderful feeling of calm, energy, and renewal?
 

EMBODIED SPIRIT. This is a small portion of Chagall's stained glass windows in the Art Institute of Chicago. (photo by Hallelujah Truth)

 

C4ward March Blogathon: Day 11 Prompt

Today, we want to ask you to name some of the tools, resources, or connections that you need to conquer your creative dreams.

• What knowledge gaps do you have?

• What classes are you dying to take? Creative, professional, technical, etc...

• If you could do it all over again, what would you do differently - or in a different order?

• What resources do you feel are essential to the growth of your creative or entrepreneurial practice?

• If you had a super power, what would it be?

• If you could work with anyone, who would it be?