Relationships and relationships

When we give our attention to a conscious life form, and that life-form returns our attention, there is an exchange of energy. This two-way communication is what makes our human relationships so special. Feel-good relationships happen when the energy exchange is positive and friendly, but this energy can also include difficult momentsin times of personal challenge. Good-heartedness in relationship is an essential ingredient in  healing our differences.

Many people believe that relationships are limited to sentient life forms such as ourselves or with animals. But in fact, we can have relationships with almost anything; sentient or inanimate. Beyond our human relationships, we can have strong feeling-connections with complex life forms, such as our human body, Mother Nature, Planet Earth and the Universe. In these examples, our “feeling-connection” is important. Without a common duologue, rational communication with complex life forms can be difficult. This is where we can communicate intuitively. Many creative people are open to these types of relationships where interaction is through feelings rather than reasoned logic. By definition, this also suggests that our human body, Mother Nature, Planet Earth and the Universe are always open to our connection.

There is another level of relationship that humans indulge, sometimes without realising it. Such as, having personal relationships with inanimate objects and life circumstances. This level of relationship is largely subjective in that we ourselves create the communication. But once we declare the connection as a relationship, we make it so, and for all intents and purposes, it is real to us. We can then work with our circumstantial relationships to enhance their presence in our lives, just as we do with our human relationships. 

Some common examples might be a relationship with our car, our living space, our career or profession or maybe just a shell or a rock we found on a beach that we just happened to connect with. 

Just by claiming a relationship with any of these things, we can, through the energy of appreciating their value, transform their inanimateness into a form of subjective sentience. We literally give them life — just as they enhance ours! 

By connecting with our CAR in an emotional way, the energy of our connection can have the effect of assuring a relatively trouble-free motoring life. Who is to say that our living connection with our inanimate motor vehicle, doesn’t in some amazing way, contribute to the reliability and life of the car? I have found this for myself, and I know many people who also have this same experience. Of course, a big part of enjoying a relationship with our friendly motor vehicle, is that we become more attentive to its maintenance needs.

Getting our LIVING SPACE feeling good, is often a case of transforming its energy to give us personal enjoyment — rather like our relationship with what we wear, or like our car. Our motivation to create a positive relationship in some unbelievable way, adds a companionate quality to our living space. 

As a composer and musician, I have relationships with the music I write and the instruments I use in the creative process. Their service in my life has been nothing short of exemplary, especially considering their age and their inanimate state. My admiration of their contribution is an energy I transmit back toward them. 

My physical body is also important and from a conscious perspective, I enjoy to comunicate with the trillions of cells and energy fields that contribute to my longevity. My spirituality is a communication between my humanity and the greater universe. After many years of meditation, I have come to experience this relationship as indivisible —  I now know I am both at once.

Relationship is about subject and object, which in many ways falls into the concept of separation. The new spiritual model rejects separation in favour of our oneness with all things. So by definition, if we are all one entity, then relationship is not possible. That said, I believe the convergence of our physical and spiritual self to be more a reflection of our humanity being both a privilege and divine state. Our relationships with each other, with complex life forms and with inanimate matter and circumstance, are both the creative expression of our individuality, and the physical expression of our oneness, all at the same time.

The idea of seeing life as a series of relationships at many different levels, brings engagement to our life experience. There is a universal simplicity in recognising relationship as our connection to everything within and around us. Through our relationship with our Inner teacher, we can apply the learning we get from our good relationships, to the relationships that still have room to grow.

At source, we are a creative, self-sustaining consciousness; living our human lives in a physical-nonphysical universe. This relationship is important, and is perhaps the connection that comes before everything else. As innately creative children, we may not have been able to articulate our circumstances, but our child response to life was automatic and natural. The inner-child of our arrival here still exists within us. It is exercised when we form relationships with each other and especially, with whatever we wish to relate ourselves to …

Thank you for reading and for sharing 

May peace be within you

Jeffree

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