We-Flow: a very practical exercise on finding our vision

Heidi writes

What do you do when you feel the overload of bad news and you fear to get stuck in a really bad mood? How can you maintain a positive vision for your life, for the future to come, instead of becoming depressed and losing courage?

Here comes a good example of what you could do. The women of Women Matters did a guided process together for discovering our vision for the future in a we-flow.. Listening to the recording you could do it, too.

The interesting thing was the mood changing through the process. Monia explicitly said at the beginning that she was very serious these days and that the state of the world was weighing on her. She didn’t want to be playful at all, but to stay serious. Myself I started out sort of neutral, but then, the more we were guided into movement and expression, the more I became serene and joyful, playing along with gestures and shapes. The same happened to Monia.

It is incredible how much our body influences our mood – and vice versa. When we feel down and hopeless, a certain dose of movement, dance, play around with our bodies creates miracles. When we are guided, this certainly is more easy than when we have to motivate ourselves to do these movements which seem swoon odd or strange. But when we do them together, they become fun, they increase our energy and pull us out of the gloomy mood.

Although we cannot change the outside reality directly by getting ourselves into an energetic space, indirectly we can contribute for a betterment of how things go. In this session we were to discover our vision for the future. With a clear vision we will be able to manifest it in the world. With that we contribute to an increase of positive energy which, no doubt, has influence on the whole energy field. If enough of us do this work, the field strengthens and can lead to a shift of the previous tendencies into a different direction.

Don’t wait for others to change the world, do it yourself! Be part of the many groups and individuals who work on this goal, alone and in groups. It sounds unspectacular and for someone even silly to believe that we, everyone of us, could be able to do something with evidently no decision power in the outside world. But directing ourselves into a positive mindset, we are able to inspire others to come out of the gloomy desperation mood and help them to access their creativity and possibilities for doing the unprecedented. All together we can change the world from the bottom up by shifting the prevailing energies, first in ourselves, then in our social surroundings and, from there, spreading out into the whole world.

About the videos below:

We practiced We-Flow, guided by Gertraut Wegst and Hannelie Venucia in 3 consecutive appointments.

In the first we worked on finding the vision, in the second we went into the manifestation of the vision and in the third we came to the conclusion, the integration of the previous sessions and what actions could follow the process

This first conversation took place on July 20th, 2020

TIME STAMPS : WHAT to find WHERE in the Video

Women Matters April 2019 Healing the past

0:00 Heidi’s intro to the topic and share of a recent experience connected to the evil of war behavior.

4:25 Luna from America share the experience of her mother and grandmother. Through constellation work she sees how much we ALL are affected by war and having to flee our territories. A history of hiding. The danger of repetition because of the encoded trauma in all of us.

7:10 Viktoria from Hungary and East Germany. Hungary has pushed aside the question of guilt with the effect of present political situation. East Germany: Dark stuff in the air – “something is wrong”, politics of fear and the impact on children. Psychology of hiding.

11:35 Monia born in 1941, witnessing the war impact in Vienna. Suspicion of grownups, helplessness, fear, bomb impacts, memory of the Russians. Women raped all over the country, impact. We never talk about that! Father refused the party which had impact on him. A white Teddy Bear from Paris.

17:45 Gertraud from 1956. Her father was remembering war in every location which resembles a place where he was in the war. He still lived in the war and sort of overloaded the family with his stories, but good that he talked. She never dared to ask him how many people died by his operating in a trunk. Prisoner of war of Amercans for 4 years. Her mother lost her brother + other family member “missed”. Not being sure what has happened to the missed people. In countrsie survival was easier.

24:45 European constellation in Hungary IEC. Gertraud was the “European soil”. Thousands of years of blood soaked in the soil. Not only the last war.

26:15 Monia adds: Missing family member, grandmother waited for the return until her death. Being raped by a foreign army,

27:27 Tammy from Canada, her dad was born in 1940. Ongoing war in Canada, silent. The land was taken over. Generations of blood in the land. Hiding of truth in Canada. The war is not over there and not even acknowledged that it happened. Indigenous communities and still their children are taken away to break with their own culture.

32:45 Heidi. Mark: America has never worked on the guilt. Conversations about war was random. Visits of comrades telling stories, the good ones. Human attempt to handle the necessity of being enemies. Oncle died, silence. Also in school, feeling of depression inherited and not knowing what it was about. Coburg, the first city with a Nazi major, with the acceptance of the unjust. Parents grew up in this atmosphere. No help to understand such a situation as a child.

38:36 Tammy: what is valuable to learn? Heidi: Don’t forget and stop the beginnings. Be courageous and say NO at the right moment. Shadow work and find out about yourself and what you would be able to do in critical situations.

41:28 Gertraud shared the story of the wife of a guardian of the concentration camp. “I never said anything”. Sometimes you have to endure. An interview with Toy Blair: The ultra left doesn’t know that when they fight with the ultra right, they will win”. Being against is not the right way.

44:10 Heidi shares the message of the soldier: “we are only following orders”

44:45 Monia: Problem today:nobody can tell me what I have to do. How can you have not forget then? How would the young generation allow to be told something? She has some access to her grandchilds because of equilibrium which most people don’t have. Looking back on your life you see certain patterns. Misinterpretation of her father who never spoke about these things. But contact to the war comrades.

48:20 Dorothy arrives, she was wrong with the hour. Freudscher error? Se brings some light moments into the situation.

51:00 Dorothy talks about her parents, heartbreak and sadness of mother, rage in Father about the humiliation before they left Vienna. He went on outwardly resilient, inwardly he carried rage and never felt good about himself despite all success. Next generation group in Portland, monitoring the stories: an opening of despair and anger into the sharing and interest. Celebrating the fact that we moved on.

55:25 Ghe story of the flight. In 42 born she felt truly American, not her mother, but father became American man.

57:25 Gertraud referring to Tammy: how can we be aware and uncover and create the future in another way without being stuck in the past.

59:00 Dorothy: the meaning of her being an hour late for the first time and with that topic.

59:30 Viktoria: this is only the beginning. We have all in our soles, the victim and the aggressor. It can come out. Who we would trust not become an aggressor any more. Meditators? Inner journey because they realised that they could become the aggressors. Paradigm shift: we need to go within and change ourselves. Not rely on change in the outside world.

1:03:55 Tammy: How can I own? Understanding the trauma from our own experience, how and where we can take responsibility and transform in the inside.

1:04:20 Monia: we are only scratching the surface. It is our responsibility to go deeper. It is necessary.

1:05:20 Luna: What is asked from us, the WE-NESS, people who are wanting to look in order to heal. A movement happening everywhere. Relationship perpetrator and victim: a new game is asked, not about good and bad but healing the divide and what we can be as human beings to not repeat that game.

1:07:40 Dorothy: a gift. Grateful.Beginning to trust.

1:08:50 Heidi: Lightness in the midst of an red outburst which makes war. Preoccupied about the many people who are still in red. Expression gratefulness for this conversation. Future of coming together for this topic.

This second conversation took place on August 3rd, 2020