** Common Neutral Ground (CNG) 2 ** Tuesdays 1/21 - 3/18 @ 6pm MST

Clarifying Our Perspectives

Some of us think of Common Neutral Ground (CNG) as a tool or process where we expand our ability to communicate, but it is more than that. CNG is a harmonious process of using our wisdom to maximize both our growth and the growth of others. It is meant to find new, creative ways to expand our self-presence while we expand our purpose in the world. We learn things about each other that shift the ways we work with each other. Our Autonomy, Intimacy, and Co-Creativity emerge, and it is the spontaneous re-creation of our energy, time, and space so that we work as a team with the universe. In essence, Common Neutral Ground is how we use the principles of Higher Alignment in our daily lives.

CNG supports our natural harmony, capacity to uplift others, and the desire for mutual fulfillment. This is why it is central to the Higher Alignment process, because everything within is unified so that it connects to everything externally. There are four elements of Common Neutral Ground: [1] The neutralization of conditioning and defenses, [2] The re-integration of modalities; [3] The development of skills; and [4] The appreciation that everyone has their own process of contributing. We will explore these in four series of CNG classes.

The first class showed that there is a natural inner creative nature that eventually supersedes the ways we have protected ourselves. Now in the second series, we need to organize the inner heartbeat of how it works. This means we need to unify how we know who we are by integrating the instinctive, intellectual, and emotional levels of our being. That allows us to initiate the third level of this process by creating space for ourselves and others so that finally we can learn how to operate as Co-Creative Beings with each other. In effect, CNG externalizes and activates who we are for the purpose of contributing to the world. Finally, we shift from personal desires, to transpersonal desires and even, in some ways, to impersonal desires, as we evolve. During each step, we become more refined so that we do more with less and recognize that our Creative Being itself carries out our contribution automatically in or with our presence.

Inner Autonomy In A World of Confusion

We manifest wholehearted peace by differentiating between our authentic nature and our reactive, defensive conditioning. Most of us are struggling with who we are. To manifest our inner balance, we need to reorient ourselves to align with our creative design by affirming our life contribution. The obstacle is that we have been taught to be someone we are not. With creative alignment, we learn not to be attached to the perceptions of others. We discover how Aliveness, Wisdom, and Awareness help us appreciate our responsive Creative Self. Otherwise, our expectations and fears consume our energy as we are trapped in reactions, promoting inactivity or automatic role-playing.

By aligning our modalities, we drop our survival and success personality programming to embrace our creative flow. This means reconstructing our experiential modalities (sensations, feelings, emotions, and thoughts) so our individual perceptions become open, inclusive perspectives. With Inner Autonomy, we perceive our truth from the inside out while incorporating all the modalities. Our responsiveness to what we are learning keeps us from being defined by past assumptions. Our Presence is an energetic lubricant that allows us to question our fixed beliefs and reorient to creative possibilities.

The secret is how we organize and prioritize our integration process. We continue to use The Presence Process by Michael Brown as supplemental reading to help us anchor our experience. Just as we did in Common Neutral Ground 1: we use somatic tools and guided imagery to deepen our sense of self. By expanding the work of Michael Brown, the Common Neutral Ground series begins with our purpose, focuses on inner alignment, then builds conscious perceptions for accepting our wisdom, and completes the process by Co-Creating with others. The first CNG Course introduced us to our 15 qualities. The second CNG Course allows us to clear out the obstacles to seeing and being who we are. The third will demonstrate how to expand our context or space so we can connect as partners equally, and reorients us in terms of our place in the universe. Finally, the fourth CNG series is on Transpersonal Interactions and Mutual Learning, and supports us in systematically deepening our Autonomy, Intimacy, and Co-Creativity.

1. Creative Presence
2. Reactive Vs. Responsive Qualities
3. Aligning Impulses, Values, & Virtues
4. Passion Without Projections
5. Pleasure Without Attachments
6. Creative Power Without Positions
7. Re-Orientation: Right Side Up
8. Forgiveness, Reconnection, & Grace
9. Being In The Moment