This Week’s Quotation:
“For your creative field, the conscious awareness you bring is like the atmosphere surrounding our planet. It is the space in which creation occurs. The quality of that atmosphere is critical for life to flourish. If the temperature becomes extremely hot or cold living things die. If the atmosphere becomes thin, it is hard to breathe. If the mix of oxygen, carbon dioxide and other gases changes it affects the forms of life. Your conscious awareness is the air that your creative field depends on for life.”
— David Karchere, Becoming a Sun p. 51
The Power of Atmosphere
This quote from Becoming a Sun almost sounds like a lesson in science. The factors David mentions all relate to life on our planet, including us as human beings. Yet beneath the scientific imagery is something deeply personal and spiritual.
Atmosphere is not only something surrounding the earth. It is something we create in our everyday lives, and it has a profound impact on what thrives and what withers.
Have you ever experienced a relationship where it felt hard to breathe?
Have you watched a project slowly die on the vine despite everyone’s best intentions?
Have you seen a group of people who once shared vision and excitement lose sight of the path forward together?
In each of these situations, atmosphere matters.
Our conscious awareness shapes the environment we bring into every room, every relationship, and every creative endeavor. Awareness affects whether others feel welcome, inspired, safe, and energized, or feel tension, confusion, and distance.
Recently, we experienced this very power during a wonderful visitation at Sunrise with 24 servers from Korea. There were differences in language, culture, and personal history. Some individuals I had known for more than twenty years, while others were newly discovered friends.
As I reflected on the visit, I realized how important conscious awareness was in helping the gathering flourish. It required sensitivity to what would allow unity, joy, and connection to grow. The right words mattered. The right spirit mattered. The right mixture in the atmosphere mattered.
Because of that awareness, the visit became generative and victorious.
We are not passive participants in the environments around us. We help shape them. Our consciousness influences the atmosphere others experience through us.
When mind and heart come into agreement and are aligned in service, life flourishes. Relationships deepen. Creativity expands. Vision becomes possible again.
What does it mean to become a sun?
Every human being is already a sun on the inside—a being of intense love and light. The difference is that some people have the vision and courage to become a sun on the outside. This difference is our human destiny.
