Inner Constellations

(This Chart may only be used with Prior permission from Laura Madsen)

In May 2018, after 8 years of Silence Practice Facilitation, this map arrived in my awareness upon awakening. I named it an “Inner Constellation Mobile” (ICM) as it reveals more clearly the movement between the personal and transpersonal dynamics encountered within inner-stillness.

The intra-dependance of this Mobile allows us to witness the deeper relationship between our Belonging (in culture) and our Becoming (as soul): the movement of our conditioned aspects as well as our timeless potential as Soul.

Many of us suffer from a disconnect between our two essential natures — human and Divine. Experiencing the movement of our inner-mobile within the group allows for a more wholesome relationship between “doing and being” to emerge.

In this work we experience that one person’s healing is healing for everyone. We experience a quality of aliveness in the room that invites something new within us. There is great compassion and strength awakened in us as we experience this collaborative coherence.

The Relational Principles of the ICM

  • Allowing “what is” to be present  often awakens a higher coherence within the group where the beauty of unconditional belonging  comes to life.
  • As a spacious group process, the ICM movement invites both inner and outer attunement where we discover a profound relational presence or inter-being living within our nervous system. 
  • The group-inter-being opens a more conscious relationship with life through exploring stuck trauma patterns and the movement of our soul.
  • The network of nerves within our limbic system contains a deep connection with life as it is and is naturally informed by both timeless and time bound dimensions. [The word limbic is from Latin limbus, meaning “edge.” The evolution of our consciousness literally lives on the “edge” between our emotional wounding (trauma)  and the soul’s embodied potential.]
  • A traumatized limbic system feels asynchronous, presenting emotions and moods that are difficult to presence on our own. As these are seen and felt as “trapped energy” rather than “wrong,” they begin to melt into new life-connections.

 The Origin of the ICM

  • After ten years of studying and leading groups in the relationship between inner-stillness and living in the world, a symbol or “map of the territory” emerged strongly in my awareness upon awakening in May 2018. I have called the map an “Inner Constellation Mobile” (ICM) as it reveals more clearly the inner-dynamics we inevitably encounter in relationship to stillness practices. It spells out the movement of both our belonging and our becoming: i.e., the movement of the conditioned and ancestral influences of how we have learned to belong in the world, as well as our timeless potential as soul. As the mobile takes shape organically, a deep healing process begins between the constellations. We discover that healing and integration begin naturally when our numb or activated trauma patterns are seen and experienced with participants. We come to a visceral understanding that one person’s healing is every-person’s healing.

    The ICM conveys our relationship to Silence and inner-stillness as an energetic-movement that can be felt in our nervous system (specifically within the limbic system). The ICM movement is comprised of the Soul (spaciousness and listening) interfacing with the complexity of centuries of human conditioning (including family/ancestral and cultural constellations). Succinct, yet mobile, the six different constellations become an embodied representation of our inner landscape.

    As in Family Constellations work, the Inner Constellations are energetically represented by other participants. When participants are chosen to represent a constellation, they begin to experience the refined nature of transpersonal relationship. As we discover that the energetic movement we are representing also exists in us, engrained habits of “othering” and separation begin dissolving.

    We experience the liberating truth of our oneness with all of life. No matter what appears in the constellated aspects, it is the same evolutionary impulse restoring us to life.

Learning from the Group Inner Constellations:
Since the ICM’s emergence in May 2018, I continue to learn profound lessons:

  • The ICM requires trust in a deeply emergent process that cannot be known ahead of time.
  • Each Constellation is an inner-universe that is both sacred and unique.
    Together, with our collective willingness we create a field of deep presence.
    Presence is a spacious container that heals because it includes what is, just as it is.
  • Life is a healing movement. When we begin to integrate the energy-disconnect of trauma we begin to trust life because we experience knowing that we are life.
  • When our nervous system is disconnected and numb it is difficult to feel the fluid healing aliveness of life.
  • The group container helps to make our frozen habits visible.
  • We can honour the traumatized (frozen) areas of our nervous system. They served as a protection in the (often) fragmented chaos of our childhood.
  • Judgement and objectification habits decrease dramatically. It is very difficult for our objectifying mental habits to deny “what is“ within a field of presence.
  • Presence opens a relational field of intra-connection that builds trust and an ability to attune deeply.
  • Through the attuned nervous systems in the group container, a higher-orchestration begins moving within the constellation. I refer to this as the presence of Grace.
  • Our collective presence is beautiful and profoundly generous because it belongs to no one and everyone.
  • The restorative movement within each ICM fosters a communal sense of belonging that awakens the timeless movement of the Universal Heart.
  • Our collective wisdom exists within a connected web-of-attunement where deep listening allows our sense of place and belonging to emerge.
  • The movement of life is essentially inclusive and everything belongs, especially our struggle. (For more on this, one of my MA papers may be of interest:  Kabbalah, Beyond the Self: Discovering God Within the Struggle at https://lauramadsen.ca/papers/)
  • The Universal Heart Intelligence emerges from within us. It is not intellectual, but the intellect can learn to serve it as Spaciousness and Listening stablize within us and in relationship between us.
 

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