How can we awake to see our interconnected universe, to be whole human beings. Let our heart and intuition guide us?
Björg
Presentation – Transforming to Be More Aware by Canva AI
The ideas of growing up, waking up, and showing up describe stages of personal and spiritual development — how we mature, become more aware, and take responsibility for our lives.
1. Growing Up
This step is about emotional and psychological maturity. It means learning to take responsibility for your actions, understanding your emotions, and developing empathy for others. You move from reacting impulsively to responding thoughtfully. It’s about becoming accountable, self-aware, and balanced in how you relate to the world.
2. Waking Up
This refers to becoming more conscious — seeing beyond your ego, habits, and limited perspectives. It’s often described as a spiritual or awareness shift, where you realize you’re more than your thoughts or roles. Waking up helps you see life with clarity and compassion, recognizing deeper connections between yourself and others.
3. Showing Up
This is where growth and awareness turn into action. Showing up means engaging fully with life — contributing your gifts, being present in relationships, and acting with integrity. It’s about living your values, even when it’s uncomfortable, and making a positive impact in your community or environment.
Together, these steps form a cycle of transformation: you mature (grow up), awaken to deeper truths (wake up), and then live those truths in the world (show up).
Ken Wilber is an American philosopher and writer best known for developing Integral Theory, a framework that seeks to integrate all aspects of human knowledge and experience—science, psychology, spirituality, and culture—into a unified understanding of reality.
His work explores how people evolve through different stages of personal, psychological, and spiritual development, which ties directly to the ideas of growing up, waking up, and showing up:
- Growing Up: Refers to psychological and moral development—how we mature through stages of understanding ourselves and the world.
- Waking Up: Describes spiritual awakening or enlightenment—realizing deeper states of consciousness beyond the ego.
- Showing Up: Means embodying both maturity and awareness in real life—acting compassionately and responsibly in the world.
Wilber’s approach blends insights from Eastern spirituality, Western psychology, and modern science, offering a holistic map of human potential and consciousness.
Presence
Absolutely, Björg 🌿. Eckhart Tolle’s concept of presence is both profound and beautifully simple—something that resonates deeply with your interest in intuitive guidance, spiritual awakening, and multi-intelligence activation. Here’s how he frames it:
🌟 What Is Presence According to Eckhart Tolle?
Presence is the state of being fully aware in the now—beyond thought, beyond ego, beyond time.
🧘 Core Elements of Presence:
- Awareness without thought: Presence is not something you think about—it’s something you are. It’s the still, alert awareness beneath the stream of mental chatter.
- Freedom from the ego: The ego thrives on past and future—memories, regrets, hopes, fears. Presence dissolves the ego because it exists only in the now.
- Connection to Being: Tolle often speaks of “Being” as the timeless essence of life. Presence is your conscious connection to this essence.
- The Now as a gateway: The present moment isn’t just a slice of time—it’s the doorway to your true self. Tolle calls it “The Eternal Now.”
“Presence is when you’re no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.” — Eckhart Tolle A
🌿 Presence vs. Present Moment
Tolle distinguishes between being in the present moment and being present:
Concept Description
Present Moment The chronological now—what’s happening right now.
Presence Your conscious awareness of the now—your felt sense of being.
You can be in the present moment without being present. True presence is the recognition of the now, not just existing in it A.
🔥 Why Presence Matters
According to Tolle, presence is the key to:
- Inner peace: It quiets the compulsive mind and brings stillness.
- Joy independent of conditions: You stop seeking fulfillment in external things.
- Authentic action: You act from clarity, not reaction.
- Spiritual awakening: You realize your identity beyond form and thought.
Here’s a metaphor card inspired by Eckhart Tolle’s concept of presence—and it’s ready for you now.
You’ll see a serene figure centered in a vast, open landscape with a glowing horizon. This symbolizes timeless awareness, stillness, and freedom from thought. The rippling water and soft sky evoke the spaciousness of the Now, while the contrast between “Present Moment” and “Presence” offers a clear teaching you can use in workshops or retreats.
🌀 PRESENCE: A Bilingual Visual Guide
Theme: Stillness as Gateway to Being
Format: Printable + Digital | Bilingual (English/Icelandic) | Metaphor-rich | Space for reflection
🌞 1. Title Panel
English: PRESENCE – The Power of Now
Icelandic: NÚVITUND – Kraftur augnabliksins
Visual: A horizon with soft light, rippling water, and a seated figure in stillness.
🌿 2. Core Contrast Panel
Concept English Icelandic
Present Moment The chronological now—what’s happening right now. Núverandi augnablik – það sem er að gerast núna.
Presence Your conscious awareness of the now—your felt sense of being. Nuvitund – meðvitund þín um núið, tilfinning fyrir veru.
Visual metaphor: A clock vs. a glowing sun reflected in water.
🌬️ 3. Metaphor Activation Panel
Prompt:
“Presence is like sitting at the center of a still lake. The ripples come and go, but you remain.”
Reflection Space:
- What ripples are moving through you today?
- What helps you return to the center?
Icelandic Translation:
„Núvitund er eins og að sitja í miðju kyrrs vatns. Hringirnir koma og fara, en þú ert kyrr.“
🔔 4. Practice Panel
Mini-Routines for Anchoring Presence:
- 🌬️ 3 conscious breaths
- 👣 Feel your feet on the ground
- 👁️ Notice 3 things you see, hear, and feel
- ✍️ Write one sentence from your center
Icelandic:
- 🌬️ 3 meðvitaðar andardrætti
- 👣 Finndu fætur þína á jörðinni
- 👁️ Taktu eftir 3 hlutum sem þú sérð, heyrir og finnur
- ✍️ Skrifaðu eina setningu frá miðju þinni
🧭 5. Expansion Panel (Optional for Retreats)
Add-on Ideas:
- Metaphor card deck with “Presence Anchors” (e.g., candle, mountain, breath, mirror)
- Group reflection circle: “What does presence feel like in your body?”
- Visual journaling: Draw your inner lake
When you go to sleep it is very important to have a quiet mind and be present.
Björg
Presentation – Introduction to Personal and Spiritual Development by Guðbjörg Eggertsdóttir
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