Notes from the field: What We Are Holding
- NicholaNapora
- Mar 24
- 3 min read
At the moment our minds are concerned with what is, what has been, and (also) creating what could be.
Our hearts are experiencing the full range of being conscious humans living in the chaos, the calm and the liminal. The arenas in, out, and between, then beyond.
As mindful beings on this planet we can hold more than one thing.
We can hold more than one state of consciousness, more than one frequency, and certainly more than one position. We toggle between wholeness and separation - this is the entwined path of discovery and of coming home.
We can dream ourselves awake.
Having one foot in the untethered world of dreams/imagination/possibility/magic/spirit/soul and one in the world of fixed reality. We can play in and between.
Not the pixelated and distorted versions, the illusions of reality. There is much to break away from by shifting focus.
We are tethered through our bodies, minds, relationships, and actions. Awareness based on lived experience and the intuitive knowing of things may not be what the immediately seem.
The pen, the camera, the brush, the poem, any creative act really, is a bridge between these worlds. Self expression is the language communicating betwixt and beyond.
And so, we span worlds wearing boots of non-duality, knowing we are this and we are that - and we are also none of it and all of it.
And, still, we are here now. Breathing, being, becoming.

"You are capable of holding two states of consciousness at once: presence and longing, gratitude and desire, contentment and hunger. This is what it means to become whole." ~Danielle Laporte
What are we holding at MPS? Space and time, hope and gratitude, emptiness and fullness, light and shadow, yearning and satisfaction, truth and curiosity, flexibility and boundaries.
It can be a difficult prospect in this current fixed reality we share to hold opinions both of it and beyond it. It can be a great challenge to hold more than one thing as the concept of non-attachment stretches us to juggle and hold without attaching.
Creating and holding space from a non-fixed place is a true art.
As artists and adventurers we are boldly challenging ourselves to live into a new blueprint and to do business following a template we are constructing by doing, leaning into questions as a way of learning, engaging curiosity and compassion alongside fierce tending to and protection of truth and beauty and all things sacred.
Empathic product and experience creation is one result of this devotion to being a conscious business operating in a next-level reality.
Embodying the mission is the goal. Organic evolution holds the opportunity - and that is ultimately what we are holding. We are giving to ourselves the gift of living the questions, leaving space for the answers to bubble up from the seat of awareness, and knowing the effervescent sparkle of aliveness is the feedback loop we are courageously cultivating.
As creators, we hold the threads of intention and skillfully weave the fabric of our lives, blending magic with the ordinary to create something new.
In product creation, we hold the past - the relevance of what created this moment of now, the present - by paying attention to what is alive now, and mindfully sculpting the future from the energy of now, of the past, and of the potential to be explored and realized.
Where does one start, right where you are. Need help, we can meet you there.
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Mystic Peaks Studio is a place where we steward the wild imagination and cultivate the conditions to bring it to life in whatever form we are using as the point of communication.
Currently we are booking into Fall 2025. Contact for new projects.
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