– Heartwood Path Waypoint 1.31 –

Better World

Invoke The World You Opt To See
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The conception of a new world occurs in the womb of one’s imagination. This statement is true only if one’s imagination helps to remove the veils that give the illusion that makes one feel separate from the environment and the Absolute. Fortunately, one can learn to remove these veils—each described subsequently.

​You and I and everyone else will invoke the world we opt to see. We have the power in us, but not of us, to miraculously save the world. We alone cannot create the miracle it takes for us to save the world by transforming ourselves. Nevertheless, by connecting to universal forces—the Absolute, the forces of Nature, and universal principles, for example—we can allow the miracle to occur.

Connecting with universal forces, working to save the Earth, and improving oneself requires a heroic journey guided by a fundamental truth. While engaging in a heroic journey of spiritual development or personal change it is handy to be able to identify the main maxim, the primary postulate, or the arch assumption that following the course will put into action.

​Before getting to this main maxim, take the time for another personal assessment.  This one will give you a current read on your overall level of satisfaction.

To Assess Your Self-contentment...

​HumaNatureConnect Activity
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If this is not a day when you prefer to spend time in nature without an agenda, do the following activity:
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Start-up Protocol
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• Read The Text — Use your literary sense, your mind sense, and your reason sense  to read your way towards happiness and sustainability but do not just be an arm-chair traveler. Use your other natural senses as you also spend healthful, fun, and productive time in nature on your way to Gladandgreen Junction.
• Attractive Natural Being — With pen and journal in hand, go to a natural area and look around to find a natural being that is attractive to you.
• Appreciation and Gratefulness — While admiring your chosen being, appreciate it with your inhalations and give it gratitude with your exhalations.
• Consent — Once you find an aspect of nature that is attractive to you continuously for at least ten seconds, think of your continued attraction as your consent to have a connection experience that will lead to your optimal functioning.
• The Natural Senses — After gaining consent to enter into a connection experience with the natural being, have available the list of Natural Senses. Mix it up by using at least one radiation sense, one feeling sense, one chemical sense, and one mental sense, to widen your perception, and add variety to your experience.
• HumaNatureConnect Activity — After reading the text, finding a natural being, appreciating it, gaining its consent, and scanning the list of natural senses, use your heightened awareness and nature-induced optimal functioning to do the following activity and engage in as many follow-up components as you see fit.

Your Level Of Self-satisfaction
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For this activity, undertake the following personal assessment: On a five point scale, with one being very dissatisfied, three being neutral, and five being very satisfied, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole, your work, your friends, the morale of your team, the morale of your friends, and the morale of your family. In a similar way, rate your application of novelty, creativity, ingenuity, and innovation in your life by answering the following questions with the use of a scale wherein 1 means never and 10 means always: how often do you use critical thinking, open-mindedness, and good judgement?; how often do you use bravery and courage? how often do you cheat, lie, or mislead?; how often do you use honesty?; how often are you persistent?; how often do you display enthusiasm, express love or attachment, and accept love?; how often do you use street smarts, social skills, and social awareness? How often do you show team work, use fairness, display leadership, use prudence or caution, and use self-control? Put your answers in your journal and share them with others as you wish via the Heartwood Path Exchange.

​​​​Follow-up Protocol
Natural Systems Reflection Process
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     For best results, write down your impressions of this activity in your journal using as many of the following components as you see fit, afterwards, share your interpretations with others.
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Journal Components
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• General Description — writing a general description of how you did the activity and what happened.
• Freeform — writing, in freeform, what you found attractive about your natural being.
• Three Qualities — writing down three qualities you found most attractive about your natural being.
• Three Learnings — writing down three things you learned from this activity.
• Self-esteem & Trust — writing down how, if at all, this activity changed your self-esteem or trustfulness of Nature.
• Changes To Self — writing down what aspects of your self, if any, were changed by this activity.
• Honor Yourself — praising yourself and your commitment to making another stop along the Heartwood Path good for yourself and the world.
• I’m A Person Who . . . — writing down three different so-called “G/G Statements” using the following format: “This connection experience tells me that I am a person who__________.”
• Feelings If Activity Taken — writing down a sentence about how you would feel if you lost your ability to experience this connection.
• Two-Word Summary — writing down two words that summarize your response to this activity.​

The Heartwood Path Exchange:
Swap Your Ideas, Impressions, Photos, And News With Others
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• Post your impressions and photos in the Comments at the bottom of the page
• Engage with others in your Heartwood Path course or salon
• Create your own salon that meets regularly online, by phone, or in person
• Discuss your impressions with trusted family members and friends
• Post your impressions and photos in our EartHeart Networking Forum
• Post your impressions on this specific waypoint on our Facebook Page
• Join the broader conversations on our Facebook Page
• To see what conversations you can inspire, share your photos and impressions about anything pertaining to your journey down the Heartwood Path on your Facebook page, on Instagram, and on other social media accounts. If you like, include “#heartwoodpath” and “#waypoint(insert waypoint number here)” wherever pertinent

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Your input is vital. Enjoy sharing!

Heartwood Path Axioms:
Key Assertions From Waypoint 1.31

1.31.1.
The conception of a new world occurs in the womb of one’s imagination.

1.31.2.
You and I and everyone else will invoke the world we opt to see. 

1.31.3.
We have the power in us, but not of us, to miraculously save the world.

1.31.4.
Connecting with universal forces, working to save the Earth, and improving oneself requires a heroic journey guided by a fundamental truth.

Nocturnal Pilgrimage 1.31:
Tend To Your Dreams Before Heading To The Next Waypoint

Take some time to reflect on what you have learned so far. Sleep. Dream. Record your impressions in your journal.  Then move on to the primary postulate of the Heartwood Path, which you can find at the next waypoint: “Main Maxim.”

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the next waypoint:
"Main Maxim"

You have now completed 31 out of 117 waypoints in Kosmos.