– Heartwood Path Waypoint 1.46 –

Continue Fully

Read This Text In Order And Follow Its Nine Directions
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Those who skip down the Heartwood Path without visiting its waypoints in order will most likely loose their way, fail to reach their destination, and perhaps even harm themselves in some way. Not reading the Heartwood Path sequentially is like wearing a hospital gown—you will only think you are covered. Therefore, it is best to study the following description of the trail so that while you are en route you will be prepared, safe, and pleased.

Like the center core of a tree, the Heartwood Path provides structure––the strength and direction needed to get to the “heart” of life’s issues and meaning. Finding this strength is more possible if you do the practices, which are referred to here as “HumaNatureConnect Activities.” These activities are a vital part of your spiritual pilgrimage down the Heartwood Path because of the truth in the popular experiential education adage: “Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand.” The reader will not fully comprehend the message of this course without engaging in its activities. 

You are about to embark on a pathway that begins at the juncture of three other trails of betterment: the trail of self-help, the trail of environmental protection, and the trail of relationship improvement. Imagine yourself moving forward from where these three courses merge. At all points along the path you are continuing on is a view on the horizon that provides the Heartwood Path’s one single unifying vision. This vision is: “People united in the praise of The Absolute through their heartfelt immersion in nature, in their effort to perfect themselves and others, in their love for each other, and in their efforts to protect The Absolute Spirit’s creation.”

Imagine before you a path that, along its length, has nine signposts that contain the main directions for continuing towards happiness and environmental sustainability. The directions are:
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1. Prepare for the farther reaches of your pilgrimage down the Heartwood Path through the learning of universal principles and the origin and structure of integrity.
2. Anchor one’s own individual character through self-examination.    
3. Strengthen one’s own universal aspect through nature kinship and environmental protection.
4. Develop positive traits.
5. Activate the individual will to seek justice through personal motivation. 
6. Return home and persevere through daily enchantment.
7. Share love with another.
8. Put the collective will into effect to achieve joint goals. And
9. Increase one’s own level of caring for one’s self and others by being an eco-centric life coach.

Your visualization of the Heartwood Path is almost complete. The nine directions described above double as the Heartwood Path’s Main Directions. Note that these directions double as the topics of the various courses of the Heartwood Path. 

By following the whole Heartwood Path one’s satisfaction with life will go up as the improvements one finds along the way make one’s resentments and bitterness go down. To verify this claim for yourself, you will need to make an assessment of these aspects of life at the outset and then again at the end of the course. For this reason, you may want to return to the previous three and the next three assessment activities after your pilgrimage down the Heartwood Path is complete, just to see in what ways your life truly is better due to your involvements along this trail.

To A Look At Where You Are With Petulance And Harshness...

​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.

Assessing The Rift Between Where You Are And Where You Would Like To Be Regarding Resentment And Bitterness
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For this activity, use the clarity and calmness imparted by your chosen natural being to help you assess your resentments and bitterness. Write down where you are now with resentments and bitterness. Then assess where you would like to be with your resentments and bitterness in the not-too-distant future.  If you have difficulty or would like a second opinion, assume the essence of your natural being and, as it, tell yourself what you need to know about bitterness. Identify the rifts between where you are and where you want to be as either “Expansive,” “Workable” or “Inconsequential.” These are assessments of quality and not quantity. Affirm that releasing your resentments and bitterness makes you happier. Moreover, affirm that, by not over-buying to take away the emotional pain of bitterness, or by not ending your involvement in conservation due to resentments, staying resentment-free, being and involved without bitterness in conservation gives the environment a better chance to become more sustainable.

​​​​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 1.46

1.46.1.
Like the center core of a tree, the Heartwood Path provides.

1.46.2.
The main directions for continuing towards happiness and environmental sustainability are:

1. Learn universal principles and the origin and structure of integrity.
2. Anchor one’s own individual character through self-examination.
3. Strengthen one’s own universal aspect through nature kinship and environmental protection.
4. Develop positive traits.
5. Activate the individual will to seek justice through personal motivation.
6. Return home and persevering through daily enchantment.
7. Share love with another.
8. Put the collective will into effect to achieve joint goals. And
9. Increase one’s own level of caring for one’s self and others by being an eco-centric life coach.​

Nocturnal Pilgrimage 1.46:
Tend To Your Dreams Before Heading To The Next Waypoint

Tonight, when you dream, and tomorrow, when you record your dreams, greet the Dream Images “in an embodied way. . .  Images have life force and walk about on legs of their own. Even the non-creature dream . . . have a vitality that blossoms into visibility when met body-to-body” (Aizenstat, 2009, p. 26).  To meet images in an embodied way pay particular attention to the feelings running through yourself. Take the time necessary to pay attention to your corporeal experience. Pay attention to the immediacy of your own animal body and your own instinctual sensitivities. (Aizenstat, 2009, p. 26). 

​When ready, click on “The Great Work” link to move to the next waypoint.  You are making good progress.

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You have now completed 46 out of 117 waypoints in Kosmos.