– 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 move towards happiness and sustainability by reading the Heartwood Path text but also go outdoors to the backyard or to the backwoods, where the higher levels of negative ions in the air will improve your mood and well-being.
• Attention Restoration — With a pen and journal in hand, go to a natural area that is attractive, has a variety of plants and animals, and is tranquil enough to leave room for reflection.
• Source — Spend time wandering without an agenda in nature or, if you don’t have time to receive nature’s magic in this way, follow the instructions in the text at each learning station.
• Attractive Natural Being — Once you are in a natural area (the wilder, the better), look to find a natural being that is attractive to you and remain near that being until the end of the activity.
• Appreciation And Gratitude — While communing with your chosen natural being, appreciate it as you inhale and show it gratitude as you exhale.
• 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 help you function optimally; receive information, guidance, and healing; and establish in your mind a more helpful egalitarian relationship with the natural being.
• The Natural Senses — Beyond seeing, hearing, and the three other commonly recognized senses, use as many of the fifty-four Natural Senses as you see fit and prepare to document the ones that you use in your journal.
• Great Trustable Truth — Experience what is happening at the present moment in nature, paying particular attention to the role of both beauty and balance; remember that the impressions you form about attractive natural beings and natural areas, coming from your experiencing of them in the Now, are trustable; and recognize that the natural processes and features witnessed are a source of special, substantial, and irreplaceable truthfulness about both nature and yourself.
• Recall — Place the great trustable truth and any other insights that you discover in a mental lock-box so you can later record them in your journal.​

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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• Date — Write down the date of your outdoor nature-communing experience.
• Activity — Write down the waypoint title and number each time each you do an activity.
• Location — Write down the location of your outdoor nature-communing experience.
• Natural Being Indicator — Draw a picture or write down in your journal a nameless way to remember your chosen attractive Natural Being; for example, call it your “____  ____ Connection Experience.”
• The Natural Senses Used — Write down all of the Natural Senses you used for this activity.
• General Description — Write a general description of how you did the activity and what happened.
• Freeform — Write, in freeform, what you found attractive about your natural being.
• Three Qualities — Write down three qualities you found attractive about your natural being.
• Three Learnings — Write down three things you learned from this activity.
• Self-esteem & Trust — Write down how, if at all, this activity changed your self-esteem or trustfulness of NNIAAL (Namelessness, Now, Intelligence, Alive, Attraction, and Love).
• Changes To Self — Write down what aspects of your Self, if any, were changed by this activity.
• Honor Yourself — Praise yourself and your commitment to making another stop along the Heartwood Path good for yourself and the world.
• I’m A Person Who. . . — Write 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 — Write down a sentence about how you would feel if you lost your ability to experience this connection.
• Nature Compared To Self — Create a sentence that reads: “I love this (insert words that identify the attractive natural being) because it is (insert words that refer to the qualities you like about the natural being); then, create a parallel sentence that reads: “I love (insert the word “myself”) because I am (insert the same qualities as before).”​
• Integral Immersion — Improve your journal writing by addressing what is, what could be, and what ought to be.
• Love Letter — Write a letter of gratitude to and from a natural being.
• Two-word Summary — Write 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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• Comment — Post your impressions and photos in the Comments section of this waypoint—the place for on-going discussion regarding this waypoint.
• Join — Engage with others in a Heartwood Path course or salon.
• Create — Start your own Heartwood Path salon that meets regularly online, by phone, or in person.
• Talk — Share your impressions with trusted family members and friends.
• Network — Post your impressions and photos on our EartHeart Networking Forum.
• Post — To see what conversations you can ignite, upload on social media your photos and impressions about anything pertaining to your journey down the Heartwood Path.
• Connect — Follow our account on Instagram, Like our Page on Facebook, Subscribe to our Channel on YouTube, and use hashtags such as “#heartwoodpath”, “#eartHeart”, and “#waypoint(insert course)(insert waypoint number) i.e.“#waypointkosmos5”).​

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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.​

Dreaming Time Activity

For best results, write down your impressions of each night’s dreams in your journal, a vital part of your EartHeart Chronicles. Make your Dream Tending elaborate (so you get the most out of it) but do not make it cumbersome (as this could prevent you from continuing). Use as many of the following components as you see fit. Afterwards, where appropriate, share your Dream Tending with others.
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Before Dreaming Protocol​​

• Dream Prep — Prepare yourself for productive dreaming by decluttering your mind before sleeping. ​
• Journal Ready — Prepare to record your dream impressions by placing your journal so that you can make initial recordings in it without changing your dreamtime sleeping position.

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Dreaming Protocol​

• Remember This — Look to your dreams to tell you what you need to remember.​
• Open To Dream — Be receptive, fluid, interactive, and grounded as you dream.
• Wake-Back-To-Bed — Wake up after six hours of sleep, staying awake for twenty minutes, then go back to sleep.
• Shape-shifters — Watch characters that change in your dream to see into the possibilities of your own transformation.

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Nocturnal Pilgrimage 1.46

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). 

After Dreaming Protocol​

• First Off — Recall your dream by staying in your sleeping position as you make your first attempt to remember your dream.
• Book Of Dreams — Create an entry in your dream journal using the following linguistic tools: 1) talking in the present tense, 2) using verbs ending in “ing,” 3) removing articles such as “an” or “the,” and 4) using capital letters when naming the Dream Characters—which can be any notable people, places, or things that show up in your dream.
• Title — Give your dream a memorable title. 
• Date — Write down the date of your dream. 
• Description — Write down a short, general summary of your dream.
• Mood — Write down how the dream affected your mood upon waking.
• Life Event Affecting Dream — Write down any events in your life that may have influenced your dream.
• Setting — Describe the location of your dream.
• Statement Of Problem — Write down the complication, challenge, predicament, situation, obstacle, plight, quandary, or misadventure presented in your dream. 
• Culmination Or Response To The Problem — Describe what you or another Dream Character did in your dream to respond to the problem presented in the dream.
• Conclusion — Describe how your dream ended.
• Beings Revealed — Write down how your dream seemed to be, if at all, linked in some way to your chosen attractive natural beings.
• Freud’s Approach —  Associate the actions of your Dream Characters with latent, infantile, repressed, or sexual drives.
• Jung’s Approach — Amplify your Dream Characters into Archetypes that are global in scale, symbolic, pervasive, positive, and helpful.
• Hillman’s Approach — Recognize your Dream Characters as animated, living beings by honoring their presence, place, and body.
• Right Information — Ask yourself the two main questions for Dream Tending: “Who is visiting now?” And “What is happening here?”
• The Richest Treasures — Do not force narrow interpretations upon the natural being impressions that reappear in your dream by condensing them into limited signs when it is more fruitful to simply engage with them as living beings that reside in your dream, possibly with infinite symbolic value.
• Privacy — Store your dream journal in a safe place and, where appropriate, share your dream with others.​​​

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