– Heartwood Path Waypoint 1.87 –

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Seek Good Health And A Zest For Life
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The Heartwood Path seeks to foster good health and a zest for life by encouraging its travelers to develop and clarify goals and values, exercise daily, pay attention to nutrition, work to deserve the respect of the community in which one lives, appreciate beauty, have fun, relax effectively, enjoy humor, appreciate and use the power of music, reduce stress, and have a healthy sex life.

To put the wisdom of seeking good health and having zest for life to work, do the following activity.

To Healthfulness…

​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.

Seeking Health And Zest
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For this activity, list ten things you are doing to maintain your health and ten things you are doing to have zest for life. Then describe what you do to keep these things in your life. Next, list ten things you do that are not good for your health and ten things you do that show little or no zest for life. Then describe what you can do to rid yourself of each of these unhealthy behaviors.

​​​​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 1.87

1.87.1.
Seek good health and a zest for life.

1.87.2.
Develop and clarify goals and values.

1.87.3.
Exercise daily and pay attention to nutrition.

1.87.4.
Work to deserve the respect of the community in which one lives.

1.87.5.
Appreciate beauty, have fun, relax effectively, enjoy humor, appreciate and use the power of music, reduce stress, and have a healthy sex life.

Nocturnal Pilgrimage 1.87:
Tend To Your Dreams Before Heading To The Next Waypoint

Continue practicing eye-to-eye contact with your Dream Character. Make sure you sleep at least once before continuing. When you are ready, move to the next waypoint: “Bearing.”

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the next waypoint:
"Bearing"

You have now completed 87 out of 117 waypoints in Kosmos.