– Heartwood Path Waypoint 1.41 –

One Person At A Time

Do What It Takes To Awaken Refreshed And Be Stirred Into Action
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The Heartwood Path, supplemented as it is in this writing by Dr. Cohen’s NatureConnect Methodologies, can move you in any of the following ways: from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge, from indecision and stagnation to willfulness, from striving in lust to arrival in bliss, from dependence to interdependence, from ineffectiveness to effectiveness, from worry to peace, from egoism to selflessness, from despair to joy, from no place to some place, from detachment to belonging, from deception to truth, from toxicity to purity, from apathy to care, from alienation to bonding, from financial insecurity to financial freedom, from disease to health, from domination to partnership, from self-improvement to environmental improvement, and from environmental improvement to self-improvement. Each of these movements will be addressed later in this course. By its end you will be awakened refreshed and stirred into action.

Congratulations for making it this far. This path is designed to make you happier. It is also adding a new dimension to the environmental movement. 

For the most part, the environmental movement focuses its attention on saving the Earth one place at a time (like Yosemite Valley in California or the Meramec River in Missouri, for example) or one resource at a time (like the air through the passage of amendments to the Clean Air Act or wildlife through the passage of conservation funding, for example). Those who follow the Heartwood Path, while recognizing the importance of saving places and resources, add a pivotal new dimension to the environmental movement: they undertake a spiritual odyssey focusing on saving the Earth one person at a time. 

Like environmentalists, eartHearts –– those who follow the Heartwood Path –– concern themselves with air, but when eartHearts do it they are adding to the consideration its mystical and metaphorical aspects, particularly those that relate to helping with personal wellbeing. The following activity will demonstrate what I mean:

To Breathing-in Self-acceptance And Breathing-out Self-judgment…

​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.

Breathing-in The Air About You
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For this activity, find an attractive aspect of the air such as a cloud, the sky, or oxygen, see if it retains its attractiveness for at least ten seconds, and, if so, imagine as you inhale that, along with the incoming air, you are also inhaling life force energy and self-acceptance. Then, along with your outgoing air, imagine you are breathing out self-judgement. Breathe deeply in this way for a long time. Feel the growth of self-acceptance as you inhale and the lessening of self-judgment as you exhale. Affirm that your self-acceptance and your self-judgments are not who you are.

​​​​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 1.41

1.41.1.
The Heartwood Path can move you in any of the following ways:
from fear to love, 
from ignorance to knowledge, 
from indecision and stagnation to willfulness, 
from striving  in lust to arrival in bliss, 
from dependence to interdependence, 
from ineffectiveness to effectiveness, 
from worry to peace, 
from egoism to selflessness, 
from despair to joy, 
from no place to some place, 
from detachment to belonging, 
from deception to truth, 
from toxicity to purity, 
from apathy to care, 
from alienation to bonding, 
from financial insecurity to financial freedom, 
from disease to health, 
from domination to partnership, 
from self-improvement to environmental improvement, 
and from environmental improvement to self-improvement. 

1.41.2.
By the end of the Heartwood Path you will be awakened refreshed and stirred into action.

1.41.3.
Those who follow the Heartwood Path, while recognizing the importance of saving places and resources, add a pivotal new dimension to the environmental movement: they undertake a spiritual odyssey focusing on saving the Earth one person at a time. 

Nocturnal Pilgrimage 1.41:
Tend To Your Dreams Before Heading To The Next Waypoint

Sleep, dream, and record your dreams before you move to the next waypoint: “Certitude & Development.” Enjoy the journey.
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You have now completed 41 out of 117 waypoints in Kosmos.