Two Ways To Make Your Intensions Effective
Expecting Lucid Dreaming and Riding the Green Wave
Photos by Regan DeSouza, Pixels.com.
There is not one way of knowing. There is literacy and sensation. Balance these two and form natural being sensations to prevent and correct disorders.
Make Your Dreams Come True
When striving to have a lucid dream do not just hope that it happens. Instead, upgrade you hopes, which are by nature relatively weak in power, to expectations, which are by nature relatively stronger in power. Expectations, repeated over and over, have great strength. Saying, for example, “I hope to have a lucid dream tonight,” is not as effective as repeating: “I expect to have a lucid dream tonight...I expect to have a lucid dream tonight...”
Think about what you learned about expectation and Animal Totems before you prepare for sleep. Retire early so you get a good night’s sleep. Dream. Before getting out of bed in the morning, begin tending to your dreams, using our dream processing protocol. Before doing the next waypoint, remember:
Since Earth needs your attributes, lead.
Continue with your hoping but, when it really counts, switch over to expecting. With this and the next aspect of intension, you can achieve great things.
The next aspect of intension is “riding the green wave.”
Ride the Green Wave.
To bring forth the most happiness while improving the world, be sure to do what I call “Riding the Green Wave” each time you do any of the following activities. We will be using a surfing analogy to summarize how this worthwhile endeavor is done.
It is surprising to most people that our senses are not limited to the five common ones learned in grade school. We actually share with nature fifty-four natural senses. By using these ways to register experience you not only learn more about the environment you also become more available to receive nature’s guidance (which comes from your AttractiveNaturalBeingImpression, discussed in the previous waypoint).
We shall divide the natural senses into the ones that provide information by sensation and those that provide information by stories. We shall call the natural sensation mechanisms the “Blue Wave” Natural Sensation Senses” And we shall call the mechanisms used to tell stories the “Yellow Wave” Natural Story Senses.
From the standpoint of maintaining human happiness and a sustainable environment, our culture took a disastrous wrong turn when it focused so much on the “Yellow Wave” story senses, which include consciousness, reasoning, and literacy, and also down-played all the remaining fifty-one “Blue Wave” natural sensation senses (listed in the upcoming blue box).
To help bring us (you, me, fellow eartHearts, and Society, in general) back on track towards a magnificent future, it is important to Ride the Green Wave by using not only “Yellow Wave”stories (using the senses listed in the yellow box) but also “Blue Wave” sensations (listed subsequently).
As in surfing, you fall off the wave when you are not totally aware and when all of your faculties are not in balance. If you do not use your sensation senses you fall into the ocean but do not learn as much as possible in the process because you are not utilizing your full repertoire of ways of knowing. When you live to tell about your stories (of surfing or otherwise) you will see that they are based too much on fantasy or conjecture. If you are exposed to natural objects but do not use your story senses you have sensations but not some of the best ways to make them meaningful. And you cannot most easily and effectively tell others about your ride. The best Heartwood Path “surfing” happens when you combine (blue) sensations with (yellow) true stories and ride the green wave towards happiness and sustainability.
The “Green Wave,” as described by Dr Michael Cohen (Project NatureConnect Website: http://www.ecopsych.com/journalaliveness.html and personal email June 8, 2016) and used along the Heartwood Path, leads to happiness because when a sense is satisfied with the consent of other senses the body produces hormones and enzymes that treat you to feelings of pleasure, satisfaction and joy. Ride the “Green Wave” when engaged at each waypoint.
The “Green Wave” leads to environmental sustainability because it develops and strengthens all the natural senses that enables you to love nature and use that love as motivation for actions that protect the natural environment. (Cohen, Personal Email June 8, 2016). By riding the “Green Wave” in each waypoint and always in your life, you are, purposefully or inadvertently, tipping a part of the world back into a state of sustainability.
Together, happiness and sustainability are hallmarks of the destination of the Heartwood Path––Gladandgreen Junction. “Ride the Green Wave” to get there by combining “Yellow Wave” Natural Story Senses with “Blue Wave” Natural Sensation Senses.
You will need to use more of your capabilities to make the best personal and environmental advances. Your ability to activate these oft-overlooked capacities needs to be carefully logged (as regular entries into your journal) so that you know you are using all of your innate tools for coming to know, so that you know that you are grasping the nature of the world, and so that you know you are living more fully. This logging in your journal will occur according to the eighth point of the Follow-up Protocol.
To fill-in the “I’m A Person Who...” line in the Follow-up Protocol after each Heartwood Path Activity you need to first make sure that you are registering impressions during each activity using any or all of the fifty-four natural senses. That way, after the activity, you can determine the validity of whether in each activity you are truly Riding the Green Wave by marking whether you understand and agree with each of the Validation Statements shown in the next activity.
When examining your acceptance of The Nine Green Wave Validation Statements, in spite down or say “I am a person who…” your journal give yourself a plus sign (“+”) whenever you understand and agree with all of the statements. If you do not understand or agree with all statements give yourself a minus sign (“-”) in your journal. Anything less than 100% understanding and agreement (any minus sign (“-”) means that you are not Riding the Green Wave and may wish to redo the activity and seek additional information and one-on-one guidance at don@heartwoodpath.com. It will be interesting to work through these statements before you start any of the activities and then once again at the end of all of the activities, as a way to measure changes in your self concept.
To validate whether you are successfully Riding the Green Wave, take the following three steps at each of the following Heartwood Path waypoints:
recall and prepare to use all of the natural senses as you engage in each activity (mixing Yellow Wave Natural Story Senses with Blue Wave Natural Sensations Senses);
as suggested in Follow-up Protocol, determine the validity of whether in each activity you are Riding the Green Wave by determining your understanding and agreement with particular Green Wave Validation Statements (enumerated in the next paragraph); and
check your emerging self-concept by doing the “Nature Compared To Self” Activity described in the Introductory There are ways of knowing that rely on scientifically valid sensations, there are ways of knowing that rely on stories, and happiness and sustainability are reduced when our subjective stories do not accurately reflect our AttractiveNaturalBeingImpressions;.
Humanity inherits fifty-four natural senses that enable us to register and relate reasonably to Nature’s attractive aliveness and intelligence, in and around us today; and I used, or considered the use of, all of these senses while doing this Heartwood Path HumaNatureConnect Activity.
It is reasonable and intelligent to recognize that science is needed to clean up the mess made by believing that nature is an object to be exploited.
We suffer a wide range of disorders because, unreasonably, we live out of tune and balance with the purity of our AttractiveNaturalBeingImpressions. Without these impressions we habitually practice an artificial way of life whose nature-disconnected stories violate and injure the inherent natural wisdom that we share with the nature.
The whole of life deteriorates and we humans produce and suffer our discontents when our literate-story is inaccurate/imaginary/unreasonable and our consciousness is bonded to it and its nature-disconnected flaws.
HumaNatureConnect Activities improve our relationships by making space for NNIAAL (Now’s Nameless, Intelligent, Alive, Attractive Love) to safely operate as we “Ride the Green Wave.”
In any given moment we can come into balance and increase personal, social and environmental well-being by learning to empower our thinking and relationships through connecting with nature as we “Ride the Green Wave.”
Review these statements each time you “Ride the Green Wave” in the Heartwood Path Activity Follow-up Protocol. When you understand and agree with all of these statements give yourself a big plus sign (“+”) in your journal. Or, when you do not understand and agree with all of these statements give yourself a big minus sign (“-”) in your journal.
To Logging Whether You Are “Riding The Green Wave”…
HumaNatureConnect Activity
Becoming Proficient With The Natural Senses And Making Sure That You Are Riding The Green Wave
For this activity, review the list of fifty-four Natural Senses and, one by one, attempt to bring them into play as you visit an attractive natural object. Work to become proficient in as many senses as possible. To recall the list of Natural Senses, see the list provided earlier in this waypoint.
For the first of many times, determine whether you accept the Nine Green Wave Validation Statements (listed above). Do not be concerned if your acceptance does not come easily at first. You may need to visit several more waypoints before you can accept what it means to “Ride the Green Wave.” Once you are consistently accepting all of the Validation Statements, you can either stop validating or use the validation process to keep yourself on track.
