Universal Principles

Understand Universal Principles And The Origin And Structure of Integrity

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EartHearts are the pilgrims that follow the Heartwood Path and use it as a guide in their efforts to save the Earth one person at a time (beginning with themselves). They see the instructions that follow as the basis of their work.

Background information needed to best understand the information presented in subsequent Heartwood Path Substacks is presented here. This background information is not superfluous. It is your ticket to a forgotten beatitude (a state of supreme blessedness).

As always, I will present an activity to accompany this text. I will continue with activities that foster happiness, a rich form of contentment evident in those who devote a great amount of time with their family, give to others, have ample energy, are cooperative, are comfortable expressing gratitude, are liked by others, practice optimism, savor life’s pleasures, exercise regularly, are deeply committed to the attainment of goals, and cope well in the face of challenge.

Below you will find more about the overarching strategy for achieving happiness. This over-arching strategy has to do with expressing gratitude by which I mean experiencing wonder, appreciating aspects of life, looking on the bright side of setbacks, fathoming abundance, thanking others in your in your life including the Absolute, counting blessings, savoring, not taking things for granted, coping, and living in the present. Expressing gratitude leads to happiness because it promotes savoring life experiences; bolsters self-esteem; helps people cope with stress; helps people move on and begin again; fosters moral behavior; builds social bonds; inhibits detestable comparisons with others; diminishes anger, bitterness and greed; and helps us “adjust rapidly to any new circumstance or event” (Lyubomrisky, 2007, p. 92-95). With all of these benefits, expect a considerable payback from doing the next activity. It is one more return to the topic of gratitude, presented to help get you in the habit of making its expression perpetual.

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HumaNature Connect Activity

Identifying Debts Of Gratitude

For this activity, use the optimal functioning you will receive from being with your chosen natural being, assume its essence, and, as it, tell yourself what you need to do concerning gratitude. Make an affirmation that expresses your gratitude about something you have received in your life. Commit to regularly actively expressing gratitude. After doing so, write down in your journal what you did to express or meet your obligation and how expressing gratitude makes you feel.

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Nocturnal Pilgrimage

For best results, write down your impressions of each night’s dreams in your journal using the Heartwood Path Dreaming Time Protocols found in the Appendix. Afterwards, consider sharing your Dream Tending with others.

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The mind exteriorizes itself.

One’s mind recognizes itself in the patterns of nature. One’s mind reflects back to itself those patterns that best reflect its being. One’s mind pauses, and in that opening, chooses what is best by the attractions it forms between itself and natural beings. This exteriorization is of utmost importance.

One creates the world by perceiving it.

One sees the world according to one’s attractions to it. One gravitates towards preferred configurations. One ignores what one finds unappealing. One forms one’s worldview by the parameters of one’s attractions. These attractions and one’s inner world experience of freedom and lightness open up possibilities and ground one to one’s bodily experiences. It takes a delicate balance of inner and outer world influences to properly generate and limit new potentialities. How this is done will be revealed in the Nocturnal Pilgrimage Sections that follow. As you progress through this series of books you will learn a fantastic way to help you unfold a magnificent future. This way comes from a certain set of magnetic allies, as revealed in the next important point.

One makes the world according to one’s attractions.

For this reason, I will ask you now to consider what you are drawn to, what pulls on you like a magnet. What patterns and images are foremost in you mind. Do they all come from work, from television, or from Modern Culture? Have you yet found enough of them from the two great sources of intelligence—Nature and Dreams? I suspect not; and I will, therefore, continue to send you forth in search of Attractive Natural Beings and their reflective partners (or versions)—Attractive Natural Dream Characters.