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Your
vision will become clear only
when you can look into your own
heart.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. ~Carl
Jung
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In
the process of learning to be emotionally
healthy we encounter roadblocks that detour
us into unknown parts of ourselves - areas
that have been in disconnect with the balance
and harmony in our environment. Some of
these detour experiences fill us with a
sense of wellbeing in the wisdom they impart,
while some deplete us by fixing our attention
onto false beliefs systems with their dogmantic
stories about reality and Nature.
"What is programmed
within us that moves
us toward the negative
rather than the positive?
Why is it that the experiences
of fear, anger, confusion,
resistance, denial, shame,
doubt and unworthiness
dominate most over positive
characteristics such
as joy, compassion, love,
honesty, integrity and
so on? How can we better
navigate our lives keeping
what is most natural
in us in tact without
losing ourselves in the
sea of conditioning experiences?
How do we hold what is
most dear in our hearts
close to us without having
to bargain or relinquish
them for surrogates because
we lack empowerment,
support and the courage
to honor and value them
with passion? What makes
it so difficult to know
our selves?"
Questioning the forces that actually dictates our
lives is relevant to our evolution and so we are
confronted with time sensitive opportunities to investigate
what separates our essential nature from our Source
of immediate sustenance - the Spiritual Heart in
Nature.
Now I speak to each
and ask the Essence of
your Being, "What
Is Your Deepest Dream?" Ponder
this…it matters. "What
inspiration rises?" The
reality that is your
life has already produced
the answer. Your head
speaks and I ask you
to respond with your
heart. I ask again. "What
Is Your Deepest Dream?" and "Who
Are You, Really? You
and not your money, your
job, your technology,
your role in life, your
things, an external object..."Who
are you when you drop
these vestiges of identification?" Your
Passion and Deepest Dream
lends clue to the authentic
you that remains constant
in any circumstance or
relationship. When the
essence of who you are
is aligned with life
affirming actions that
support your purpose,
circumstances reshape
to model that truth.
The inner quest of Self always leads us to what is
most attractive in fulfilling self gnosis. Enquiry
into emotional belief patterns that builds on the
foundation of our existence to create outcomes or
our realities is worthy. Why we continue to re-create
personal dramas and distasters builds onto that concept
of self worth. The study of our feelings and emotional
responses helps us to learn what creates positive
energy, exhuberance and empathy in our lives in contrast
to what produces inertia, anxiety and anger.
In knowing ourself, we awaken. Self meet Self!
Journeying into the heart of the Mother connects
us to our authentic core self that is alive within
each of us as Nature. As a species of Nature, cooperative
consent with our environment fully authenticates
ourselves and we experience trust, nurturance and
Love that exists in the reciprocal flow of Being,
between self and the Spiritual Heart in Nature -
the Good, the Beautiful and the true! Spontaneously
following and enjoying natural attractions helps
us to acquire sensory awareness about ourselves.
Following the flow of intuitive response through
nature attraction we gain clarity how anxiety, stress,
sadness, depression, jealousy, and inertia produces
giant gaps in our consciousness. Our disconnection
with the Spiritual Source in Nature for industrial
thinking and its nature conquering stories produces
these gaps in the consciousness of human culture
with its runaway problems and destructive patterns
of living.
Reconnecting with the Spirit in Nature bridges gaps
in sensory awareness into integrity with the living
tapestry of life. As our inner nature sentient attractions
merge with sentient Earth, we gain clarity and multisensory
capacity. Clarity enables us to confront the nature
disconnected stories that produces our psychological
fears and self imposed limitations that thrusts us
into self-abnegation and paralytic defeat to change
our destructive patterns and withdraw our support
for those who separate nature intelligence from our
lives.
Multisensory connection entwined with Nature wisdom
and nurture teaches us how to safely and trustingly
experience the nature of our inner workings as a
re-educational process into whole self wellbeing.
Feelings of in-the-moment joy, fun and laughter are
hallmarks of good health, self balance and harmony
with our environment. Self awareness lies within
the Heart of Nature and allowing natures spirit and
wisdom into our thinking we can overcome separation
from her intelligence and renew our relationship
with our environment and ourselves..
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"Our
Authentic Self is the true source of
our emotional security and the only Diamond
we need."
The
Star
© Aleister
Crowley
Crystallization,
self-recognition, clear
vision, trust in self,
connection to Universal
Intelligence
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We
should surrender our intention to selfishly seek
merit and recognition for our merit, and instead
simply plant merit and cultivate wisdom.
~ Jae Woong Kim, "Polishing the Diamond"
"Nature
connected thinking uses fifty-three sources of
sensory information."
"Each of our 53 natural senses
is a distinct way of knowing,
loving and feeling."
~ Michael
J. Cohen, Reconnecting with Nature
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The
Invitation
"To habitualy think
in multisensory ways is to consistently be
inspired by nature's beauty within us."
~ Michael J. Cohen, Reconnecting with Nature
Within
each of us is hidden beauty, the quality aspect of
our inner nature imprisoned in a body-mind until it
is fine tuned to Nature's luminous spiritual light,
the lens where inner beauty can pass unadulterated
in expression. As a stone is to a gem cutter, in a
similar manner, our inner beauty is imprisoned in the
larger stone and layer by layer with each cleaving
blow we eliminate non-essentials that are contrary
to our inner nature.
Keeping
our vision clear and held in our upper most consciousness
of that which is to be revealed, express or crafted,
eliminates from our field of expression all that
hinders a gradual release into a fuller faceted expression.
In such a way, the revelation of beauty emerges as
a luminous diamond.
The diamond
within us holds the beauty of our potential, not
the world of outer appearances. Our beauty is the
source of our deepest dreams and highest aspirations;
it holds our key values and guiding principles to
manifest our vision and purpose.
Our
authentic self speaks to us through the spectrum
of imagination. These are our colorful dreams, fantasies
and visions produced by the refractive light of our
Diamonds essence, to gain our attention to liberate
its light from the psychic bondage that holds together
the dark layers of conditioning, emotional discord
and physical dis-eases created by disconnect from
our Source in Nature.
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Does
the future vision of life engender excitement and anticipation?
Authentic self-expression is always in alignment with
our deepest dreams, values, purpose and vision that
is divinely guided through the intuitive connection
with the Spirit of life. "How well is personal
vision honored and purpose that supports experiencing
quality of life?" Where we place our attention
is indicative of what we value, the intrinsic qualities
of worth we choose to support our life with. Example:
Nature, Spirituality, Integrity, Intimacy, Freedom,
Gratitude, Honesty, Joy, Abundance, Excellence, Family,
Friends, Balance, Learning, Play and so on. How is
Value of Life Honored?" The more we honor our
values the more ease and freedom there is helping us
to fulfill, satisfy and enrich our lives producing
depth. Depth allows us to step into our purpose as
divine co-creators with Nature and allows us to access
inner wisdom and compassion to govern the law of our
own being. This gift only comes from living the integrity
of our highest self in alignment with natural laws.
Taking the first vital step into the Path of Heart encourages
cultivation of the Inner Diamond within. The second is
to discover our Wings to flow in tandem with Nature's rhythm
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Path
of Action
The
New Service is Passion in Action
"A Journey
of 1000 miles begins with a single
step."~Confucius
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The
Journey of Life
in the Universe
© Aleister
Crowley
The
freedom to undertake
any action; Mastery
of the forms & forces
of Earth; Liberation
to attain Kosmic
Consciousness
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In
our transformative healing journey we let go of the
wrangling stories of our past that we used to define
ourselves and the energy draining dramas we used
as excuses and vices to nurture our pain that kept
us locked into anxiety stress patterns. We embraced
forgiveness and surrender to allow Nature's Healing
Reorganization. Nature's Healing Reorganization aligns
mind, feeling and body with inner essence and with
the essence of all life systems.
In the process we discover parts of ourselves that we
have inwardly outgrown - the disconnected areas of the
personality that hid behind the destructive walls of
society with its adverse effects and runaway problems.
To reflect our inner reality we have adjusted our outward
circumstances to reflect our inner maturity that we have
attained psychically and invisibly through Nature's webstring
connections. This support translates to how we present
ourselves in the social world so that we remain reasonably
aligned with who we have inwardly become. In our authenticity
we no longer find a need to be a time server or have
the desire to wear a social mask for a prefabricated
role that does not represent our authentic individual
inner processes as Nature connected humans. In our heightened
sensitivity we continue to discover ourselves through
the renewal of Nature's processes and express this authenticity
in the world. It is at this juncture of integration that
we must trust our inner compass and have faith in universal
support - of grounding Spirit into matter as our guiding
waking consciousness.
Transformation
onto higher pathways invites us to claim our courage
toward fulfilling our primary need of social continuity
rather than social control. In
claiming our courage we have many questions, but
we are quickly reminded that there are no victims
in life, only unconscious creators. Whole self wellbeing
is borne from accessing the healing mind in Nature
and wisdom to support our transformation needs. When
there is the dawning of awareness, there is choice
or heresy where a range of options has been considered
rather than to the exclusion of all other options
(orthodoxy). A heretic is someone who chooses what
to believe. And we are encouraged toward constructive
engagement - to put gnosis into motion in response
to the empathic call of our inner Nature rooted in
the natural environment and intimately allied with
other species.
To succeed with the shift, we look at reality squarely
in the eye and in the spirit of commitment, persistence
and focus, we claim opportunities and circumstances that
supports responsible action toward self, the community
of life and the Natural world.
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Energy
is governed by the patterns of Universal Law and
Principle. If we choose to embody the Path of Heart
into our lives we must rightly direct our energies
to dance in rhythm with the universal principle that
guides planetary life in cycles of perpetual motion.
Transformation is an ever-changing life affirming
process that is built upon self renewal in both ourselves
and Nature. Transformation always includes the higher
self in perception of reality. It is from this perspective
that we delve into the Path of Heart to set up our
Path of Action, the cooperative way that recovers
the essential self through reciprocity with our Natural
environment.
Alisa
Battaglia-Schiff, Revised December 2011©
"
PATH OF ACTION" Published
in Spirit Pathways Magazine,
January 2011 |
Spirit
- Hymn of the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon
The
Path of Heart
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It
is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
What is essential is invisible to the eye." ~Antoine
De Saint-Exupery
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The Path of Heart
is not a religion - it is way to know ourselves, to
find our purpose in life - our mission, to find out
where we come from and discover the secrets of the
Universe. Our unfolding awareness begins a new life
in a new order.
Living
our awareness requires that we live our truth,
which means to state the truth of our particular
experience however conflicted it may be. Self-acceptance
arises from the freedom to evaluate our selves
clearly and through the changes we have made in
our selves. This means that we accept and include
the dejected parts of self that feel betrayed or
misunderstood. When we are aware of, responsible
for, and accepting of our own and others judgments
we can be more honest and present with ourselves
because we do not need to hide in blame, shame
or fear anymore. To do other than this would volunteer
victimhood. As we become more aligned with the
essence of our true nature that is love we more
readily accept our selves and others as they are.
Coming from this loving place opens our hearts
in mutual compassion and stimulates the innate
potential for healing in oursleves and in our relationships.
Love
is not a verb, it is a noun because it is energetic
stuff we are made of that emanates from our core.
It is what we experience when we return to our
original state of being. We can see its quality
in everything especially when we extend the love
that we have for ourselves to others. Loving is
not something we contemplate or intellectualize
doing. It is actively holding the space of love
by being present! So in our wisdom and compassion
we recognize that a mean spirited person is in
pain simply armoring the personality self defensively
from any form of incoming love. It is a dejection
of Self.
Self-dejection
is an ego structure that harms the Authentic Self
by closing off receptivity to the flow of love
thereby disconnecting from the life-line of Source.
With this awareness we can reach out to a hardened
heart with an open heart where oftentimes our caring
alone will dissolve the armor, even if for an instant,
to reveal a shining face and beaming smile of gratitude
that someone actually cares. Love graciously received
ultimately illuminates all of life. It has the
capacity to restore the broken peices of our lives.
When we love our selves we give permission for
others to love them selves too, which makes us
all capable of having healthier relationships.
Love is infusive and living the 'Path of Heart'
will always guide us to right process.
Revised 2011©Alisa
Battaglia, EcologyoftheSpirit.com
Original Excerpted
from, "The Essential Self, Cultivating the Sacred
Feminine" by Alisa Battaglia©2005
Article
published Sibyl
Magazine,
2009 & 2010
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Walking
the Path of Heart
Sets
Us Free!
The
Heart that gives, gathers.
~Marianne
Moore
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"Anything
is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior
must always keep in mind that a path is only
a path; if he feels that he should not follow
it, he must not stay with it under any conditions.
His decision to keep on that path or to leave
it must be free of fear or ambition. He must
look at every path closely and deliberately.
There is a question that the warrior has to ask,
mandatorily: 'Does this path have heart?'" ~
Carlos Castaneda from The Wheel of Time
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"Nobody
can go back and start a new beginning,
but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
~Maria
Robinson
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"The
path of all religions beats with the same heart
of love and oneness when the dogma is removed."
The Path
of Heart takes us into the present where
we enter the world of miracles.
1.
Recognition of Universal Law & Principle (Natural
order based upon Original Source) and the…
2. Realization of Cause and Effect in our lives asks us
to…
3. Surrender to Creator which takes us to the…
4. Path of Least Resistance or Non-interference in our…
5. Aspiration towards a Higher Power that requires...
6. Response-ability and…
7. Authentic Expression of our Truth and…
8. Cultivation of Patience and…
9. Forgiveness (Giving up resentment) & Non-Judgmentalism
that lifts us to…
10. Compassion & Unconditional Love and…
11. Unity Consciousness in the desire to…
12. Serve Humanity whose energy requires…
13. Detachment from the Outcome of our Choices or Actions.
Practice Living the Path
of Heart:
1.
Recognize and accept Love as your
true nature. Actively hold the space
of Love.
2.
Focus on living
in the present
moment that
brings you
to awareness.
3.
Live your awareness
by withholding judgment,
fear, expectation and
the need to fix. Instead
release others, reconcile
and accept, hold compassion
and cooperate by taking
responsibility for
your life.
4.
Act lovingly, gently
and respectfully to
your self and others
in thought, speech
and action.
5.
Keep communications
open and honest.
6.
Surrender your egoic
will to your Higher
Will.
7.
Ground, center and
expand yourself to
connect with your inner
dimension and follow
its guiding wisdom.
8.
Keep healthy boundaries
in tact so your heart
can lead you to right
process.
9.
Serve and support others
in their personal and
spiritual growth.
10.
Open your heart to
new experiences.
11.
Hold your relationships
with others more important
than any issue.
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Language
of Heart
The
Heart is the Living Map to Guide
us in our Journey into the Heart
of the Mother
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"Love
is a fruit in season at all times, and within
the reach of everyone."
~Mother
Teresa of Calcutta
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The
language of the Universe is reflected through the soul
in its perspective of unity consciousness that is imbued
with the eternal trinity of the good, the beautiful and
the true. The seat of the soul is the heart and therefore,
the language of Soul is the language of the Heart. This
means that the language of the soul communicates multi-dimensionally
through the nexus of the heart in wholeness. According
to the attribute of our heart is the reflective action,
our measure of selflessness or selfishness. The variety
of those interactions reflect the consciousness of our
hearts' that creates our experiences and how we communicate
them to others. When there is the simple awareness that
pain, trauma and fear (anger) keeps us from being totally
involved in the now we begin to understand volition and
right action. We recognize that what does not stand in
love within us needs to be worked on with a mind connected
in love and intelligence.
Right
action or volition is the primary force of motivation
that distinguishes the personality of the Soul from
the personality desires of the masked self. The motivation
of soul energy can be felt as a feeling-intellect
within the heart, the impulse of compassion that
moves us from the thick walls of selfishness into
an ever-widening inclusiveness with life. It is from
that place that we honestly attempt to be authentic
as we are motivated through courage, inspiration
and energy-the territory of the opening heart.
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Love
is the flower for which love is the honey
~ Victor Hugo
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With
an open heart it becomes easier to fight our selfishness
with generosity and we begin to understand the language
our soul seeks to communicate to us. When we listen,
we nourish our soul desires and trust its guidance more
into our lives instead of fearing and going against our
Essential Self. Our soul interfaces with our personality
vehicle the more we honor others and ourselves by following
through on our commitments, contribute our skills and
knowledge in a loving and patient way. As we accept our
selves, learn tolerance and unconditional love we raise
the vibrations of our energy body attracting to us those
of similar attributes of heart and essentially energies
of higher quality vibrations that resounds outwardly
into the world.
To invoke spiritual energy to help us heal or to show us
our path of purpose, we simply state our needs, dreams and
desires, foregive and then let go of our attachments and
preconceived process of how things should be done. We release
the tentacles of our mind that wraps around things we identify
with (our conditioning) so that we may let things happen
and surrender the "how" to the miracle-producing
Universe. We move in rhythm with the Divine Heart where love
flows in Equipoise lovingly bringing calm, receptivity, aliveness
and joy into our lives. The purpose of life is aliveness,
joy and creativity!
Excerpts from ©The Essential Self, Cultivating
the Sacred Feminine through Polarity Integration by Alisa
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WHO
AM I?
Who
am I?
I am parts of the whole…
Elements made up from the spiraling fragments of the
Universe.
The
Sun, the Moon and the Stars…the Kosmic
memories unfolding within the spirals of my consciousness…whose
movements create,
Inspire and forebode.
Cradled
in the arms of Great Mother…and within my cocoon,
I stretch forth my mind to the Winds of the East…expansion
and cooperation. My feet hold firm to the ground with
Blood wisdom of a Spiritual Warrior traversing sacred
lands of the West…know thy path. Ether & Earth…
As above, so below!
In
clarity, I seek Universal Wisdom from the Light
of the North…that dispenses the mysteries
of Life of which I seek…live with passion.
Holding vigil, I listen for the whispering clues
of the South…whose sunset shadows draw
animated pictures across the sands of time…live
by example.
Fire & Water…As within, so without!
Who
Am I?
I am in a body, but am not my body.
Who Am I?
LIGHT…ENERGY…of
Supreme Power balanced by active intelligence
and transformed into wisdom…Love based
on trust of inner authority…Liberation
from constraint.
Who
Am I Really?
EVERYTHING.
©Alisa
Battaglia
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