[Chapter_Fourteen] Zone Zero

[Lindsey Goldberg]

Thank you Sherri. Your words will stay with me for a long time.



*“It is about cultivating my own inner wisdom, guidance and truth. It is
about cultivating a love that will nourish and sustain me throughout my
life. It is about cultivating relationships, big and small, that will
someday grow into vast networks of caring and connected beings. It is about
cultivating cultural knowledge and indigenous intelligence, which teaches me
of my place in creation and my relatedness to all living things. Living a
path with heart teaches us these same things. It teaches us that we are
infinitely tied to one another through both visible and invisible threads of
connectivity. It shows us that movement within these threads propels our
movement forward, together.”*

* *

I appreciate the connection you painted between living a path with heart, an
appreciation for the interconnectivity of life and all beings, and
stewardship. Indeed we are all connected and the more our awareness of that
truth heightens, the greater capacity we have for resiliency; as a web we
are strong.



This idea of indigenous intelligence and its relationship to stewardship
inspires me. Each of us is born with inherent wisdom, or indigenous
intelligence infused into our consciousness by the generations that came
before us, just as we will impart our stories, experiences and wisdom to the
generations that will follow. Reconnecting to our indigenous intelligence,
that which is both unique and universal is like a rite of passage. Just as
returning to play or to imagination as an adult can change one’s life.



For everyone, how do you access your indigenous intelligence? What does it
offer you?


I hope you have a deep, restful night of sleep,

Lindsey

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Sherri L Mitchell <
smitchel at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Lindsey asked: How does living a path with heart inform stewardship?
>
> Rachel - I enjoyed reading your post. Thank you for sharing your vision
> with the group.
>
> For me, as a native woman, this concept of stewardship is one that I have
> wrestled with understanding for most of my life. I have been raised with an
> expectation of being able to meaningfully contribute to the work of
> generations of "stewards" who came before me, in order to preserve that
> pathway for the generations who will follow. When I was younger I thought
> that this idea of stewardship was a protective environmental stance. Today,
> I realize that it is more a posture of cultivation. It is about cultivating
> my own inner wisdom, guidance and truth. It is about cultivating a love that
> will nourish and sustain me throughout my life. It is about cultivating
> relationships, big and small, that will someday grow into vast networks of
> caring and connected beings. It is about cultivating cultural knowledge and
> indigenous intelligence, which teaches me of my place in creation and my
> relatedness to all living things. Living a path with heart teaches us these
> same things. It teaches us that we are infinitely tied to one another
> through both visible and invisible threads of connectivity. It shows us that
> movement within these threads propels our movement forward, together.
>
> When we first embark on this path we begin to cultivate a life of
> harmlessness, because we finally realize that others are affected. When we
> deepen our awareness and sink deeper into the posture of harmlessness we
> begin to actually feel how we are connected, not only to those who are
> affected but also to the harm that is creating those impacts. This
> strengthens our desire toward active stewardship. We are then compelled to
> consciously "FLINK" (which is to simultaneously feel and think) about the
> repercussions of our mental, emotional, spiritual and physical actions,
> knowing fully that we are co-creating this world from a fundamental
> vibrational level into physical form. This awareness continues to cultivate
> deeper and deeper levels of stewardship from the ephemeral into the
> tangible. And, all this begins with the first step that one takes toward
> living a path with heart. To me, living a path with heart and stewardship
> are deeply interconnected, one feeds and is fed by the other and both grow
> and deepen in direct proportion to one another. It is a beautiful
> demonstration of the cyclical nature of our conscious evolution.
>
> Sherri
>
> p.s. Thanks to Phyl Brazee for coining the term"flink," it so eloquently
> describes one of the most important steps in our conscious evolution.
>
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Rachel A. Buddeberg <rachel at rabe.org>wrote:
>
>> Lindsey asked: How does living a path with heart inform stewardship?
>>
>> To me, stewardship is about taking care of the earth in a way that is
>> regenerative and sustainable.  Zone Zero reminds me that there is more to
>> regeneration and sustainability.  The way we live our lives can be
>> destructive to ourselves - we can be tied up in a stressful job that is
>> draining rather than nourishing us.  Living on a path with heart allows us
>> to regenerate ourselves, we slow down - and practice yoga between two busy
>> streets in the sunshine, like i did today (thank you, Lindsey!).  It also
>> meant for me to listen to my heart, which was screaming at me to quit my job
>> and take a chance to figure out how to make a living in a way that is
>> nourishing to myself and others, rather than making a dying in a job that
>> contributed (in a very small way) to the financial crisis.  Living a path
>> with heart, in my case means to honor the memory of a friend and co-worker
>> who died of a massive heart attack on the job.  It is to understand deeply
>> how destructive our current mainstream
>>  culture really is - to the Earth and to all that is living on it,
>> including us.  And it is sowing the seeds for something else: a way of live
>> that lets us connect with others more deeply.
>>
>> Rachel
>>
>>
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