<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you Sherri. Your words will stay with me for a long
time.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>“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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For everyone, how do you access your indigenous intelligence? What does it
offer you?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">I hope you have a deep, restful night of sleep,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Lindsey</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Sherri L Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smitchel@email.arizona.edu">smitchel@email.arizona.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Lindsey asked: How does living a path with heart inform stewardship?<br><br></div>Rachel - I enjoyed reading your post. Thank you for sharing your vision with the group. <br><br>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. <br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>Sherri <br><br>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. <br><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Rachel A. Buddeberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachel@rabe.org" target="_blank">rachel@rabe.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">Lindsey asked: How does living a path with heart inform stewardship?<br>
<br>
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<br>
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.<br>
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Rachel<br>
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