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Articles by Jeff D. Nixa
Viewpoint: Learning how to walk a good path
Some years ago I was sitting with a Lakota man named Marvin in his trailer on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He said he needed wood for the old stove sitting in the middle of his living room. I looked out the window at the treeless prairie and asked where he got wood from. “There’s an ash grove down by the creek with good seasoned wood,” Marvin said. I pictured another guy selling wood out of a pickup and asked what a load of wood cost on the reservation.
What Are The Benefits of Walking the Heart Path?
The heart is a key concept in shamanism, a specialized term that refers to one’s deep source of aliveness, spiritual center, soul, or core. The word core itself comes from the French word coeur, meaning “heart.” It is understood to mean our individual, localized expression of the Great Spirit, God, or Universal Consciousness. It is our individual wave moving upon the greater sea of spirit.
InnerSelf Newsletter: June 24th, 2018
Welcome... Our InnerSelf welcomes your inner self.This week we reflect on the path to happiness. This path of the heart (What Are The Benefits of Walking the Heart Path?) includes self-validation and self-compassion (Practicing Self-Validation Is An Act Of Compassion), generating happiness (How to Experience More Happiness and Generate More Joy, Love, and Peace), and the willingness to heal and to be happy (Five Steps to the Healing Process).
InnerSelf Newsletter: April 8th, 2018
Welcome... Our InnerSelf welcomes your inner self.This week we look at "hidden messages"... These are the messages from our unconscious beliefs, from our inner children, from our body, from our environment, and from our heart... And we discover that these messages are not really hidden as much as unheard, or not paid attention to. Yet the messages (and their blessings) are present for all of us at all times...
Finding Your Way Home: The Heart Path as a Hero’s Journey
I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey, going home somewhere. I set out to find this home I’d left a while back and couldn’t remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there and encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so I’m on my way home.
Finding Your Way Home: The Heart Path as a Hero’s Journey
I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey, going home somewhere. I set out to find this home I’d left a while back and couldn’t remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there and encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so I’m on my way home.
Searching for Heart in a World of Reason
In our lives there are two great sources of information for perceiving and navigating the world available to us: the rational, analytical way of the mind, and the soulful felt sense of the heart.
InnerSelf Newsletter: November 26th, 2017
Welcome... Our InnerSelf welcomes your inner self.I often find myself humming the song "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me"... usually when I find myself stressed or upset with someone or something. There is so much truth in that expression... whatever we desire in the "outside world", it must start with us...
Searching for Heart in a World of Reason
In our lives there are two great sources of information for perceiving and navigating the world available to us: the rational, analytical way of the mind, and the soulful felt sense of the heart.
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