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Heading off where you feel drawn find a sense of inner peace and once being with the sensations along your skin. Usually, the slower you walk on your sensation walk the more noticeably you will feel. Almost becoming like the delicate bill of a platypus. Moving gradually within the wilderness much the way in which a sloth moves slowly through the jungle. Sensing yourself what there’s to really feel against your skin. Being at one with your sensations on your body. Heightening the awareness of your tactile sensation. Exploring with your organic forms around you.

After you have been on your sensation walk, the final part to heighten your sense of feeling would be to start to be conscious of the inner sensations going on inside your system. The first place to start is with your physical sensations within your system.

This sense of inner peace is comparable with your tactile feeling exercises we’ve just done. For instance, again scan within either your body and thoughts and become aware of any stress stored within your body. Then similar to letting a stone drop to the ground, allow the tension inside either your system and thoughts drop to the ground. This dropping of stress permits you to feel noticeably more inside.

Then put your consciousness and attention on the inner sensations you really feel. Perhaps you can begin to start to be aware of the way it feels to run the top of your tongue against the roof of your mouth. Or maybe to note the way it feels along your throat to swallow a small part of saliva. Or how it feels within your lungs while you breathe in air. Simply placing your consciousness on your throat as you swallow or your focus on your inside of your lungs while you breathe in.

Once more, the slower you do these the noticeably more you’ll really feel inside. Additionally, it will help to close your eyes as you do that since you will then possess a lot more focus and awareness to feel the inner sensations. Take your time and notice the unique textures within your system. Feeling the different textures on the inside of your system.

Similarly if you are much in a state of rest and no mind you can also put your attention on your physical heart and notice how it feels to beat. How every heart beat feels. Noticing and sensing within yourself the small nuances of one’s own heart beat.

While you go further into your inner sensations and tap into them additionally, you will realize that a single part will probably be calling for your attention noticeably than the the others. Merely go to this place inside and become conscious of all the different textures of all the feeling. Start to be aware of all the sensations in every moment happening to this part of your inner self.

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So the initial stage of a rite of passage would be to be aware of your voice inside your head. Merely close your eyes and become aware of the little voice within your head. Just now it might be saying ‘Little voice? What little voice? I do not possess a small voice!’ Well, that’s the small voice.

While you start to be aware of the constant chatter it tends to make, also become aware of the tempo it talks at. Start to be conscious in the tempo, the tone and the volume it speaks at. Along with the words it uses. Merely start to be aware in the small voice within your mind.

Personally I have labelled as my little voice ‘Ralph’. The reason is because it’s like one of those small yappy canines that runs about in circles barking ‘ralph’, ‘ralph’, ‘ralph’. Perhaps you can relate?

Nevertheless once you become conscious of your small voice inside your mind during your rite of passage, rather than making yourself locked into what it is stating, just treat it like a little kid. As you separate yourself from what the voice within your head is stating by treating it like a small kid, simply say to it ‘Thank you for sharing’.

As you say ‘thank you for sharing’ you will probably notice there is a little gap within the thoughts. That there is a small space in your mind. A gap.

Then this gap will most likely be stuffed by another thought form. So once more, rather than getting locked into the concept, merely say ‘Thank you for sharing’ and notice the space within your thinking.

While you apply saying ‘Thank you for sharing’ you’ll notice a space of ‘no thinking’ within your thoughts. It feels as though there is absolutely nothing going on within your thoughts. That it’s empty. Now you are able to choose to locate your attention, your consciousness around the space within your mind. Choosing to put your focus on the gap of no thoughts. If an additional thought arrives, on the other hand say ‘thank you for sharing’ and once more relax in the space of no mind. Placing your focus around the space inside your thoughts. Allowing the space between thoughts to be spaced out. Placing your attention around the gap of no thoughts. Being in no thoughts.

It is Okay to not have thoughts going through your mind.

As you open up your eyes, begin to become conscious of your environment. Once more, if thoughts come up around what you’re seeing merely say ‘thank you for sharing’ and again go into no thoughts. Putting your focus around the gap, around the gap within your mind.

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Utilizing this inner voice and having a spiritual experience you may also use it to ask questions of your heart. I find easy questions beginning with ‘What…’ have a tendency to work the best. For example you are able to inquire of your heart the subsequent questions:

‘What is it you want me to know at this time?’ ‘What would you like me to do?’ ‘What are you seeking to inform me?’

Sometimes merely asking ‘What?’ of one’s heart is all you should aim to find out. It is more about establishing the intention of seeking to tap in with your heart and what it wants to tell with you.

Then it is just a point of listening to your heart. When talking with your heart it’s a great deal more about listening rather than talking. Much like being with a shy kid. If you are quiet and mild and allow them time and space then they will begin to normally interact with you.

Similar with listening with your heart, be gentle and listen.

The voice in the heart is soft. The voice of the heart is gentle. The voice in the heart speaks a couple of words at a time. The voice in the heart uses easy words. It has a slower rhythm. An unending knowledge.

So when wanting to speak with your heart, firstly place your attention on your heart center. I usually find touching the middle of my breast bone helps. Then set your intention to connect deeper with your heart and ask a ‘What’ question with your internal voice. Then just listen to the answers from your heart. Through your imagination. The language within your soul. Imagining what your heart says to you. For your imagination is real once the voice of one’s heart rings accurately.

After you have listened to your heart, always thank it for it’s knowledge. Thank it for talking with you. I discover it is good to also inquire if it too has any concerns of me. If there’s anything it desires to know. Let your heart to know that you’ll carry on to keep asking it for advice. For regardless of what occurs your heart will always win.

Once you have listened with your heart, it is critical to adhere to it’s advice. Despite what your thoughts thinks about the messages that come from your heart, follow it’s guidance. For your heart has it’s reasons of which reason understands absolutely nothing. Mere logic mostly can’t make use of. I discover it is usually in retrospect the mind starts to see the knowledge in the advice from the heart long after the choice has been made.

Meditation is always the key to forming a spiritual relationship with your land.

If you are inside a state of spiritual no-mind you will probably discover you are more aware, much more current towards the existing moment. To what is around you. Being with what you are being with. Inside a state of no-mind. Like the present second gets to be lengthier. Like your preception of present reality is slowed down.

I prefer to label this way of being as living in ‘innocence’. The reason is simply because this really is how infants and youthful toddlers see the planet. There is not much going through their thoughts. They are in a state of innocence and are merely becoming with what it is they are being with. In a being relationship with their surrounding environment.

And also you can tap into this state of innocence at any time, merely by putting your consciousness, your attention on the gap between your ideas. It is in this space exactly where the magic happens. In the state of innocence. No matter what is going on in life around you, this gap of no-mind is always present. It is only a matter of shifting your concentration from reasoning instead onto no-mind. This may usually make you drop more in to the current moment.

The other way the thoughts takes us aside from being with what is is via labels. For instance, if you glance at a tree, the labels you give to parts in the tree will be ‘tree’, ‘leaves’, ‘bark’, ‘roots’, ‘brown’, ‘sap’, ‘branches’, ‘flowers’, ‘seeds’, ‘trunk’ and so on

However, if you close your eyes, enter the state of no-mind by putting your attention around the gap after which consciously let go of labels a rare factor starts to happen. By letting go of labels you are able to merely be with what’s there to be with.

For example, in the event you grasp a stick in your hand and glance into the stick you then would usually be using the labels of the stick such as ‘brown’, ‘hard’, ‘light’, stick’, ‘wood’, ‘flexible’ and so on. However if you let go of these labels inside a state of no thoughts then you can experience what it’s like to simply be at one with the stick.

When you let go of labels you’ll likely notice and see a lot more detail within the components of nature in front of you. You’ll likely pick up a great deal more of the small particulars. Perhaps that it feels like you’re seeing these elements for your first time. And you can spend a lot of time merely being with your element within your hands.

Your spiritual connection with your land will show you how to connect with your life more deeply.

Nevertheless indigenous people were more heightened of the feeling of enlightenment. Our sense of taste will help us to become conscious of what vegetation not to consume. For example, generally most of the poisonous vegetation taste bitter. Not only did indigenous individuals use their perception of taste to find foods that may be poisonous, additionally they took the time to honor and encounter the delicate flavors inside the food. A heightened perception of taste within each mouthful.

The way to heighten your sense of taste would be to first of all place your consciousness and attention on the subtle flavors currently within your mouth. Maybe you can taste delicate flavors from last night’s supper. Or maybe you are able to taste the remnants of the flavors left over from breakfast. Firstly just put your focus and awareness on your flavors already inside your mouth.

If you can’t detect any subtle flavors within your mouth, find some thing inside the wilderness you are drawn to you know is non-toxic and can not poison you to consume. Maybe this really is some bark, or perhaps a dead leaf or perhaps even to lick a stone. What ever the element is, simply put a small bit of it inside your mouth and start to become conscious of the tastes.

To be able to heighten your sense of enlightenment it first of all will help to close your eyes so that your primary sense, the sense of eyesight is turned off. This allows you to have more attention to put onto your sense of taste.

Next notice how the taste tastes on the left part of your tongue. And the way this tastes different towards the flavour on your right of your tongue. Similarly with the front of one’s tongue. Along with the back part of one’s tongue. Likewise notice how the flavour underneath your tongue tastes different to the tastes on all of the other parts of your tongue.

While you are being using the flavour inside your mouth, you are able to naturally flow in between every part of one’s tongue that you are sensing drawn to tasting. Becoming conscious of how each component of your tongue is tasting the taste inside your mouth. Like a dance, dancing from one component of one’s tongue to the upcoming one. Being with the flavour inside every of these components of your tongue.

Just after you’ve been with the taste, you can then go to yet another part of nature you know is safe and it is drawing you to taste it and do exactly the same exercise. Being with all of the different tastes about your tongue. The little nuances of all the tastes within your mouth.

Enlightenment in the wilderness allows you to drop straight in to the creator.

From what I’ve noticed the primary reason for going on a rite of passage is that we are generally out of alignment from the guiding power. That instead we are listening and giving importance to the thoughts inside our personal minds and usually becoming head-strong about the issues that are triggering us.

For anytime we’re listening to our heads we do not possess the focus and resources to hear our hearts. For our hearts are usually aligned with the guiding power and guides us to exactly where it is we want to be guided to. For your heart is easy. It speaks easy truths. It results in a simple lifestyle. A life devoid of stress. Devoid of stress. Life just works whenever you are in alignment with your heart and also the guiding power.

So how can you drop back again into your heart and hear the gentle guidance from it?

The very first step would be to locate your awareness out of your thoughts and into your heart center. The first step is to close your eyes and hear the small voice inside your thoughts.

It might be saying ‘What little voice? I don’t have a small voice.’ Well… that is the little voice.

Merely locating your awareness and attention on the small voice within your mind and get to know it’s tempo it speaks at. Get to understand it’s loudness. Get to understand the tone. And get to understand what it states to you. Become aware of what the small voice inside your thoughts is stating to you. The almost continuous noise within your thoughts that’s full of chatter, concerns, judgments and assessments.

Then start to treat the small voice within your thoughts like a little kid who’s seeking your attention. Pretend that the voice inside your mind is playing with a toy that it desires you to also play with. Or maybe the child just wants your focus. Rather than getting locked into what it is stating, begin to treat the voice within your mind like a little child.

And whenever you are dealing with it like a small kid that desires your focus then merely say to it ‘Thank you for sharing’.

You’ll likely discover a little pause within your mind. A small space in between the constant thinking. A gap inside the thoughts that are going through your mind.

This gap is what the Buddhists call no-mind. It’s a space within your mind when the continuous chatter isn’t going on. Like there is nothing going on along your mind. An empty mind. And you may instead place your consciousness and focus on this empty gap inside your brain called no-mind. To dwell in no-mind. For it’s ok to give yourself permission not to think. It is important to be this state of no-mind when you are seeking to listen to the soft voice within your heart.

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For the voice within the heart and intuition is subtle. It’s quiet. It’s gentle. It says only a few words at a time. And it generally gets drowned out from the constant chatter of the voice within your thoughts.

So the first stage to listening to your heart would be to silence the voice within your head by thanking it for sharing and then just placing your focus and consciousness around the space of no-mind that naturally arises when it is silenced.

Whenever you are in a state of no-mind, the following thing to do would be to locate your focus and awareness on your heart center. Your heart middle is found within the center of one’s chest. Within your breast bone. It’s about the dimension of a typical golf ball. This really is exactly where the Yogi’s say the ‘heart chakra’ is located.

When tapping into my heart middle I discover that placing the tips of my three center fingers and exerting a slight force permits me to locate, drop in and feel my heart middle faster. By performing this I discover I can physically really feel the center of my heart middle a lot more.

As soon as my focus and consciousness is put on my heart center I then invest a few moments discovering the bodily sensations around my heart center. To rest in my heart middle. To sit in my heart center. To be and dwell in my heart middle. Resting my mind within my heart center. Placing my awareness and attention on my heart middle. I find doing this will connect me deeper within my heart middle.

After i am residing in my heart middle I then begin to inquire my heart center questions and then hear what my heart needs to say. For this is how to tap into the wisdom of your heart. Towards the delicate voice inside your personal heart.

To ask a question of one’s heart you just make use of the exact same internal voice that you used to thank the voice within your thoughts for sharing. This voice you use to inquire about concerns of your heart is similar to an internal whisper. It’s much like the internal voice you are able to silently listen to while you are reading these paragraphs on the page in front of you.

For example, just try to discover this little whisper voice at this exact moment in time while you are reading these words. Begin to discover the inner whisper voice that you use whenever you are studying. For instance, right now it said ‘begin to discover the internal whisper voice that you use when you are reading’. Are you able to hear it? While you are studying these words in front of you? Perhaps it seems like a silent whisper inside.

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During your meditation then the next step is to open up your eyes to look at the object again. You’ll likely discover there are a few components in the object which you didn’t pick up the very first time around. Consciously intend to search for these nuances you might have missed. Try to take a look at the things in the object that almost all normal people would not see. Start to look for all of the ‘uninteresting’ parts in the object and then start to bring them into your consciousness.

As soon as you’ve studied the object again, then gently shut your eyes and once more see the object in your mind’s eye. Begin with what you know about the object and then attempt to add various layers to it. Try to see as much detail as you can within your mind’s eye.

Then when you really feel you’ve seen as much depth inside your mind’s eye as you can, next open your eyes and once more and study the object for particulars you may have missed. Then close your eyes again and see that which you can see within your mind’s eye. Performing this detailed inspection of your object, closing your eyes and seeing it in your mind’s eye strengthens your inner vision. You can use this method all through your day whenever you get the chance to strengthen your inner vision even more.

After a certain time period of meditation you will have the ability to see objects inside your mind’s eye whilst having your eyes open. I’ll speak much more about it inside a later chapter but this is when you start unlifting the veil into the other world past the one which we normally see. Nevertheless, within a few months of practicing to see objects inside your mind’s eye you’ll probably discover your internal eyesight has become fairly powerful.

Since you’ve learnt how to see much more clearly within your mind’s eye, try to form an image inside your inner vision of the location you’re feeling drawn to in the wilderness to go on your heart walk.

Performing this visualization before going to your spot begins to create a connection directly with the land. Just like before whenever you get to see a friend, you’ll probably see them inside your mind’s eye and reflect on experiences you’ve had together and feel closer to them. Similarly when starting to tap into the land. You’re forming a more powerful link with the land by visualizing what it’s like to go there. You’re starting to setup an power and connection with the land.

You are able to also do the same together with your hearing. Before heading to the location of my heart stroll, I spend some time listening to what it is like being there. I picture what the birds will sound like. I imagine what the rustle in the wind in the leaves should sound. And I picture what the sound in the earth tends to make beneath my footsteps whilst I walk throughout the bush. Like I am imagining in my mind’s eye not just what I am viewing at the place I am drawn to but additionally what I’m hearing.

Meditation: these methods allow you to speak directly with the land.

Another typical query I get from participants who want a feeling of relaxation is ‘What do you take on a heart stroll?’

There’s not much you’ll need to bring on your heart walk. For instance, all I generally bring is a small notice pad that goes into my back pocket along with a pen. Inside this note pad I’ll usually have my intention written down. Then as insights from the wilderness come through from the wilderness I’ll usually make some notes and sometimes draw a sketch of what I see. I usually discover this assists me later on throughout the integration phase of my heart walk after i am reflecting on all of the messages I have received from nature.

Some people also bring a bottle of drinking water and a few snacks with them when they go on the heart stroll. However I find the less distractions I bring the better. Similarly with shoes and clothes. Generally I’ll go barefoot while on a heart walk as I’m in a position to really feel more of the land via the soles of my feet. And the less clothes I bring, the less I have to worry about taking good care of. The heart walk is more about melting into and becoming 1 with the land rather than insulating ourselves from it.

As I travel towards the land I really feel drawn to, I usually have my little journal pad along with a pen beside me. Throughout this time I usually drive in silence with no radio on. This gives me time and space to dwell further on my intention and to put more energy into it. I find the more power I put in to the intention, the clearer the messages I obtain from the wilderness.

I also discover that as I put time and energy into the intention that initial insights will arrive to me. After i get an insight I pull over and will either write the insight down or draw a small sketch if it is a picture which has come to me. On a variety of events, the messages the wilderness was eager to give me have arrived to me while driving to the spot I felt drawn. On these occasions I thanked the land with my internal voice and turned back with out even stepping 1 foot on the land.

Your heart stroll begins the second you start putting power into your intention. It isn’t so much about heading for a walk through the wilderness. It’s more about being open for the messages the wilderness is trying to give you. The power which you place into your intention is mirrored back to you. The more power you place in, the more is mirrored back in the form of insights, symbols and messages via nature.

After i get to the area of the land I feel drawn to I then invest a bit of time getting into ‘the zone’ and being with the land. I will cover how to get into ‘the zone’ later on within this post however it is basically about making sure you get out of your thoughts, into your senses, tapping into the pull of one’s heart and interpreting the constant messages that the wilderness is giving us. Getting into ‘the zone’ is tapping into the religious world beyond the 1 we usually see.

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I remember time was in quite a slow mode of perception. Like I am fully aware of every second. I was aware of what it was like to be the wave. What it had been to be one of the other surfers within the ocean water. And what it had been like to be the spectators watching along the shore. Totally in ‘the zone’.

I remember flying down the wave almost like I was on a vision quest to do a perfect bottom maneuver. Then going up the wave to do a top turn (… which I’d by no means even thought of doing prior to this day). But this really is what the force was guiding me to complete.

An additional bottom turn which by natural means went into a cut-back as I was then way ahead of the breaking wave. By aligning with the force I was then surfing as I had never ever surfed before. By the point I had come to the white water I felt I had ridden probably the most perfect wave of my life. I also remember laying on my board in the white water and my head was saying ‘Wow! That’s awesome. Imagine what the next wave will be like!’

Nevertheless the pull was to paddle back to shore. So in I went.

As I was walking up the foreshore one of the guys watching from the shore came up to me and asked if I had been the guy surfing the yellow board. I told him that this is my board and sure, it’s yellow.

He asked exactly where I had learnt to surf. I told him I had only been learning to surf for 3-4 months.

‘Wow’ came the reply. ‘You could go on the ASP if you keep this up.’

I then I remembered looking at him in the eyes and remember the words that arrived from my mouth were ‘Thanks, but there’s no need.’ We both laughed.

The message within this story is that extraordinary things happen when you’re within the zone and aligned with the power. Experiences like this occur nearly at will once we enter into the zone. When we turn off the constant chatter within our head and just allow ourselves to go along with the guiding force. For if I had listened to my head that day I most likely would’ve sat around the outside of the surfing pack and probably not even gotten a wave. Rather than allowing the guiding power to give me among the greatest waves of my life.

And from what I can see, it’s the head that usually will get in the way of our organic alignment and also the power that’s continuously guiding us. From what I see this really is usually what occurs within modern civilization. There’s generally a stark disconnect between the lives people are having and the authentic life they had been born to live. And also the continuous pattern that is getting in the way is what happens inside people’s heads. Within the continuous chatter we’re telling ourselves. For it typically throws out our alignment with the guiding force.

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