1. A New Definition Of ‘Awakening’.
This new Heart Circle definition speaks of ‘awakening’ in ‘easy to relate to’, modern terms. It describes what ‘awakening’ feels like, what life skills are required and what insights come with it. It’s an ‘open-definition’ that encourages you to add to it your own experience and insight. It centers round the basic life tasks of being present in the moment, connected to others, emotionally authentic, internally heart-directed and responsive to the Times we are in.
2. A dynamic menu of daily ‘practices’ that support your awakening.
These twenty practices are powerful, effective and easy to apply to your daily life. They support you in developing specific life skills and in actualizing hidden potentiality within you. They show you how to ‘focus your attention’ and move through life with deliberate awareness. They support you in cultivating the qualities of being more present, real, heart-directed and connected. More than anything else, they encourage you to move out of ‘spiritual or psychological’ concepts and into the actual experience of living more joyfully in moment.
3. A Step By Step Process For Creating Your Own Heart Circle.
Heart Circles are totally unique, ongoing, weekly support Circles that you create with anywhere from one to nine people you care for and trust. They are self-organized and all-member facilitated. They become a safe environment in which to open your heart while creating ‘community’ with others. By meeting weekly, you bond quickly in friendship and have a space to explore both what you are feeling in the moment and what you want to create in your life. You also weave a ‘social safety-net’ of friends willing to support one another during these dramatic times of change.
4. A Blueprint For Social Change In The 21st Century
Being more present, real, heart-directed and connected in life is the healthy foundation on which family, community and all social interaction is built. As such, the Heart Circle Teachings encourage us to apply what we learn in Heart Circle and our daily practices to our other social relationships; partnership, family, work, play, service, etc. As we become more ‘awake’, we alter from within whatever social settings we are in.
Also, Heart Circles can strengthen and transform any existing relationship or organization directly. Circles can be formed within families, schools, businesses, churches or temples or even one time events or gatherings. They can be used in person, on the phone or over the internet. And they don’t need to be formalized nor even be called ‘Heart Circles’. You can simple embody the principles and practices within these teachings and share them through your presence and actions.
But Today, for the first time, something else is equally true. We cannot transform ourselves unless we also transform our planet. Globally, we are all at risk. Our task, then, is to individually ‘awaken’ while at the same time create conscious communities that are harmonized with life. One without the other won’t work.