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Being the Ear in Fear to Hear Community, during corona

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A RAPTalk by Susan K Furness, Senior Associate, Edgewalkers International

everything will be ok
This photo, from the Everything Will Be OK – Signs by Dave Facebook page, shows the signs being put up around Springfield by Dave Heinzel.

The dictionary expanded in 2020
The likes of CoVid, Corona, Nuovo-Virus and the Curve
New words like new kids making their presence fast known
On every corner of every block, at first causing a block in understanding
Yet fast copulating information, like a block-chain in action
Sparking a common question to be spoken out loud
What on earth is happening? In London, in Baku, in Wuhan, in Auckland, in New York, in Milan, now rolling in INdia

Igniting conversation, stirring debate, diluting hate
Igniting camaraderie, stirring emotion, diluting inventory on supermarket shelves
Until ‘to grab’ was fast called out
As sharing becomes caring
And abundance becomes good health, a full heart and not a full cupboard

The Ear in Fear fast attunes our listening
A world full of leaders exercise muscles long dormant
Straggling behind in the viral Marathon
As CoVid makes moves beating Beckham’s best bends
Pressing professors, perculating researchers, causing presidents and politicians to shine in the mis-art of pontification
Stressing economies, taking out businesses, making headlines but not breaking spirit

As corona flows, so spirit ferments
Attracting new communities to join in prayer in chapels on Zoom
Causing window-kissing grandmas to #trend way ahead of the heady days of window shopping
Positioning plucky pensioners as the new maestros of meaningful crowd funding

But, what on earth is happening?
What is happening on Earth?
Those who know they don’t know what they don’t know, know that this too will pass, it will all be alright in the end.
And, if it’s not all right, it’s not the end.
This time in time is the gift of The New Beginning.


“Because You Matter: 10 Heart-Centered Principles for Creating the Life You Desire.”

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Patricia Campanile – Senior Associate Edgewalkers International

You cannot give what you do not have. Edgewalkers understand that living on the edge involves cultivating courage, commitment and creative focus to explore opportunities and discover innovative solutions that are essential during these unprecedented times of transformation. Your willingness to delve deeper into personal growth and professional development can be exciting and enlightening as well as messy and scary. Regardless of external circumstances that are often out of your control, you can choose to take yourself out of the box, stretch, and consciously create the life you desire. The more often you choose to provide yourself with the essential combination of inner tools and outer skills to live in a balanced and thriving environment, the more you will have available to contribute to others.

Integrating the 10 Heart-Centered principles below will support you in deepening your connection to the truth that you DO matter. This blog provides an overview of the 10 principles that build on one another. They are designed to nurture the realization that you are worthy and deserving to live and work authentically from your heart (and mind) to fulfill your life’s purpose. The tools, techniques and support structure are provided to enable you to harness your power and take action. When you choose to step into a the spiral of new possibilities, a paradigm shift occurs. You can move forward with greater ease to create the life you desire as well as meaningful, fulfilling work in 2021 and beyond. These 10 Heart-Centered Principles cultivate the strength and energy needed to rise up, take “Evolutionary leaps of faith”, and make a difference in the world. If not us then who? If not now then when? Life is not a dress rehearsal. The time is now!

THE BALANCE/INTEGRATION PRINCIPLE

Being/Doing * Yin/Yang * Masculine/Feminine

The main concept and underlying foundation is integration and how to balance all aspects of yourself and your life. These include balancing masculine (doing) and feminine (being) energies, and integrating professional, personal and spiritual growth. This (w)holistic Heart-Centered approach is an important and integral principle in creating the life and work you desire.

THE VALUES/INTEGRITY PRINCIPLE

Beliefs * Commitment * Honesty * Truth

Through discovering and identifying your values based on your own belief system, honesty and truth, you can live a life of integrity. Your personal and professional ethics are at the heart of the core principles for living the life you desire and the values-based foundation to design and contribute your purpose to your community and the world.

THE AUTHENTICITY/UNIQUENESS PRINCIPLE

Individuality * Distinctiveness * Genuineness

Identifying and expressing your uniqueness, gifts, talents and passions makes a difference because there is only one of you in all of time. There is no competition. By celebrating and embracing this truth you can allow your brilliance to shine. Committing to living from your authentic self is at the (heart) center of creating and living the life and work you desire with greater ease and flow.

THE INSPIRATION PRINCIPLE

Heart’s Desire * Passion * Creativity * Spirit

Knowing what inspires you from within and connecting to your passion and spirit, resulting in external motivation. By accessing your creativity and designing your own unique heart-centered mission, you can take inspired action to create the life you desire while modeling and inspiring others to do the same.

THE MISSION/GREATER PURPOSE PRINCIPLE

Contribution * Service * Cooperation * Collaboration

Clarifying your personal and professional mission and greater purpose stems from integration and balance, incorporating your values, living authentically and being inspired. These provide the foundation and core anchor to build on as you navigate living the life you desire and contributing your gifts and talents. Establishing relationships based on collaboration and cooperation lead to supportive, diverse communities based on a win-win for all.

THE INTUITION PRINCIPLE

Guidance * Inner Knowing * Surrender * Trust * Faith

Understanding how to access, trust and follow your intuition in making choices aligns you with who you truly are. Your intuitive, inner knowing is an invaluable divine gift that is essential in guiding and supporting you to have faith, surrender, and evolve into your unique mission and purpose. You can create and live a life that makes your heart and soul sing.

THE COMPASSION PRINCIPLE

Empathy * Sympathy * Love

Connecting with and cultivating your compassionate heart is a key principle in serving, honoring and respecting others as well as yourself. Empathy involves walking in another’s shoes and provides the understanding to build bridges and embrace diversity. Living and giving with compassion is the business of love.

THE TRANSFORMATION PRINCIPLE

Transition * Change * Growth

Transforming and becoming who you truly are is a result of applying and integrating these principles in your life. Opening your heart and mind, letting go, living in the void of the unknown, and allowing the new beginnings to emerge involves trust and patience. Embracing and understanding the necessary stages of change and transition are key steps in growing into the individual you are meant to be.

THE MASTERY PRINCIPLE

Self-Leadership * Self-Mastery

Mastering yourself involves integrating and mastering these principles in your life professionally, personally and spiritually. The principles of self-mastery such as integrity, vision and awareness are a key components in self-leadership. Leading yourself with power and clear intention will support you in leading and inspiring others to greatness.

THE WARRIOR PRINCIPLE

Courage * Power * Action

Applying these heart-centered principles with your courage and commitment, focuses you in the direction towards the life you desire. By being your authentic self and utilizing the warrior principle, you can take powerful action with confidence and live your life mission and purpose with greater meaning, impact and influence.

Still InDuring the Edge, During Corona (DC)

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A RAPTalk by Susan K Furness, Senior Associate, Edgewalkers International

Dreaming Of Now, by Dario Campanile, used by permission, www.campanileabstract.com

A wave became a swell in 2020.
So strong was its current
the true power of the ripple felt by mankind, left no stone unturned.

During Arab Spring people worldover took their voice the streets;
during CoVid Spring people shared melody from their balconies,
contagious contagion from a virus unknown in competition with the infectious delight of music.
Even the birds joined in, amplifying the break of dawn at a volume not heard for years, many said.

As this inland sonic-ripple ebbed back to sea, the message in the bottle announced the presence of a long-lost reality, of clean waters filling the new-quite in city waterways
and the dolphins swam in to play,
as pots and pans joined forces with wooden spoons and hands of all sizes
to create beauty from the new contact borne from the no contact of distancing,
vibrating appreciation for the individuals hard at work on behalf of the collective,
filling the night air with a rudely rhythmic bang, bang, clang, to launch the new Number 1 as we heeded the certain call
and showed the world we are the world, we are the people
separately together as one; even as we endured pain from the rife of life and loss of life during corona;
nothing sinister we still hope,
rather Nature our mother reminding mankind to be kinder to man.

To stay safe, we stayed home.
To appreciate, we had and have each other.
To work, we have technology.
To touch, we can now zoom around the world online, not in a 747.

As we locked in during CoVid outside buds opened as flowers, in rhythm our love affair with abundance is treated to a new definition,
mooting the surrender of shopping bags and baggage
sparking an appreciation for the light and light luggage.

A gift of time in this time is to pratice letting go by being still as we still balance on the Edge of life AC, after corona. Our chance to talk in, re-imagine and re-purpose our purpose,
sensing a future that has a mind and a heart of its own;
from the future of Now in which we Belong to Become.

Your Unique Purpose

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Edgewalker Senior Associate Patricia Campanile

“You are here to enable the Divine Purpose of the Universe to Unfold. That is how important you are!” Eckart Tolle.

Eckart Tolle’s quote is one of my favorite. There is only one of you in all of time. You matter! When you can really take that in, absorb the truth of who you are, a Divine individualized expression of the Universe, God, Higher Intelligence (or who or what you wish to call it), your life will shift. You start to become more soul identified and less ego defined. Awakening to this realization, the awareness and connection to this truth, is essential on many levels. For one, it supports you in finding, cultivating and contributing your unique purpose to your life, community, humanity and the planet.

Your unique purpose is an inside job FIRST that follows with your outer expression. Whether it is manifested in your work, professional or personal passion, relationships or creative endeavors, you and only you can bring your unique talents, personality, gifts, ideas, ways of being and doing to the world that no one else can. This is not about being special, it is about each of us acknowledging our Divine birthright to exist and embrace our worth. Every one of us can choose to accept and allow our own magnificence and live authentically from our heart, mind and soul. In turn we are more able and available to give the same to others in spite of our differences. This conscious choice alone will help humanity shift, transform and evolve.

Edgewalkers understand the importance of discovering our unique purpose and exploring our calling, even though it may look different for each of us. Even if we are unclear, or are in the midst of a transition, we know that we can always choose to make a difference and connect with our purpose by focusing on the Edgewalker skills and qualities. Some of these include risk-taking, vision, passion, play, and connecting with what comes natural for us, what brings us joy. At times this path can feel scary and many individuals feel like they are walking the path alone, or are misunderstood. It takes courage and commitment to follow your calling and embrace your unique purpose. However it is a risk worth taking. When you are authentically aligned with your true self/Self you also attract those of like mind, soul, purpose and can support one another on the journey . You can recognize and celebrate one another’s magnificence.

My favorite quote from my childhood is from the poet E.E. Cummings: “To be no one but yourself, in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everyone else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.” It is time to let go of the fight and allow the love. To stop searching and allow your purpose to come forth. By embracing your authenticity as well as the unique contribution of others, a safe space is created that allows your unique purpose to be revealed to you, like a beautiful diamond that has been buried. You are a facet on that diamond. Each one of us can be the one of a kind individual that we are meant to be. It is your time to shine brilliantly. The world needs you. YOU need YOU!