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

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)

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

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!

Blessings in Disguise and the Six Gifts to Intention

By Susan K Furness, Senior Associate, Edgewalkers International

Into the Light, by Dario Campanile, used by permission, www.campanileabstract.com

I almost always experience a sense of freedom when I am considering the polarity of a word or a situation. I notice I raise a smile as I look towards the other end of the word spectrum. Most often I experience a felt shift in relationship with whatever it is I am considering. 

For example, way back I realized the positive impact of experiencing the dark to recognize light. Indeed, I notice that an issue or challenge can first appear dark, disturbing and even chaotic before metaphorically turning on the light to reveal its blessing.

Consider the energetic shift on this play on words. The two (business) statements mean the same. Try saying each out loud. Which sounds and feels more appealing, possible, exciting and lighter? 

Our Objective is to ensure an Outcome.

Or, 

Our Intention is to make an Impact? 

The latter floats my boat.

Going back to ‘light’. Light also refers to weight. Do you agree that the word baggage feels heavy, but luggage feels lighter? In reference, you may know the idiom ‘carrying too much baggage’ or even ‘carrying the world on your shoulders’. 

Talking of luggage versus baggage, in this curious, disruptive corona time the opportunity to let go of what does not serve any more has appeared as a blessing; from stuff, to habits, to ways of doing in business and life. 

I notice the ‘tools’ I needed, or thought I needed BC (before corona), are no longer fit-for-purpose. This is especially apparent as I move through DC (during corona) to AC (after corona).

As I practice letting go, a synonym of surrender, I stand consciously in the present to ask, ‘what must I leave behind?.’ I notice I am talking in; I am listening to my heart before asking my head as I muster the courage to say farewell. Interestingly, in French ‘heart’ translates as ‘coeur’. Courage to Coeur Age, or the Heart Age. There’s blessing if ever there was one!

My love of wordsmithing fired up during my professional journey in Public Relations. Many moons ago I named a workshop ‘The Value of Vocabulary’ and another ‘The Gift of Glossary’. They are still in demand. 

In 2008, I started my Edgewalker journey and began integrating Dr. Judi Neal’s modeling into my toolkit.

With practice, I am now able to look in different places for new answers, using word play to amplify the essence of the findings, as well as the build the equity of the message.  

The Edgewalker ability to look in different places and/or walk between worlds is a significant blessing never more poignant than in this digital era. The ability to connect online, day or night is a gift of this time. DC it has given rise to omni-generations embracing omni-devices to zoom around the world on Zoom instead of a 747. It has seeded a whole new field of community.

In early DC 2020, a colleague said to me “we must remain decisively human in this digital era.”  This aroused my ethical commitment (as a marketer) to discourage a cyberworld smacking of content obesity and information starvation. 

It’s a no brainer that (spoken) acts of love and kindness evoke love and kindness in others. In polarity, words can deflate, inflate and crush ego. This is likely to result in all manner of negative outcomes, when we want to ignite expansionary impact, right? On and offline, it is clear words matter.

However, in conversation online and not in-person means we immediately loose the support of three senses – Taste, Touch and Smell. This leaves Listening and Seeing at our service. Camera off or camera on, words really do matter.

Back to idioms or expressions, you may be familiar with the ‘calm before the storm’ referencing an often-noticeable period of inactivity or even tranquility before something quite chaotic sweeps in, with calm and storm in polarity. 

I am sensing a period of storming as Covid-19 guidelines are lifted in many communities’ world over. I notice a pattern, a swell of despair. 

“I am zoomed out….”. 

“I have Covid fatigue….’’.

“I thought I liked working from home, but I don’t; get me back to the office….”. 

Is this a reverse polarity at play? Could this be the storm before the calm? Is this a sign of the new normal, or as Ian Berry, my co-creator in StrategicHeartisry.com said recently: “There will be no new normal. There will only be a series of not normal.”  If Ian is right, is ‘not normal’ a blessing in disguise for a new world order?  

This lands beautifully at the door of the next Edgewalker Café entitled The Role of Community, especially in times of expansionary change.  Do join us on May 6, 2021.

Something Extra

The sub-headline promises six gifts of intention. They are woven throughout the article. They are also listed here in no order of priority. Like the Edgewalker Statements (link below) the order is to your order of the day. 

  • Be Present: The first Edgewalker Skill is Sensing the Future. The blessing in disguise of DC into AC is we do not know anymore, so we can live in the moment, from here to here, instead of here to there!
  • Travel Light: One of the five Edgewalker Qualities of Being is Playfulness defined as A joyful sense of fun and creativity, an ability to keep everything in perspective. Stepping forth with luggage not baggage shows a determined lightness across a variety of definitions, from humor, to load, to brightness. 
  • Words Matter: Integrity is a Edgewalker Quality and Connecting is the fifth Skill. Both remind that what we say and how we say it influences cause and effect. 
  • Heart Knows: Some say intuition lives in the gut. I say this is the source of instinct nudged to life by memory recall. Whereas intuition ‘sees’ from the third chakra or eye. Known as the pineal gland it has a direct link to the heart. On the path of transformation, listen to your heart, before you talk to your head.  
  • Listen to Hear: It’s not just you, we all need constant practice in the art of Active Listening. I have noticed that Fear can close off the Ear, so we Hear what we want to hear. Listen to the Heart. And notice the letters at work – Fear, Ear, Hear, Heart. 
  • You: You are a blessing and the gift to universal intention. Enough said. 

References:

Edgewalker Qualities — Edgewalkers

Edgewalker Skills — Edgewalkers

Edgewalker Statements Are You An Edgewalker? — Edgewalkers