Becoming Mindfully Whole
“Mind Wholeness” – image by Dalmo Mendonça
Transformation happens when our learning is infused with intentional processes of becoming.
Each week, following an ICN article, we share invitations into deeper becoming. These may be spiritual practices, ways of deeper engagement, and opportunities for life integration. Our becoming happens personally, communally, and globally as we cultivate transformation through the I, the We, and the All.
Our intention with this rhythm is to foster an intensification of our mystical practice, deepen our embodied engagement, and support the enactment of life integration for the transformation of ourselves, our neighbors, and the world.
IF YOU MISSED IT LAST WEEK, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO FIRST READ THE ARTICLE INFORMING THESE PROCESSES: “The Vibrant, Cleared Mind of Spiritual Knowing”
We invite you to consciously and intentionally engage in the following processes for your personal lives, WeSpace groups or other spiritual communities, and global participation.
Image by Rick Cameron
Poems of the Mind
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Poetry as a Spiritual Portal
Poetry and the arts can be wonderful portals to help us enter into the felt awareness and experience of our embodied centers. They help us integrate our participation and understanding through engaging our mythic, magic, and even archaic structures of consciousness.
The following poem by ICNer Pete Armstrong is offered as an invitation to guide you into deeper engagement with the head center.
Beaks and minds
I saw standing on the stones of the riverbank
a dark bird with its back to me.
It turned its head to left, then right
revealing a beady eye
and an outrageous orange beak
almost as long as its head.
In some other world
I knew it as an oystercatcher.
I have seen different birds’ beaks adapted
in manifold ways to feed self and offspring.
I have also seen human minds adapted to their purpose:
displaying stabbing verbal sharpness
or the scattering gloom of anxiety
or the tight gleam of avarice.
And I have seen the enlightened mind
intimate with everything
like a soft beak the colours of the rainbow
big enough and flexible enough
to nourish the world.
From: Some Palaeolithic Creature in Me
To hear this poem read aloud, along with several more poems on the head center, click here, where you can also download a pdf with 10 poems from Pete and learn more about him.
Entering the Head Center
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A Short, Guided Meditation to Help You Come into Mindful Presence
“Cleared Mind” – image by Dalmo Mendonça
The following new meditation from Martha O’Hehir is a guided practice to help you enter into your head space. If you would like to cultivate a greater ease in presencing through your mind, this practice will help you do so:
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