“I feel as though I am experiencing for the first time the thought-form, all things are related. I recover more quickly when I am stuck in the illusion of separation. Instead I practice curiosity in my relationships and I surrender to my own transparency. I am allowing myself to be seen and in that state of grace, I see the other."
- Nancy Shea, PhD,
Owner, True Nature Consulting
Learning to Practice
The foundation of the Practice is an earth centered contemplative practice built on three essential pillars - Breath, Non Comparative Perception and Orientating. This practice expands our capacity to re-engage indigenous mind and requires rigor and constancy to bring the mind, heart and spirit into concert in our lives.
- Breath
Presence can be deepened by expanding awareness of breath. This means bringing consciousness to breath and letting the breath help us remember our relationship to all things.
- Non Comparative Perception
Practice invites the listener to be fully present so that what is unknown might be revealed. In order to become full y present we must learn to listen to the spaces – between breaths, people words, ideas and contexts. In the spaces are the gateways to possibility.
- Orientating
Orientating is profound and active engaging with a person, idea, place or situation. It implies an exchange of energy- a reciprocity in which Wholeness and the personal experience intersect, join, move apart to form new ways of being, knowing and doing.
- Seven Directions
Up, Down and In are the first three directions and call us to both critical inquiry and spiritual awareness in order to identify our core beliefs and values. This core consistently infuses all of our actions.
The four cardinal directions (East, South, West, North) are points of reference that guide activity in alignment with the core of integrity. They bring awareness and a critical lens to daily work. The cross quarter directions or points between the cardinal directions help us track our life, our activity and our thinking in relationship with the cycles of the Earth.
- Indigenous Mind
Indigenous mind is the power of re-energizing our world with all of the hundreds of senses that open our awareness to the web of relationships that are the Earth. Accessing this means a commitment to slowing down, remembering and re-conceiving on a smaller scale to reclaim intimacy with nature and its layers of species as an aspect of our own essential human nature.