Sourcing Your Heart's Gift

Module 6:

Time to Jump: Sharing Your Gift with the World, Stay the Course, and Unimaginable Possibilities

The course this week

Week 6

Now that we are familiar with our heart’s gift for the world, know how to laugh in the face of fear, and understand what success looks and feels like, we will do some exciting visualizations, some practical journaling, and some powerful action to share our heart’s gift with the world. This is an exciting moment!

I encourage you to do all of the course materials, however, if you don't have a lot of time, it's most important to simply do the Yoga Nidra practice. Complete the rest of the materials when you can. 

Do the following this week:

• Continue with the Daily Optimization Practice.
• Do the Nadi Shodona  Pranayama Practice (breathing exercise), daily or as often as possible.
• Do the brief yoga video, ideally directly before Yoga Nidra. 
• Do this week's Yoga Nidra practice as often as possible.
• Listen to this week's teaching.
• Do the journal exercise.
• Do the call to action.
• Supportive materials are there to add relevant, supplementary information. 

Daily Optimization Practice

This sadhana, or specialized daily practice, will prime you to greet your day as your highest, most evolved self. By doing it daily, you make small, incremental steps which will have an enormous outcome for the development of your heart. 

Do this practice every day. It's designed to take about 15 minutes to accomplish. 

The Daily Optimization Practice consists of waking up and doing the following first thing:

1. Basic constitution (get a drink, bathroom, coffee if you need it).
2. Three rounds of breathing (Kapalabhati) and gratitude practice,
3. Have a peak experience.
4. Daily Meditation (below and on the main page).
5. Repeat the positive statement of truth from the Daily Meditation or (create your own). 

This will be the same meditation for all six weeks

Pranayama Practice: Nadi Shodhana or Alternate Nostril Breath

This breathing practice balances the two main nadis, or energy veins, called Ida and Pingala, which wrap around the central energy channel, Sushumna nadi. It balances energy for a wonderful feeling of clarity and ease. This perfect to do to either raise your energy from a sluggish place or calm down if you're feeling nervous. 

Weekly Yoga Nidra Practice

Teaching for this week's theme

Time to Jump!

The teachings for each week's theme is quite helpful to understand the purpose and usage Yoga Nidra regarding that theme. However, it's important to remember that this course is not meant to be an intellectual exercise. In many ways we are trying to take our heads out of the picture and learn to feel into our gifts using our hearts. To do this deep work, we are using a deeper wisdom than intellect, the divine wisdom of our heart. Whether before or after you do the Yoga Nidra practice, at some time during the week read through or listen to the instruction about the theme for the week. 

Yoga Video

Weekly Journaling Exercise

About the journaling process . . .

It's modeled after Nan Seymour's inimitable writing practice called River Writing. The invitation is to find a notebook of paper, nothing special, and a free-flowing pen. Set a timer for 11 minutes, and write non-stop with a prompt as inspiration. Write whatever comes to mind. It could be an idea about the prompt, a word or symbol about the prompt that spoke you to. It doesn't matter. Simply keep your pen moving. You're not writing to be published. You're not writing to be famous. You're writing to hear the wisdom of your heart. 

There are no edits. Don't worry about spelling. Just write. If you get stuck, here are two good suggestions to help keep your pen moving. The first is to write, "What I really want to say is . . . " and see if that kickstarts your pen again. Another idea is simply writing, "I don't know what to write, I don't know what to write . . ." and after a few times, usually you'll begin again writing with a flow. 

This writing is just for you. You do not need to share it. However, if you do choose to share your writing with someone, give them the instructions that they are neither to critique nor encourage your writing. Only a simple, "Thank you" is required. Nothing more or less.  

Remember, the prompt is just there as a little push to get the pen flowing. 

Call to Action: Execute.

There are three calls to action this week:

1. Introductions: When people ask you what you do, they are often asking how you make your living. It’s an easy question to begin the conversation about who you are but what they really want to know, and are often too afraid to ask, is what makes your heart really come alive? When asked "What do you do?" instead of telling them what you do for employment, respond with ‘Well, my heart’s gift for the world is _________.” Or "My greatest passion is _________. " or "I try to spend as much time as possible doing _________." Make business cards with your title listed as what your heart's gift for the world is, e.g. "Extraordinary Mother."

2. Share your heart’s gift for the world. You know what that next little and big steps are for you to share your heart's gift with the world and now is the time to go and do it. If an opportunity isn’t already available for you to share your heart’s gift with the world, create an opportunity for yourself to perform, teach, or share, your heart’s gift for the world. Ideas:

   1. Volunteer to teach a class at a high school, college, or university.

   2. Create an online course.

   3. Start writing your book and schedule writing time every day.

   4. Perform your art in front of others.

   5. Sell your art on Etsy.

3. Get a teacher or a mentor. Find someone who is doing what you want to do and ask them if they will teach you or mentor you to help you move toward the direction you’d like to move. This will be a life-long process.

Supportive Materials

If you'd like to drill down on some of the ideas from this course you may do so with supplementary  articles, podcasts, videos, etc.