Reference point: Story

INDIGENOUS AND COLONIAL CULTURES

Dear Community,
Blessings.

Some things I note as true and correct.

You are a very bright and advanced group.
The path is longer than You think.
I know less about your culture than l thought I did.
We have to return to step ONE!!!

IN reading your Rule of Life and your answers to the questions, I get a basic difference in communication between our indigenous and colonial. How do I allow another person’s uncertainty and doubt guide me into believing it is my personal truth?

My expectation was that you would give a REFERENCE point for the question as we were all sitting in circle when the question came up.
Maybe there is confusion about being able to talk about this outside of circle, however in these circumstances you are not able to say that you actually sat in circle as you did not participate in maintaining the reliability of the circle, because you were unable to be a person who saw their own value or worth to the ci

So we are going to begin with the premise of the circle. Which in my own ignorance of your culture, see that the issue begins here at this root source.

Circle requires participants to be self-reliable. Meaning ability to share with the other personal truth and hear personal truth of another.

Again: the question is not answered before the story is told

I. Tell the story.

Answer questions such as:
Where was I when the circle was called?
What was I doing?
What was l going to do?
How was I going to complete the task before me?

How did I internally respond to self when the circle was called?
What kind of day was it?
What had I done that day?
How did I feel that day?
What were my thoughts and expectations for the day?

How was l feeling about the gathering?
How was I feeling about others?
How was I feeling about my participation, what I was giving, what others were giving.........

Write the story.

The indigenous root tell story. Why? Because truth lives in the story. Story is where emotions connect, and actions occur. It is where the mind decides actions based upon the experiences of time and space.

If you can not tell story, where in your everyday life do you feel unsafe?

A circle is a place where people have the right and responsibility in the support of truth telling.

Before you begin your story,
You may take one sentence and state how you have been abused in your life.
This sentence reflects your inner fear of why you cannot speak your truth in circle or tell story.
Then you set your injury aside and you step into the clarity of your own experience of today.

Then tell your story of, "How do I allow another person’s uncertainty and doubt guide me into believing it is my personal truth?"

Using the story of where the question originated, at the 4th night of the 2017 gathering.

Yes put down your weekly limb work.

Please post by Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday read each other’s work.
Saturday writes something with the help of your own limb regarding listening with clarity the group story and how it offers truth or untruth to your own experience.

I love you,
JiMi

"The indigenous root tell story. Why? Because truth lives in story. Story is where emotions connect and actions occur. It is where the mind decides actions based upon the experiences of time and space."
I want to add that it is in the story that intentions are revealed. Shadows, positive or negative are given light. This is where personal truth begins.
ALSO you are NOT to read another's work before you write your own story.
Should you slip and read another's work before you write and post your own story you will be eliminated from the group work and put into silence for the next year.
JiMi

INNER CIRCLE

The inner circle is a traditional aboriginal way of communicating from the heartmind of the inner core feminine knowing.

Purpose: To develop family, small, large, community, society, cultural and global peaceful conversations which empower the human heartmind in understandings of mutual consideration, respect, courage, reverence and allowance for all beings of this planet and universe.

Goal: To bring chaotic energies of duality into a common column of understanding in efforts for co-creating peaceful ways of being with one another.

Participants: All people are welcome

A prayer from the Inner Circle:
May our ancestors guide us in remembering that we are the dream of their heart. May we remember in reverence and safe keeping that which we hold, is sacred to those who have come before us and for those whom we are in safe keeping of.
Let us always know that we are of One Source a common Love.

INTENTIONS:
Our inner circle is a place where we can intentionally process personal experiences that require self- evaluation
It is a place where we can take into account all that is known and unknown
It is a place where we set the intention to better understand personal process and community process
It is a place where we can explore personal truth and allows and encourages others the room to explore their own personal truth as well
Our goal is to gain greater access to ourselves and to provide a sanctuary for each to explore themselves

GUIDELINES:
Our intention is to develop the communication skills that allow for safety of sanctuary- this requires the following:

We relate to what another is saying from the MINDHEART, not just the Mind
To do this, we must see, hear and feel what the other person is saying
When we HEAR what the other is saying, our heart responds we experience communion
It is from this communion space within our hearts that we "respond"
We respond by stating how what is being said by the other meets us within our hearts- we take something out of their story and share how it touches a part of our lives. This response is short, and a reflection of the others story, not about our life in comparison, or in contrast to the others experience
Our goal is to have the person speak honestly re: what they're feeling, and to be able to validate themselves and their feelings.
Remember, just because you have something to say doesn't mean the others can't live without hearing it!
No one person can take over, everyone is respected, and therefore, until everyone has had an opportunity to speak, each person will speak once only.

CALLING "A CIRCLE":

A circle is called when two or more people feel a difference in communication styles which result in mis-communication and misunderstanding
Any member of the community can "call a circle". If you wish to Call A Circle please submitt your request in Letter form to Zawatee. State your concerns at length so that a clear understanding of your view can be determined.
A conversation in both written and oral form will be dialogued with you so that your concerns will be addressed in clarity.
Those persons who are affected by the dis-harmony are asked to come and state their view
A person not emotionally invested in the outcome is called to "witness". The job of the witness is to hold the circle intact. There are times when other witnesses are asked to hold the circle depending on the energy it is taking.
What is said in circle is confidential and may not in any way be spoken to or about by any member outside the circle
Each participant must state their intention of confidentiality prior to the circle being closed.
Prior to the circle, each Zawatee member will take into account and process an ego/soul dialogue regarding the Letter of Concern. This is so that they may understand fully the concerns and limitations, thereby allowing Compassionate Wisdom to be offered as the palette for Circle.
Prior to gathering in the circle, please read the New Breed Healer/VateMare Intentions. Even if you have read them 101 times, it is important to set the heartmind and remember why we are here on this path together.
May this Way be used in open hearted reverence and may it help to bring peace and joy into our world, gracefully through the hands and heartmind of the New Breed Healers.

Inlove, Willow JiMi Tequillo

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