Comments on: Self-Love: A Radical Political Act http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/11/03/self-love-a-radical-political-act/ Nature as Teacher—World as Lover: Telling a New Story Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:37:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: When I look into your eyes… « wild resiliency blog! http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/11/03/self-love-a-radical-political-act/#comment-2173 When I look into your eyes… « wild resiliency blog! Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:25:46 +0000 http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/11/03/self-love-a-radical-political-act/#comment-2173 [...] a nearly full moon illuminating the darkness of my office, I am also reminded of a post here titled Self-Love: A Radical Political Act. It closes [...] [...] a nearly full moon illuminating the darkness of my office, I am also reminded of a post here titled Self-Love: A Radical Political Act. It closes [...]

]]> By: Heart Opportunity Knocking — At Your Door! « wild resiliency blog! http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/11/03/self-love-a-radical-political-act/#comment-1871 Heart Opportunity Knocking — At Your Door! « wild resiliency blog! Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:39:58 +0000 http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/11/03/self-love-a-radical-political-act/#comment-1871 [...] And Sheva, a ballerina of wild resiliency, at Fyera.com, is offering a new beginner’s HeartMath course beginning December 2, just in time for the fulfillment of your spirit’s oncoming Holiday Challenges. The first class is free, and her web site is a treasure of the heart’s wild wisdom. [...] [...] And Sheva, a ballerina of wild resiliency, at Fyera.com, is offering a new beginner’s HeartMath course beginning December 2, just in time for the fulfillment of your spirit’s oncoming Holiday Challenges. The first class is free, and her web site is a treasure of the heart’s wild wisdom. [...]

]]> By: A Walkabout into Collective Consciousness « wild resiliency blog! http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/11/03/self-love-a-radical-political-act/#comment-1827 A Walkabout into Collective Consciousness « wild resiliency blog! Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:24:24 +0000 http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/11/03/self-love-a-radical-political-act/#comment-1827 [...] integrity of the individual…as necessary to the constellation of the collective.” This bit of wild wisdom is also inherent and vital within the Aspen-Body Wisdom material that plays me, as is indeed are [...] [...] integrity of the individual…as necessary to the constellation of the collective.” This bit of wild wisdom is also inherent and vital within the Aspen-Body Wisdom material that plays me, as is indeed are [...]

]]> By: Many a self I have known « wild resiliency blog! http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/11/03/self-love-a-radical-political-act/#comment-1683 Many a self I have known « wild resiliency blog! Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:32:11 +0000 http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/11/03/self-love-a-radical-political-act/#comment-1683 [...] This is as true of an organization, business, community or nation as it is of an individual. How it is that we individually and collectively come to the radical self-acceptance of all within that we identify as negative, as other, is one of the great challenges of our time. It is to come to that place of radical self-love as a political and spiritual way of knowing, of being in the world. [...] [...] This is as true of an organization, business, community or nation as it is of an individual. How it is that we individually and collectively come to the radical self-acceptance of all within that we identify as negative, as other, is one of the great challenges of our time. It is to come to that place of radical self-love as a political and spiritual way of knowing, of being in the world. [...]

]]> By: Foreplay Can Begin With a Dishtowel! « wild resiliency blog! http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/11/03/self-love-a-radical-political-act/#comment-993 Foreplay Can Begin With a Dishtowel! « wild resiliency blog! Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:55:57 +0000 http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/11/03/self-love-a-radical-political-act/#comment-993 [...] the radical political act of self-love…transform our [...] [...] the radical political act of self-love…transform our [...]

]]> By: Marc Choyt http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/11/03/self-love-a-radical-political-act/#comment-627 Marc Choyt Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:23:35 +0000 http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2007/11/03/self-love-a-radical-political-act/#comment-627 To me, the issue is what my Apache teacher taught me as "right to exist." Culture, materialism, family, religion, all these elements can make my believe that my right to exist is contingent upon something outside of myself. My teacher told me many years ago, go outside and walk in the woods and ask everything around you if you have the right to be who you are. How we experience the universe is a mirror, a mandela of our own internal states. About fifteen years ago, when I was beginning my studies with her, I did this circle ritual where I walked around the circle with my alliances and confirmed my right to exist. I did this steadily for a long time, every day to build a new foundation inside my cells. It takes many years to really change the cellular structure around this issue. Here's a question that you answer with the aspen: when you are a child and you are hurt, where do you go for comfort? When you are a man and you hurt, where do you go for comfort? The whole universe-- but particularly the natural world, echoes that we have a right to be as much as anything else. It also says that everything else has the right to exist as much as we do. This is the underlying principal of circle and it is extremely difficult to live out. It means that if I take or kill, which I do every day, I have a debt to my existence. To me, the issue is what my Apache teacher taught me as “right to exist.” Culture, materialism, family, religion, all these elements can make my believe that my right to exist is contingent upon something outside of myself.

My teacher told me many years ago, go outside and walk in the woods and ask everything around you if you have the right to be who you are. How we experience the universe is a mirror, a mandela of our own internal states.

About fifteen years ago, when I was beginning my studies with her, I did this circle ritual where I walked around the circle with my alliances and confirmed my right to exist. I did this steadily for a long time, every day to build a new foundation inside my cells. It takes many years to really change the cellular structure around this issue.

Here’s a question that you answer with the aspen: when you are a child and you are hurt, where do you go for comfort? When you are a man and you hurt, where do you go for comfort?

The whole universe– but particularly the natural world, echoes that we have a right to be as much as anything else. It also says that everything else has the right to exist as much as we do. This is the underlying principal of circle and it is extremely difficult to live out. It means that if I take or kill, which I do every day, I have a debt to my existence.

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