Dear Shakti Love Warriors, in this time of great polarity, we are being called to rise and model heart-centered awareness and leadership. What would love do? How would love treat ourselves and our fellow humans?
Please look over the Six Agreements of the WEvolution and see if you are in alignment with these understandings. These Six Agreements outline the core values and practices of our group.
Please use the agreements as a guiding light when you post and leave comments. Our mission is to create a kind, supportive and empowering space for people to meditate and grow together, as we share and celebrate our diverse beliefs, perceptions and ideas with each other. Are you all in?
The Six Agreements of the WEvolution:
Authored by Larisa Stow, with insightful contributions from Laurie Goldstein, and the beloved WEspace.
1. Plug daily into source: Meditation/mindfulness, breathwork, yoga, mantra, prayer and stillness are examples. Just as Olympic athletes rigorously train, so, too must we strengthen our spiritual muscles, deepening our connection to Source and expanding our energetic capacities. Daily spiritual practice is the practice of love.
2. Cultivate Courageous Vulnerability: Allow people to see your struggle, to see your humanity. Take off your social mask. Dare to be transparent. You allow others to contribute more to you when you do, creating deeper connection in your relationships.
3. Lead with Compassionate Curiosity: When you find yourself judging, defending your position, becoming critical, or self-righteous step back and observe. Put in the effort to see through another’s eyes. Get curious about how they came to be the person/personality they are today. What shaped their consciousness and perceptions? What informed their beliefs? What are the needs and values driving their unconscious behaviors and their conscious choices? The more you understand how a person came to be who they are, the more compassion and empathy you can hold for them. Genuinely care about their wellbeing.
4. Practice Radical Self-Acceptance: Compassionately witness your critical thoughts. How can you be even more kind to yourself? Even the inner judge needs compassion and kindness. Deeply listen to the inner voices of your wounding—seek to understand, allow, heal and transform. Practice accepting the parts of yourself that feel unlovable. Speak with as much kindness to these parts of self as you would to your beloved or a newborn baby. The more you accept disowned aspects of yourself, the easier it will be for you to have compassion for others.
5. Respect Each Other: You don’t have to agree with another’s beliefs to be thoughtful and considerate in your communication. Refrain from yelling, using words and body language that objectify, generalize, or dehumanize. Use language that creates connection, rather than black/white, right/wrong dialog. Before you engage in conversation, get clear on your own motivation in the exchange. Are you sharing to affirm how you think/feel, and to change someone’s opinion, or are you allowing the space to create deeper understanding and connection?
6. Play together: Get out there and play. Find the humor in life. Play improves relationships; it inspires deeper connection and bonding with others. Play creates rapport as you come into more sympathetic resonance with one another through fun and laughter. It teaches cooperation.