Sacred Living


Linda Heron Wind


So many of us have spent the last few years learning many different things. We have learned about the ego (or false self) and the authentic inner self, about oneness and energy fields, about how to work with our thoughts and emotions, and how to bring our actions into integrity with our highest beliefs. Even if you haven't been working for years on these things and you are relatively new to spiritual transformation, it is likely that these ideas are now part of your conscious awareness. Unfortunately, learning about things and living them are not the same.

We can think of all that we have learned and even practiced a bit as being our bag of tools or medicine bag. We carry it around with us but often forget to look to see what tools are there to work with the situations we encounter in our daily lives. Often we end up responding to problems, difficulties, and conflict (inner or outer) in very unconscious ways that are left over from our childhood or another era.The drama that ensues or the effects of those old ways are not how we want to live our lives or consistent with the highest beliefs we hold.

Living a sacred life means that we approach our day-to-day experience in a sacred manner. This includes the ability to be conscious and step back for a moment from the situation that has entered our experience long enough to check out what tools we might have in the medicine bag that we can use to address the situation. These sacred tools allow us to respond from the highest place within ourselves rather than the old unconscious patterns.

Sacred tools all create similar results.

  • They bring us into a more heart-centered place.
  • The attitude the mind holds is peaceful and curious.
  • The emotions are neutral or positive.
  • Words and actions await direction from the heart.
  • Awareness is directed to the feeling level of the moment and the presence of the divine in all that is involved.

Whatever tool we use is the steppingstone or doorway that allows us to move from a lower level of consciousness to a higher perspective. Since we are not in Kansas anymore (where the unconscious patterns work), and Oz requires us to take a more expanded view of any experience, using your spiritual tools is necessary to be successful in achieving satisfying outcomes. The good news is that humanity has now reached a level of consciousness that allows anyone to tune into the higher vibrations - sort of like the restrictions on our Inner-net access have been removed. The key of course is that we need to know how to sign on to the Inner-net, or vast awareness that lives within us.

So what are the spiritual tools that are in your tool bag? They may be slightly different for each one of us. When I look within my bag, here are some of the tools I see:

  • meditation
  • breath work
  • affirmations
  • tapping acupuncture points (such as EFT)
  • Qi Gong
  • prayer
  • mindfulness
  • sitting or walking in nature
  • shamanic journey
  • muscle testing for truth
  • dream work
  • looking for mirrors
  • thought shifting or telling different stories
  • identifying stories versus facts
  • surrender to the moment
  • acceptance of what is
  • looking for beauty
  • inspiration
  • offering your thoughts, emotions, and actions to God
  • forgiveness of self and others

The list could go on. Those are just the ones at the top of the bag and if I dig around a little, more will surface. I am sure that you have lots of tools in your bag as well. Take an inventory so they will be more consciously available to you as you cultivate a more sacred way of living your life.

Turn over to God
All within that blocks the way
To sacred living

Living divinely
Through sacred technology
The future is here


If you have comments on this article or for future topics, call Linda Heron Wind at (585) 924-5620 or send e-mail to LHWind@aol.com.

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