03.01.2020, DAY THREE: ENCOUNTER: Befriending Diverse Human and Non-Human Perspectives

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1. Inviting the Essence of Encounter with Radiant Diversity: Sitting in a quiet and restful space, invite in an honoring way, the experience of Encounter with Radiant Diversity to reveal itself to you. Notice the images, sensations, insights that come as you open yourself to  the encounter with Radiant Diversity. How does radiant diversity choose to reveal itself to you in this moment? How does the encounter impact your vibrational field? 

2. Sacred Encounter: Sense into the nature of the 'encounter' that cultivates Radiant Diversity - that enables all those involved  to nourish and be nourished in the meeting? How do you bring yourself to the encounter with that which you experience as different in a way that enables the full potential of the life-enhancing differences to nourish and be nourished by each other.

3. Diverse Encounters with Diversity: What type of encounters nourish you in becoming all you can be? What qualities do you bring to the encounter with the 'other' that are nourishing to their own process of becoming? Explore this in diverse relationships you have with other people, with animals, with the plant world, and with the foundations of Life.

4. Opening to Encounter: Allow someone you know to come into your field of consciousness - someone who you may experience as very different from yourself. What is the nature of the difference that you experience? Imagine yourself looking at the world through that person's perspective. What does the world look like from there? What do you imagine that person has experienced that has led to this perpsective? What do you wish to share with this person as a way of acknowledging and honoring this encounter with their unique perspective? Experiment with lovingly adopting other's perspectives and imagining their unique history and make-up that informs their current perspective. How does this exercise shift your own way of looking at the world?

5. Befriend Diversity : Explore and engage with the content on the Befriend Diversity Gateway page dedicated to inspiring diverse friendships as a pathway for creating greater empathy with and understanding of those who are seen as different from oneself.

6. Encounter with Nature and the Nature of Encounter: Find a place in nature or imagine that you are in a familiar natural environment. Allow an aspect of nature (an animal, a plant, an element, an eco-system big or small) to invite you for an encounter. In an honoring way, sit quietly with whatever aspect  has called you and invite it to offer you a message about its experience of the world. What is it showing you about its offering to the world and what it needs to receive from the world in order to be all that it can be?  How do you choose to honor this encounter? What message do you gift this aspect to honor what you have received? Practice this with diverse aspects of nature and attend to the different aspects of yourself that are activated through these different encounters.

7. #ISPEAK4: Explore and engage with the #ISpeak4 Gateway,dedicated to discovering and sharing the wisdom and gifts of those who do not speak the human language to cultivate greater understanding of and empathy with all aspects of Creation.

8. Honoring Encounter: How would you like to honor the essence of encounter that enables you to discover yourself through enabling relationship with the human and non-human environment around you? 

9. The Intention: How has this dialogue with the essence of encounter informed you and transformed you, and what wish and intention has come forth within you from this reflective experience?

10. Encounter with your Vitality Code - Nature’s code for ever-evolving harmony in diversity and empathy with all of Life.

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