#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
NATURE'S CODE FOR EVER-EVOLVING HARMONY IN DIVERSITY AND EMPATHY WITH ALL OF LIFE
Offered by Shelley Ostroff
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The Vitality Code refers to Nature’s primary code and principle of self-organizing and self-regulating thriving living systems. The Vitality Code ensures that all parts of a living system receive precisely what they need in order to manifest their unique potential in mutual nourishment with the interconnected whole. It is a code that cultivates whole-system health and healing with exquisite efficiency.
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The Vitality Code recognizes that for humans to thrive the entire planetary ecosystem must thrive. ​As we self-organize in alignment with the Vitality Code, we learn to attend to all parts of the biosphere (people, animals, rivers, soil, social systems, ecosystems, climate etc.), ensuring that each receive precisely what they need to play their unique role in our interdependent Web of Life.
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The Vitality Code recognizes that our talents do not belong to us alone. As in all of Nature, our unique gifts are nourished by the whole and must, in turn, nourish the whole. This understanding of the profound interdependence and complementarity of all parts of the whole inspires us to learn from and with Nature about deeply cooperative, efficient and life-enriching energy management.
Applying the Vitality Code to how we re-invent our social systems including governance, economy, education, agriculture, infrastructure, media, justice and others, provides an uncompromising anchor and life-affirming compass for managing our current global levels of complexity with Nature’s efficiency and precision.
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7 days of rest & radiant diversity:
A Journey with the Vitality Code
- From the Daily Reflection Questions offered by Shelley Ostroff on each CALENDAR day.
DAY 1: Meeting the Vitality Code
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You are invited to meet the Vitality Code through these resources:
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VIDEO (above): Eco-Governance & The Vitality Code
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ARTICLE: Eco-Governance & The Vitality Code
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RADIO INTERVIEW: Dr. Shelley Ostroff speaking about The Vitality Code
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What does the Vitality Code inspire in you? You are invited to take some time to sense into this code of accurate mutual nourishment among all parts of the whole. Imagine what it would look like if you aligned with the Vitality Code - and if all of humanity aligned with the vitality code. You may wish to journal your feelings, sensations, insights, intuitions as you envision this, and perhaps allow a spontaneous drawing or poem to emerge. You are invited to share your insights and creativity in the thread of this post on the Community Sharing Space.
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Art from the Heart of the Radiant Diversity and the Vitality Code:
Let Radiant Diversity and the Vitality Code inspire the Heartist within you. Express what is most alive in you through any form of art – dance, music, visual arts etc. If you would like to share your Heartist offering and inspire others with it,
please share it in our Community Sharing Space.
DAY 2: Sensing Your Vitality Code
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Spend some time reflecting on your own Vitality Code:
What do you most love to give to the world? Which of your different senses and intelligences most inform your ability to give these gifts to the world?
What do you need to receive in order to be able to offer your unique gifts to the whole? Which of your diverse senses and intelligences must be nourished, and in what way to enable you to give these gifts?
How do you imagine yourself thriving in your fullest potential in mutual nourishment with your immediate community and all of Life? How does this picture activate your different senses and intelligences?
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Art from the Heart of Radiant Diversity and the Vitality Code: Express what is most alive in you from these different reflections and practices through any form of art – dance, music, visual arts etc. If you would like to share your Heartist offering and inspire others with it, please share it in our Community Sharing Space.
DAY 3: Encounter With Your Vitality Code
Spend some time reflecting on your own Vitality Code:
What do you imagine would be the most radiant expression of your unique gifts in the world?
What types of encounters and relationships are most nourishing to you - that support you in being able to offer these gifts to the word?
How can you cultivate mutually nourishing encounters and relationships in your life, and transform or eliminate those that are not nourishing?
What are three practical steps/commitments that you can make to align your life with your own Vitality Code?
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Art from the Heart of Radiant Diversity and the Vitality Code: Express what is most alive in you from these different reflections and practices through any form of art – dance, music, visual arts etc. If you would like to share your Heartist offering and inspire others with it, please share it in our Community Sharing Space.
DAY 4: Empathy and the Vitality Code
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Reflect on and attune lovingly to that which is most nourishing to your soul and body. Giving yourself this heartful space of self-attunement is an act of empathy with self. How can you best ensure that you receive this?
Reflect on and attune lovingly to the needs of the people around you. What do you feel is most nourishing to their souls and bodies? Sensing into their needs, how do you sense you can best contribute to their well-being?
Reflect on and attune lovingly to the needs of the animals, plants and foundations of Life that you encounter in your daily life. How can you best contribute to their well-being?
Expand your attunement to the larger global context and the way in which you engage with and impact the larger context of the human and non-human community of Life? Sense into how you can create a more heartful energy exchange with the larger community of Life though your intentions, actions and life-style.
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Empathy, the Vitality Code and Radiant Diversity: Sense into how the process of becoming more empathically attuned to our own authentic feelings and needs and those of others, we become more accurate in ensuring that all parts receive precisely what they need to become all that they can be in ever--evolving harmony in diversity.
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Art from the Heart of Empathy and Radiant Diversity: Express what is most alive in you from these different reflections and practices through any form of art – dance, music, visual arts etc. If you would like to share your Heartist offering and inspire others with it, please share it in our Community Sharing Space.
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Blessings for a deeply meaningful day of connecting with, remembering and honoring the consciousness of Empathy and its role in nourishing Radiant Diversity within you and beyond you and that contributes to making Life all that it is.
DAY 5: Co-creation and the Vitality Code
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Sense into the Vitality Code as Nature's code of Co-Creation - the code that ensures that all parts express themselves in their fullest potential as a radiant, mutually-enriching co-creative participant in the Web of Life.
How do you see yourself as a part of this co-creative force? What is your part to play?
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Sense into your unique passions and skills - your unique life history, life-lessons, and sense of calling.
What do you imagine would be your most radiant expression of yourself in contribution to your personal environment, your local community, the global community, and the Web of Life?
Imagine yourself expressing this in its fullness.
What are the conditions you would need in order to manifest this? How can you co-create the conditions for your fullest co-creative expression with the community of Life?
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Art from the Heart of Co-Creation and Radiant Diversity: Express what is most alive in you from these different reflections and practices through any form of art – dance, music, visual arts etc. If you would like to share your Heartist offering and inspire in loving co-creation with others, please share your creations on our Community Sharing Space.
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Blessings for a deeply meaningful day of connecting with, remembering and honoring the consciousness of Co-Creative Expression and its role in nourishing Radiant Diversity within you and beyond you and that contributes to making Life all that it is.
DAY 6: The Wisdom of Radiant Diversity and the Vitality Code
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The Vitality Code as Life's Wisdom Compass - Sense into the Vitality Code as a core discernment principle for Life's evolving wisdom about how to best ensure and cultivate the radiant thriving diversity of all parts of the whole. How does Life work to learn from the vitality code to evolve in its wisdom about the wisdom of radiant diversity?
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Envision how you can you apply the vitality code in your own wisdom journey?
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Envision how the Vitality Code can serve humanity as a whole in evolving our own wisdom as a species?
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Envision yourself as receiving precisely what you need to manifest your unique potential in mutual nourishment with the whole.
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Envision all of Life receiving precisely what is needed to manifest their unique potential in service of the whole.
How has this envisioning process inspired you in moving forward? What would you like to transform in the way in which you engage with yourself and the world around you? What would you like to see your community, your culture and humanity transform in the way in which they engage? How can you contribute to this?
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Art from the Heart of Wisdom and Radiant Diversity: Express what is most alive in you from these different reflections and practices through any form of art – dance, music, visual arts etc. If you would like to share your Heartist offering and inspire in loving co-creation with others, please share your creations on our Community Sharing Space.
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Blessings for a deeply meaningful day of connecting with, remembering and honoring the Wisdom of cultivating Radiant Diversity within you and beyond you and that contributes to making Life all that it is.
DAY 7: Codes for a Healthy Earth and the Vitality Code
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Imagine as part of our collective evolution, how the Vitality Code be implemented on a global scale to nourish and restore the health, vitality, harmony and Radiant Diversity of all of Life.
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What thoughts, feelings, insights, intentions emerge as you engage with the Codes for a Healthy Earth?
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In what ways do the Codes inspire you to think about the world in new ways, and your role in the world in new ways?
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Sense into how evolution can be seen as wisdom in action, and how the Codes can provide the foundational organizing principles for applied wisdom as we move forward individually and collectively.
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In what ways are the Codes inspired by and translate the Vitality Code into organizing principle for how we can move forward effectively as a species for rapid social and ecological healing and regeneration?
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Consider ways in which you may want to apply the Codes in the different environments in which you engage.​
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Consider ways in which you may want to support the dissemination and implementation of the Codes - you can learn more on the official Codes for a Healthy Earth Website.
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Art from the Heart of Codes for a Healthy Earth: Express what is most alive in you from these different reflections and practices through any form of art – dance, music, visual arts etc. If you would like to share your Heartist offering and inspire in loving co-creation with others, please share your creations on our Community Sharing Space.
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Blessings for a deeply meaningful day of connecting with, remembering and honoring the Wisdom of cultivating Radiant Diversity within you and beyond you and that contributes to making Life all that it is.
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