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Key #2: Trust Your Decisions and have the Courage to Stick to Them

Join Brietta this month as we learn with the element of water. Water is an essential element to the vitality of life on the planet. Our bodies are made of mostly water, yet over time we can become rigid and stuck. 

It is natural to cling to safety, to what we are familiar with and what fits into the status quo. What we don’t always realize when we keep it safe is that our inner wildness is at stake. Similar to a dam that blocks a wild river, we form habits and thought patterns that limit our creative flow. The water element is a key that opens the floodgates of trust, energizing our courageous hearts to jump into the river and go with the flow.

This chapter leads you through Brietta's journey as a river guide and how the Salmon River helped shape her ability to make a decision and have the courage to stick to it!

We will gather and dance with our inner current of energy and reveal hidden fears that are clinging to the banks of the river, rather than going with the flow.

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Join Brietta this month receive Key #3: Unlock Our Awareness of the Primal Body.

The third key unlocks our primal body awareness and activates our curiosity toward our innate, impulsive behavior that has a dynamic place within our own personal evolutionary story. We can feel the instinctual adaptations that the human body passes on through the generations, along with the potential for new growth as we learn how to listen and feel. The primal body key code helps us discover relationships that we take for granted, yet supports our functioning in the world. Some examples are our relationship to gravity, our senses, reflexes, the four F’s, and the raw unedited and messy versions that need a pathway to roar, purr, pulse, wobble, shake, and connect to that inner state of belonging.

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 Key #4: Open to the Element of Space

Living in an environment that is congested with piles of things to do like, projects you abandoned or simply life happening at a rapid speed can leave your inner space crowded like a buzzing New York City street. The fourth key opens us to the space element, where we can create a relationship and develop a significant quality to the space we occupy. If we can collect our awareness and invite intention into our present space, we can begin to notice how the mundane can take a turn towards sacredness. Space is everywhere—there is so much that fills our inner and outer space. This key is exciting because we can learn to harness more energy by clearing physical space and setting intentions for space in time, space in relationships, space to heal, and space to worship our inner integrations. The metaphors are so easily apparent; just look around the space you are in as you read these words. Is the reflection back inspiring, cluttered, chaotic or peaceful? You have already begun your journey with space in simply carving out time to read. 

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Key #5: Radiate our Strength to Transform

Our relationship to fire is one that sets us apart from other animals within the kingdom. Fire is a thread within the tapestry of our human evolution that encouraged civilizations to grow. The potency of this element is its ability to transform all that it touches. The chief functions and ancient bond with the fire element were warmth, light, cooking and defense against predators. Think of how many civilizations have worshiped the sun since the beginning of time. Many of us are remembering and learning to honor and feel the influence of living in rhythm with solar cycles. This enormous fire altar of the sky is the light that sparks all growth. If we turn toward the inner sun of our bodies, we may discover vacillating flickers of light. In our modern lifestyle we have the tendency to swing from burn-out to a small ember within our core heart fire. In my client work, I have witnessed more of the very weak inner fire from clients confused about how to ignite their inner sparks. In my own life experience I tend to create too much of a blaze and find myself burning out. The fifth key radiates our strength to transform. This key exposes the power of the rising phoenix, the mystic bird that rises from the ashes of transformation to set a new course or design a new path.

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Key #6: Invoking Our Inner Witness

The thought of new cars that drive themselves seems slightly alarming to me. It feels like another opportunity to check out from reality, which encourages that auto-pilot mentality. It happens to all of us; we head to the grocery store and end up at our office. There are different versions of auto-pilot too. It can happen when our brain is so full of details and things to do we can’t retain simple directions or logistics correctly. This phenomena inspires the sixth key, which invokes our inner witness for fresh insights and joy.

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Key #7: Embodiment of Love

The air element encompasses the intimacy of the breath and gets right into the heart of our relationships. You may feel the pressure of keeping healthy relationships intensify in small towns or friend groups. Our relationship to self and others asks us to sink into that vulnerable edge and sense the love and strategy to renew or host a breakthrough. Our wings can feel clipped with inner dialog that resembles something like: “I could never do that” or “I am not good enough to take that leap or soar that high.” There are times when you might override the sensations within your intuitive heart to please others, follow your self-sabotaging addictions or lash out due to the internal conflict. Your wild heart needs healthy nourishment and the best advice is to look up to our winged friends and catch some of the inspiration that lifts us to those higher perspectives. Perhaps climbing a mountain or changing your point of view physically can stimulate the heart to soften and turn up the self-compassion dial. “Relationships are the backbone of co-creation, and the core of successful relationships is love,”135 wrote Anodea Judith in her co-written work called Creating on Purpose. In a workshop I attended with Kathy Altman called, “Heartbeat” she said “It's the opening and the closing of the heart that can make the muscle softer”. This key code inspires the embodiment of love. When the chambers of our heart are nourished and full we can tip the cup and pour our elixir into relationships with others and our world. This key guides us to recognize and follow our ‘YES’! The energy that guides your ‘Yes’ is inspired from the love in your heart. 

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Key #8: Using Blocks as Gateways to Beauty

Our blocks could be defined as resistance, pain, or an inability to feel. Why these blocks arrive in our lives can vary greatly. They are usually generated as a form of safety or as a coping mechanism to deal with life’s challenges. The filters I refer to in this chapter are like the special effects we overlay on our iphone photos. We slightly distort the original with a black and white filter that may say “I am not enough”, or a sepia tone that adds the inner criticism. Seeing life through false filters and heavy blocks alters our aliveness and abandons any relationship we could create to our wild beauty.

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Key #9: The Unique Guidance the Arises at Your Edge

Each person has physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual edges. Whether we choose to come close to an edge and begin to understand it or consistently run away from it is unique to each of us. If we want to grow in soul, we need to confront our edges. Most of the time, we discover that an edge is simply unknown territory. If we go outside to a cliff edge, we instantly feel the updraft of wind that may stir and activate our adrenaline to pulse through our veins. We peer over the ledge, seeing the danger with our eyes and feeling the need to flee. It is not too different when confronting a spiritual edge or an emotional edge. Our body signals whether the environment is safe or not. This key is the unique guidance that arises for you at your _____ edge.