The Fierce Heart Alliance

Season one we explored the Harmonic Virtues of the Metaphysical Level

This is the level of forces which are the foundational elements of physical life and the building blocks of consciousness.  They include the virtues of Vibration, transformation, Love, Karma, polarity and rhythm

Season Two we will be exploring Level Two which is the Soul Level.

These are aspects and virtues that help to shape our soul and our personality that guides how we move through and interact to the world around us. 

The Virtues are wisdom, ego, purpose, mystery, unity, and values.

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Hey Fierce hearts today is our charity episode and this month is Adopt A Classroom.org

 Each month we highlight a new charity that is doing good in the world. These organizations have been cross referenced and have been given a 4 out of  4 star rating from Charity navigator.

The link to the charity is in the show notes and it goes directly to the charity.  

 The idea is we all donate a little and together we can make an exponential impact.

 This is how we exercise our conscious community and together we are greater than the sum of our parts. If donating is not in your budget, no worries, just give good vibes, stay tuned and check out what this charity is doing in for the greater good.

Be sure to like and subscribe to help the Fierce Heart alliance make a greater impact.

This month our charity is AdoptAClassroom.org

According to their website:

Adopt a classroom offers the most flexible and accountable funding for educators through our easy-to-use fundraising platform.

1. Educators create a fundraising page or apply for a grant.

Adopt a classroom has been in operations for 25 Years

with

300,000+

Classrooms Adopted

and

7 Million

Students Supported

Some of their spot light funds are:

Art Fund

Inclusive classroom fund

Indigenous language fund

Social-emotional wellness fund

Natural disaster fund

Racial equality in schools fund

Stem fund

These are excerpts from their website and if you would like to learn more, you can go to: adopt a classroom.org

A link to their charity navigator rating and donation page can be found in the show notes

As always all charities promoted by the Fierce Heart Alliance have been double checked to have a 4 star rating from Charity Navigator's approval system. The audit charities for their transparency in donation utilization, so we can all give with confidence.

The Fierce Heart Alliance stands for health equity, equality, human rights, civil rights, access to clean water, a healthy planet, healthy soil and healthy humans regardless of status, age, gender, or location.

Donate one dollar or whatever your budget allows or just give good vibes. Our combined contributions can make a powerful impact.

Together we can make a difference.

That’s our episode for this week.

Thanks to our listeners, you're helping this wave of positivity go further

Please like and subscribe it helps this podcast more than you know.

Next weeks episode is the virtue of Values

Take care Fierce hearts till next time.

Our menstrual cycle can teach us many things we just have to become aware. Melanie shares her wisdom of how to become self-aware as a means of self-care.  Our cycle happens with our body and not to our body. We discuss "Menstrual Shame" and how to discover our natural rhythms within (regardless of bleeding).

Melanie Birdsong is a somatic ritualist, menstruality mentor, blood rites medicine carrier, and passionate advocate for cyclical living and women’s wellness.  She supports women to reclaim bodily autonomy and reawaken to their somatic intelligence.

You can connect with Melanie Birdsong at: melanybirdsong.com

This episode is the first portion of Summer's chat with Melanie Birdsong. 

She a somatic ritualist, menstruality mentor, blood rites medicine carrier, and passionate advocate for cyclical living and women’s wellness.  She supports women to reclaim bodily autonomy and reawaken to their somatic intelligence.

In today's episode I'd like to share a channeling I received about Rhythm:

When I wrote the prior episode I felt pretty satisfied. I thought that was it because I felt it was a channeling of its own with the inspiration that poured out about the different rhythms in our lives and then I got that channeling.   When tuning into the message I was left with this juicy sense of inspiration that was just beyond my reach with an essence of motion and fluidity, it just made me want more and more. I never know what they are going to say and  I was stunned. I have never thought of rhythm like that and just how intrinsic rhythm is to us.

It is very interesting they speak about the rhythm of our heart and our pulse and how that sends out a vibration to connect with the world around us.  The Heart Math Institute is a non profit organization that has been studying what is called "Heart coherence" for the past thirty years.

They provide tools and meditations to help tune into this frequency that emanates from the heart. I've heard reports that this frequency can be found up to four feet away from a person. Pretty incredible.

You can learn more about the Heart Math Institute at: Heart Math Institute

This week I will share my musings. I got very poetic inspirations to call attention and speak to all the various kinds of rhythm in our lives each day. It is liken to the Danish word Hygge that describes a feeling of coziness and an environment and way of living; where as rhythm is also a felt and lived experience to understand the true meaning. As I am writing this, I am listening to some organic downtempo music and I find myself feeling into the rhythm as I type. I'm asking how Rhythm wants to be acknowledged

For starters, the presupposition of rhythm is there is movement of some kind and something is created from that movement that elicits a pattern. Some patterns turn into cycles and when they repeat, they create a rhythm.

We started the Harmonic Virtues with the virtue of Vibration to learn about energy.  Then inevitably the energy changes. Rhythm is what happens when energy changes, transforms and trans-mutates once, then again, and again and again leading to the virtue and universal law of perpetual transmutation of energy. Rhythm is where energetically the rubber meets the road of transformation.  The past three virtues of Karma, love and Ego give purpose and direction to transformation.

When something transforms there is a state from what it was and what it changes to. The void between states is the virtue of Rhythm. All energy has action potential. Rhythm is that action of that potential.  It is the essence and the energetic exchange that helps to usher the flow and cadence of cycles.

Chivito explains how presence is important in our daily lives and for self-care.

Chivito is a Traditional Rites of Passage Guide, Storyteller, and Mythologist who shares from direct experience of living with and being initiated into both honored Indigenous and Eastern Yogic lineages.

He facilitate Tree of Totems Cultural Community here in the PNW that's devoted to restoring these ancestral practices, knowledge, and ways of gathering that we may grow back a culture that breathes life and inspiration into us.

Charity Navigator Rating

Hey Fierce hearts today is our charity episode and this month is Mercy Corps

 Each month we highlight a new charity that is doing good in the world. These organizations have been cross referenced and have been given a 4 out of  4 star rating from Charity navigator.

The link to the charity's donation page is in the show notes and it goes directly to the charity.   

 The idea is we all donate a little and together we can make an exponential impact. 

 This is how we exercise our conscious community and together we are greater than the sum of our parts. If donating is not in your budget, no worries, just give good vibes, stay tuned and check out what this charity is doing in for the greater good. 

Be sure to like and subscribe to help the Fierce Heart alliance make a greater impact. 

This month our charity is Mercy Corps. 

According to their website:

Mercy Corps is founded in Portland Oregon. They have been responding to global emergencies for the past 40 years.  

In more than 40+ countries around the world, over 6,000+ team members work side by side with people living through poverty, disaster, violent conflict, and the acute impacts of climate change. They're committed to creating global change through local impact — 95% of our team members are from the countries where they work.

They bring a comprehensive approach to every challenge, addressing problems from multiple angles. And they go beyond emergency aid, partnering with local governments, forward-thinking corporations, social entrepreneurs, and people living in fragile communities to develop bold solutions that make lasting change possible.

Their work is world wide From Africa, the  Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. 

You can take a stand and help them by signing a petition in person, starting a petition or sign an online petition on their website to send a message to congress and us officials as well as a link to find your local representative

These are excerpts from their website and if you would like to learn more, you can go to:

A link to their charity navigator rating and donation page can be found in the show notes

As always all charities promoted by the Fierce Heart Alliance have been double checked to have a 4 star rating from Charity Navigator's approval system. The audit charities for their transparency in donation utilization, so we can all give with confidence. 

Donate one dollar or whatever your budget allows or just give good vibes. Our combined contributions can make a powerful impact. 

Together we can make a difference. 

Next weeks episode is the virtue of Rhythm with my guest Chivito Cowa

Take  care fierce hearts till next time. 

 Polarity speak of two opposites and that there is great breadth and depth of options between the two. Some of the polarities of self-care are actions vs inaction and care vs neglect. 

Polarity asks us to be aware of the opposite and find our balance between. Imperfect action is a way to navigate our all or nothing thinking or to make small efforts towards our values, intentions and goals. 

The Journal Prompts:

How do masculine or feminine personality traits or energy show up in your life?

What does balance look like in your life?

What could you do to create more balance within yourself?

What are some forms of polarity in your life?

When was a time you felt conflicting or multiple feelings simultaneously?

How do you handle intense emotions? What are your coping mechanisms?

Are they healthy or self-destructive?

Integration:

 Do something with enjoyable contrast:

Drink some warm peppermint tea

Eat a sweet and sour dish

Take a hot shower and finish with cold water

Take a walk outside and notice polarity around you in nature.

Have an inspiration? What is one action you can do to make it a reality? This combines the daydreaming creativity of the feminine and blends the masculine to bring it into fruition.