On Spiritual Grounding, Finding Your Path, Walking the Medicine Wheel, and Staying in Alignment
I was glad to join Anne Kensho for the True North Summit, a conversation that turned out to be about exactly what its name suggests: how we find our true direction in life, and how we keep finding it, again and again, as we go. Anne asked wonderful, grounded questions, and we ranged across a lot of territory, from my own path out of the corporate world to the daily practice that keeps me oriented.
We talked about the signs that we have drifted off course, that quiet dissatisfaction of having everything you are supposed to want and still feeling unhappy, and about the false agreements that pull us away from our own path: that to be spiritual we must be poor, that we need an intermediary to reach the divine, that we should decide on other people's behalf what they would or would not want. We explored the medicine wheel as a map for moving through any cycle of life, why so many of us skip the season of reflection and keep replanting the same seed, and what it means to ground spiritual guidance into real, embodied action.
Along the way we touched on keeping our energy field clear as healers, the importance of being able to open and close rather than staying wide open, and the idea that finding our true north is not a single act but a constant, gentle course correction, like sailing a boat.
If this conversation resonates, you can learn this work beginning with Level 1 - The Fundamentals of Shamanism.