In a previous post, I awarded my first “Kindness Warrior Award.” I thought you might like to know how that award became to be. The following post was written over a year ago and now I am finally brave enough to post it.
I love hiking in beautiful places. So, I talked my husband into hiking to Boynton Pass when we were in Sedona, Arizona. It was not a long hike but one of the most beautiful hikes I have ever experienced, right up there with the hike on the island of Capri. My secret motive was to better understand vortexes and see if I could feel it.
As we were climbing up to the Boynton Pass, we met two couples that we had shared a jeep ride with earlier that day. They asked if we could feel the vortex and at the moment all I could feel was the beating of my heart in my head from the upward climb to that point. I returned the question and she said, “No, even though I tried to be open.”
I went to the top of the knoll with no expectations and started really looking at all the twisted juniper trees. Strange how the trees are only twisted in the vortex areas and that the juniper trees grow straight in other areas. Then, I realized how many years in took for the trees to show the effect of the energy vortex. It took years to be twisted. I realized most people won’t be able to feel the energy in just five minutes in the knoll.
So I sat down, partly to lower my heart rate and partly to be grateful for the chance to be there. Vortex or not, it was one of the most beautiful places on earth. I thought how lucky the Native Americans were to live and be in nature and not work in cubicles. Prehistoric Indians made this area of Sedona home thousands of years ago. Boynton Canyon is still sacred to the Yavapai Native Americans who consider Boynton as their place of origin. As I sat there and meditated I was surrounded by Native American chiefs (in spirit) there to help heal me. I was hoping they were there to heal my sinus / ear infection, but that was not their mission.
The Boynton vortex is known to balance the feminine and masculine energy. They explained they were there to help my spiritual side strengthen, so I would have the strength to publish my kindness blog. They explained my soul story is one of a warrior and that I should not think of warrior as a bad, evil person but a strong person wanting to make a better world. They suggest choosing the wording of “kindness warriors” over ” kindness ambassadors”, and that is the origin of my kindness warrior program. My mission is to use masculine traits to bring about more feminine traits into the world.
I could have stayed there all day but I pushed it as long as I could with my husband. I was happy for the half hour plus. Going down the mountain was so much easier, having gravity in your favor.
I realized that feeling the vortex is correlated to how we deal with everyday life. In our society, we want the instant energy “feel”, but it doesn’t really work that way for most of us; we have to slow down to raise our awareness and to feel God’s loving energy. It is about us meeting the loving vortex energy on its level and taking the time to really experience it. There is just too much inferences in our society’s thinking to feel the energy for most of us. You have to take the time to allow it to seep into our hard shells. So, no, I really didn’t feel the energy as most people expect but I did get clarity on how to proceed with this blog. What a wonderful gift. I feel so honored, to have experience such love and peace. Peace is the vortex “real” feel.
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