Sacred Heart Declaration

Adapted from Akuppa’s Shamballa Warrior Mind Training:

I firmly establish my intention to live my life for the healing and the thriving of the world. I am conscious of it, I honor it, I nurture it, every day.

I am fully present in our time. I find the courage to breathe in the suffering of the world. And I allow peace and healing to breathe out through me in return.

I do not meet power on its own terms. I see through to its real nature: mind and heart made. I lead my response from that level.

I simplify. I clear away the dead wood in my life. I look for the heartwood and give it the first call on my time, the best of my energy.

I put down the leaden burden of saving the world alone. I join with others of like mind. I align myself with the forces of resolution.

I hold in a single vision, in the same thought, the transformation of myself, and the transformation of the world. I live my life around that edge, always keeping it in sight.

As a bird flies on two wings, I balance outer activity with inner sustenance.

Following my heart, I realize my gifts. I cultivate them with diligence to offer knowledge and skill to the world. I train in non-violence of body, speech and mind. With great patience to myself, I learn to make beautiful each action, word and thought.

In the crucible of meditation, I bring forth day by day into my own heart, the treasury of compassion, wisdom, and courage for which the world longs.

I sit with hatred until I feel the fear beneath it. I sit with fear until I feel the compassion beneath that.

I do not set my heart on particular results. I enjoy positive action for its own sake and rest confident that it will bear fruit.

When I see violence, greed and narrow-mindedness in the fullness of its power, I walk straight into the heart of it, remaining open to the sky and in touch with the earth.

Staying open, staying grounded, I remember that I am the inheritor of the strengths of thousands of generations of life.

Staying open, staying grounded, I recall that the thankful prayers of future generations are silently with me.

Staying open, staying grounded, I am confident in the magick and power that arise when people come together in a great cause.

Staying open, staying grounded, I know that the deep forces of Nature will emerge to the aide of those who defend the earth.

Staying open, staying grounded, I have faith that the higher forces of wisdom and compassion will manifest through our actions for the healing of the world.

When I see weapons of hate, I disarm them with love.

When I see armies of greed, I meet them in the spirit of sharing.

When I see fortresses of narrow-mindedness, I breach them with truth.

When I find myself enshrouded in dark clouds of dread, I dispel them with fearlessness.

When forces of power seek to isolate us from each other, I reach out with joy.

In it all and through it all, holding to my intention, I let go into the music of life and I dance!

~Adapted from Akuppa’s Shamballa Warrior Mind Training