August  2009
The View from Birch Corner
Aligning Purpose, Passion and Performance through Coaching
In This Issue
Formula for Living -- Part I
The Four Chambered Heart
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How often do you find yourself overwhelmed by events or confused by circumstances?  If you are like most of us reading this, it probably happens often.  Our lives are overflowing with decisions, obligations and opportunities.  On some days we just don't know where to turn or how to keep our heads above water.
 
What if you had a simple formula to help ground you at times like these?  This issue of The View gives you just such a prescription.   
 
From her research on indigenous people anthropologist, Angeles Arrien, has distilled a Four-Fold Way of focusing on life's essentials.  Her formula will help you reclaim your footing when you feel yourself slipping both personally and professionally.  Enjoy learning about it in The Formula for Living -- Part I.  If it works for you, incorporate it into your own life.
 
Also, try the exercise below in The Four Chambered Heart.  It is designed to help you increase your self awareness and expand your heart's capacity to love.
 
Yours in new beginnings,

Peggy and Bob MacArthur

 
 Formula for Living -- Part I

  Bob MacArthur

Do you ever wish you had a simple way to reclaim your footing on those days when you are overwhelmed?  What if you had a formula to guide the way you relate to your family, lead your associates at work and serve your community?  What if that formula applied to persons across all cultures?  
 
Angeles Arrien has given us such a prescription.   It is simple, practical and profound.  Because I find myself coming back to it frequently with my coaching clients, I want to share it with you.   
 
There are four principles.  This issue of The View describes the first two.  Wanting to keep these messages short enough that you will invest your time to read them, I will conclude the topic in the next issue. 
 
The Four-Fold Way
 
The four principles tap the wisdom of indigenous people and their relationship with the earth.  They also incorporate archetypes that help us understand and live in harmony with our own inner nature.  The principles are timeless and current.  They are relevant to the demands of everyday living and to the responsibilities of leadership. 
 
 

 The Four Chambered Heart 
 
Here is an exercise that may help you pay attention to that which has heart and meaning to you.  It may also help you develop your capacity as healer.
 
Many native cultures believe that the four-chambered heart is the source for sustaining emotional and spiritual health.  They describe the heart as full, open, clear and strong. 
 
With that in mind let me suggest that during your meditation or reflection time you focus on a particular person or situation that is vexing you and answer the following questions.
 
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