Navigating Your Lifepath: Reclaiming Your Self, Recapturing Your Vision

Carla Woody
ILLUMINATION Book Chapters
7 min readAug 28, 2021

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A Program to Revolutionize Your Life: Introduction to the Journey

Cézanne’s Refuge, Mont Sainte-Victoire, Provence. ©2013 Carla Woody.

Navigating Your Lifepath has had a life of its own as many things of its nature have. In the late 1990s, I moved to Prescott, Arizona and opened an office that morphed into a spiritual community space. Don’t go thinking it was a huge organization. It was small, rather humble really. But it held the most remarkably committed and spiritually curious seekers. They were glad to embrace me, in the midst of my own revolution⏤then evolution. I had learned some things along the way and was glad to share. I appreciated their trust.

Along with one-on-one work, I offered a class called Meditating for Health. It was based on the chakras, one each week for eight weeks, then repeat. It focused on what was resident in the particular energy center to be healed and embodying activation, with specific meditations to do so. It was like the layers of an onion. Each time they repeated the class, another layer came off toward the center. When such a thing happens in community, it builds in a number of ways. I call it entrainment, a powerful holding of generosity and compassion that compels us toward our destiny. It also calls upon the necessary chaos, upheaval from the old ways of being.

Finally, they jointly asked me what I could offer toward the next phase of the journey. Thus was Navigating Your Lifepath born. I had long been an observer of my own spiritual process and those I’d engaged with over the previous decade. In 2000, I began offering this coursework in a small group setting, along with retreats, spiritual travel programs, and one-on-one sessions to complement this evolutionary process of change. Over these years, I’ve refined it so that it builds upon itself to create a solid foundation from which to launch.

For many years, I continued to hold group Lifepath offerings until I needed more flexibility with my time due to out-of-country travel. Beyond that, I continued with limited individual mentoring. I’ve gotten to the point, that I truly want anyone who is drawn to take up the mantle to have access to this program as a tool. Such dedicated service is a gift we give to ourselves and impacts well beyond our own family and community. So does much needed synergy grow. We are in that time. That is behind my desire to offer this coursework free of charge.

The questions below are important to answer. Take stock. See where you are along a continuum.

Do you wake up inspired and ready to embrace the day?
Are you living a fully expressive life?

OR…

Are you burnt out? Struggling in your career… relationship… finances… health… ?
Do you feel like you’re living someone else’s life?
Has your vision of who you are slipped away?

This is an invitation. Step off the beaten path. Design your lifepath to re-engage your dreams with concise intent and make them reality. Navigating Your Lifepath gives you the know-how required to release limiting beliefs, negative behaviors and pain to create breakthroughs.

Take a Quantum Leap:

* Magnify your talents and fully express them;

* Establish lifework that feeds your soul;

* Attract everyday prosperity;

* Develop relationships that are mutually supportive;

* Amp up your energy;

* Maintain robust health and balance;

* Find yourself doing things you only dreamt of in the past;

* All while living through your spiritual values.

It’s of utmost importance to create a map so you have a sense of the territory…

First you’re guided to go inside. Using proven methods of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) merged with practical spirituality, you create your pathway. You’ll focus on going inside to catalyze alignment by defining life values, engaging core energy and creating a precise blueprint for your long-desired outcomes. Through this process you’ll create clarity and a solid foundation.

Then you’ll go outside. You are then devoted to creating the best in relationship to others, lifework and the larger world. You go inside deeply to come outside freely and authentically.

Those who engage at this level immediately experience positive shifts in their lives and ⏤ with integration of the strategies contained in this program ⏤ the benefits last. It brings “unconscious competence” to the lifepath envisioned. In other words, you don’t have to think about it. You just live it.

Here’s to your journey. The Lifepath teachings and proven strategies of this program are drawn from my own experiences and 25+ years of intensive work with individuals and groups toward spiritual evolution and holistic health, as well as organizations seeking to align their values and expand impact.

This program is about embodiment and the deeper meaning of sustainability. It will be for those who feel drawn to take on the mantle of Spirit Keeper in whatever way, large or small, to positively impact their own lives and that of family, community or the larger world.

It’s my passion to mentor people through a process I went through myself and refined over 25+ years to make it readily accessible to others. You design a lifepath choosing your highest priorities to put in place. I’ve provided the specific learnings and strategies tailored to your concentration. But the beauty of this approach is… as you flourish in the areas you deem most important… other aspects are naturally affected, too. An added plus? You automatically impact family and others merely by living as your best self. ⏤ Carla Woody

Navigating Your Lifepath is now meant to be self-paced and contains the following.

That’s 12+ hours of audio and a 150-page guidebook. Books Standing Stark and Calling Our Spirits Home accompany the coursework. The books are now available for free in serial chapter format on the Illumination publication of Medium. Chapters in both books are linked relative to each sections’ focus.

Special benefits:

* Create clear direction.

* Develop new ways to effectively implement your dream.

* Live a balanced, richer life based on your deeply held values.

* Uncover the unconscious belief system that drove your thoughts and actions.

* Enhance your strengths, identify blockages and move through limitations.

* Deepen relationships and develop community.

* Become a congruent role model for visionary leadership and service

* Embody the ways of living inherent in Indigenous traditions.

* Live through your core self and naturally, positively affect others.

Important note: Each individual’s success depends on many factors, including but not limited to, dedication, timely follow-through, and willingness to step outside the box.

If you need assistance with the material or outcome you seek, please refer to consultations.

Bio

Carla Woody is a spiritual mentor, writer and visual artist. She is the founder of Kenosis, an organization based in Prescott, Arizona, supporting human potential since 1999 through life enhancement coaching, retreats and spiritual travel programs working with Indigenous leaders and healers in the US, Mexico, Central and South America. In 2007 she founded Kenosis Spirit Keepers, a volunteer-run 501(c)3 nonprofit organization to help preserve Indigenous traditions threatened with decimation.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section I: Preparing for the Journey

Jack London Quote

Questions We Live By

The Re-Membering Process Model

Presuppositions to Support Your Journey

Our Work

Tenets of Intent

Setting Intent

Readiness

The Cycle of Fulfillment

The Threshold

Understanding Your Values

Commitment

Journaling as an Ally

Section I Assignments

Section II: Setting the Direction

Life Energy

Whole Life Balance

The Bright Hope

Setting The Direction

Setting Outcomes Worksheet

Systems

Voice and Expression

The Juxtaposition

Building a Foundation

Section II Assignments

Section III: Entering the Forest

Success

Mining Resources

Panning for Gold

Learning Discernment

Section III Assignments

Section IV: Transforming the Dragon

How You Fulfill Your Destiny

Emotional Freedom Technique

Uncovering Limiting Beliefs

Clearing Limiting Beliefs

Understanding Homeostasis

Elements of Reformation

Evolutionary Dimensions of Archetypes

Section IV Assignments

Section V: Uncovering the Jewels

Doing and Being

Striving to Surrender

Activating the Witness

Telltale Signs

Creating Space

Starting Within

Paving the Pathway of Your Future

Spiritual Travel: Destination or Process?

Section V Assignments

Section VI: Engaging Your Allies

Hafiz Poem

Embracing All Parts

Relating to Relationship

Section VI Assignments

Section VII: Negotiating the Landscape

The Art of Reciprocity

The Principle of Seed Money

Giving and Receiving in Relationship

The Energy of Money

Section VII Assignments

Section VIII: Bringing It All Home

The Outcome of Intent

The Point of Re-Entry

The Disney Creativity Strategy

Sorting and Behavioral Styles

The Importance of Acknowledgement

The Nature of True Community

The Stages of Learning

An Autobiography in Five Chapters

Walking the Edge

Your Legacy

The Despacho Ceremony

Excerpt: Portals to the Vision Serpent

Section VIII Assignments

Copyright 1999–2021 by Carla Woody. All rights reserved. No portion of this manual, except for brief review, may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the publisher. Inquiries may be directed to: Kenosis Press, P.O. Box 10441, Prescott, AZ 86304, info@kenosis.net.

Also by Carla Woody:

Standing Stark: The Willingness to Engage. Read in Illumination Book Chapters.

Calling Our Spirits Home: Gateways to Full Consciousness. Read in Illumination Book Chapters.

Portals to the Vision Serpent. Coming soon to Illumination Book Chapters.

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Carla Woody
ILLUMINATION Book Chapters

Explorer of landscapes, ancient traditions, human condition and elements overlooked. Mentor. Artist. Writer. Peacemaker. https://www.kenosis.net/