23 June 2025 - Monday Nawal Keej Summary - The Heart Within Joy

23 June 2025 - Monday Nawal Keej Summary - The Heart Within Joy

“I Carry the Mountain in My Breath”

A Ceremonial Introduction to Living Within Two Lands

from the Earth Remembers Series

Summary - The Heart Within Joy

A Ceremonial Story of Emotional Intelligence and Cellular Memory

This ceremonial writing explores the deep, sacred presence of Joy as more than an emotion — as a vibration of being, a subtle substance of life, and a spiritual intelligence that lives within each cell of the body and each part of the natural world. It reveals how Joy is not earned or conditional, but is a fundamental resonance that holds all of life together. Through the eyes of the Tz’utujiil Maya spiritual path, Joy is remembered through embodiment, breath, stillness, and the gentle emergence of the second inner voice — the Voice of Light.

Key Themes and Teachings

1. Joy as the Substance of Wholeness

Joy is described not as fleeting happiness but as the binding force of Wholeness — the light between the parts of a tree, the breath between thoughts, and the presence within the body. Just as a tree’s roots, trunk, branches, and bark are held together by a deeper unseen force, so too is the human self held together by a living Joy that cannot be reduced to logic or analysis.

“It is the thread that sings between the lines… Joy is what binds root to soil, limb to sky.”

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2. Two Inner Voices: Voice 1 and Voice 2

The story carefully contrasts two inner voices:

• Voice 1: The voice of separation, fear, and control — it uses judgment, blame, guilt, and mental analysis to try to make sense of life. It demands understanding and often isolates us from the present moment and from the Joy that lives beneath the pain.

• Voice 2: The voice of the Great Grandmother’s breath — soft, nonjudgmental, wordless, and resonant. It does not overpower, but harmonizes. It arises in moments of stillness, softness, after mystical tears, in the pause before reacting.

The teaching is that true emotional intelligence comes not by rejecting Voice 1, but by holding both voices with compassion and allowing the deeper light of Voice 2 to guide action.

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3. Joy and Cellular Memory

The story affirms that every cell of the body holds memory — not just genetic code, but spiritual memory of Joy and light. This is described as an intelligence that remembers how to grow, transform, and connect — not because it is taught, but because it is made of light.

“From one cell—One seed of Light—you became 70 trillion. Not by strategy. Not by logic. But by Remembering.”

This cellular memory is a foundation of embodied wisdom. The more we attune to Joy, the more we awaken our body’s deep intelligence and inner light.

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4. Joy in Nature and the Tree as Teacher

Using the image of a medicine tree of Light, the writing guides the reader to attune to the living presence of Joy in the tree. Each part of the tree contributes to its Wholeness, but its essence exists between the parts — in the vibrational medium of Joy. This mirrors the human experience: we are more than our physical parts; we are the resonance that binds them.

By standing with the tree, breathing with it, feeling it not just as an object but as a being of Joy, we enter a space of shared presence. This shared Joy becomes a bridge between human and nature, and awakens the wisdom of the living Earth within us.

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5. Joy as the Motion of Spirit and Path of Connection

Joy is described as the motion of Spirit — the quality that animates our lives and gives light its direction. To live with Joy is to live from one’s inner essence, in harmony with others, in resonance with the Earth.

“Joy becomes not an idea—

but a presence.

Not something to seek—

but something to become.”

By attuning to our own Joy and the Joy of others — through presence, breath, and feeling — we open deeper, more authentic, and more loving relationships with life itself.

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Final Reflection

The writing closes by affirming that Joy is the gateway to spiritual action and choice. When the Heart Within begins to see from the presence of Joy, we are free to act not from reaction or fear, but from the emerging Light of who we truly are.

This ceremonial story calls us to remember Joy as a living force, to honor both the shadow and the light within us, and to walk our life in communion with the Joy of the world — the trees, lakes, oceans, rivers, voices, and inner breath — that make us whole.

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