26 June 2025 - Thursday Nawal Tz’e’ A Ceremonial Reflection on Emotional Intelligence and Cellular Memory - Weaving of Voice 1 and Voice 2 into the Light of Wholeness

26 June 2025 - Thursday Nawal Tz’e’

A Ceremonial Reflection on Emotional Intelligence and Cellular Memory - Weaving of Voice 1 and Voice 2 into the Light of Wholeness

“I Carry the Mountain in My Breath”

A Ceremonial Introduction to Living Within Two Lands

from the Earth Remembers Series

The Above Images:

Throughout the cornfields of my community, four sacred colors of corn are grown: Yellow, White, Black, and Red. In every Ceremonial House of Light in my Tz’utujiil Maya village, these four husks of corn are placed upon the altar. As shown in this image, they emerge from the Dreaming Place within the “Heart of Sky.”

These four colors represent more than the beauty of corn—they reflect the sacred hues of humanity’s skin. In every ceremony, and in every moment we place our attention with care, we are reminded that these four sacred husks hold a prayer for all peoples of the Earth.

This is an invitation—a quiet invocation—for the inner light of all humanity to be woven together. Wherever we walk upon this planet, we are called to remember that we are not separate.

We are invited into Love.

We are invited into Harmony.

We are invited into Peace.

We are invited into Wholeness.

—Within ourselves,

—Among one another,

—And with everything that lives upon this Earth.

This ceremonial paper integrates and reweaves within a poetic and spiritually rooted framework, the honoring of the Voice 1 and the Voice 2 dialogue, in its emergence through our Emotional Intelligence and Cellular Memory. This is shaped by the Tz’utujiil Maya way of living life through the Heart6 Within the Light of Joy.

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The Heart Within Joy

A Ceremonial Reflection on Emotional Intelligence and Cellular Memory - Weaving of Voice 1 and Voice 2 into the Light of Wholeness

Introduction: The Two Ways of Knowing Joy

In most modern ways of understanding, Joy is interpreted as an emotional result—a psychological state brought about by outer success, relationships, values, or meaning. This understanding arises from what I call Voice 1: the Mental Intelligence, the conditioned voice that explains, categorizes, and seeks resolution through thought.

This version of Joy is often real, even beautiful, yet still tied to outcomes:

– the arrival of love,

– the completion of a goal,

– a sense of being seen,

– a fleeting or profound moment of harmony.

But even in its radiance, this form of Joy is conditional. It belongs to the realm of cause and effect, of mental comprehension, of identifying a “source” and an “emotion.”

What if this Joy—however sincere—is still limited?

What if Joy does not arise from a result, but from a remembering?

What if the deepest Joy does not come after something happens,

but emerges from within,

as the Light of the Heart Within,

responding not to success,

but to Presence?

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The Voice 2 Emergence: Joy as Living Light

From the ceremonial teachings that guide my life as a 77-year-old elder in the Tz’utujiil Maya tradition, I have come to know a different form of Joy—one not born of mental analysis, but of embodied remembrance.

This Joy emerges through Voice 2:

the Wisdom Voice,

the voice of felt-sense,

the one that lives beneath the bones,

the voice of breath before word,

the voice that speaks in silence.

This Joy is not “about” anything.

It is not caused by a perfect moment.

It is the subtle vibration of being woven into life itself.

It is what the body remembers

when it is allowed to feel

without needing to explain.

This Joy arises

from the cellular memory of wholeness.

It is not learned.

It is reawakened.

This is the Heart Within Joy.

This is the Joy that breathes itself

into the fabric of all that lives.

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Comparing Voice 1 and Voice 2 Ways of Knowing Joy

Below is a ceremonial reflection between the two voices. Not to separate or judge them, but to understand how one creates outcome, and the other remembers origin.

Voice 1 – Mental Intelligence - Joy is a response to success or connection

Voice 2 – Emotional Intelligence & Cellular Memory - Joy is a felt-sense of being connected, with or without outcome

Voice 1 – Mental Intelligence - Joy comes after something happens

Voice 2 – Emotional Intelligence & Cellular Memory - Joy is present within the breath, before thought

Voice 1 – Mental Intelligence - Joy arises from alignment with values or purpose

Voice 2 – Emotional Intelligence & Cellular Memory - Joy arises from alignment with the inner Light of Presence

Voice 1 – Mental Intelligence - Joy is often associated with reward or clarity

Voice 2 – Emotional Intelligence & Cellular Memory - Joy is experienced within mystery and not-knowing

Voice 1 – Mental Intelligence - Joy is accompanied by chemical release (dopamine, endorphins)

Voice 2 – Emotional Intelligence & Cellular Memory - Joy is accompanied by an inner unfolding or spaciousness in the body

Voice 1 – Mental Intelligence - Joy is shaped by positive meaning-making

Voice 2 – Emotional Intelligence & Cellular Memory - Joy is shaped by stillness, breath, and cellular remembering

Voice 1 – Mental Intelligence - Joy is the result of right relation with identity and moment

Voice 2 – Emotional Intelligence & Cellular Memory - Joy is the pulse of the Light within all relation—identity and moment dissolve into Being

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The Seven Characteristics of Joy: Rewoven

Let us take the seven traditional characteristics of Voice 1 Joy, and reweave them through the presence of Voice 2, as experienced in the Light of the Heart Within:

1. Positive Emotion → Presence of Living Light

Not an emotion, but the presence of inner light moving freely through the body and land.

This is Joy as a being-state, not a feeling-state.

2. Intensity and Depth → Stillness and Expansion

Not depth from intensity, but from spaciousness—Joy that widens rather than overwhelms.

It does not heighten the nervous system, it deepens the breath.

3. Sources of Joy → Carriers of Joy

Joy is not sourced by outer things.

It is carried by the body in relationship to the moment—

to the leaf, to the sky, to the breath, to the silence.

4. Physiological Effects → Cellular Remembering

Instead of chemical release, Joy arises from a body remembering it is whole—

felt as warmth in the chest, a softening in the back, a loosening in the jaw, a spaciousness behind the eyes.

5. Broaden and Build → Weave and Return

Rather than expanding toward new things, Joy in Voice 2 weaves us back into what already is.

It is a returning to the wholeness we forgot.

6. Joy vs. Happiness → Joy as Primordial Presence

Not more lasting or more intense than happiness—Joy is older.

It existed before experience.

It is the original frequency that shaped the bones of the Earth.

7. Elation of Right Relation → Stillness of Inward Recognition

Not elation, but a subtle exhale when the inner and outer are no longer separate.

This is Joy as the gentle weight of belonging—to self, to land, to cosmos.

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✦ Joy as the Light Within All Things

In the Tz’utujiil Maya way of living life, we do not wait for Joy.

We walk in Joy.

Not as a state we earn,

but as a subtle light we carry and notice—

in the child’s hand,

in the shadow of the tree,

in the aching of the knee,

in the breath of the Great Grandmother’s Light in prayer.

We do not chase Joy.

We remember it.

It is not something we create.

It is something we allow to emerge—

from within the breath,

from the bones of the Earth,

from the light beneath our skin.

This is the Joy of Voice 2—

the one that dances in us

even when we are still.

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Closing Invocation: Joy as the Emergence of Wholeness

Joy is not the end of suffering.

Joy is the Light within the suffering.

Joy is not the result of success.

Joy is the memory of the Breath that made you.

Joy is not waiting to be found.

Joy is the song that lives in the marrow

when you sit still enough to hear it.

Let us walk into this day

with the knowing that Joy does not come after the answer—

It comes with the breath.

It comes with the remembering.

Let us walk with the Joy that is already here.

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