Here’s a recorded meditation to assist you in connecting with your heart.
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There is a deep form of knowing, a natural knowing that’s beyond what the mind, emotions, and imagination are capable of coming up with. In my experience, it invites - if not requires - a bold honesty regarding who I am and who I am not. And when I am honest enough and courageous enough to step into that flow of knowing, I experience peace, I experience miracles. This is what I call the Grace of Awareness.
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For me personally, it takes a lot of dedication to keep myself in balance, or to get back into balance when I’ve let myself get swept up in reactions. But what’s helping me these days is working with this deceptively simple quote from the inestimable Ron and Mary Hulnick: “How you deal with the issue IS the issue.”
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Missing the brightest light?
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If I’m reacting unpeacefully to the nonpeace that’s outside of me, that reaction inside me is where my work begins. So I must start with with sowing peace inside myself first - and that means accepting my nonpeace.
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But when I do bring love to the unloving, it always pays off. The payoff inside me is often immediate, even if the payoffs in the world take longer.
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He told me that heaven is always here, inside me - not due to the events, but rather the events had just called my attention to it.
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In my dream, I paused, looked around the group, and added “If you want to be free of the prison of ‘life happens to me,’ you are the one who holds the key.”
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If you want less drama in your life, and more happiness, you might want to take a closer look at your complaining.
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Being okay when we’re not okay
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I’m not a fan of new year’s resolutions because they so often become counter-productive. But having a clear intention for a heart-led experience of the year is really helpful. Having something simple in place to remind me of what that is seems to be a very good plan.
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I’ve been asking myself, what is Home? Clearly it’s more than geography, more than a structure. It’s even more than familiar people and circumstances.
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We're all changing, all of the time. Yet none of us changes in the same way or at the same time, although we are all parts of the same tree. Our combined efforts may create a blotchy mess along the way, but together we create the colorful mosaic that is our constantly renewing life.
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It’s the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria striking our island home of St Croix. This is my story.
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It can be such a relief to pause for a moment and just focus awareness on the common things, the simple things that are present in everyday life
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Take a meditative moment to listen inwardly for the wisdom and loving of the "still, small voice" that's often so hard to hear.
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Since the beginning of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, I’ve had my phone set to remind me every hour to turn my attention and loving toward the people of Ukraine … It’s all I’ve known to do. Up until now …
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I recently sat down for a conversation with my friend Danny Bader for his podcast “Back to Life.“ Danny is a thoughtful, inspiring man of heart and spirit, and our conversation covered a lot of heart-led ground. You can watch it here.
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Sometimes doubts, fears, and limiting beliefs flare up when I think about reaching out, but like that little girl approaching the big red dog, when I move forward with my trust, respect and tenderness - plus a little playfulness, I quickly find that my new BFF has been there all along, inside me, inviting me to be the caring friend for myself and for others. It’s the layered meaning of the old saying: “If you want to have a friend, be a friend.”
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