Restfulness and Presence

After the busyness of this week, today has been about restfulness and presence. As one chapter in my life seems to be closing, another will open and I await this with joyful anticipation!

Endings and Beginnings

Today a journey with four friends came to completion for this stage. I feel sad that this particular journey is over but know that what happens next is just the beginning of something new and exciting. I'm tracking my internal reality to come to clarity, trusting and following the breadcrumbs with anticipation and joy . . .

Friendship

There is something quite magical about connecting at a deep level with people who can really feel you and understand you and who live from the heart. I'm so grateful that I learned about Heart IQ and the tools and practices that allow me to connect with other people at a deeper and more profound level.

Fighting Reality

Today I became really aware of  how I superimpose what I want over what is really happening in front of me in real life and how strong a pattern it is. When I look at this more closely, I see there is no sense to this - it takes unnecessary energy and doesn't change what is happening in reality.

And all of this is because I have an agenda - about most events in my life, some more obvious than others.

So the skill for me is to track not only what I feel in my body, emotions, vitality, etc. in the present but also my conditioning, judgments and agendas that I have and how they do not serve me. And then decide to choose again, differently in how I am in the world.

Words

I am frequently fascinated by the way that words can be used to inspire people when they come from the heart. Here there is discernment but not prejudice. From the place of the heart all are worthy of love, support, inspiration and connection.

Words have inspired great actions and beauty. Poetry and music, as well as great drama, can move us to tears, to feel the truth that lives deep within us which we all recognize
at a fundamental level.

How beautiful the world would be if we could learn to come from the place of the heart!

Meditation

Meditation allows me to connect more fully to the deeper part of myself while helping me to disconnect from the mind. So often we find that we can live our lives from this space of the mind and logic whilst not listening more fully to our hearts. Meditation can help to redress that balance by bringing us more fully into presence with our deeper more authentic self.

Nature

I feel a close connection to nature as I'm sure so many other people do. I'm also lucky enough to live in a very beautiful part of the world where to just go for a walk on the moors or along the coast feels like a real privilege. As I grow older I become more and more aware of the change of the seasons and the rhythm of nature and feel more and more connected to our beautiful Earth and all the many wonderful plants and animals.

Today I was noticing the young sparrows urging their parents for food and I so felt connected to the beauty of that moment, simultaneously unique and ephemeral as is all of our time on this planet.

The Earth seen from Apollo 17. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Fluidity

Today I've been so aware of fluidity. When I become aware of what's moving in my mind, emotions, body, vitality and intuitions, there is no solidity. Thoughts come and go. Sometimes I can get buried in a thought or emotion and for that period of time it's as real as anything in the external world. But the truth is that it's all in my internal reality and I always have a choice as to how to respond to any of these stimuli. That is such an important understanding for me and one I need constantly to be aware of as I hold all of this in loving awareness.

Beginning the Exploration

Why do we so often resist to connecting from our hearts? Often there is an ingrained sense of mistrust about all things emotional. We have been conditioned in so much of our lives to live from our heads, to be rational, think things out, and then make our decisions.

But that is only one part of the story. If we always live from our heads, our lives can become very flat, and two-dimensional. Often there can be no passion, no juice to inspire us forward in our lives.

So I've already started this journey and am continuing it on this blog, exploring how it feels to live from the heart in my relationships to all parts of myself, the Divine, other people and the Earth!

Why don't you join me?