For years and years now there have been constant reminders
to move from our heads to our hearts as we walk through life. This has made sense to some, and yet, for
many of us, this has been an illusive goal.
Our reliance on creating from our minds has served us well over the last
few generations (or so it seemed) and letting go of the idea of being able to
figure things out has made the transition from the head to the heart more
difficult. I had to let go of something
I knew, something I could depend on, and open to what it really means to come
from the heart….which was unknown to me.
As a baby boomer, there is an entire industry of self help
books and programs aimed at teaching us the skills to quiet the mind in the
areas of inner simplicity, de-cluttering the mind and creating stillness,
deepening into mindfulness, and the “Zen” of living. All aimed at helping us learn the tools to go
inward instead of being dependent on the outer forms of life. As a self help junkie since the 1980’s I have
collected many of these books and read them.
I have purchased guided meditations, gone to weekend retreats, and even
taught others what I have been learning along the way. The process of quieting the mind was working
to a degree, yet the transition to the heart was still mostly vague to me.
I had the gift of a true spiritual guide appear in my life a
few years ago. She taught the concept of
allowing us to feel, to seek out our feelings above all else. I struggled with this and for months and
months I would use the phrase, the F word…You know, the word FEEL, because it
was difficult to allow this part of me to emerge and become present in my day
and I would often become frustrated nurturing this new way of being into a way
of life. Yet I hung in there and kept
learning the value of how to feel, to really feel.
Last year, in the few months before December, there was a
barrage of very good teachers and guides, offering essays, blogs, and simple
steps for awareness of what was possible with the approaching Shift. I prepared throughout the year for what could
be possible, I read most of what could be found and took it on, like the junkie
I know myself to be! Yet this work was
different. This work was specifically aimed
at opening the heart, and opening ourselves up to our feelings….empowering our emotions…
allowing our emotions to transition into feelings in the body.
It was there, this awareness of how to connect through our
feelings, that I learned how to feel the presence of myself in my body, to feel
my heart, and to learn to trust what I felt,
over what I thought. I began to see my mind as an over active
computer most of the time, spewing all sorts of data out there to guide,
educate and inform, and holding onto much of the old histories and stories,
much of what I was emotionally ready to release. As I deepened my skills, went after my
feelings, I could feel the rigidness of my mind, and I could contrast it with
the softness and compassion exuding from my heart. I was learning how to let my heart guide
me….finally.
Now, as we have passed the mid mark of the year, there are
signs all over our country, all over the world, of people awakening to the
feelings of their hearts and following these feelings. Yes! There
is an awakening going on, out on the planet, simultaneous to the awakening I
finally discovered within myself.
We are no longer separated from ourselves. The ability to match a creative idea or
concept to a feeling within the body has bridged the separation we have all
experienced between what we think and what we feel. Opening to the surrender of an emotion, and
the sensations within our bodies, allows the emerging feelings to release us
from the repetitive thought patterns that have restricted us from truly
living. Accepting all the different
forms of feelings has opened us up from the limited 3D world and provided the
access to the many additional dimensions possible. Feelings… these are the transition portals
into a way of living in the moment, seeing the possibilities, and detaching
from the rigidity of how we exist, into how we create life in a new way. Feelings have offered us freedom…Freedom to
grow and expand.
My dear aunt is in her early eighties and she is on her
computer all the time, reading and tracking what is out there. I spoke with her the other day and she told
me her favorite quote for last week. “Don’t
believe everything you think.” I agree,
and I would add, believe everything you feel.
The lyrics to the Avicii song Levels….
I get a good feeling
It’s a feeling that I’ve never, never had before!
Enjoy your feelings,
Denise
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