Keep Your Heart Open

El Cap Heart Opening

It's always been a disconnection from our hearts. It is our hearts that allow us to feel empathy and love. Connection to ourselves first and foremost, and then to others. The glitch is that so many of us became disconnected from our hearts in order to feel safe during our early years. It's not a judgement or an absolute. It is a curiosity. With so much violence, hatred and fear in the world it behooves us all to circle back - back to our own hearts. Begin to gently and compassionately soften the layers, the hardening, the barriers that once kept our hearts safely ensconced inside a protective casing. Our soft spot deep within. It is that exact spot that we long to reconnect with. We hope someone on the outside will awaken it for us. And then we hope they stay. But what if I assured you, what your heart is waiting for is not someone on the outside to see it? What if it is simply waiting for you to reconnect with it? Because the truth is, just because someone awakens our hearts doesn't mean they will stay. The awakening is the remembrance. The gift that allows you to feel it again. And then, to reclaim it.

We unwittingly continue to keep our hearts locked deep within, disconnected from the power that it contains. The healing power of love. The healing power of connection. The ability to feel. I get it, at one time it wasn't safe to feel. We needed another to help us feel safe in the world. If that was you, as it was me, I am sorry that we didn't receive that early on. But I promise you, as we grow up, we have all of the resources to offer safety within our own nervous system, one conscious breath at a time. To update to feeling safety in the present moment. And when we feel safety within, we are more capable of feeling safe with others. And more so, perhaps, trusting ourselves and our hearts to guide us to what lights us up and what doesn't feel right. It is our hearts, aligned with our brains, that offer us the greatest insight and coherence to guide us along our path. We need both, in harmony.

So, the question becomes how do we reconnect with our hearts when our brains have been in charge? What if there is not another who awakens our connection back to our hearts? This is where courage is needed. I'm asking you to do something that may go against a way of being that kept you feeling safe when you were small. I assure you that it was brilliant and necessary then. But now, it is outdated and keeping you disconnected from the very thing that will set you free. So. Courage. And one conscious breath. Our soft spot, our hearts, are at the core of us all. More than cultivating it, we only have to reveal it. As Michelangelo revealed David. We, too, reveal our hearts when we begin to let go of all that was built early on in service of our survival. I promise you, if you are reading this, you have survived. And more than that, you deserve to thrive. The world needs you. All of you.