A SIMPLE CONTEMPLATION PRACTICE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
A mystical path is usually one traveled through a thick forest at night with only the moon and instinct to guide you. Untravelled by those before you, step by step, you have to make that path for yourself. Uphill you keep going, not knowing where you are heading, and eventually you find yourself on a dawn lit mountain top in perfect time to feel the sun kiss your tired face with his warm, sleepy rising, showing you the entrance where the path of the unknown continues.
Chances are if you are reading this you are walking a mystical path.
And if that’s true, I have a compass to share with you in case you ever get lost. A simple active contemplation practice that changed my life: Listen to the heart.
Your heart is your compass. If you keep your heart healthy, directions become clearer.
When I am challenged to the core of my being. When none of my expertise seems to be helping. These are the times when I wake up very early before dawn and surrender the intellect of the mind to the knowledge of the heart.
I understand that this seems so simple it is redundant, almost a cliche. But truly taking the time to silence the mind and listen to the heart is the most powerful compass you can have.
To begin, I suggest you keep your heart healthy…
Swept clean of jealousy, resentment, judgement, and vacant fears.
Supported by water, song, dance, laughter, green food, rose, hawthorn, violet, and forget-me-not.
And when the heart feels immaculate, grateful, and healthy, close your eyes, look within, and listen, closely and well, to that rhythmic miracle: life, so wise. Every answer you need about where to go, what to do, and how to get there, your heart has imbibed through your soul’s experience. Listen. The more your heart feels heard the more she will share with you.
When I take time to listen to my heart I find most solutions, even to exceedingly complex challenges, are very simple. I then step up to the next challenge of putting what the heart has shared into action. When the heart feels trusted through the actions we take, the heart shares even more wisdom with you.
Eventually you find yourself in constant active contemplation with the heart. She guides you to take the park instead of the street for your morning walk. She craves beauty. You see two strangers who, finding they share the same language, harmonize a beautiful song for the trees. You realize this all was your heart feeding herself with joy. Though in the background of your mind, ego is screaming, “Your important to-do’s can’t wait!” you pause to breathe in this joy. The lungs, the heart's wings, open, and the mind feels at ease with the heart's choices. And you continue.
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