Removing Asterisks

May 15, 2020

Are there certain habits or health conditions or ways of being that you have come to think are “just the way things are”? You might say: I am depressed, bad with money, a late-night eater, a poor sleeper. The list could go on and on.

And on most days, you can live with that. After all it’s just the way you are.

Are you? Are you really? Or at some point did you let that asterisk attach itself so thoroughly to you that you have come to think of it as you.

And when that day comes where that little asterisk threatens to take you down, is it finally time then to claim your wholeness? Or is doing that something that should be a daily and deliberate, conscious and committed heart-centered practice every single day?

Compulsivus

May 13, 2020

compulsory means required by rule or law or obligation
compulsive resulting from, relating to, acting on an irresistible urge, especially one that is against one's conscious wishes.
a compulsion is similar to the above but is also the action or state of forcing or being forced to do something; constraint.
to compel is to force or drive or use pressure
compelling is evoking interest, attention, or admiration in a powerfully irresistible way — and therefore not usually able to be refuse

So most of these words imply something forced from the outside perhaps resulting in behavior that may harm us or others and that we may regret. And then compelling turns that on its ear — and what is irresistible is not necessarily bad, and most probably beautiful or fascinating and powerful.

Clear

May 12, 2020

If we lose sight of our inherent wholeness we might begin to believe that we are not whole. That something is wrong that needs to be fixed, when all that really needs to happen is some good deep spiritual cleaning.

This heart-centered practice of wholeness is about re-learning how to begin and end in wholeness. Not how to fix something that has gotten irrevocably broken. This is true of ourselves, of one another, and of our world. This means — and this is the tough part — if we don’t want to see ourselves as broken, we can’t see anyone else as broken. If we want to see a vibrant and hopeful future for our economy and our planet, we have to start from its place of inherent wholeness.

Mother Earth shows us this every single day — as skies get bluer and bluer, rivers run cleaner, birds, fish and animals return to places they had long abandoned. A little cleaning, Mother Earth reminds us, goes a long way. She is showing us the way.

My Mouse Movie

May 7, 2020

When we are in darkness, everything seems dark and huge and scary and permanent. All that has to happen is for the light to go on, and everything shifts.

That’s why today’s heart-centered practice process of wholeness is inviting the light in all the time — to shine a light on those dark areas of our lives (old fears, old stories, the world’s stories) that we believe we can’t handle or don’t know what do do with. . .

Tiramisu

May 6, 2020

I realized that my feelings were more like tiramisu than M&Ms. There wasn’t a hard coating of fear around the soft chocolate of my heart. Rather there were different flavors of fear mixed in with the Love. And there seemed to be two strains of fear: Old fear and new fear.

The old fear was irrational and not particularly relevant to the situation. But it felt the most real and the most urgent because it was the most familiar.

Then there was the new fear — which felt more rational but less anxiety provoking.

I was spending a lot of time talking to both strains of fear, even though neither of them held the answer.

Only Love held the answer. Only Love could.