We’re all trying to understand what’s happening any way we can. But these questions, this issues, these times can seem so big that they sometimes scare us. And that’s when we turn on the TV and hope that things will go back to the normal we see on the screen.
They can’t.
We’re way past that point in the race.
Here’s the bottom line:
Unless each of us find a way to live more holistically, none of us will.
Every single choice each of us makes has a larger consequence.
Period. The end.
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Here in the US, today is Mothers Day.
Wherever she may be, my mother is undoubtedly chuckling . . .because today’s blog is about planning.
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We have become so good at avoidance, that we no longer know we’re avoiding something.
You know how you can go up and down stairs without thinking. That’s what we do with stuff we don’t want to see. We pick up that corner of our consciousness and sweep unpleasantness away, all while having a conversation or cooking breakfast.
That’s why we have to clean house.
Read MoreThis pandemic is like contrast dye used in a medical test: Contrast dye is injected so that medical professionals can better see what is normal or abnormal. It doesn’t change what is being seen; it just allows them to distinguish what is healthy and unhealthy. This, then, allows them to make a more accurate diagnosis which leads to better healing. This pandemic is revealing so many things that all of us have tried to ignore. That’s why this heart-centered practice of wholeness is ESSENTIAL. And that’s why it’s so hard. We weren’t brought up to look at the hard stuff. But we have to do it. We can stay in avoidance -- OR we can avail ourselves of the Power of Love that always always heals!
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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. . .
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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.
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I have asked for this. And so, if I have asked for it, and it is being given to me, why not be glad, give thanks, rejoice — as my lifelong morning prayer says?
It would be like saying you love going to horror movies and then hating every minute of it and wishing you weren’t there.
It would be like telling everyone you love roller coasters and then wishing you were home on the sofa.
It would be like announcing you love to travel the world and then being okay with being homesick the entire time.
I asked for this. I asked to see what needs to be seen. So if that’s happening, why aren’t I enjoying what I asked for?
Well, here’s why: Fear wants to keep us right where it has us.
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I always remind my clients that money is actually an illusion. It is paper and credit with no gold standard. We live in a Monopoly game and all of our financial practices are being made up as we go along.
Underneath that all what money stands for is actually an exchange of value. If you value what you do, then others feel that energy and they want to engage with it.
Value is the regard that something is held in deeming it worthy, deserving, important or useful. In a world where so much of what we do seems valueless or even destructive, people want to surround themselves and imbue their lives with the values of beauty, creativity, joy, connection, kindness. So when we value ourselves enough to create or work from our hearts, others want to support that through an exchange of money or services. That is the definition of a true economy — an equal, holistic and eager exchange of value to the benefit of all.
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Did you know that the words holy, whole, holistic, heal, and health all come from the same root word? It's all interconnected. It's all one. Just as we are all interconnected and we are all one. Now we each just have to start living our heart-centered practice of wholeness.
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During this month, I will create this new heart-centered practice of wholeness by sharing the evolution of its process.
Heart-centered practice is a journey not a destination. I hope that by sharing in this way, you’ll see that each of us can create our own heart-centered practices that get us out of our fear-based problem-solving heads and into our Love-led hearts
Each day I will dive deep into an incident or feeling or experience that made me realize that a part of my life is not Whole. And I will work through the process of getting out of my divisive head and into my holistic heart.
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May’s heart-centered practice of presence is Wholeness.
One of my core heart-centered practices (it’s in my new book, Living Love: 12 Heart-Centered Practices to Transform Your Life, is witnessing. This is the process of learning to pay more attention to your thought patterns and all the actions and reactions they produce — without judging yourself or others.
Lately I’ve been witnessing certain things:
I sometimes have a much bigger physical or emotional reaction to something or someone than my mind is telling me I need to have.
I have a habit of avoiding certain kinds of interactions, situations, tasks, practices — and those avoidance patterns are often similar.
Fear can be both extreme and subtle — but it’s the subtle forms of fear’s suggestions that take the deepest root. . .and are the hardest to spot.
A lifetime of justifying certain behaviors and beliefs does NOT make those behaviors and beliefs okay for me or anyone.
The things we sweep under our mental or spiritual rugs need to get cleaned out — or pretty soon we start tripping on what’s under that rug every single day . . .and if we don’t pay attention pretty soon it takes over the whole house.
We all live as if the choices we make have no consequences, when in fact every single choice we make has consequences. Every single choice.