The Road to Healing is Paved with Heart
January 5th, 2012 by info
The road to healing is paved with stones
Healing or expanded awareness is all about leading your life with an open mind, but more importantly and opened heart. Our intuitive nature is closely attuned to our heart center and when this center is closed down healing cannot occur. What closes the heart? The basic aspects of our ego attachments can cause us to freeze up, shut down and close off any possible incoming pain.
Ego serves us by protecting the stability of our humaneness in relations to how and what we need to survive. The first three chakras are associated with survival and they connect us to the material world of how we must negotiate through a conundrum of chaotic challenges. Our tribal roots, belief system, religious affiliations and membership in our communities all require some ego finesse. When our egos are healthy and we have established some sense of boundary lines between that and the other, then we can with greater confidence live our lives with a more detached perspective while living with heart. However, early on in life, wounds do occur that create a sense of separation from the divine. We simply forget from what we came from and believe that we must create survival mechanisms of compromise, self doubt, feeling less than others, competitive, feelings of superiority or inferiority and a host of other ways to stay within the form of our surroundings. We can and do get by this way until periodic crises erupt, designed to open our hearts.
How many people do you know who appear successful on the surface? They have played the game well and are reaping material benefits of wealth, security, a lovely home, freedom, or whatever definition success is determined by. However, when you see this person and catch just a glimpse of expression on her or his face it looks gloomy, gray, vacant, almost as if some robot is running the show and the interior is closed for maintenance. This is how you know that one is not living with heart. It is because the rules we live by and the way the game in life is played is not the same as living one’s hearts longing. The heart longs for connection, compassion, love and wants to project this love to uplift the whole universe. When the heart center compromises or closes off divine urgings to express, freely dance, draw or sing, then dis-ease manifests. It’s just that simple and sometimes not so obvious. Disease can be addictions, running away from oneself and higher self, entering into low integrity contracts, deceiving others, hiding from the truth, or manifesting an actual illness.
It is never too late to change the path in life. The stones are always lying just before you, all you have to do is walk a path. Going out into the woods and literally just walking any path is a great place to start. Nature captures our truth, we cannot lie to nature. She is adept at hearing our cries, catching our tears, lighting our joys and soothing our sorrows. We heal just by being in a natural setting. Spend at least one hour or several in a quiet, undisturbed place in nature and allow the elements of air, water, fire and earth to speak to you, they will. Honor the four sacred directions adding a 5th to below, a 6th to above and opening your heart as the 7th. This ritual done daily is very powerful as it connects you the earth, cosmos and expands your definition of self. Ask permission from nature to take a rock, feather or piece of bark home with you. Add this or use this to create a sacred area where you can begin the process of remembering who you are to find the long way home. Always leave a token behind or a blessing.
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