Today is the end of the Mayan calendar! What all of it means, I don’t know, but I do know that I want intention and awareness to be invested in the day.
What is it that brings us to a place of seeing and experiencing from the Heart? The Native American speaker on the film “Shift of the Ages” stated that “The longest journey we will take in life is from the head to the heart.” Why is it that way? If the heart enriches our life experience and the totality of our experiences, why is it a challenge to get there?
I know from my own life that it is the journey in the challenge that can give the greatest serendipities. It is really, within each challenge, that we have an opportunity to journey to the heart, to journey with the heart.
Within human nature are qualities that avoid new journeys. These qualities will come up, that is part of our programming, and the ‘living in the head’ to which we have been programmed. To walk differently is… is… risky. It is new and uncharted territory. Fear grabs us, and we justify to ourselves why we need to recoil and stay where we are.
This new walk is risky, I won’t diminish it. But I won’t accept it. Fear of fear itself keep us in the head, and bumbling along, asleep a the wheel of life, while the autopilot steers our ship. The value of shifting to a fuller and richer experience of life can never be fully described, because no two experiences are alike.
“Who am I?” Let that phrase reverberate throughout your day. As you encounter your day, keep that subtle question moving within your thought process, agitating you to move beyond the mind.
Journey well, journey together. We are in the Age of Community!
Peace & Joy
Love & Light
Shanthi (Peace)