The world is broken right now. The good news is that none of us can pretend it isn’t. Yes, the good news. Because we cannot heal until we recognize that we need to heal.
Until we are willing to break down the old, we will not see what we have forgotten. We can only be whole when we recognize that we are only Whole in Love.
We cannot create new ways of living until we stop choosing the old ways.
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What’s the difference between judgment and discernment? Fear and Love. To discern is to recognize not only the heart-centered truth of a situation, but it is to led Love guide our actions and reactions. Discernment is an essential heart-centered practice of wholeness. Right now it may be more essential than ever!
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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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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.