Check Out Occasionally
I’ve been gone from this blog for a few weeks. When you want to work to get your message out to the public, guilt can sometimes crop up when your duties suffer because of a busy schedule.
Yet, I have to believe that it’s OK to check out occasionally. Sometimes the tugs and pulls of our responsibilities can seem overwhelming. We just have to pull back.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working hard on a new website, E Book, with audio downloads. The title is: A Broken Heart Can Kill You.
I’ve been wanting to help people who haven’t yet warmed to the idea that their emotions can lead to heart injury. It’s the missing link in heart disease and one that (in my view) is sorely needed.
Cardiologists are quick and rightly so to treat the physical aspects of heart disease, but often the “softer” emotional/psychological influences are overlooked.
So in the process of getting a number of things together, working on updating my workshop, Creating a Heart Centered Life, I’ve had to put blog posts on the back burner.
Life is a process. One writer has said that, Life is flesh and blood, not stone.
We have to be willing to acknowledge when we are pushed past out limits and just accept where we are in the moment.
Trusting our heart in this way allows us to check out occasionally and not be paralyzed by guilt.
May 19th, 2008 - Posted in Self Help, Emotional/Psychological | | 0 Comments
Ups and downs of Life
Life moves in cycles. The leaves fall. Winter’s chill descends, and just when it seems the cold oppression will never end- spring begins to come.
Dealing with these cycles is part of the rhythms of life. And its not always easy. It’s not easy to roll when you might feel like falling.
Do you know what I’m talking about? I’m sure you do. Most people have experienced the cycles of life.
Recently, I’ve found myself in the midst of a particularly bothersome cycle. I sometimes felt like a Bruce Springsteen song: going down, down, down. It made me almost wonder if I had stepped into a hole that was too big to scale.
My saving grace and what always brings me back to balance is to journey deep into my heart. I have to get quiet, and use a skill called “Practicing Remembrance.” Its an ancient skill for opening and healing the heart. But I”m always surprised at how easy it is to find peace if we’re willing to do what it takes.
Our hearts are truly wondrous. They contain a wisdom that defies logical explanation. But we have to find the time, make the time to to tap into this wisdom.
You may have a skill that takes you back to center. If you do then take the time to use it.
Life carries us around and around- up, down, in, and out. Like on a magical merry-go-round, we travel though life.
Take the time to find your own heart. Explore it. Move with it. You won’t be disappointed.
May 1st, 2008 - Posted in Self Help, Emotional/Psychological | | 0 Comments
