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Out There

by Deborah Mears

Out there

You’ll see it all.

The floating ends

will meet and mend,

and you wil be yourself;

your fully formed,

though always changing,

self of selves.

Every clumsy backward look

will pay for itself.

Every tear you’ve cried,

or wanted to cry,

will set your broken bones.

The rips in your heart

will no longer

need to be guarded by steel girders,

banyan trees,

or even rice paper.

Not so much as a 

dragonfly’s wing

will you need

to cover the bludgeoned place,

to protect the private you

you love so much

and hope to save intact

from what has seemed years

of relentless pummeling.

Go and live and love

in peace, my friend,

for surely there is love

to enfold you,

and life to be feasted upon:

your portion is boundless.

Love will be the more

you’ve wanted.

You will know it when you see it.

You will love yourself 

as no lover

has ever had the courage

to love;

and the warmth you’ve wanted

will line your pillowcases,

dance upon your windowsill,

and hide

at the ends of your socks

awaiting your toes.

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In our culture we grow up censoring the way that we talk. For those of us who feel deeply, it can be a challenge to traverse a culture that judges people who feel deeply.

Have you ever been told you are too sensitive? Have you been told you are too emotional? Have you been told you need to reign it in and get a grip? Have you been told you are exaggerating? Have you been told that you are misunderstanding the situation?

A lot of people have spent their lives being told they don’t have a right to their feelings, that in some way they need to change how they feel. I don’t really think that that is possible. Your emotions are your emotions, period. That is not to say that within an emotional response there isn’t room for change. Often a strong emotional response is the mind-body communicating something to you, that something does need to change, shift and transform, but to clamp down on it and deny it completely creates disharmony rather than allowing the real issue to be revealed.

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How often do you:

* Keep on pushing through even when you are exhausted.
* Ignore your feelings because you just don’t have time to deal with them.
* Put others first, including virtual strangers.
* Get involved in long conversations when what you need is to be by yourself.
* Go to events even though you are exhausted with just a few droplets of social energy left in your tank.
* Find yourself grabbing for a piece of chocolate to soothe yourself and you eat it as you pace around the kitchen, barely noticing you ate it.
* Find yourself thinking compulsively about the things you need to do throughout the day whilst you are in the shower and get dressed on autopilot and start your day disconnected from the body and your needs.
* Ignore the voice that says you need to take a break and pause before continuing on with your list of errands.
* Take space for yourself, with no agenda other than to take care of yourself.

Fight and flight is a chronic issue in our culture, and self-soothing, truly nourishing self-soothing, is almost non-existent. We all operate on autopilot, with a go-go-go mentality, pushing forward, just trying to survive. Dropping into the body and learning to self-sooth is the gateway to feeling more relaxed, more complete and integrated in your life.
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Today is the day to honor your heart and let love flow, to acknowledge any heaviness that is hanging out in the heart and to set the intention to let it go, or at least to lighten up!

There are so many awesome ways to amp up the flow of heart energy so that it is more flowing within you and more accessible to the people around you.

Sometimes sad experiences, heart break, heart confusion, stuck anger in the heart, fear of being hurt, fear of being loved, a contracted, tight heart all prevent your heart from flowing in a natural way.

It is natural for the heart energy to flow and heart energy supports the whole body by supervising what goes on in the body. It plays a huge role in the balance of emotions and when we employ the help of the heart it can really help us lighten up any stuck energy in the heart.

In order to empower the heart to help us lighten up, we need to do something to raise the vibration of the heart. This doesn’t need to be complicated. There is so much research supporting the fact that simply looking around our world at the things that we appreciates shifts the vibration in the heart.

So even if sadness, fear, anger, or confusion is feeling entangled in the heart, set the intention to let go of this heaviness whilst you take a walk and see what you see in your immediate environment.

Right now the sun is setting here in Seattle casting a gorgeous orange glow over the grey clouds and it is simple things like this that can kick start the heart to see what it loves in this world. Once we tip the balance by amping up the vibration of the heart, the body is more equipped to release the heaviness.

Have a fun heart day, love day, and let your heart energy flow, baby, flow!!

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