Fill with Soft Assurance
Kindle your Heart Light
Remember the fire in your spirit is an important resource. Do not let this fire go out. Continue to add kindling. ~ Sofia Wren
Because Human-ing is harder than Adulting. This is a weekly publication for heart-centered warriors, swimming through this thing called Life.
Selected Readings and Sounds:
Silver, Jeannette Encinias
The Ground Beneath my Feet, Monisha Mittal
Rumi poem (untitled!)
Dear Embodied Hearts and Dancing Souls,
Last week, Divine Feminine serpentined her way up my body to be let OUT, wanting more ROOM. She showed up in every intentional space where I inhabited so I could learn to hear her. She fills my space, my strokes, my moves with the energy of soft assurance, asking me to listen to a different layer of the stillness. Such Power here. Stepping into this vibe spills into a new poem. The experience as it came through me felt remarkable.
Quick shoutouts before the plunge:
I am co-leading Body Wisdom Tools online from February 10th - May 19th with the amazing CC King and Linds Roberts.
Celebrating a new poem that flowed out from my BodySpirit.
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Relinking to last week’s meditation because I sent it out at such a wonky time.
Divine Feminine. Divine Feminine was in full force as a collective on Friday. A merry band of wizened women mentors and colleagues gathered to celebrate me, the vibe of my new website and video. They beamed their light into intentional blessings for my work in the world. A friend found the perfect poem for a woman aging: Silver, which I shared to invoke Her in all of us.
All month long I have been celebrating the gift of intentional play spaces. Here is the fruition—play as incubation. These women have fearlessly, generously tended my fire over the past five years. I felt grateful for the rarest of spaces that they afforded me: room to grow into my own light. On this 57th solar return, the celebration itself felt like a warm fire one pauses over to warm their hands. One piece of feedback on my website I especially loved: “Nourishing with a kick of spice”. Nailed it.
Listening. As I Dance with Her, I listen. I fill with soft assurance. Even my daily drawings are showing me how the palest of strokes can slowly deepen in just 3 moves, looking for all the world like a sunrise. As my cat presents with another tooth issue, I turn to an animal communicator, not a vet. What does his body want, I wonder? This is a bridge too far for some people. But I know, everything communicates at various vibrational frequencies.
Not surprisingly, Chandra wants us to trust his body, which is still coming back into equilibrium after the surgery. He feels medically over-managed by the vet. We are bowing to his body wisdom. Ensuring water and food intake, adding daily massages. Bowing, I notice (and feel) how we are also choosing the path of greatest peace. [If you know of proven herbal pain remedies for cats, please let me know.]
As I dance with Her, I listen. I fill with soft assurance.
It is a relief knowing we are acting in concert with him. He trusts us, feels grateful for the check in. If you want peace of mind (or heart) with a pet, I highly recommend reaching out to Connie Koch, who is currently completing her certification, at Conniekoch615@gmail.com. She is terrific!
Regime Change. Not so peaceful is the authoritarian regime that has taken over the U.S. government. Dismissive of constitutional processes, somehow able to intimidate American businesses, and deploy armed forces to steal children away from schools, we have clearly shifted to operating as a fascist state. All done legitimately! It Can Happen to You.
Look up
Look down
Look out
Look aroundYes (the band), It Can Happen
Because I live in the DC metro area, I am hearing of the new horrible from friends and former colleagues. The blatancy of white supremacy is …spreading. But more importantly, FEAR is starting to spread across the land.
All I know for sure is that this is by design. This is how authoritarian regime’s gain implicit power. Don’t speak or else. Say this or else. Out and about, people are quickly normalizing it. At the gym, bros talking about colleagues being let go in neutral voices. Without realizing it, I can respond in fear around these topics. It’s subtle. I want to stay vigilant period, but also vigilant in my communications, so fear doesn’t enter my operating system.
Back to Heart Glow. That brings me back to heart glow. My wizened women lit up my heart until I felt it grow into a column of light, connecting the heavens to the ground from the top of my head. Such is the power of our collective. The light in your heart can grow from a spark to a fire. That’s why I love the quote from my friend and writing maven Sofia Wren:
Continue to add kindling to your heart light. ~ Sofia Wren
As I wonder about where and why to take my next step, the poem floods in. I am led back to a divine secret laying in the center of my own heart. This is Rumi level stuff. The way feet entered my poem reminds me of this excerpt from another poem of his:
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; To regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. ~ Rumi
Your heart’s fire does not simply dance for compassion. It dances for your Delight. This is the place, right in your chest, connected to a rich DEPTH and magical river that moves below (and above) our shared reality. Keep your heart lit (and your knowledge bases up to date) but don’t give in to fear. This is vital — ultimately, we will need to learn how to talk to each other, on all sides of the political divide.
Be patient, do not open the lid too soon
simmer away until you are ready. (Rumi)
Hoping you are finding ways to resource your central energy reserves. I will send out another meditation as kindling. And…finally, I will plant a step in February to offer spaces for you to have your own GLOW.
To your exquisite unfolding. Stay #heartwoke.
Monisha
When we belong to ourselves, we move freely. ~ Monisha Mittal
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