Poetic Revelations: Heaviness and Light
How to Love in the Dark
Whatever crisis we face, there is this voice of embodiment that speaks beneath our pain ever so quickly, and if we can hear it and believe it, it will show us a way to be reborn. The courage to hear and embody opens us to a startling secret, that the best chance to be whole is to love whatever gets in the way, until it ceases to be an obstacle
~ Mark Nepo
This is a weekly publication for heart-centered warriors, swimming through this thing called life with an intact, open heart (and voice).
SELECTED POEMS
Fall Song, Mary Oliver
I Worried, Mary Oliver
Dear Embodied Hearts and Dancing Souls,
The magic and promise of the autumn is intermingling with heavy realities. My writing voice is strangely quiet. Dance Chapel is tonight.
Heart-currency. The past week, I noticed waking up with a zing in my heart many mornings in a row. A feeling of a day with Possibilities. Since it wasn’t the norm for many days and decades, I celebrate this. I celebrate waking to a day that beckons.
The path between my heart and my breath feels clearer. I can’ explain it but in Qigong, I fill with what feels like heart-juice; it feels like its own currency. There is a trail here laced with the sweetness of my own desires. The sunflower “prophecy” seems to be coming true. I position myself to face my dreams. Pieces and people weave in and out creating a life that has begun to feel more like me.
Every now and then I have to pinch myself and remember this moment has never happened before. The next one either.
The Rules. I intended to start writing about the Rules. The rules of what you might ask? I could say Emotional Freedom though its much more than that. There is a magic here to Life, that as we are more expressed in our unique self, our Life responds.
The quote above is a reasonable place to start. However you were “shaped” by your upbringing, it wasn’t always safe or easy to have your experience, especially your feelings about it. These remain trapped in our bodies. (Lovingly I might add). As we find safety to have our feelings, I have found its more than possible to love every bit of fear, protection or anything else my body is holding for me. When I love them, I discover they were holding essential information about myself all along. As I bow to their wisdom, I find the poison becomes the nectar. I welcome in more of my essential self, and am more willing to be available to my whole life.
and my life Responds. Sometimes we go through shitty experiences. (I’m going through one now.) People are tough, especially if they spew out their wounds. But as long as we listen, and hang on loosely, and have our lungs yoked to our hearts, we can have deep love and joy side by side. The more self-love we experience, the more love we find we naturally have for others. (Give from your overflow.)
Heaviness and Light. I don’t have people in Gaza or Israel but my heart aches for every body having to navigate the fear and terror of this war.
Whenever global events unfold, I have to remember to breathe and ask myself, “What is mine to do?” This keeps me centered in my life-force, rather than let my innate power slip away or slide into victimization.
We have to stay in our life force. And we have to remember the choices we do have. I can consciously sending out light and love to the bodies involved is another. Time and again though I have found the best thing I can do for world peace is to take personal responsibility for tending to my own inner peace by facing the fear, judgements, and separation within.
The Thinning Veil. Quick note on another part of the magic of this season. My father happened to mention that this is the time of Shradh, or the time we worship our deceased ancestors. I noticed how seasonally this is aligned— whether all Hallows eve, or Day of the Dead. Remember, we are not alone.
Stay #heartwoke. To your exquisite unfolding,
Monisha
NOTES:
Tuesday Dance Chapel Zoom link (same each week):
NEW Dance Chapel Link: 825 748 1773 or Click here (has password)
Passcode: wedance