Ten times a day something happens to me like this – some strengthening throb of amazement – some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness. ~ Mary Oliver
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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:
Your Shadow Invents You Every Time Light Fails to Pass Through You, by Michael Wasson
[to learn what to say to unlearn], Michael Palmer
The Happiness of Trees, by Michael Hettich
Read about The Defender, a piece of poetic African-American History
Dear Embodied Hearts and Dancing Souls,
Today we link Light to unlearning to growing trunks like trees. Is this the dance of the three Michaels? Go know. 🤷🏾♀️
Wowza. Friday's Glow class was all that + a bag of chips. It was amazing to see people from different walks of my life—Dance Chapel, writing, entrepreneurship. Especially touching? Seeing my Dance Chapel peeps again. (You, like E.E. Cummings writes, carry my heart.)
Speaking of heart, Glow participants totally climbed into theirs. We activated this precious resource of light residing within. One noticed her heart chakra expand. Another wanted to hold onto the feeling as long as possible. Someone else said it felt like a Glow party. Everyone embraced something they needed to see or hear, listening for messages from their unique Glow.
All I know is how lit up I felt. It wasn’t just about experiencing my light, but feeling it grow in free exchange with others. What if we could create a world based on this kind of exchange?
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Your Light-Body. I seem to be stepping into my Light Body. And yes, you can have a physical experience of your love-light. This light stuff is real. It’s been flowing through my energy field for days. Now, standing in the middle of a column of light, I wonder… what now? What does my Glow want? I can’t help but remember the film Stardust: "What do stars do?" Claire Danes’ character asks. "They shine!” she replies to her own question.
Where does my light want to go? Who and what does it want to touch? The remarkable thing is, there is a physicality to your Glow. You can feel it, fuel it, and step into the center of it. As I learn more, I’ll keep you posted.
Unlearning. You may remember, I was miserable the prior week. As I wrote in Thickets and Brambles, I felt trapped in a prison of my own making. My to-do list felt weighty. My desires, heavy. Wait… had I simply recreated a life of stress?
As it turns out, I’m unlearning. I haven’t stood up my own offerings since mid-2023. I’ve led, but in others’ defined spaces. I didn’t have it in me to define or promote something of my own. But this time, a distinct growl in my belly—like a pit bull grabbing my slippers—made me determined to face my load. I got clear: I did not want this work I loved to give me stress. I let my growl lead me into a new relationship with my projects.
The main unlearning was around Fear—habitual behaviors I undertake to feel Safe by completing projects and doing them “well.” Instead, I followed the stalk of each project stalk down to my root desire and joy. Here is a taste of what that growl wanted me to find: my book—a light of lived wisdom that wants to radiate out; my classes—a chance to create and bring out the light in others while listening to my own embodied heart frequencies. In the process, the weight of conditions or standards I had placed on myself crumbles. No need to be clever or profound or …long even. I’m unlearning fear and shifting towards my heart’s desire.
I’m unlearning fear and shifting toward my heart’s desire. ~ Monisha
Reconnected with my desire, I can step back into my body and take on the work. Instead of dropping into the habit of taking on too much (and feeling behind), it felt natural to break tasks into bite-sized chunks and allocate them to 60- or 90-minute slots on my calendar. Promotion wasn’t promotion anymore—it was simply sharing the light of my work. In this flow, I learn that an article I submitted to a local magazine —on why play matters —has been accepted for publication! Squee!
Sticking the Landing. Suddenly, I was just following the light. Where and how does my light want to shine? Who and what does it want to touch? Like this, I created a delightfully light one-hour curriculum for the class. I created a looser framework for a 5-minute talk (yes, on the same day I was leading my class twice).
On the big day, I knew I wanted to start with yoga. By the time I rolled back up to seated position, hands in Namaste at my heart, my body sent me an image: my cupped hands diving into a flame. I remembered the voice by the candle—my big Body Awakening—telling me the Body wanted to play a larger role on the planet. In the moment, I saw myself reaching into the blue center of that first flame, cupping that essential ember, and bringing it out to others.
That’s my job today, I realized. And this time? I let myself have fun. There was so much spaciousness in that one hour. So much territory we could cover. The phrase, the Trunkening repeats in my head. What if there is simply a column of light in the middle of our Beings and we grow outward—ring by ring—from here? We have roots, but also trunks.
My guidance at the start of the year suggested that in 2025 I Radiate and Stick the Landing. On Friday I felt I did both.
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To your exquisite unfolding. Stay #heartwoke.
Monisha
When we belong to ourselves, we move freely. ~ Monisha Mittal
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