Opening the heart.......through surrender

Dear Yogis,

That outpouring of gratitude I saw in all of the emails was incredible!  Couldn’t you just feel it through the PC?  Just imagine if you were standing close by….. Just imagine if we did that every day…..We are energy and we can build whatever it is that we desire! 

But don’t let it stop there.  Gratitude is a daily practice that becomes a way of life over time.  Creating a list of 10 each day gets it going.  Maybe sending them again to all of us.  Maybe falling asleep or waking up to them.  Maybe writing them daily in a journal.

Someone gives you a genuine hug….thank you Universe.  You receive an unexpected gift….thank you Universe.  As you open your eyes in the morning, the first image you see is fire red leaves against a brilliant blue sky….thank you Universe.   You host the 25^th  annual Lobsterfest dinner for 10 close friends who you only see once a year….thank you Universe.    And thank you especially for that much needed extra hour of sleep afterward!

 

Now the tougher one.   To open the heart, which is to have the ability to love others unconditionally, you must first love yourself.  Deeply love yourself.  Warts and all.  Successes and failures.  You must believe you are worthy.

So the practice this week is to create the quick list of  10 things about yourself that you are grateful for….  And read them aloud to yourself in the mirror.   This is not for the fainthearted….Why is it so much easier to be grateful for everyone else?  Why?

In the first 3 chakras of Earth, Water, and Fire, we noticed the vastness around us filled with pure potential, we turned on our sense of feeling to allow desire to rise, and then created the vision of how it will be once we have that which will fulfill us.    And we painted it on this blank canvas in front of us, projecting it out clearly into the world, and we see it daily with an unwavering focus…believing that we can and we will.

Now as we enter this 4^th chakra of the heart, Anahata, the unstruck chord, we are asked to surrender.    Just to surrender.  Trust.  Beginning here to move away from the physical-ness of our 3 lower energy centers, over the bridge of the heart, to our much more expansive, spiritual side, where all is possible.  Here we sense that there is more.  Much more.  Learning to  trust the unseen.  The universal energy that is so much bigger than us….yet not separate.  Moving from Me to We.   

This takes a loosening up on the reins.  This takes a “leap of faith”.    Leaving doubt and worry behind.  Closing your eyes and falling back into the arms of the Universe with utter trust. 

“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”

                ~Rabindranath Tagore

Aaaahhhhh………………

SARAH