Our heart,
The center of our being.
Pulses with the lifeblood of our divinity.
It is where we find the power to love.
The power to heal and the power to be free.
And because the heart is where we experience so much of what it means to be human.
It is also where we feel our deepest pain.
When our heart breaks.
It may naturally turn inward.
Create a sacred space within us for healing.
A place to become quiet,
To listen,
And to tend to what is tender within us.
And in that quiet inner space.
We may discover something we cannot always feel when we're caught in the noise of the world around us.
The Holy of Holies within us.
In the quiet sanctuary of our heart.
Light of our Divine Essence can help us rebalance.
And regain our equilibrium.
So today.
We come not to force our heart open.
But to meet it with tenderness.
To allow our broken heart to be held with love.
And to allow that door of our heart to softly open.
So the light of our Divine Essence.
Can flow again.
Place your hands over your heart.
Just let them rest there for a moment.
And imagine your breath flowing in and out through your heart.
There's no need to make your breath perfect.
Simply find a rhythm that feels easy and natural.
And now.
Just sit here for a little while.
With your hands resting gently upon your chest.
Breathing softly in and out through your heart.
Just be here.
With your heart.
Here you are.
Taking this time to care for your tender broken heart.
And if tears come,
Let them.
Simply let yourself be exactly as you are.
Feel your heart gently softening.
Not opening all the way.
Just soften it.
To become curious.
About what lies within you.
Simply breathe.
Allow yourself to feel the quiet invitation of your heart.
As you rest here with your heart.
Become aware of the protectors who have stood watch over your heart.
The guards,
The firefighters,
And the ones who have worked so hard to keep you safe.
You don't need to push them away.
Instead,
Gently turn toward them.
And silently asked.
Do you have a message for me?
Is there something you want me to know about why my heart has been so heavily guarded?
And then just simply listen.
Listen without judgment.
Allow whatever comes to arise in its own time.
Perhaps there is a story.
Perhaps there is a memory.
Perhaps there is simply a feeling.
Whatever comes,
Let it be enough.
And as you hear their message.
Perhaps you can begin to recognize the truth.
They were never trying to hurt you.
They were simply trying to stop your pain.
Take a moment now to thank these protectors.
Or their fierce loyalty to your heart.
Thank them for all the ways they have tried to keep you safe.
And gently let them know that they can rest now.
They don't have to leave,
They can simply rest.
You have discovered that you are safe.
In the tenderness of your own hands.
Something within you is ready to go deeper.
Feel a gentle pull.
As though a magnet is drawing you inward.
Deeper into your heart.
You don't need to force anything.
Simply follow the gentle pull.
You come to a door.
The door of these protectors have been standing guard before all this time.
As you stand before it.
You notice the door,
The hinges are rusty from lack of use.
And yet,
As you look more closely,
You notice something.
Light.
Light is peeking beneath the door.
Light is shining through the keyhole.
And as you become aware of it.
You begin to sense a warmth and beauty waiting on the other side.
Something within you is awakening.
A desire to return to the light.
A desire to come home to yourself.
Perhaps there's tenderness here too.
Before you realize that this door too was only trying to keep you safe.
He was built from love.
So with compassion,
Thank this door.
And then let yourself move through it.
There's no need to open the door.
Your consciousness simply passes right through it.
Now.
You find yourself standing in the outer chamber of the heart.
Quiet vestibule between the outer world and the sacred inner home that lives within you.
Take a moment to look around.
Feel the warmth here.
You have arrived somewhere safe.
Out of the weather of your thoughts and emotions.
Into a place where you can begin to set down what you have been carrying.
You notice the emotion soaked overcoat you've been wearing.
Drenched with all you have felt.
All the tears you have cried.
Perhaps it has become very heavy.
This overcoat has served you.
It helped you move through storms.
So before you take it off.
Thank this cult.
Thank this tender protector for all the ways that it's helped you move through the storms of your life.
And now.
So with tenderness and gratitude.
You take off your emotional overcoat.
Feel its weight leave your shoulders.
And gently hang it here and let it rest.
You do not need to carry it with you any farther.
Take a slow breath.
And notice how much lighter you feel.
Feel the spaciousness around your shoulders.
Openness around your heart.
The freedom that comes when you no longer have to carry.
Everything at once.
And now.
As you're ready to move further into the light.
Bring your attention down to your feet.
There are your trusty old boots.
They have traveled a long way with you.
They carry the dust of old stories and old hurts and old memories.
Perhaps they're still caked with some mud where you have continued to cling to the past.
Look at these boots with compassion.
They too have served you.
They carried you through difficult terrain.
They helped you keep going when the path was hard.
And now you have reached this threshold.
Because something within you is ready to walk differently.
So with reverence.
You take off your boots.
As you thank them for the journey.
And retire them from their service.
You will not need them where you are going.
For where you are going.
You will walk softly.
Lightly.
Feeling the supportive ground beneath you.
Take a breath and feel your feet free.
And now.
As your eyes gently move around the room.
You notice a little table nearby.
A place where you can set down your purse or your wallet.
And as you place it there.
Notice how good it feels to set something down.
You are setting down more than just your personal wallet.
You are setting down the identity you have come to carry.
The stories you have told yourself about who you are,
What happened to you,
And.
.
.
Perhaps the role you have sometimes had to inhabit in order to make sense of your pain.
You don't need to deny what has happened.
Simply set it down for now.
You are not erasing your story.
You are simply giving yourself permission to enter this sacred space.
Without being defined by it.
You are more than your experiences.
More than your wounds.
More than the stories you have carried.
Perhaps.
Just for this moment.
You can allow yourself to be no one.
Of the essence of who you are.
And as you rest here.
Feel what it's like to simply be.
Without the weight of the past.
Nothing to carry.
Nothing from the past weighing upon you.
And perhaps beneath all that you have carried.
You begin to sense something that has always been here.
Something untouched by the stories,
By the rules,
Untouched by the pain.
You.
The you beneath it all.
The you who has been here all along.
And now unburdened.
You are ready to enter.
Enter the inner home of your heart.
You have passed the guards.
You have moved through the door.
You have laid down what you no longer need to carry.
And now.
You are ready to go deeper.
Simply fly.
Follow the light.
Follow the gentle pull from within.
As you move through the inner chambers,
Notice how quiet it becomes.
Sound of the outer world begins to fade.
You are moving beyond the mind.
Beyond the stories.
And enter the deeper knowing of your heart.
Perhaps you notice the walls around you becoming softer.
Perhaps you sense a greater spaciousness.
Perhaps you feel yourself being drawn deeper into a place you have always known.
Keep following the light.
You are simply coming home.
As you continue inward.
You begin to sense that you are approaching something sacred.
Something ancient.
Something that has been waiting quietly within you.
Where you begin to feel a greater pull,
As though a magnet is drawing you toward the very center of your being.
Deeper.
And deeper.
And deeper into the center of your heart.
And here you notice the light.
How first it.
.
.
Is only a gentle glow.
The more clearly you see it.
An eternal flame.
Your flame.
The flame of your divine essence.
It has been burning within the sacred center of your being all along.
It has never been extinguished.
There may have been times when pain covered it.
Times when fear surrounded it.
But the flame itself never dies.
It was simply waiting for you to remember.
Waiting for you to come home.
And now.
It is beckoning you.
Calling you deeper.
To come closer.
He just seems to whisper.
Come home.
Come home.
Come home to your heart.
Come home to the divine within you.
And as you draw closer to this eternal flame.
You begin to feel something you may have forgotten.
The warmth of your own divine presence.
The love that has been here all along.
You don't have to earn it.
You don't have to become anything other than who you are.
Simply receive it.
Breathe it in.
And let the light breathe you.
Let there be space for the heart to open in whatever way it is ready to open.
Mmm,
Perhaps you feel warmth.
Or tenderness,
Or maybe nothing at all.
Whatever you experience is welcome here.
There's no right way to feel.
There's only this moment,
This breath.
This sacred center within you.
For at the center of all things lies a treasure.
And here in the deepest chamber of your heart.
You remember.
The treasure was never outside of you.
It has been here all along.
Rest here.
Rests in the stillness.
Rests in the light.
Rest in the remembrance of who you truly are.
It's just me.
