So in the work that I do,
Contacting the heart of healing starts with saying hello to how healing
happens for you.
Hello is often a neutral acknowledgement.
It could be like a greeting
without expectation of a result.
And this greeting can be short,
Long,
Or somewhere in between.
In fact,
What I've found is that it actually matters less for how long we notice health and
healing and more so that we actually give ourselves the opportunity and the chance to
notice it.
And so what could this look like?
What are a few examples of contacting the heart of
healing?
Well,
One of them would be observing small acts of health and healing in everyday life.
Possibly feeling the release of tension in our body after we experience a sneeze.
Saying hello to the dance between tension and release that occurred during the sneeze.
That kind of startled feeling coupled with the release and how it feels to dance in between
those two things.
And then another one could be feeling how our body naturally finds its own
balance after we stand up or sit down.
Again,
Saying hello,
Neutrally acknowledging the power
of establishing our center of gravity.
Another one could be feeling our body finding a resting
pose or posture when we lie down or when we sit down or when we practice resting.
Again,
That neutral acknowledgement of,
In this case,
Like the wonders of comfort and repose.
Another way we could contact the heart of healing could be focusing on the glimmers
in the present.
And what do I mean by glimmers?
Well,
I mean,
Many times our brains,
They want
to find healing in the future.
We make plans to experience it at some other time down the road.
And to be clear,
There's nothing per se right or wrong,
Good or bad,
You know,
About looking forward to finding something better in the future.
In fact,
This could be a driving force of optimism and a way to stay focused on positivity and to generate
constructive thoughts.
What I'm here to add is that when we focus on glimmers of positive healing
in the present,
We empower a sustainable heart and a meaningful journey of healing in ways that
we cannot do if we're operating exclusively from the future.
We are not investing all of our
attention into healing in some other time.
We are also experiencing it here and now,
Experiencing the future as a quality of presence in that way.
What is a glimmer?
A glimmer is
sort of a faint flicker,
Right?
A glimmer could be,
You know,
The embers of optimism
within your healing journey.
And what do you think happens when we apply our attention energy onto
these embers?
What do you think happens when we set an intention to kindle these embers
so that they can develop,
Unfold,
And reach perhaps a greater glow?
Most likely,
Similar to anything in life,
Focusing on it amplifies it,
Deepens it,
And makes it more
real.
Our focus has the power to enrich aspects of life and to bring them into center stage.
With that said,
We all have intrusive thoughts from time to time,
Unhelpful things that come up in our awareness and our experience of life and living.
We are not machines of 24-7 positivity,
So how do we manage these types of experiences?
In Spanish,
The word hermanar,
Brotherhood,
To become a brother with,
To befriend.
It's like
extending an embrace toward these unwanted thoughts by saying that neutral hello,
Which again,
The
neutral hello is not about,
You know,
Expecting a result.
I mean,
There's power in saying hello
to something or someone.
If you think about the last time you said a simple hello,
It probably
was not very complicated.
You may have been passing somebody on the street,
Finding your place in line,
Or checking out at the register.
Hello typically comes with almost no expectations for a follow-up
or any further dialogue.
It's just a hello,
A neutral acknowledgement.
Hello.
And so saying hello to unhelpful thoughts is not the same as rejecting them.
If you were an unhelpful thought,
How would you feel about being rejected?
What course of action
would you take after you had been rejected?
What if we practiced greeting them with neutrality,
Embracing them?
This does not have to mean accepting full stop.
It could start with acknowledging,
Registering their presence,
And then being able to apply your attention energy again to the heart
of healing so that you can continue to focus on cultivating and maintaining and having and
enjoying a sustainable heart,
Health,
Wellness,
And well-being for yourself.
Because at the end
of the day,
What we experience as real is created by our attention.
Thank you for spending a few
moments here with me,
And I hope you got some useful perspectives from this talk.
