Inside the body of each of us,
Against all wariness,
We still come joyfully toward one another,
As if to cry out in wonder at one another's beauty.
The law underneath and inside me and your aliveness is love,
Abounding love that magnetically attracts and connects humanity.
To remember,
Really remember this,
Is to diffuse the estrangement we suffer daily.
I know from my experience that you can divide,
You can close off,
Stunt,
And shield yourself from connecting.
You can run away from the invitation to love every day.
You can avoid and suppress the impulse of your joy,
Of your very life,
But it will serve nothing of value.
Soon enough you'll end up empty of wonder and awe and my goodness,
What an unfortunate calculation that would be.
This new day is yours and you are made of a necessary and elemental urge to reach forward and into life.
You desire nothing more than to wake and wander in delight at all the faces shining back at you.
Same with me.
Choose wisely the current you are abiding by.
Every day ask yourself,
Am I living in the inclination and urge to love or am I stuck in the static of disconnect and protection?
These two strands run alongside one another like twin streams and you can choose to breathe away from thoughts of closure and into the rush of love that makes life possible in the first place.
If beauty responds to more beauty,
If goodness responds to double goodness,
If an open heart leads to other hearts opening,
I have agency,
I have something to contribute to this conversation.
And it goes like this,
Thank you,
I love you,
How beautiful are you,
Where does it hurt,
How can I help,
What can I give,
Please forgive my forgetfulness,
I'm sorry,
Take my hand,
Let's look for the light,
I know it's somewhere here,
It always is.
Knowing that love is our blueprint,
That we came with no agenda other than to love,
That we came to find our own rhythm and heartbeat by way of our body,
Our breath,
And our being,
That we are capable to hold and contain the myriad of expressions of life.
We are born with the imprint of love.
We are meant to seek and find our own capabilities,
To connect with our breath,
Our bodies,
And our heart,
And in so doing,
Get so resourced in our own love and our own capacities,
That we are able to show up in the world in a way that is generous and kind.
Once we realize that we have been looking for our own heartbeat,
Our own medicine,
Once we realize it is our bodies and our breath that show us the way,
We come out from dysregulation and into our power.
We remember what we knew all those years ago when we were just little children running through our lives in joy.
This is how we come home,
This is how we remember.
So close your eyes and find your roots and branches,
The parts of you connected to the earth and the crown of leaves spanning out to the sky in the wind.
Feel the whole of you,
Roots,
Trunk,
Branches,
In through the nostrils,
Out through the heart.
Engraved in the bone of your body is your way,
Wisdom,
Antidote,
Inclination,
And urge.
Your child heart did not betray you.
Pause here,
Deepen here.
Let your awareness ignite and spark the drumbeat of your original seed.
What you thought you lost all those years ago was actually seeded in the pith of your body.
Come child,
Come heart,
Come wisdom from millennia past,
From the dust of stars,
The fire of suns and the mist of moonlight.
Insights spun from my sageness and solidity come wings of love around the sentient life of my body.
I hear the drumbeat of my heart.
I am following it home,
Ending with a blessing now.
May we identify the clearest stream of our being.
May we be mindful of the jubilant cells of our body.
May we recognize from the moment we first opened our eyes in this world,
We saw from the purity that draws purity into and toward it.
Think of the eyes of a newborn child.
Our essence is available at all times.
Whatever wounds have caused us to wince in the company of others or ourselves is not the only option.
Two currents are running at all times beside one another.
Just breathe into your natural desire for love every time you can remember,
And I promise you will be amazed as you begin to recognize the beauty that begins to recognize you.
Not long ago,
You knew how to sing.
When the sky opened and the sun asked,
Not long ago,
You were but a seed.
Happy to be blown by the wind.
Remember you as a young bud reaching for the sun.
As a small babe,
Open wide in the arms of love.
I hear the drumbeat of my heart.
I am following it home.
I am home.
I am honored that you have spent the first week of this new year contemplating the sacred and holy nature of your body.
My wish for you and for me is that we continue to perceive life through the lens of our hearts.
That we continue to remember our innocence and purity,
That unsullied,
Untouched place.
The light we brought into this world upon our first breath.
Remember that we have our breath and our heart and our inherent goodness intact and available.
We just need to remember to drop down and meet ourselves in this way intentionally.
To hold our lives with sacred hands.
To hold our lives as a masterpiece.
And to always be gentle with ourselves as we continue to learn and move toward what we really long for in this life and in this world.
To be conscious,
To feel,
To embody our love without restrictions is a great and noble cause for your life.
My wish for you and for me is that we can continue to remember,
To veer away from our helpless hopelessness and to just feel our hearts,
Our joy,
Our inherent goodness there.
Just standing there waiting for our recognition,
Companionship.
May we grow ever more soft,
Ever more loving.
May we grow closer and closer to our child hearts.
And may we offer that now,
Willingly,
To the world.
I hope this helps you move through the following weeks with a sense of excitement and newness breathing through your body.
Tomorrow,
As you move into your second week,
The spotlight turns inward with Alex L's guidance.
It's time to acknowledge your self-worth by releasing what no longer serves you.
Through introspection and radical honesty,
You'll make room for your true self,
Gaining a fresh perspective and clear vision for the year ahead.
Again,
Thank you for joining me.
Enjoy the rest of your exploration and expansion.
