Heart Wisdom Can Add Dimension
and Color to Your Thinking

I was blessed this week with the opportunity of attending the Two Worlds Wisdom Gathering organized and presented by the Kaiser Institute.
This Gathering of wonderful 'souls' was a remarkable experience.
We had an opportunity to experience our own spirituality in new ways and
dive deeper into cultures from around the world that are helping to heal the planet.
At this Wisdom Gathering, we met people that are on similar life paths and people that are on diverse pathways.
We were challenged to expand our life experiences and 'see' from a wider perspective.
We were invited to open to a greater understanding of a 'bigger' God than we had ever imagined.
Our narrow views of the universe were opened by new discoveries in science.
We had the opportunity to move, drum and breathe in ways that opened our hearts and bodies to the Divine.
What a gift to be able to share love for our Creator with like-minded souls.

At one session, we were invited to open our hearts to love and create a space for light to enter.
When our hearts were full, we were invited during this prayer/meditation,
to move this 'heart' light up into the space of our heads.
I remember imagining how our 'Heart Wisdom', when combined with our 'Thinking Mind',
has the potential of being an even more powerful tool for viewing the world
and all that is in it.

When I lifted my Heart Energy into my head, I felt a surge of sparkling light fill my head space.
I felt as if my 'mind' expanded to take in a larger view.
I sensed that I was 'seeing' with 'bigger' eyes...with eyes that were filled with the
deep sense of love in my heart.
I sensed an ability to view the world from a more fully human perspective.

This simple exercise/experience was one that reminded me of the limited view
that we often have when we forget to include the perspective of our hearts.
Our eyes can be misled by appearances, but our hearts never lie...

Why not inquire of our hearts more often as to the 'truth' in what we are experiencing?
As we consider the questions that life brings, why not make more room for
the perspective of the heart?
Why not open fully to love in the way we think, see, hear, speak?

The love and light in our hearts is always available to be incorporated into our decision-making, our planning, our visioning, our wondering.

How would our world be different if we chose to think with our hearts?

Honor Diversity
Diversity Can Bring Balance
Balance Can Make Room for HIgh Level Creation

When two forces come together in a balanced system,

High Level Creation can happen.

Balance suggests that there is an ample supply of those that are thinkers, doers, helpers, designers, feelers, knowers…

If we have too many of one kind of ‘player’, we get out of balance and the ability to do great things diminishes.

But assembling a diverse group of players can be a challenge.

Often we find that we are comfortable with others that are like ourselves…we ‘connect’ more with those that have similar values, likes and dislikes…

But that’s not how we learn best.

That’s also not how to build the strongest team.

That is not the way to build a strong foundation.

When our country was first established, our forefathers discovered that

diversity has its strengths.

Within diversity there exists so many opportunities to ‘see’ things differently.

Diversity adds color.

Diversity adds the dimension of size, shape, texture and sound.

Diversity reminds us that we can celebrate differences and still honor our

‘Oneness’ and our Connectedness.

Diversity should never divide us.

Diversity should give us cause to come together even closer.

The joy in experiencing another who is so different from who we are,

is a way of exploring parts of ourselves that have yet to be explored.

It allows us to ‘see’ our bigger or freer selves in the other and reach beyond the comfort of who we have been.

Incredible innovation happens when there is balance in those coming together to create…when there is a desire to bring forward

something much greater than the sum of the parts.

Magical experiences can happen as self-centeredness is relinquished and

control is surrendered.

Magic happens when we get out of the way and

the Creator can make the Miracles begin.

Healing Hands

and the Hopeful Heart

Many have said over the years that true compassion is expressed as love in action.

Love that goes beyond the ‘wondering’ and moves into the ‘doing’.

Having an open heart to give and receive love, is a place to start…for it is in opening the heart that we become aware of where compassion is needed.

When you chose to open your heart in love, energy builds within you…energy that can be felt as a ‘Radiance’ that flows freely from you to others.

Others experience this as acceptance, openness, concern, compassion.

It is often palpable because of its strength and power.

We can ‘do’ love by committing to Heal All We Touch…

By leaving any situation better than when we found it…

The Divine Feminine in each of us radiates this healing touch.

It flows like a river of love from our hearts to the heart of another…

from our hands to the hands of another…

This light and this love don’t originate with us.

They are birthed in the Creator and are gifted to us.

We, in turn, gift this love to others…

A dynamic flow is created that can sustain itself and can grow and multiply.

This love from heart to heart builds connection and unity.

It also provides a venue for deep and true reconciliation to occur.

There is little space for discord and separation in the space of genuine love and desire for peace.

So Build Bridges with your heart…

Bridges of Hope…

Bridges over troubled waters that need to be infused with peace and love.

Open to the possibilities of bridges all over the world bringing people together and creating pathways of greater understanding…

Say with St Francis… ‘let me be an instrument of peace…’’

Heart to Heart

Communication at the Heart level is one of the most powerful ways to create connection.

When we want to be fully understood, it is the Heart that we call upon.

The Heart never lies.

The Heart knows only the truth.

The Heart has its own language that goes way beyond words.

The Heart is not blind because it sees with a depth that goes beyond the ‘facts’.

The Heart listens deeply and can filter out those things that have no ‘true’ value.

The Heart can guide us to a ‘better place’ if we let it.

But how often do we?

How often do we choose instead to trust only our minds?

How often do we insulate our Hearts in order to ‘see’ more clearly…only to be blinded by logic without feeling.

It is in our being fully Human…being ‘all’ of who we are, that we can come to understand and appreciate the wonders of another.

By balancing all of our abilities to ‘listen’, will we hear and then connect most completely.

We must remember the only way to honor the Divine in another is to connect through the Heart of who they truly are.

This connection that is created by opening the heart to others is powerful beyond measure.

It can end wars.

It can mend fences.

It can create space for miracles.

It can birth innovation.

It can heal.

It can bring peace.

Open to the loving embrace of the Heart.

Being of One Mind, One Vision,

One Purpose

Getting everyone on the same page isn’t always easy…

With the diversity of the human race, it is sometimes a miracle that any two people can agree on anything.

Being of one mind, suggests something different though.

It suggests the ability to have our own opinions but to also have the willingness to consider the ‘other’ point of view.

And by considering the ‘other’ view, we widen our own scope of understanding and perception.

Being of one mind also speaks to the concept of surrendering to the greater good.

Sometimes it becomes necessary to ‘let go’ of some of our own ideas in order to accept what might be the best for the ‘whole’.

By relinquishing our own needs to ‘control’ or dictate an outcome, we open to greater possibilities and a more exciting solution.

We come to ‘see’ a larger version of what can happen and appreciate a greater depth in any situation.

Being of one mind is a coming together after deep listening and consideration.

It is an action of thinking and being in unison.

This can create clarity of vision and strength of focus.

It allows room for the dreams, ideals and heart’s desires of the many to be realized rather that just the one.

This creates a powerful opportunity to

Stand Together in Harmony with

Clarity of Vision and

Commitment to Purpose.

Freedom to Innovate, Freedom to Explore,

Freedom to Be

Opening to the release of the new and innovative can be an exhilarating experience.

Maintaining a ‘closed hand’ only creates limitations on creativity and learning.

By releasing the need to ‘hang on too tight’, freedom to reach and go beyond where you have been is possible.

The universe is in a constant state of change, renewal and recreation. So are we.

By creating more open space, wonderful new inventions, brilliant new approaches to healing, and exciting new opportunities can be brought into being.

One of the challenges is launching such an effort. It takes energy to overcome the inertia that is often present in large quantities.

We get ourselves into ‘ruts’ of same behaviors, same routines, same responses.

What we need is fresh approaches and alternative options in order to create a miraculous future for generations that will follow.

We must follow the Native American adage that beckons us to examine our decisions and ask if they will serve seven generations in the future. If we cannot answer that positively, then we better reconsider our actions.

Commit to honor the past, accept the present, and protect the future for those that shall come after us.

It's Important to Hold Hands...

In the steady climb of life, it is such a gift to have help from others.
To be supported and guided by those that 'have gone before' is truly invaluable.
That includes, spiritual teachers, angels, superheroes...
As the world intensifies and speeds up,
Holding Hands and not Letting Go becomes ever more important.

For each of us, the road we travel on has its ups and downs and side-ways.
There are times when we are 'on top of our game'
and there are times when we are not sure what game we're playin'.
But to always have at least one hand to hold, can make all the difference in the world.

There is also responsibility when you are holding the hand of another.
It is important not to hold on too tight so as to 'control' the choices of others.
Sovereignty of each soul is paramount.
It is important to allow lots of room for freedom and growth.
It is important to create a spirit of trust so that it can be known that the
hand will 'be' there when needed.
It is important that the hand never be withheld in judgment.
It is important that the hand be selfless and service-driven.
It is important that the hand be held close to the heart.
It is important that the hand be kind.

Pay attention to the Hands you are holding on to.

Pay attention to the hands you are supporting.
Are you serving them well?

It is a blessing to be able to serve...to be the healing hands of hope to others.