Following an earnest spiritual path can often be lonesome.

With our close relationships we need to connect and share on a level where we can feel met and heard.

Often with awakening to different levels of awareness and understanding our relationships are challenged and stretched to either grown together or fall away, as we need to find people that resonate.

There is often a gap between the old falling away and new relationships coming in. This can be a hard time. Sometimes it can last what seems far too long. And perhaps there is a possibility it might not ever be filled.

All we can do is trust and keep walking in truth.

Following an earnest spiritual path can often be lonesome.

With our close relationships we need to connect and share on a level where we can feel met and heard.

Often with awakening to different levels of awareness and understanding our relationships are challenged and stretched to either grown together or fall away, as we need to find people that resonate.

There is often a gap between the old falling away and new relationships coming in. This can be a hard time. Sometimes it can last what seems far too long. And perhaps there is a possibility it might not ever be filled.

All we can do is trust and keep walking in truth.

I’m no longer trying to be rid of difficult feelings.

I’m learning to be with myself with the whole spectrum of my experience. My feelings are teaching me deeper stability and compassion. They help me heal, be real and be alive to life.

What is your relationship like with your emotions?
Do you judge your emotions or judge yourself for having emotions?
Are you shut off from them or thrown around by them?

Learning to be truly emotionally balanced requires deep, ongoing personal growth work.

If you find your feelings hard to regulate, be in your body and your senses more. Let your body’s experience ground you and hold your feelings.

If you find emotion hard to access, listen to your body sensations. All feelings are held in the body, whether we recognise them or not. Learn to listen.

Our body provides the most powerful key to learning emotional maturity.
Body work options like yoga, chi gong, tai chi, massage etc, are all powerful tools for healing.

The human emotional heart is held within the heart of loving awareness.

Just as our babies need a parent to cuddle them when they cry, we as adults need to feel support with our deep feelings. Our emotions need something to be held by and to let go into.

This capacity to be with ourselves emotionally is in us, in the expanse of our transcendent and deeply connected being; our heart of awareness.

Heart centered healing is about bringing the two together; our human hurt and happiness with our loving awareness. Learning to be aware and lovingly present with ourselves, even within our most challenging human feelings, we can find freedom, as there is nothing we need to run from.

The voice of wisdom is often a lot softer and quieter than all the other voices.

It’s a common experience we have when someone tries to push their version of the truth on us that we often instinctively feel repelled.

Perhaps this is partly because something in us senses that truth is more present when unspoken.
Rather than being thrown around in opinions or agendas, truth is a thousand times more powerful when quietly role-modelled and embodied without identity or attachment.

In this way too, it is similar on the inner level… Learn to listen for the quieter, kinder voices inside. They don’t usually shout at you for their attention, but they can often offer far better advice.