Leading With The Heart

I’ve tried to do many things from the mind. Sing from the mind, dance from the mind, love from the mind, even live from the mind.

Living from the mind is living with the illusion that you can control everything. It is the illusion that keeps you safe. It kept me safe for 20-something years. But here’s the deal, living in the mind is not living AT ALL. Living in the mind is being completely disconnected from the body, the sacred home that carries our soul in this lifetime.

The true source of life comes from living and leading with the heart.

This means feeling everything, allowing pain and joy to sit side by side or come and go as they please. This means realizing and accepting that you will not always be in total control. And this also means realizing that the unknown is the only place in which we can truly be intimate with life.

As a child I was successful in creating a mental headquarters from which to live from. I carried this headquarters into adulthood because it kept me safe, and still today it tries to shut down and tear down any glimpse of Authentic JOY, PLEASURE and LOVE. It attempts to avoid intimacy with life like the plague, to the point of creating an anxious environment within.

But you see, we cannot run from life. We are life.

The body, mind, heart and soul all want to work in harmony. This is how we dance with life. A dance that moves as hard as the crashing waves against ocean cliffs. A dance as soft as a breeze through the tulips in Spring.

This dance is ever-changing, constantly inviting, and inevitably the only way to do this thing called Life on Earth.

Embrace it. Let it soak in your bones. Let it burst through your heart, because it is waiting and eternal.