The heart as barometer
Tuning into one’s own wisdom is the key to one’s freedom. Instead of polling friends and family or seeking out information from outside sources, what can be freeing is knowing that all you really need to know can be found in your own heart. And even more freeing is the idea that we do not need all of the information we think we need. We simply may allow our hearts to make decisions for us, like a personal barometer that notices the changes in our own feelings towards our circumstances. As humans we are connected to our other humans through the energy of our life force, and that is beautiful. And, as humans, we are connected to that beautiful ever present life force of the Universe, the cosmic energy within us and all around us.
Our hearts are connected to all of these energies, and sometimes we confuse our heart’s internal knowingness with our head’s constant desire for external knowingness. None is right or wrong, but the head’s constant desire for information to solve problems is like a wild fire that needs constant tinder to stay alive while the heart’s innate knowingness is an eternal fire that never dies out.
It can be exhausting to keep feeding the fire. Instead, feel the warm rising up from within your chest and place your hand over your heart. Can you practice asking your heart for answers? What is the next best thing I can do for myself right now? Am I grounded? Do I need space from others? A walk in the forest? What comes to you from your heart might surprise you. You may feel pressure or tightness when something feels not quite right for you right now, or perhaps you may feel an expansion when something is right for you right now. No matter your own internal code of response, start to notice this code. This is your code of knowledge. This is your language of feeling into what is right for you.
Honor what you feel without judgement or having to make a plan to change anything right now. Simply honoring your heart’s beautiful wisdom and gaining that internal compass is exactly where you may be right now.