Quote of the day: “Refuse to abandon your essential self, the way a great captain refuses to abandon his ship.” —Martha Beck, Finding Your Own North Start: claiming the life you were meant to live
Spring Blossoms
There are many messages all around us about what we should look like, how we should live, what stuff we should fill our lives with, it’s hard to tune in and listen to what our own bodies and hearts really want and need.
As hard as it is, to listen to your heart, I think it’s vitally important. Our culture puts so much value on linear thinking and problem solving, that listening and feeling and sensing get ignored. Life isn’t a linear process. It’s full of complexity and chaos and as Jon Kabat-Zinn so aptly says, “the full catastrophe.”
When I listen to my heart and my body, I discover a wisdom that is almost always different from what my ego and mind think is necessary. My mind wants to push and try and work hard. And my heart and body tell me to listen and sense and follow the faint longings and desires that lead me to joy.
I find that when I do the things that bring me joy, I thrive. And life doesn’t fall apart because I’m not out there pushing hard to achieve some goal someone else thinks I should achieve.
Try listening to your heart. Try asking your body what it wants to eat or do. You might just discover a way towards your joy today.
Trellis at MN Landscape Arboretum
Tulip Time
Picnic Season is almost here
Spring View
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