Enter the season of the Heart organ, of Joy, of Love, but also of Impatience and Fire. It is the season of Clear Insight, Understanding, and Wholeheartedness.
My Summer gift to you is a ❤️heartfelt reminder to take care of your precious self, your tender heart, your fierce perseverance, your unique body.
My dedication has always been to your health and well-being, it is what I am trained for, it is what I practice.
Pleasant reminders are easy on the nervous system.
I am a big fan of bite sized pieces. I am OK being a broken record for your brilliance.
Information gently repeated over time can settle into our awareness is deep and meaningful, sometimes life changing ways.
Have you noticed time speeding up?
Have you noticed things getting more intense?
What do we do when things get heated?
I sure have! This is the time when we MOST need our practices of self love. Self love practices are beyond self-care, spa day type choices. Self love is a real time, practical focus to make us better humans. It is about filling your cup daily so that you are not operating on empty, so your service, your activism, your work in the world comes from a deeper well of self resource.
I often find myself saying that self love practices are not about doing more, they are being more present with what you do, and most specifically about letting yourself be nourished by the world. We don’t actually need anything other than our presence to engage in self-loving ways, we don’t need to buy anything from Amazon to get started. 😃
So many of us are surrounded by nourishing things, simple things, like air and food and friends and water, yet are not fully allowing these things to nourish us — to let them land in us and allow our intelligent bodies to harvest the nutrients needed for mind, body and spirit.
Can you take a little more time to eat your meal, chew your food, and offer your gratitude?
Can you breathe in the hug of a friend, lover, relative or child, take a moment to really let it in?
Can you step outside in the morning and greet the day, take a few deep breaths and give thanks for clean air.?
These are small things, accentuated by the emotions of gratitude, that accumulate throughout the day and add up to a lot. A lot of what we need in the current social climate. Your body needs this, trust me, I know! Be Wholehearted about your personal forms of nourishment.
Fire
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” Thomas Merton
Orgon: Heart
Positive Emotions - Love, joy, happiness, bliss
Negative Emotions - Impatience, cruelty, hate
Companion Organ - Small Intestine
Sensory Organ - Tongue
Life Aspect - Clear insight, understanding and wholeheartedness
Color - Red
Season - Summer
Direction - South
Nutrition - Chew! Smile into your food as you chew it, transforming it to liquid as you combine it with saliva. Liquefying food helps the small intestine absorb the nutrients. Smile as you swallow your food, imagining you’re sending love into your food as you send it into your body. Let your the Fire of your digestion prepare the nutrients for total absorption.
