The Only Real Safety is Heart-Powered Safety
A thought-provoking response to my post Is it Safe to Live From Your Heart? compelled me to dive more deeply. (Check out my original post and the post of Patrick Powers’ response.)
What do I mean by safety? What do I not mean by safety? What is the safety we create inside ourselves as we align with our heart’s truth and courage?
Living from the heart is not safe - if safety means avoiding risk, danger and difficulty.
Living from the heart means you are sometimes called to leave the safe comfortable, familiar zones to explore unknown territory.
Living from your heart does not protect you from danger. Living from your heart frequently takes you right straight into danger - worthy danger and "good trouble" as civil rights luminary John Lewis often reminded us.
Living from your heart gives you faith to follow your dreams and visions and fortitude, courage and compassion to deal with the dangers that arise.
Living from your heart the question of safety shifts from:
How can I avoid pain and suffering and discomfort?
to:
How can I align with the wisdom, resilience and love within my heart to meet whatever challenges arise?
This I what I call heart powered safety.
Most of what we call safety is an illusion, anyway, No matter how strong we build our houses, earthquakes and tornadoes may knock them down. No matter how carefully we set our next quarter business goals, those can be thrown out overnight when a pandemic comes.No matter how well we tend our health, none of us will live forever.
As valuable as planning, stabilizing, protecting are, your deepest, most abiding and unshakeable safety comes from alignment with your heart.
The word safety comes form the Latin word Salvus, which means wholeness.
In the heart you find this safety of your wholeness- the true safety.
Over time you develop faith and trust in the deep inner strength of your own heart.
Over time, with deep kindness for yourself and your life, this inner core becomes your safest place. Your heart is not a place to hide from the world; it is a sanctuary of replenishment where you ignite your deepest powers.
Aligned with your own tender and deep heart you can connect with the Heart of the World, the Great Heart and your experience of the Divine.
This is your Heart Powered Safety.
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