Your Dream Psychic

Speaking Your Truth From Your Heart

On Tuesday I shared an amazing poem with you on the blog but due to technical difficulties during the show I didn’t have chance to read any of it out or discuss it in any depth. I have read this poem many times over the last few years and I get something new from it each time. I therefore want to give you the opportunity to take some time to read its powerful words which will hopefully benefit you in some way. Please share your stories: What emotions to these words invoke in you? What memories does it bring up? What hopes and dreams are stimulated by it? Do you speak your truth, from your heart, to yourself and to others? What stops us from opening our heart and letting someone see the truth of who we really are?

On today’s show I will share some of the verses with you, relating them to various life lessons, especially how we communicate our truth with ourselves and within our relationships.

The Dance

I have sent you my invitation,

The note inscribed on the palm of my hand by the fire of living.

Don’t jump up and shout, ‘’Yes, this is what I want! Let’s do it!’’

Just stand up quietly and dance with me.

Show me how you follow your deepest desires,

spiraling down into the ache within the ache,

and I will show you how I reach inward and open outward

to feel the kiss of the Mystery, sweet lips on my own, every day.

Don’t tell me you want to hold the whole world in your heart.

Show me how you turn away from making another wrong without

abandoning yourself when you are hurt and afraid of being unloved.

Tell me a story of who you are,

and see who I am in the stories I am living.

And together we will remember that each of us always has a choice.

Don’t tell me how wonderful things will be … someday.

Show me you can risk being completely at peace,

truly okay with the way things are right now in this moment,

and again in the next and the next and the next …

I have heard enough warrior stories of heroic daring.

Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall,

The place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will.

What carries you to the other side of that wall,

to the fragile beauty of your own humanness?

And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the

clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other,

let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving

those we once loved out loud.

Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance,

The places where you can risk letting the world break your heart,

and I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet

and the stars overhead make my heart whole again and again.

Show me how you take care of business

without letting business determine who you are.

When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us

shout that soul’s desires have too high a price,

let us remind each other that it is never about the money.

Show me how you offer to your people and the world

the stories and the songs you want our children’s children to remember,

And I will show you how I struggle,

not to change the world, but to love it.

Sit beside me in long moments of shared solitude,

knowing both our absolute aloneness and our undeniable belonging.

Dance with me in the silence and in the sound of small daily words,

holding neither against me at the end of the day.

And when the sound of all the declarations of our sincerest

intentions has died away on the wind,

dance with me in the infinite pause before the next great inhale

of the breath that is breathing us all into being,

not filling the emptiness from the outside or from within.

Don’t say, ‘’Yes!’’

Just take my hand and dance with me.

ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER