Sally Love
Speaking Your Truth From Your Heart
I absolutely adore the following poem and I’ve talked about it on the show once before. However I have found that you can read this poem time and time again, never tire of it and also get something new from it each time.
As you read this poem, what words are jumping out at you today?
Read through it slowly, taking in every word and become totally aware of your emotional reaction to the verses.
What memories, thoughts, hopes and dreams are being stimulated by it?
Now consider …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?
…It’s usually a fear, maybe because we’ve been hurt/rejected/put down too many times. But as soon as you can understand what taking personal responsibility is all about, you immediately take yourself out of the victim role and become empowered.
So whatever fears are playing out for you right now, do get in touch with me on today’s show. I will be talking about personal responsibility: what this means and how you can obtain the confidence to speak your truth from your heart.
Please share your stories here as we will refer to them during the show and if after reading this poem you have any questions for me, then simply pick up the phone and get involved!
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
Henry Cumming
Laura Daligan