When all else fails trust the love in your heart. There can be so many voices vying for attention in the media, in our families, or communities, or the internal voices that we have carried from our childhood or from impacts from our society and the collective psyche of humanity. And these voices can confuse our inner clarity or usurp our energy. If we’re not careful we can actually identify with these voices as “Who We Are.” So if you’re finding yourself feeling destabilized in some way, or off course, or confused, or pained, I invite you to really come back to the center of your being, to the essence of your heart, that access to your inner divinity and inquire into what is loving?

And maybe there’s accessing a memory or thinking of somebody or some experience that really brings this felt sense of emanating warmth and divine loving. And once being able to feel that and Center in the heart, and the midline as an inner anchor, then we can bring that into an inquiry around whatever situation we’re in and feel truly what is love calling for what is loving now.

How do we uproot the self-doubt that impedes the pathway or distorts the pathway to actually trusting the heart? So there may be voices that we face that are self-doubting that are actually giving us information that can inform our discernment about what’s aligned. And then there are the self-doubts, that stem from a deeper imprinting in our body and field, of distrusting our heart, and this can originate from experiences where in some shape or form it registered as unsafe to actually express, listen to, or act from our inner knowing.

So how do we reclaim that inner knowing and see clearly when the voices of doubt arise and attempt to pull us off course? Recently I’ve been in an experience of really fuller expansion into a vision that I’ve been having and stepping forward, and along the way of continually coming back to that which feels true and coming from this Soul calling that shows as an luminosity in the heart, and when on course there is this match of Luminosity with what it is that I am choosing. So in the process of this, I’ve been facing places of self-doubt, and going into seeing what is the origin of those self-doubts. And what I’ve come to is feeling the impacts of having messages, that, like receiving voices, hearing people’s words and actions as a child, and that translating into a distrust of what my inner body knowing, perceptive apparatus is saying.

So how do we uproot those places? those voices when they arise and attempt to serp our energy and pull us off our true course? Part of it is seeing clearly, and it can be helpful to look into the origin so that we can shed light on the progression of how those imprints have been part of the construct of our process of perception. And then having a practice of continuing to come back to, and I noticed this movement with my hands, so continuing to come back back to our midline, and that felt sense of this illumined divinity that we can feel through our midline, and can be especially palpable in the Soul center of the heart, beneath the layers of the emotional experience of the heart, so into that core. And as we anchor in that felt sense of what it is like to move from here, then when these other voices arise, we can come back here and check it, check this voice with this anchor. And sometimes we might find ourselves pulled out for quite some time and then it’s a process to come back in order to have that clearer discernment.

So another thing to inquire, if we notice a doubt, is does this have a quality of fear? or is there some information in this doubt that can actually inform my pathway of clarity? Because as we practice really moving from the heart there are ways in which we can delude ourselves with stories of the Mind telling ourselves that what we want is what our heart is calling us to. And so this comes to another point of when we are aligned in the place of the Soul Center in the heart, this is inherently connected with the Divine stream of love and this is a very different quality of presence, Consciousness, energy then our human desire that is oriented to some kind of egoic fulfillment, or attempt attempt to have fulfillment when the true fulfillment is being full of that divine presence.

This is a continual Act of surrender until it becomes an abiding continuity.

So we can check our motives… are we realigning? are we choosing to consecrate our actions as a movement of Divine love? Or are we moving from some kind of attachment and looking for something? … that is actually pulling us out of that Center.

So in summary we are watching the self-doubts, looking into the origin, seeing if there’s any information that is serving us to actually come into alignment, or is this voice of Doubt pulling us out of alignment with that Divine surrender to being an instrument of love?

And I’ll just close with a prayer that there be ease and Grace in our aligning all aspects of our vessel to be an instrument of divine love.

How do we choose from the heart and the inner alignment, especially amidst so many changes in our world in these times? I’ve had a request for more practical application of what I’m sharing around the path of divine heart, so today I’m going to explore what it feels like to be anchored in the midline in the body and oriented to the Soul Essence in the heart and allowing choices to arise in this Grace.
 
Many of us may be experiencing the pulls of the variety of different narratives in the media and the different aspects of what is very much stirred up in the collective psyche of Humanity on the planet right now. And what can be helpful is to really strengthen our own inner Center and anchor our awareness here, so that when we come into relation with others and with what we feel in the collective mind and the subconscious of humanity, we can remember where we choose to be moving from in life .

So in order to really find our own midline it can be helpful to sit upright or stand upright and move forward and backwards until you really get this sense of that spot that allows the spine to be straight … well it has its curves but stacked in a balanced way. So if you’re sitting you can rock the pelvis slightly forward and back until you find that spot that feels like your pelvic bowl is sitting well supported on your cushion and the spine is able to rest in its balanced aligned position. So being able to feel the pelvic floor, your sits bones, connected to your seat and through that connected to the Earth, and feeling that support beneath the body. And then if you’re standing you can also feel that down through the feet more directly.
 
And then something I find useful is to just gently spiral the spine, from the sacrum. So there’s sort of this gentle circling and going up from the sacrum vertebra by vertebra, bringing your full awareness into this Center Line in the body. So we’re just waking up more of the sensations around and through the spine so that more of our attention and presence can come in there. So doing that gentle spiraling all the way up until you get to the occiput, and then gently coming to Stillness. And also rocking the head slightly backwards and forwards until you find that spot where it feels like your head can rest on top of your spine and there also may be a little bit of forward and back exploration of the head.
 
Sometimes our comfortable resting position is not actually in full alignment because of some muscle tension that might be holding a certain pattern in the body. So you know finding your own way with this. And then bringing the awareness through the whole midline.
 
I like to visualize and feel this quality of Luminosity coming from far above the head down through this Central midline of the body, feeling it as one integrated Channel down all the way through sacrum, the tail, down into the Earth. And just being with that for some moments feeling this Center of alignment in our own body and then we can expand our awareness, staying present in the midline and expanding it around the body feeling the entirety of our field. Taking some breath and allowing a breath to fill throughout all the cells of the body and expanding out through our whole field. And then keeping that anchor in the midline and awareness of our whole field, you can bring your attention Into the Heart… and going deep within the Heart Center, beneath any kind of fluctuating emotions into this light essence of the Soul. And if that doesn’t arise naturally, just visualizing a little Central Sun in the chest in the heart Center and allowing that to radiate out, filling the body with that Soul light essence and and filling the whole heart field with your unique Divine Soul Essence.
 
This is your body, Your Vessel, for your soul luminosity.
 
And then once having a sense of that midline, luminous Soul Essence in the heart, radiance filling the field… from this awareness, in this space we can then bring into our attention to a choice that we may be facing in our life, and maybe there’s an apparent two pathways. Of course there’s always many pathways, but maybe there’s a choice that appears like there’s this or there’s that, and from that place of center and radiant heart, we can feel into… is this pathway in resonance with that alignment? or does it pull me out? or contract something? or activate the mind? or some kind of emotional charge? and then similarly with this, does that resonate? do I feel a sense of alignment? is this pathway resonant and supportive? and I feel aligned in my center? and feel that resonance of heart when I explore this pathway?
 
And there may be layers that arise to inquire into… different thoughts about the situation, different emotions, subconscious imprints from childhood or from the collective, and we can witness those within this quality of presence. Noticing what pulls our attention off center, what feels contractive, what feels activating of the nervous system, and continuing to listen, what feels aligned here?
 
And this may require some unplugging our investment into certain ideas of what we should do, what we have to do, who we think we are, what we think others want us to be. And the more that we practice coming here, feeling our midline, feeling the soul essence in our heart and listening and trusting, the more we grow that pathway and it becomes more and more a graceful ease to allow ourselves to move from here.