The last few weeks have led me to a lot of soul-searching. I’ve been sitting, meditating, praying, reading, delving deeper into myself. Trying to discover, uncover and recover a spark. Feeling heavy, but knowing that the challenges we are going through are for our greatest good if we choose to see them in that way.
I have never been so willing, open, and determined to grow and delve into my deeper heart.
As I have been exploring and I know there is so much more to discover – I’ve been reviewing everything from my points of view on life to how I have treated others to how I have at so many times given myself away.
How I’ve stunted my own artistic, creative growth in order to allow other people to heal or discover theirs.
How many times I’ve heard my friends and the people I’ve worked closely with advise me to make time to focus on myself?
But to deeply focus on self and be honest is not easy. So like so many others – I’ve been comfortable in putting my attention outside myself. I mean life is so busy and there is always so much to do. To take time for myself in the way I’ve needed to – just send selfish – until that is – I knew that it was the only option to grow.
As I’ve been truly connecting to my heart I have been discovering- how rich my heart is – with all its shades of colours and flavours – yet how unexplored this area is.
I’ve made a long list of all the aspects of my heart that I want to reconnect with, discover and refine. And it’s a long list. But it’s made my heart wake up and sing with enthusiasm.
I’ve started – by delving into my artistic, creative heart. As I know that so much beauty lies in our ability to find artistic expression.
As I was welcoming, embracing and loving this heart – so many memories- arose. I’ve always loved reading stories. And I remembered my little self-reading, then going into Mum’s wardrobe and grabbing her clothes and sparkly eye shadow and trying to transform myself into different characters. I remember listening to stories on records and dancing to the funny little songs. Writing poems from when I was 6 and spending time with my grandfather asking him to make up more stories, songs and poems.
I remember doing a dance class at 15 because everyone told me that I would never get anywhere if I decided to do acting. And then one day saying to my mum – I have to do acting or I’m going to die. (I was never very dramatic.)
Telling my teacher at school that I was going to write books and act for a career and seeing the dark look in her eyes – and having to listen to her tell me how I would never make any money out of it.
And then how many times did I hear – how hard it is to get a publisher to publish your book in Australia and then how impossible it was to do it in the US; and on and on. How often do we let fear destroy our creative dreams?
I never really bought into fear – of my creative dreams coming true after I decided that I was going to do them for love – irrelevant if I got paid or not. I didn’t find it very hard to find publishers who were enthusiastic to support my work and I felt like so many amazing doors opened to me.
I met the most creative people on my travels – from famous singers, writers, to fashion designers, to actors and dancers etc.
It’s all been an incredible journey- but as a woman, a mother and a wife, it has been soooo easy to put away this most life-giving aspect of my heart and let it – patiently wait until I would return to it.
This of course relates to everyone- but in particular all of us who have given so much to others.
So I encourage you in this tone when so many of us have to stay home – to take some time – to connect to your heart – even for 5 min. Ask – what aspect of my heart am I ready to recover, uncover and explore?
Take a pen and paper or some pencils or paints and write, draw, paint. Then dance and move and allow your heart to open to new and courageous discoveries and adventures. This is the time. We can either deny our heart, listen to the news and get depressed or we can uncover it and let it breathe, move, come to life and heal!!!
I look forward to hearing about your heart journey and sharing more in my webinar next week and my online course.
Your heart is your greatest – often most hidden treasure.
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About InnaÂ
Inna Segal is the award-winning best-selling author of The Secret Language of Your Body: The Essential Guide to Health and Wellness and The Secret of Life Wellness: The Essential Guide to Life’s Big Questions. She has also created The Secret Language of Colour Cards, Heal Yourself Reading Cards and many healing audio programs. Inna is an internationally recognized healer, professional speaker and author. For more info about her events please go to Innasegal.comÂ
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