Can’t You Hear My Heart Beat?

I awoke this morning and just quietly laid in bed for a few minutes, feeling blissfully grateful and blessed to wake up everyday as today marks my one year heart-aversary (since open heart surgery). I was listening to my breathing and the beating of my heart as I laid there. It made me stop and think about how unaware many of us are that we breathe all day long and that our hearts beat without us even thinking about it…and they’re what sustain us.

Because often we get more concerned with the hustle and bustle of life’s stressors and forget about ourselves…about the simple acts of breathing and heart beats. Our minds are going one hundred miles a minute with other ‘more important’ things all the while the absolute necessities aren’t even a thought in our heads. Does that happen to you too?

My heart’s been through a lot over the years. I bet yours has too because as we get to a (ahem) certain age, we’ve experienced life lessons and some of them aren’t always fun. But the fact that we’re still here means a whole bunch to me – more than you’ll ever know. Because innately I’m a survivor. I need help, but I do my best to do it on my own. I’ve had to over the years. Which brings me to self-love and I guess if I’m writing about my heart-aversary today then I can talk about self-love, right?

Guess who you ought to love because you’re with them all the time? YOU! There’s a duality here in knowing you can count on yourself to get through everything you’re experiencing. I know it sounds odd, as if there’s two of you, but perhaps there is – mind and heart – mental and emotional sides of you that need to work in tandem for the best YOU that you can be. There needs to be a beautiful balance between them in order to make it through this life journey of lessons. Once you’ve achieved that, you can always come back to it when you need rebalancing.

Well, that’s what I’ve had to do. When I get out of alignment, then something hits me out of the blue to make me get back to my center. It kicks my butt, then I have no choice but to realign. The alignment of body/mind/spirit is trustworthy so I just have to use my muscle memory to get back to center and that’s where I was this morning.

I wish you all a lovely day…if you would please take a moment to listen to your heartbeat today and be awaare of your breathing for a few minutes, I think you’ll find some much needed extra peace today. Be grateful to your beautiful physicality which keeps you here on this life journey. Thank your body/mind/soul/heart for all they do for you.

Thanks for reading my post!