Heart, Meaning & the Inevitable Opening

Heart, Meaning & the Inevitable Opening
by Ananaia O'Leary

Hearts beat and the clash of flesh on rib cage startles and sends us careening away from the danger of vulnerability, tenderness, mercy, and the exposure of our authentic bellies.

Breathe deep, listen to the heartbeat.

It is calling you. As sure as drums call men to war, your heart is calling you. Slow your breathing, matching rhythm for rhythm … feel the pulse of your heart in your belly … breathe-beating, belly-beating … stilling into the rhythm your body was born to honor.

Breathe deep in the stillness.

In this moment, in this dread silent moment when words fail, reason falters and only touch and presence are true … lies the fresh, raw nature of existence, stripped of all pretense … face to face with the power of the authentic heart.

Breathe … breathe deep, open to what has heart and meaning.

Let your heart-truth rise up within you … not merely a litany of words ~ but resonance, full-felt in the fierce intimacy of the immediate moment. Embrace the critical core … that marrow-deep essence that cannot, will not be denied.

Breathe deep, join with the primal juice of your being.

Sap rises ~ bone-to-bone, blood-to-blood, belly-to-brow. Passion rises ~ fiber-to-fiber … form-to-form … life-force is moving, leaping synapses in an ecstasy of connection, the re-membering of fractured parts.

Breathe, pay attention to the spaces between.

Watch as these spaces fade and distinctions like ‘here’ and ‘there’ … ‘then’ and ‘now’ … ‘you’ and ‘me’ ~ unravel … unwind … return from form to source … raindrops rippling the still waters on their passage from sovereignty to oneness.

Breathe, rest at the still-point of the universe. Open to the infinite.