As I sat in an overcrowded subway ride in New York City, I closed my eyes. I could hear people pushing and complaining and I took long, deep, and slow breath. I knew it was going to take me at least an hour to get into Manhattan and I needed a mantra to feel calmer. I took a breath and the phrase, “Sit in your heart center” came streaming through.
Taking slower breaths as the trained jerked and screeched, I imagined myself sitting in my heart center. I started to feel expansive. I breathed love, forgiveness, and compassion in my whole body. As I left the train, I felt a sense of peacefulness.
I wanted to be with this feeling longer so after exiting the subway I found a place to sit with my notebook and write about “Sitting in your heart.” Here is what flowed:
Feel your heart. Call wisdom living in you.
There are limitless sources.
What does your heart say?
What does your heart want right now?
What is your heart saying to you about your day?
Take a deeper breath.
Fill yourself up with more of yourself.
Are you ready to fill yourself up with more love?
And more love? And more love?
Bring your hands to your heart center.
Do you feel that?
The love that you are is waiting.
What love name do you want to be called?
Sit in your heart center and notice.
Breathe through your heart center.
You are being breathed in your heart center.
Breathe. Sit. Be. Love
Amen.
Mary Anne