One of the avenues that we must travel down eventually on the path to the heart's full expression into the world---is how we engage with the physical world around us--and how to cultivate a fully loving and supportive relationship with the world.
The more we align with the fire of the heart, the more we connect to the inherent oneness of the world--we realize that we are the world and the world is us. I love the following description from Deepak Chopra who gives a great example of how we must connect to the heart to shift from thinking to awareness, from mind to heart--then back again in the context of building a right relationship with the earth.
"The best thing you can do for the planet is to shift your perception. There is no hope of healing the planet as long as the word 'environment' means something separate from you. Each of us has built our happiness on ignoring the Earth's balance. We wouldn't do that to our own homes: who would tolerate a living room filled with decaying garbage? We wouldn't do that to our own bodies: who would deprive their body of half the oxygen it needed? So, forget that you ever heard the word 'environment.’ Instead, think of ‘my world’, and look upon Nature as ‘my body’ in extended form. Having done that, treat the world with care and intimate regard. This should be your guide to a new way of being happy. Until millions of people have made the same shift, saving the planet will remain a worthy cause that never quite gains the whole-hearted support it needs".
The truth is we can "do" all we want and the little steps surely help. However, the most radical and most powerful shift begins within the heart/mind connection. A Course In Miracles says that "A miracle is just a shift in perception" and a miracle is truly what we need to save our relationship with the earth.
This is not about wishful thinking, or wishing the problems of the world to go away. In fact it's the opposite--it's about becoming real and checking ourselves back into the relationship. It's like we're the lover who abandoned our partner and left the house in shambles and decided that we didn't have to do anything and that someone else was going to take care of the mess we left behind.
However when we connect to the path of the heart and begin to feel the shift from smallness to the vast all encompassing reality of who we are--the oneness, the richness, the sweetness of possibility and potential of this human experience--we have no choice but to go back to our lover and clean things up. We must atone and with humility and deep reverence apologize and at the same time be grateful that our partner is resilient and capable of healing beyond our comprehension.
Must connect now and invite the shift into our hearts fully and make it a practice everyday to see ourselves intimately connected to the earth and her ways. To think of ourselves as a lover, a partner, and in the love relationship feel the union of possibility.
In every choice we make we ask not is this good for me--but is it good to the whole of me. Not the small me, but the vast me--the me that is in union with all that is--the earth and all her inhabitants. Can you feel the enormity of every decision play out and the chain reaction of effects that it has on all parts of your unified body and consciousness.
When you deeply get this your life will transform and you will no longer be capable of making decisions that are not rooted in deep love to the earth. But you must be willing to love yourself whole heartedly--all of you.
If you can sit down and meditate right now and begin to do this work of shifting your perception. Focus on your heart and breath deeply into the heart. Begin to feel your heart beat and relax into the vastness of the heart. Begin to visualize the earth as best you can and when you see it clearly place it lovingly into the chamber of your heart. Breath consciously into the earth and place your awareness into the center of the earth. Feel your essence there feel connected and at home there. Feel yourself as earth and feel yourself expanding to fill the earth with your essence. When you feel alive inside the earth from the rootedness of being inside and all through the earth--channel your awareness back into the heart of your physical body and feel the essence of yourself as earth inside the power of your heart. Feel the radical shift of aliveness--the hum of the earth inside the beat of your heart. Feel the union. Be the union.
In every act you put forth into the world ask yourself is this the best I can do in the spirit of love? Does this actions serve "me" out of convenience or is there a better choice that would serve the vast ME and contribute to the health and well being of all those who reside in vast expanse of the heart of hearts.
Love to you all!
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