Guided by the Heart

Imagine that you are going on a journey. In this journey you do not know the destination. It is one guided by self-love. There are no maps. The way is guided by your heart. Will you join me?

This journey begins in the present. Right now. Where you are as you are.

There are no bags to pack, rather this is where you are given permission to unpack your bags.

So set down the past and the future. Set down everything you are aspiring to be, your challenges, your thoughts, and listen to the deep whisper within. Here, there is no doing. Welcome to the undoing. Unwind yourself. Give into the space that you are in. Ease back, relax your face, your shoulders, and get comfortable. Be with your breath as it is. Exhale through the mouth. As you continue to read give yourself permission to breathe out through the mouth. Notice any resistance to exhaling. Allow it.

Off in the distance you hear the sound. Let the sound be there.

Feel yourself where you are hearing a sound over there. Feel the space between you and the sound. Notice it’s rhythm. Keep breathing. Notice any thoughts, feelings or judgements and aspire to let them go with each exhalation. Be ok being you in this moment. What if you are not your thoughts? What if you are not even your emotions? What if you are truly ok right now? Can you allow yourself to consider this possibility?

Whether you can or can not, continue exhaling and easing a little deeper into this moment. Notice any places in your body you feel that you are holding. Breathe into those places and exhale, let them go. Just for this moment, can you give yourself permission to let go. Pause here.

Imagine now that you are resting on the most soft, luxurious, sand by the most peaceful serene ocean.

Feel all the grains of sand supporting the weight of your body. You can hear the waves come and go. The air is soothing. You feel the warmth of the sun. You feel safe and supported. Allow a sense of deep inner peace and calm to grow from within you. It is safe to let go now. There is nothing you need to hold onto in this moment. Pause here.

As you ease into the warm soothing sand, you feel the breeze blow and hear the sound of a harp emerging from within the waves. For just one moment, you imagine that you can hear the whales singing and this song draws you into your heart. From within the song within your heart, you feel something emerging. It feels so sweet, gentle, and loving. It is kind, nurturing and you can feel it bathing you in a softening from within. You are held and supported. As this feeling begins to grow and moves through your body, a curiosity forms. Feel your eyes drop down into the center of your heart.

Gazing deep into the center of your heart, you notice there is a seed.

This seed begins to speak to you. It is telling you what it requires for nourishment. Listen and allow yourself to hear with a deep knowing. There is no figuring it out. Do not listen with ordinary ears. The seed communicates in a language that your inner self understands. Allow it to emerge. If the mind chatter enters, return to the breath, the exhale, let it go and return to being with this seed within your heart. Like the acorn, all that you are is written in the truth of the seed that lives in your heart. This is an opportunity to listen, feel deeply. Pause.

Imagine that you begin offering that seed water, soil, sun light, love, time, energy, gratitude, gentleness, patience and all that it needs.

As you feed the seed you feel it begin to grow. There are moments of feeding it and

moments of rest. The seed lets you know what it needs when it needs it. Trust yourself. You know. This seed communicates in the language of your heart. See yourself over time caring, nurturing and cultivating this seed. As you learn the delicate balance of when to take action and when to ease back, you feel this beautiful bright glowing golden pink warm light beginning to emerge from within you.

This warm, peaceful feeling begins to envelope you as you feel immense love growing within you with a sense of gratitude. As you continue to look deep into your heart, you notice that the seed has begins to sprout. As the sapling grows you feel the warmth of the sun and the sapling meet in your heart. When the two meet, it activates an expanding loving presence that emanates from within you. Pause in this love.

Notice an urge to touch your heart.

Place your hands on your heart. As your palms meet your heart feel that something reaches up from the center of your heart to touch your palms. Notice a sweet aroma emerging that further increases this tender moment. As you feel it grow into the palms of your hands, you recognize this is a gift. You hear a whisper guiding you to accept this offering and cup your hands around it. Bring this offering to your nose and breathe in the beautiful smell. Breathe out in gratitude. Repeating this. Breathe in the sweet aroma. Breathing out in gratitude.

Fully immersed in love and gratitude, imagine that you now hold this gift before you and open your eyes to see the most beautiful flower.

You have grown this flower from your heart. Through deep care, you have cultivated this gift. It is now before you. Allow your eyes to take in the beauty. Touch the flower to your eyes giving yourself permission to see the beauty before you. This flower is a representation of you. As you continue to lay on the sand holding this flower, give yourself all of the time to be present with your experience.

Allow this to unfold. The petals unfolding one at a time as the flower moves into full bloom.

You are the gift.

Feel a sense of deep inner peace knowing that your essence is inherent. There is no distortion here. You are a gift of sweetness and beauty, perfect, complete and whole. The wisdom of flower lives within you. As you rest with this awareness you feel more seeds within you beginning to sprout and grow to bloom as you realize that you have been cultivating a garden. They are growing so quickly that you are becoming the garden.

The flower you hold in your hands speaks to you.

It says, “offer me to the ocean. Your garden is growing abundantly. Give from this overflow.” You stand up and walk to the ocean and place the flower into the water. When the flower touches the water, you see the sky sparkle in a golden pink rose color letting you know that your gift to the universe has been received giving you permission to now walk forward and offer your gift from a place of deep self-love and care.

You now know that the more you give to yourself what you truly need that is nourishing and healthy, you will grow a garden from which a infinite number of flowers will grow that you may offer to others.

Giving what is yours to give, that which is your innate gift, the one that grows abundantly is a necessary part of the cycle.

Feeling your feet in the sand and waves come and go with the water touching your feet, turn around and begin to walk toward the shore. You see a door. It opens and you walk through to find yourself reentering your body, the space that you are in, in this moment, right here, right now. Breathe and notice that you have activated self-love. Open your eyes and notice the space around you. Notice that you are looking through different eyes.

Welcome home star seed, child of the earth. Remember these eyes, the one that lives within the heart. From there, there is no distortion. Only truth that you are perfect, complete and whole.

I am offering the Medicine Spiral Journey as a way to Awaken fully into the truth of who you are.

With love,

Sequoia Raven Moon