I think many of us may have had the experience of seeing a child with two well-meaning or perhaps not-so-nice parents who are raising the child in such a way that you can see that it's going to cause problems for the child in the future.
You know,
Either the child's being spoiled rotten or,
You know,
Maybe the parents are being too harsh,
But whatever,
You can see the writing on the wall and you might feel quite helpless at the time to do anything.
Well,
You know,
In the bigger picture,
This is not unlike what is happening in our whole Western culture,
Just taking a step back from your individual kind of experience to looking at the culture as a whole.
Now we're trained to be 90-95% in our intellects is a very,
Very head-oriented culture.
You know,
Simpler societies are,
It's simpler,
It's more heart-based.
And there's some,
You know,
Things that we lose with overly simple cultures,
But there's a big cost to what we're doing.
And the trouble is that even our solutions are head-based.
It's like,
You know,
Being lost in a labyrinth and asking somebody who's in a labyrinth of their own to help you.
And,
You know,
Many times with our therapies,
They're very intellectual.
It can be very kind of heady experience.
And,
You know,
We might feel better for a bit just because we've had,
You know,
The attention of another human being,
You know,
A well-meaning human being to listen to us,
And maybe we've become better friends with ourselves just by having the grace of their presence and being able to speak about what's bothering us.
But it's hard for another person who's in the labyrinth of their mind to help somebody who's lost in their head.
So you know,
What to do?
And even drugs,
You know,
It's kind of a temporary solution.
It's a little bit like being forever,
You know,
Imprisoned,
You know,
If you always have to take a pill to feel better or to feel balanced.
The thing is,
Inside you is your loving heart.
It hasn't gone away.
You may have lost touch with it,
But it's there.
And with your attention,
It can come up and help you with the labyrinthine head,
With the complexity of your thoughts,
With the complexity of your lived experience,
It can start bringing the warm simplicity,
Connection to others,
Connection to Mother Earth,
Can restore our sanity.
Now,
You know,
In the East,
It's understood that sometimes seekers lose their sanity temporarily as part of finding the larger sanity of being more connected to the truth within them and their heart and Mother Nature.
And if somebody's in truth,
They can harm no one,
You know,
Someone's in truth,
They will never be violent ever.
They will never want to hurt anything.
And imagine if we had a whole society of people who were like that.
And you know,
We can,
Because it's getting so uncomfortable for us now.
There's so many people in pain,
And including many therapists,
You know,
Because we've all been trained to be so much in our heads.
But we can come back to our hearts.
And you know,
The intent to become more heart-based will carry your life that way,
Truly.
If you make a deep decision,
What's called a sankalpa in the East,
A deep decision that you want to live more in truth,
That you want your heart,
It will come up.
It will come up and you can ask that it comes as gradually as possible,
You know,
Gradually in the highest good pace,
Not so gradual that you,
You know,
It takes decades,
But,
You know,
At a highest good pace,
You can manage and understand that once you say that,
That training will start,
You know,
Your soul will have hurt you,
And that will start.
And you know,
You may get some uncomfortable moments as you're making the change from the head to the heart,
You know,
It's a long,
Hard road,
Really,
From the head to the heart.
But what is the alternative,
You know,
Really,
Yeah,
We're just getting more and more confused and more and more rules and more and more things falling apart,
Let's just come back to our hearts.
And it's an end of it starts with the individual,
All changes,
You know,
In the world,
They start with individual or small groups.
So just understand from this video,
If you take this,
I'll be very happy that you can come into your heart,
You can just make a deep decision that you're wanting to come into your heart more.
And then,
You know,
Be brave,
And let it happen.
Okay,
Bless you.
This is what I did.
You know,
It can be done.
Okay,
Bless your heart.
