...A Fragment of Life's Heart...

I read a meditation this morning that encouraged you to enjoy the ordinary in the sense that it’s the ordinary, the mundane, the routine, that we all long for once it’s gone.   But until that moment when the ordinary is not longer available, we under-appreciate, under-value, and often ignore its preciousness.   I remember when I was tired of being in a relationship a few years ago.   I felt that it was ordinary, uneventful, unexciting and therefore useless to me at that point in my life.   I assumed and imagined that singleness (a.k.a. freedom in my mind) was where my happiness could be found.   On the contrary I had always desired relationship, friendship, companionship because it had been so invisible growing up, even through high school and college in many ways.   I was tired of being alone or maybe lonely but at that point even being in a relationship felt lonely and empty.   What friendships I had were seemingly superficial or tempo...

  According to Webster’s dictionary, freedom is defined as “the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action : liberation from slavery or restraint.”  Knowing this, can you recall a time where you actually experienced freedom?  A moment where you were totally without a nagging thought, an influencing memory, or a demanding superior telling you what you should or shouldn’t be doing.  I imagine that few of us have ever experienced TRUE freedom because even if others are not directly guiding us, then we are being bombarded by memories, old mental tapes, advertisements, and other things that work to overpower our instinct.  To live in this world, this culture, means to experience some level of constant coercion, direct or indirect, blatant or subliminal.  Are we ever truly free to be? In my daily personal practice and in my professional practice, I often struggle to find and strengthen the intuition and inner wisdom of myself and my clien...