The Cold Hearted.

Ouch. Burrrrr….. That cold sometimes stings. Sometimes the cold can get to our bones after it penetrates our hearts. How do we stay warm on these cold days? The Natural Law of the Breath. Take in those deep breaths that fill the lungs so much that it massages the heart. We have to go into the deep places of our soul where the essence of our lives can stay alive. And we can only do that with the breath. Slow and steady. Deep and penetrating breath. Our emotions define us, so it seems. No one is responsible for our happiness or our bitterness. Everyone is responsible for maintaining a warm hearth within ourselves. As I sit by the fire and watch the wounds of the fire warm my bones and heart.Mark Nepo wrote it just so perfectly!

Geez! Well that is big and I haven’t a clue how to minimize it lol.
The ‘ability’ to ‘respond’ is ours. And though it may be too easy to point fingers to the cold Winter, it isn’t fair to Winter. Winter sings her song so beautifully. We need the cold of Winter so that death can settle deep into the Mother Earth and be reclaimed and re invented or rebirthed in an extraordinarily beautiful form. Spring will arrive sooner than what we think and hibernating into our caves is essential at times. Victoria used to never enjoy her cave, until I said let’s decorate it and make it yours. This will be your beautiful space.
He writes ‘We can use the gift born of our wound to find an unmarked spot from which to live’. So beautiful! And then he goes on to say “If we settle there, giving our all without giving ourselves away…’
How easy to give ourselves away and at the same time so unnecessary.
This writing really resonated with me on so many levels. These past years I have been working solely on dispassionate non-attachment /pratyahara. And it can be so confusing to others who make think me cold hearted. But I refuse to give myself away when I consciously choose to give my all. And my all isn’t always another’s and that is another beauty of it all.