What Is Your Heart Telling You You Want? Can You Really Listen?

The Insight Timer is an app I use daily. It provides thousands of daily meditations, mindfulness moments, courses and talks designed to help one stay grounded. One I discovered was called A Simple Exercise to Change Your Life by Eric John Campbell. It’s a minute-long instruction to ask your heart what your dream life feels like and wait for its response.

I got in a quiet space and did exactly that. The hard part, at least for me, has been the waiting. As I mentioned last week, I am working on learning to sit and do nothing when called for. This is my chance to do exactly that.

The most-wonderful images and feelings came to me. Many were things I am currently already experiencing (yay me!). Some were of impossible good fortune that did come to me (my last conversation with my new boss comes to mind). Still others were things I normally wouldn’t dare to dream, believing they are unavailable (or unavailable to me).

For that moment, I let myself dream them. I spent some time thinking about what it would feel like to have those dreams come true. It was the best feeling I’ve had in a long time. So, I’m going to keep on dreaming.

Try this ONE thing

What is your heart telling you are its dreams? Take the time to wait and really listen to its response.

Want to experience coaching? I like to start with a deep, get-to-know-you conversation to see if we are right for each other. Sometimes we talk for one or two hours at no charge. I have no goal except to bring about transformation. Together we work on the lies, the self-deception, the fears of the power you perceive to be outside yourself. We work on your difficulties in making decisions and your inability thus far to make bold choices in life and to follow through and trust yourself completely to do so.

The irony for some people is that the very thing that they want the coaching for (an indecisive, half-hearted life) is what’s keeping them from deciding whether to get coaching.

When you’re ready, reach out @ karen.laidlaw.theONEthing@outlook.com. Meanwhile, enjoy the blog!