The Path to Your Center

 

 

Dear Reader,

I was talking recently to a good friend who was trying to figure out some relationship stuff. Have you been there? Can you relate to what he was going through? I sure can! There was a time when I would go buy three books and try to “figure out” my relationship stuff!

I don’t do that any more.

One thing I know now, especially in relationship, is that the most important thing I can do is return to my center – meaning my core, my essence, my truest self – as often as I possibly can, and relate from that awareness.

Another thing I know now, is that the path to your center does not go through your head; it goes through your heart.

But how do you follow that path?!

It involves…

• letting go of intellectual activity
• letting go of fear
• letting go of a need to be right
• letting go of a need to be perfect
• letting go of attachment to another
• letting go of the past

What is left, after all that letting go?!

Love.

Which is you – your truest self.

It is not a place to “get to.” It is not a quality to add to your repertoire. It is not a puzzle to solve (although sometimes it feels like it.) It is who you are. A unique expression of love, and love is bigger than everything. So be that person who is love.

This may mean that you think less, try to talk things through less – and that you take responsibility more for yourself, and who you are being. Do that, and you return to an open, rich state of fullness, without an agenda.

In that state, you can simply be in awe of the beautiful being you are relating to, as the beautiful being you are.

In other words – let go into love.

Want to return to your center fast? Take off your shoes and dance on the grass.

I honor your loving heart,

John