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Week of May 23-28, 2010
The Embodied Heart
Jonathan Horan
The Way is not in the sky
The Way is in the heart.
-Buddha
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. This is not only the title to a great novel by Carson McCullers, but also a haunting description of a certain state of being. What are we hunting for? What do we want that we don’t have? We want connection and intimacy. More than anything else in this world, we want to be loved.
Often, we don’t listen to our own hearts. In fact, most often we think about our feelings rather than experience them, and this separation creates loneliness that turns the heart into a hunter-we seek somebody to love rather than being the force that is love. Love isn’t something to do. It’s something to be.
Let’s take the time to stop the world and pay attention to our hearts. Attention is like a spotlight. Feelings live in different parts of our bodies, and when we shine the light of our attention on them, memories crack open and move, dissolving the hard hold they have on us.
Using the 5Rhythms® dance practice as a map to the way our emotional energy morphs and moves, we practice the lost art of falling in love and landing on our own two feet.
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