Can you even hear the heart if you don’t have the space to listen?

Lately I’ve been sharing and thinking a lot about what is actually required for us to be able to listen to our hearts - a suggestion we often hear in the mindfulness scene in relation to decision-making, in relation to walking a path that is aligned with who we are and what we need, in relation to getting past more challenging times in our lives where we feel a change is needed but we don’t really know yet what, how, when to do about it.

We’re told not to worry but just trust the journey and listen to our hearts when we face hardship or crossroads - hey, I say that as well - often and a lot.

But what we often don’t talk about is how much space we actually need to be able to listen, to be able to feel that right direction, to be able to detect what is off and what is aligned, what we yearn and what has lived its life and served its purpose for us already.

I’ve seen and felt it on first hand that if we fall into a cycle of constant tempo, endless to-do lists and packed schedules without taking time and space for ourselves to sit and actually feel the things around us moving through and affecting us, feel ourselves within it all, feel our hearts and its yearnings and wishes then it’s so hard to actually listen or see the direction - you’re just in that hamster-wheel and moving in a whizz of a momentum.

I cannot express how important it is to make space to take pauses - daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. Space to just be and be present, to land back inwards so that you can actually detach from all that outside noise, routine and expectations and listen, in stillness and with enough time to allow things to actually surface from within.

- So that you can detach a bit from the outside and reconnect back to yourself, and what is happening inside you.

-So that from there you can ask important decisions and feel what are the steps your heart wishes to take, or at least what is the direction, the wishes, the dreams of life that feels aligned with you.

Because if you want to live from the heart then you need to have space and time to actually be present with it

(and not run around headlessly (or heartlessly ;) )).

I hope that during the summer when time is perhaps a little more abundant and there’s more space around you from the usual routines, and more energy from the external abundance of light and warmth, you can start carving out more time for these pauses for presence and listening.
It can be a walk, a slower yoga practice with a long savasana (= stillness and space), 5-10 minutes of just sitting with yourself in the early mornings, or anything else that you can carve time for.

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If you need structure and environment to take that time to check in with yourself then do join one of my next public soundbaths or book a private session for an extra deep-dive). Soundbaths are always such beautiful opportunities to have that stillness and space to pause the world and check in with yourself so do come and come more proactively as well.

There’s also so many (140+ ) practices on my online yoga membership to give you those opportunities to listen inwards, to gve yourself that structure, form and excuse to take that time for yourself to slow down the outside world so that you can tune into the inside world, while energising or finding deep calm physically as well.

I wish that you allow yourself a lot of space for stillness to be with yourself this lighter summer times and resisting the urge to fill those schedules to the rim.

I wish you all the time to rest and recover, to re-align and recenter ;)

Love,

Kika