Confusion

Follow Your Heart Week – Wednesday

Wednesday power review:

• Solar plexus chakra (above navel, below chest)
• Color yellow
• Great day of the week to take action

Question: How do you follow your heart when you don’t know what you want?

Answer: You don’t have to have a tidy, long-range vision in order to follow your heart. What do you want to do right now? It starts with taking tiny actions and learning to listen to and honor your desires.

How: Ask yourself, what do I want? Write down the FIRST thing that comes to your mind. Don’t rethink it. Trust it. Now figure out how to do one thing today that moves you toward that desire.

• Acknowledge and trust your thought
• Take action
• Recognize the feeling
• Be grateful

Examples

Thought: I’m tired.

Action: What can you do today? I always vote for a nap, but that doesn’t work for everyone. Can you set your timer and sit with your eyes closed for five minutes? It’s amazing how much better you can feel. You don’t need to have a still mind or concentrate on your breathing, just think to yourself, “I am resting.” Can you go to bed half an hour earlier tonight? Or wake up half an hour later tomorrow? Just once—not for the rest of your life (unless you want to).

Recognition & Gratitude: Whatever you choose, notice the feeling of rest and be grateful for it.

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Thought: I want to be happy.

Action: What is one thing you can do today that makes you happy? Take a walk? Call someone? Draw a picture? Eat something delicious? Take a break from what you are working on?

Recognition & Gratitude: Pick something and notice what happy feels like to you. Be grateful for feeling happy.

Analogy: Connect the dots. In some connect-the-dot pictures, the numbers are very close together and you get a good sense of the picture before you start drawing. In others, the numbers are spread out and you can’t tell what it’s going to look like until you are almost finished. Following your heart is just like that. Whether or not you can see the big picture, you still have to connect each dot one at a time.

Be inspired. Go forth. Create your day.

Happy links:

• Connect-the-dots printables. Try one for fun! 
• Follow Your Heart Week Posts:
  • Monday – Curious Heart
  • Tuesday – Collective Good
• Check out post: Steps… “No matter what, keep going. The goal is unimportant, it’s the steps that count!”
• Solar plexus chakra healing music. Very soothing!