Speaking Heart is more than a nom-de-plume for a poet (myself). It is not just about poetry. Speaking Heart is about speaking from one's heart. It is about living from one's heart. Using mind as a tool, a servant, rather than a master. It is mind that stops heart from expressing. Mind does the judging, not heart. Mind labels and thinks it knows something once it has labelled it. Heart is always learning.
Yes, I know that heart is a label itself. All of this still occurs in the mind, but what we refer to as heart is a different thought process. We may say it occurs in the right hand side of the brain, or that it occurs when we release chemicals that change the way in which we perceive things, but being in the heart is different than being in the mind.
It is all about energy. We have known about the body's energy centres (chakras) for millenia and they are not imaginary. I have felt the tingling of crown chakra, the buzzing of Ajna chakra and the spinning open lotus flower of heart chakra. So when we come from the heart, when I am present as Speaking Heart, we are experiencing and expressing another facet of our being.
Could it be that we could make the future of humankind and of this planet a little more humane, more loving, more peaceful and harmonious if we connected with and expressed this facet of ourselves more openly and passionately, rather than acquiescing to the domineering attitude of the mind?
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