Journey to the Heart

Make a Fresh Start

Sometimes we need to start over—in work, in love, in our place of residence, in creating our lives. Sometimes we have to start over again when we don’t want to, didn’t plan on it, and don’t think it’s fair.
We may end a relationship, move, start a new job, start a new career, or begin an entirely different part of our lives, a part so different we don’t recognize it as being connected to the earlier ones. It’s new. We’re new. Life is new. We’re starting over again.
Sometimes it feels like we’re starting from scratch. While we may feel a sense of excitement about this new beginning, we may also harbor a sense of dread. Not again. Not one more time. I can’t. I don’t want to. That reaction is understandable. We become tired, frightened. We feel uncertain.
Honor all your feelings, all your emotions. Remember all your lessons. Clear the way to the heart. Then make a decision.
It’s time for a fresh start.

Often, when we feel the urge to travel, it’s connected to a deeper urge, the urge to go somewhere new on our path.
Recognize the desire in your heart totravel and see new horizons. Thenhonor it, for it reveals your desire totouch new horizons in your life.

Remember to honor and value the work and the tasks that are yours to do—from the smallest to the grandest. Wash the dishes, fold the laundry, hold a business meeting, rake the yard. Each task is important.
Value work. Let it connect youto the rhythms of life.

If we’re connected to ourselves, our intuition will guide us as to what to do and when to do it. If we love ourselves, we’ll trust ourselves enough to act confidently and joyfully on that guidance.

Feel your feelings. Struggle through your situations and experiences and emotions. The struggle to learn isn’t incidental to your purpose. It’s an integral part of your purpose, your destiny, your reason for being. Go through your moments of darkness and confusion, and trust that the light will come. Through it all, rest in one thought: you’re on track. You’re on your path.

Courage. Faith. Patience. Loving ourselves when it looks and feels like nobody else cares. Starting over again one more time, when we think we’ve already started over again more times than we should have had to. Forgiveness. Compassion. Gentleness. Joy. Each one is a lesson of love.

Is there something you want to do? Is your heart urging you to learn something, accomplish something, go somewhere, do something? Make it a goal. Focus your energy. Learn to stay focused until you reach that goal.
Put yourself in the cabin and don’tlet yourself out until it’s done

To do that, we may have to work through or push away inner distractions. Moving through our inner obstacles enables us to accomplish our goal

But there also comes a time to aim our attention and focus our energy on what we want to accomplish.

Happiness doesn’t mean feeling gleeful all the time. Happiness doesn’t mean the road we’re traveling is always smooth. Happiness means feeling all we need to feel. And accepting each part of the journey, even the changes of course and direction.