Love is not a word, Dear One.

• It is an action.
• It is a feeling, a rhythm, a way to be.
• It is an energy, an attitude, an answer, a solution.

Love is a lot of things, Dear One.

But a word is definitely not one of them.

Remember that the next time that you hear it, or say it.

It is a glorious thing, Dear One to walk in your own shoes, along your own path, that you have laid out for yourself.  There is nothing else like it – that feeling of being right where you want to be.  It is the perfect fit – It is coming home.

Experience has taught you that when you trust yourself and rely on your own inner guidance, intuition, wisdom and hunches to lead you, that you travel in a direction that is conducive to achieving your goals, desires, wishes.   Experience has also taught you that when you ignore your own instincts and blindly follow the advice, guidance and direction of others, regardless of what your heart is telling you, that you end up moving away from those things that you truly want most for yourself.

Know this — it won’t always be a struggle for you to trust yourself, to know which way your heart is leading you.  With time, patience and practice, practice, practice, you will learn and before you know it, the sound of your own heart will be the loudest one in your head.

When you trust yourself, Dear One, enough to always let your own heart have the final say before you take action, you will come to know first hand what it means when someone says home is right where you are, home is where the heart is.

Trust yourself, Dear One and you will be home.

There can be no brighter future ahead, Dear One, if you don’t allow more light into your present.

The very best thing that you can do to create a better tomorrow for yourself is to find something, anything, to be happy about today.

The best way to take care of your heart, Dear One, to strengthen it, and protect it, is to open it, trust it, and use it, as often as you possibly can.

Closing it off, shutting it down, or trying to shelter it from unwanted feelings will only serve to weaken it in the end, cutting you off from your source, leaving you far more vulnerable to hurt, deception, and negativity, than you would be otherwise.

So the next time you are in a situation where you feel like your heart needs protecting, remember, there is only one thing that you need to do; open it wider.

Your mind knows what it has experienced, Dear One.  It knows what it has seen, heard and been told.  Your mind knows what it has touched, tasted and smelled.   Your mind can create great joy, tranquility and health within you, as well as great distress, turmoil, and disease with nothing more than a single thought.

Your mind is a very powerful tool.

Your heart knows all, Dear One.  It knows eternity.  It knows who you are, where you came from, and what you are capable of.  It knows that absolutely anything is possible, without exception.  It knows more about you than you know about yourself.  It is your gateway, your point of connection, to all that is.

Your heart contains the wisdom of the universe.

If we were in your shoes, we would trust our hearts more than we trusted logic, more than we trusted our best friend, more than we trusted the internet, more than we trusted anyone or anything.

If we were you, Dear One, if there were ever a question of which to trust; our heart or our mind, we would choose to trust the wisdom of our heart every time.

As you know very well from experience, Dear One, there are an unlimited number of paths that you can follow that will get you from here to there.

There is no one single “right” path that you must take to get where you are trying to go.

But there are more and less direct paths that you can follow to get you there.

Would you like to know how to get yourself on the most direct path there is?

Listen to your heart, follow your instincts, trust your intuition, act on your hunches and move forward with confidence, enthusiasm, and excitement trusting that you will find all that you need to proceed along the way.

Remember, Dear One, balance is your ultimate goal, not extremes.

The objective is not to perpetually push yourself as hard and as far as you can possibly go.

The endgame, your long game is to find / create / experience balance.

We thought you could use the reminder.

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Discipline is a mindset, Dear One, an attitude, an approach, a guide, a commitment.

It is not a contract, a commandment, an order, a doctrine, or a law that must be followed.

Discipline is flexible, malleable, adaptable, and strong.

It is not hard, rigid, tough, and unforgiving.

Discipline is the boat on the water, Dear One, not the rope tethering you to the dock.

It is the compass pointing your way, not the points plotted out on a map

It is the sail, and not the anchor.

Practicing discipline should strengthen you, empower you, guide you, help you to feel stronger, freer, more connected and in-synch with the world around you. Not frustrate you, weaken you, and leave you feeling depleted and restricted.

If what you are practicing is not not serving you in all of these positive ways Dear One, there is a very good chance that what you are practicing is not discipline at all, but that you are just being hard on yourself, and that is not the same thing.

Trust yourself,Dear One. Trust your heart.  Always.

We know that sometimes that can be a difficult thing for you to do, especially when you feel as though you have sufficient evidence proving that doing so in the past has gotten you into trouble, has steered you in the wrong direction.

But what if we told you, that it just wasn’t true.  What if we told you that all of those experiences that you have had trusting your heart, the ones that did not work out the way that you wanted them to, the way that you thought they would, had in fact turned out exactly the way that you needed them to.

What if we told you that?

Your heart always, always, always knows, Dear One.

Trusting it will always, always, always serve you better than not trusting it ever will.