15 Sep Internal Thread
Change can seem nebulous, always out of reach. We yearn for things to be different yet find we can’t always figure our how to make the change happen.
As I’m preparing to lead the Loving Your Broken Heart workshop in Scotland next weekend I’ve been thinking a lot about how trauma, attachment issues come together. I’ve come to realize that there’s something more fundamental.
This quote from Sogyal Rinpoche points to what we need: a core, an internal compass, but more than that an experience of living inside our bodies, with our hearts free and easy, able to deal with the highs and lows of life.
| A string of beads has a thread running through all the beads, keeping them together. What we need is a thread too—of sanity and stability. Because when you have a thread, even though each bead is separate, they hang together. When we have the teachings in us, stabilizing us, there’s a thread to keep our life together that prevents us from falling apart. |
– Sogyal Rinpoche, “The Stability of Ease”
We need that internal thread that keeps each of our “beads” together. We need a set teachings that guide us on the journey and help us orient.
Learning to love our own broken heart is one of the key first steps. I’m curious. What kinds of teachings help you to find this internal thread in your heart, mind, body?