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from the heart

January 13th, 2011

That’s a phrase I don’t hear much anymore, “from the heart”, or even “heartfelt.”

As it comes to mind and I’m realizing it’s rarity now I wonder how to turn that around. The heart as a symbolic seat of tender emotion and soulful connections has something to offer us who sometimes are disembodied brains or neighborhoods without community.

I just graduated from the coaching program of Newfield Network, where hearfelt expressions are the norm, not the exception. I saw on the faces of my colleagues the joy of connection and community and emotional and spiritual support that can only come with heart to heart communications. Communications in all the ways that people communicate, many of them unspoken. Of course openness to one’s own emotions and self are important to being able to make an open and heartfelt communication.

I am moved to write this having just watched President Barack Obama’s speech in Tuscon recognizing those whose lives were just taken and those whose lives are endangered by the shocking event on Saturday. I went through the emotions with him as he spoke honoring all those lives; I rose to his uplifting request for humility and honesty in our public discourse; and I said ‘wow’. A speech from the heart in a public place. I yearn for more.

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