Follow Your Heart

We hear this a lot in our spiritual practice. Yet how hard is it? How do we know we are doing it? Why are we resistant to it? How can we, pardon the expression, "Just Do It"?

I find myself feeling--not into whatever it is--and tell myself, "Sarah, you're not following your heart. If you were, you'd feel enthusiastic, or something different than this." Okay then, how do I do it? I think there is a dive in aspect to following ones heart.

Here's my plan:

• Next time I'm feeling uninspired, look around at what I'm doing and take a step out of it: Choose something different
• If I'm feeling enthusiastic and I start to judge myself (goes something like this): "Sarah, how can you possibly feel enthusiastic about adding web 2.0 tools to a website? This can't be right!" I'll ignore it and know that the enthusiasm IS telling me that I am following my heart. No judgment please.

I'm reminded of something that one of my teachers said: "Endure Nothing" (Vinn Marti). I absolutely love this. I mean LOVE this. How can we endure nothing? Isn't this the same thing as following your heart? I think it is.

In Peace,
Sarah