Usually I blog about my daily life here - today, I decided to share some of my internal life... which blossoms into my profession as a Life and Creativity Coach.

We live in microwave oven-Veruca Salt society that screams, “I want it NOW!” without regard for the precious pace that surrounds us in nature, in our calm breath, in our heartbeat.

Rainer Rilke speaks to each of us when he wrote, “Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart….”

Patience?

What is patience? Certainly not anything the average Joe or Jane has much practice using or experiencing. 

We have a tendency to leap-frog to “Why?” as in “Why is this happening to me?” or “Why can’t I?” or “Why won’t he (or she or they or it)? Rather than slowly steeping in whatever our personalized message is there for us, whatever revelation is waiting to blossom – and will only blossom when given the right environment of a gentle touch, a quiet and sacred curiosity, a non-judgmental span of space to rest, to breathe, to dare to hope.

I know my patience is minimal when it comes to heart matters.

Rilke continues: “Love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.”

Without concerning yourself with the “how will I’s” (that is tainting yourself with a Veruca Salt approach) consider this question:

What do I truly want?

Consider this question over several days – and don’t limit yourself to a specific category of your life, because that might not be where your heart, where the question, is calling you to focus.

The extra fun part comes now. Follow your inklings. As you continue to ask the question, “What do I truly want?” over the next several days – great times to ask it are before you go to sleep and when you first wake up….. and then release it and allow your heart to be open to whatever is meant to come through to you.

Syncronicity – unexplainable coincidences – will increase.  Step into them.  Experiment within your daily life by playfully trying something out - anything -  without attaching yourself to the outcome, because as Rilke reminds us - “And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.”

Take a deep breath.

“What do I truly want?”

Release.

Open.

Witness.

Act.