Heartsong Studio

At this time of year, New Year’s resolutions go the way of all great intentions. Many have told me they don’t make resolutions any more because they never last. So is it hopeless to expect your wants and needs will ever be met ? Or, do you berate yourself for not sticking to them ?

I didn’t even know what my needs were. Apart from general stuff like needing love, hope, or comfort, can you tell what specific needs you have ? When it comes to painting, it isn’t always clear what my work needs next either. I use the remembrance to ask these questions, of course. That’s what I advise clients to do.

When you ask to be shown, maybe nothing spectacular happens at all; no music, no glowing inspirations, no wise words of guidance. The expectation of something earthshaking, is still using the ego mind. Then when you think you’re shown nothing, you might conclude that
you just don’t get it, it’s too woo-woo, and you’ll never be blessed to see anything.

This is what just happened to me.
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I asked to be shown what my needs are. I sat in remembrance, and opened my heart without any preconceived expectation. The first thing I got was:
Do nothing. — How brilliant is that and how hard for me !
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Do nothing, just be.

I’m noticing how useful this is whenever an old attitude wants to haunt me with worry, fear, or bad temper. I catch it asap, and for a brief moment “do nothing”, meaning I drop doing self-judgment. The old habit dissolves.

Here’s a challenge, a simple idea, but not easy.
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Go inside and do nothing. Sit comfortably, close your eyes, and do nothing. Hard huh !? At least for me it’s very hard to stop doing and just be.

Ask in your heart to be shown what you need. It doesn’t arrive in that moment. It’s already there as close to you as your breath. It always has been right there.

If you can truly surrender your doingness of mind, even for a moment, what you need is clear and familiar. I used to discount it for being too common or too subtle. But once this judgmental mind stopped expecting to be surprised, in that moment, I WAS surprised.

A client recently did the Drawing from Within home study course. His first drawing was amazing. Then the other drawings seemed to be done quickly with smooth lines, as though his mind was saying: “Okay, I’ve done that slowly and had no great results, I know how
this goes. . .”

The quick drawings may have been done with the mind which thinks it knows, or maybe he discounted his first results, just as I’ve often discounted what was shown to me in remembrance.

Drawing for the first few times is scary, even for experienced artists. Drawing isn’t always used in art making either, but when it is, there’s always this expectation to replicate a thing lurking in the backs of our minds, even though we know this isn’t the goal.

New Year’s resolutions often come from our ego mind. My list of needs came through my heart, or from the One, not from my mind or another person.

I’ll still be watching to see if I stay on course though. . . .

Wait – that’s my mind doubting my heart a little still. See, I just caught that one.
This is really working ! I’m trusting my heart more all the time.

I know it was my heart’s message, but maybe it is yours too. Many people can benefit from doing nothing and “just” being. I invite you to try it out, and do absolutely nothing for at least some time every day. I’d love to hear what happens.

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