May 2025 Week 4

“Awaken to your hearts contentment
One day you will awaken to discover your life is all you wanted and hoped it would be.
Oh, you’ll not find everything just the way your head said you wanted it. It might not be the way you planned. But you’ll awaken to your dreams - your dreams of joy, love, and peace. Your dream of freedom.
You’ll see beyond the illusions. You’ll transcend your old limiting beliefs. You’ll wake up and notice that your past is just as it needed to be. You’ll see where you are today is good. You’ll notice that you laugh a lot, cry a lot, smile a lot.
You’ll look at tomorrow with peace, faith, and hope - knowing that while you cannot control some of what life does, you have possibilities and powers in any circumstance life might bring. The struggle you have lived with for so many years, the struggle in your heart, has disappeared. You’re secure, at peace with yourself and your place in the world.
One day, you’ll awaken to your heart’s contentment. Let that day be today.”

Well I don’t know about you, but for me this meditation from Melody Beattie sums up “happiness” for me in our intention for this month - I am becoming the happiest version of myself. This month we have been talking about the AMA - undigested food, emotions or situations in our lives that are in the way of this happier, content version of ourselves. Last week I wrote about the splinter and the idea that just as splinters can get embedded in our body, old emotions and beliefs can act like toxins and become embedded in us, too. Also in last weeks writing was the idea that we cannot talk a splinter out of our body, we need to go through the stinging action of removing it. I used this weeks meditation in class to prompt us to visualize the “splinter” and if it was not there what would it look like and how would it feel to be living in the space of the above meditation of contentment. Give yourself a few moments to go there and see how you feel and if anything comes to mind that may need to shift for you.

Before I close I want to add a crazy “coincidence” or “God-instance”. Last week I was writing the story about the splinter and I looked at the heal of my hand and saw something there and had a quick thought of “is that a splinter?” but was too busy to acknowledge it, look at it, try to take it out and even worse make the connection that I was writing at that moment of the splinter!!! OMG lol. Later that night I was washing my face and I relooked at my hand and said so weird where the heck could I get a splinter? Further, I realized it had been in there for quite sometime as my body was doing its thing with a splinter and was pushing it out - it was halfway out. I took a tweezer and easily removed it. At that moment I made the connection between my physical splinter and the story I had written during the day. I received immediate relief for my repetitive “story” that steals my contentment - crazy!!!!! Awareness and willingness are key to our growth and peace. This “splinter” started to creep back in this week but I am simply telling myself nope, don’t go there, once you remove a splinter it is impossible to put it back in! What is your splinter that if you effortlessly removed you would awaken to your hearts contentment?