Dear friends,
We’ve moved through Earth’s steadiness, Water’s feeling, and Fire’s will. This week, we arrive at Air, and in this teaching, Air governs the heart itself: not just what we feel, but our very capacity to stay open.
Every closed heart I have ever sat with, including my own, closed for a reason that made sense at the time. A wall went up because something needed protecting. The trouble is that walls don’t come down on their own schedule. They just keep standing, long after the danger that built them has passed, quietly keeping out love along with the pain. Or it may be a recurring situation that has plagued our lives. A type of situation that keeps repeating. That is what keeps us guarded, keeping our hearts from opening wide and current so that things can change.
This can change. It can transform.
What I have also seen, again and again, is that a particular kind of love can reach those walls anyway. I call it the wisdom of love, not love tangled up with our own unhealed emotions, but love in its purity. That purity is what transmutes dysfunction, rather than simply easing it, and what flows back in its place is functional well-being, often in volumes we didn’t know we had room for. And when that shift comes, it rarely stays only emotional. It becomes a shift in consciousness, arriving the moment we are spiritually ready to receive it, not a moment before. Pure love is the healer, and that comes from our true intention, our Soul, and the Grace of the Universe, God.
In Your Loving Power, I write about this closing and opening as one of the quiet through-lines of healing: so many of the problems we bring to a session, a friendship, or a sleepless night trace back to a heart that closed once and never got the message it was safe to open again.
I’ve come to trust that the heart already knows what it’s protecting, even before the mind can explain it: the same field of the unknown that’s been present since we began this journey through the Elements, the knowing older than our instruments, the one the birds already trust.
This week, I invite you to notice one wall you’ve been carrying. You don’t have to take it down today. Just ask it, gently: are you still needed here?
Your Loving Power: Heal Yourself, Heal the Earth is now available in paperback, ebook, and hardcover through Amazon and IngramSpark. If it has found its way into your hands, an honest review helps it find the next open heart.
Next week, we close this journey with Ether, the last of the Five Elements, and the space that holds all the others. Stories of how the Elements further work in our lives, including the transformational process, and the possibilities of what that transformation can provide.
With all my love,
Diane
