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The Need to Speak

➡️ So many times we suppose ourselves out of existence, imagining that if we speak our heart we will be rejected or ignored.

I once watched a woman reach to call a friend, excited to share a deep idea that had overcome her. But as the phone was ringing, I saw her imagine a cool reception, saw her try on the pain of not being heard, and quickly, with a sigh of deflation, she hung up before the fourth ring.

Still, the expression - whether misunderstood, well received, or rejected - matters. For the cost of not making the call is that a piece of us dies. Consider how fish swim and birds fly. They do so because it is in their nature. For it is the swimming and the flying that makes them fish and birds.

Likewise, it is the speaking of one's heart that makes a human being human. For even if no one hears us, it is the act of speaking that frees us by letting the spirit swim and fly through the world.

--From the book "The Book of Awakening" by Mark Nepo

🧘Meditation for your Throat Chakra (blue energy center):

✨Sit quietly and allow yourself to be as still as lake water when there is no wind.

✨Breathe slowly and look into yourself. Look to the bottom layer of yourself.

✨Inhale deeply and feel whatever rises from your bottom.

✨Exhale cleanly and , though you are alone, speak what you are feeling, aloud to yourself.

📩 What thoughts and feelings arose within you? Did you have anything come up that surprised you?

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