HeartQuestions: What They Ask of Us, Reveal and Answer (Includes Guided Meditation)
Have you ever received those heartfelt questions that have knocked at your soul, asking you to open up to their meaning, divine timing, and relevance? These questions often appear, and it’s as if the whole world pauses to highlight this one poignant thing. Beyond their simplicity is the timing of their arrival, the weight they carry, and their validity in your present circumstances. They come when it is impossible to ignore their unbidden arrival. They sidle up in the moments when you are open and unguarded in both heart and mind, demanding attention.
When such questions stop me in my tracks, drawing my full attention to these potent teasers, I know they are meant for me. I know it is time to allow this inspired invitation into my heart and mind, and all the spaces in between, to seek out raw truths and ruthless honesty. I call these “HeartQuestions” – loving missives arriving to guide me to new ways of thinking, encouraging me to breathe into uncertainty, expand my comfort zone, and give way to what may not be easily unearthed or easy to hear. I know they are meant for me and essential for my continued healing and evolution.
Maybe you have encountered similar insights or HeartQuestions. These questions grab your attention or linger in the background of your being, nudging you to go within and inquire further about burdensome thoughts or beliefs, experiences, or lingering suffering that have held you back from moving forward and growing with life.
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.
In a previous episode of HeartBalm Healing (No. 43) - Scared From Within: Finding Peace With Your Own Feelings, I shared a particular question that arrived in a similar and profound way: “I am at peace with my own feelings.” It arrived initially as an affirmation but morphed into a gentle question that I felt compelled to explore “Was I truly at peace with my own feelings?” This question felt relevant, and timely, offering an opportunity for healing and deeper understanding. I was ready to transcend the ego mind, my world-weary heart, and the usual patterns of self-directed healing. It led me to profound revelations as I held this tiny song of words close, in the inner space where tender, important knowings are kept to help ignite and burn away all that no longer serves us. These gems of wisdom serve as bold guidance, helping us become more fully alive, present, and capable of releasing old stories and restrictive beliefs that continue to hold us back.
The best gifts I’ve ever received have been questions I couldn’t shake off. Good questions are better than good answers, in this sense: they give us purpose.
_Robert Fuller, “Questions and Quests: A Short Book of Aphorisms”
Another HeartQuestion that arrived and stopped me in my tracks was, “If nothing was wrong what would you do?” As a trauma survivor, I have spent a lifetime looking for relief, healing, and answers to questions that often have none. This subtle yet profound question invited me to consider everything I perceived as wrong in my life. What about world events, political discord, and environmental upheavals? What about physical injuries that linger or people or jobs that frustrate with tireless effect? This question arose to point to everything I thought was wrong within me and about me in general. It began to unravel long-held beliefs and stories that no longer served me.
One profound revelation came during a sound healing session. As a practitioner of Biofield Tuning, a modality using tuning forks to promote healing, I was surprised to find no areas needing attention during a self-session. I laughed a little at this outcome but thought it had been a while since I had worked on myself so why not reground, recenter, and start again. I went through the process once more and again found nothing that stood out for healing or needed therapeutic attention. This had never happened with clients or myself. I have even worked on animals and a particular area will always show up for healing. It dawned on me that perhaps I was ok – that nothing was wrong with me, and that this was an invitation to truly believe, embrace this place of being ok – and move to the broader question of “Now what” – “What would I do if nothing was wrong?”
This brilliant HeartQuestion was arising during this physical process of healing that was so unlike any other session I was left with no other choice but to take notice. It offered me a new way of thinking about myself, my life, my past experiences, and how I believed they were affecting me in the present. It was an “ah-ha” moment of grace and understanding, urging me to accept, love, and embrace my being more fully than ever before.
Why does question always start with quest? Is it because it is wanting us to find the answer?
Despite echoes of old patterns trying to discount this space of “nothing being wrong,” the depth and wisdom of the experience held me present. The deep and loving nature of this understanding left me with no more questions on the subject. The idea that after all these years of work, healing, trying, fixing, searching, and learning – that I was indeed fine – I was ok – there was nothing wrong with me was an incredible sensation. It was an invitation to look again at my innate wholeness – to know myself from this new perspective, to release the old patterns of relentless searching for something wrong with me and within me, and let the echoes of the past go.
I love questions and HeartQuestions even more. Over the years, when struggling to find answers, I have learned to offer them up to Source, to Love and Life itself. I knew then that if the question was meant to have an answer or provide clarity or understanding it would be revealed in its own time. My job then was to stay present, pay attention, and welcome all that came. This process is beautifully affirmed by Rilke:
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
I invite you to ponder the HeartQuestions that show up in your life as whisps of text, lyrically worded threads in favorite songs, or passing mentions in conversation. Ask yourself, “If nothing was wrong, what would you do?” If it resonates for you explore it. Sit in the space of wholeness, of being healed and being enough, and see what you would or could do next knowing that “nothing is wrong.” What opens up for you is in the asking, in trusting, and in living the questions now.
For more HeartQuestions check out past HeartBalm Healing episodes:
Join me for a moment of meditation to sit with your “okayness”, your “enoughness”, your space of “nothing is wrong with or within you,” and move into feelings of wholeness and rightness. This meditation came through as an automatic writing download after my “failed” healing session attempt and has been adapted for you and the HeartBalm audience.
As always, thank you for joining me sweet one. Go feel free and adored. I love you.
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