The Heart’s Open Road: Aligning Mind and Spirit

Wandering is a theme found in stories and movies. It’s usually how the desire of a character to find their truth, their sense of self, is portrayed. I watched a movie last night about a young woman who had a career writing about traveling. She had left her Amish community a decade earlier. The death of her father brought her back for a few days. While there, she realized she didn’t want the life of travel nor the relationship she was in. In the busyness of life, she’d been experiencing a sense of fatigue, something being not quite right. It took the slower, more mindful life of the Amish community for her actual desires and needs to bubble up. Often the open road we seek is found within ourself. It’s a journey through our own life and desires. Where we want to be versus where we’ve been. It’s finding the inner strength to experience life’s challenges as mountains to climb and peaks to discover. I’ve found in my own life, I can have all the ideas I want about what I think I want. My mind can construct the greatest of adventures. If my heart, my intuition or inner knowing can’t bring itself to embrace what the mind is putting out, it’s a fool’s journey. An alignment has to happen between my ideas and what my authentic self is ready to embrace to undertake. When that happens, what I choose to do becomes intertwined with fun, even if its work. <a href="https://shadowspublishing.medium.com/the-hearts-open-road-aligning-mind-and-spirit-8041d56766a7">Website</a>