Heart Reading … Day 2

Karen Willard Ribeiro
1 min readJul 18, 2021
Heartbreak shatters the shell around the heart and awakens its capacity to love.

Already the name of this daily series has changed from Heart Reader to Heart Reading. Not sure why. And already my life has imploded. More on that another time. Maybe.

A song has been running through my head for three days; each time I place my hand on my heart to calm/stop the song and brain rumination it works, very briefly. And then I get an insight if I listen carefully.

I was having a hot flash simply thinking about holding to a deal with a family member that makes my life easier in the mornings and, hand on my heart, the message was, “you don’t have to take this on,” which made me wonder how much “extra” energy I take on and how harmful it is or isn’t to my health.

To try and not “take on” the concerns that arise in my mind-body is a gray area given that doing so is how I have come to be — or at least define the term — considerate. And the way I hold my left shoulder forward is a way of blocking my heart from negativity. I have to be reminded to relax it constantly.

Thank you dear heart for beating every moment.

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Karen Willard Ribeiro

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