If you are anything like me, you have an almost-automatic tendency to discount and sidebar an awful lot of the “not familiar” that makes itself known in the span of your day. “Foolish” or “stupid” are words that seem to float to consciousness in an autopilot sort of way. I don’t think this is so much a judgment call as possibly just an “overload” call because things are changing and moving so darned fast.

Our natural reaction is to close our minds along with our hearts to all this input and say, “Enough!” We have seen and done enough. Learned enough and experienced enough. It is so much easier to crawl into the comfort zones of the “already known.”

But when we reach for the curtains and close the stage to the “new and different,” where will this leave us? We will simply be playing over and doing over life and living in a same-old, same-old way. This is all well and good, but won’t life get a tad stale? Will not our hearts begin to suffer “rerun-itis?” For me, this may be safe living, but it is also heart-quiet living.

I can filter out a lot of the “stuff and nonsense” that is screaming for my attention, but at the same time I need to keep open the doors of my heart so I can welcome in the ever-changing “we are in this together” part of life. When I throw my heart broadside at the world, a song is created–soft and sweet or joyously uproarious. It is the music of me doing this living thing soul-lit and heart-open.

This means a reaching out and a touching back; a full-spectrum “hello there!” to me and to you as we move through our days. A smile tossed out with an inclusive grin, invites another to share with me an “ain’t life grand?” back-at-you welcome. Within this “we are the same” connectedness, there is the beauty of one soul acknowledging another. This is heart-song living. This is a calling out to the world for it to fling its rhythm and melody back to each of us.

Doing this takes energy and courage and laughter and joy. It is so easy to become closed-in and shuttered, to keep ourselves succored alone and only unto ourselves. But, there is no such thing as one-part harmony. We need to reach out and include, to take the risk as we put our souls on the line.

And guess what? There is always, always someone out there who will hear your call and respond to the notes you let fly to the universe. There is always another heart waiting to hear your music, looking to pick up the beat, grab the notes and play the tune with you. It can be a new friend, an old acquaintance or lover, or a complete stranger. There are a lot more heart-song musicians out there than you realize.

So, open your heart and free your soul. Toss some music out there and see what remarkable harmonies come flowing back at you.

Tags: free soul, heart song, open heart, robin korth

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