Walking the path of love...

I just got back from a walk around Fresh Pond (right outside of my apartment) and I wanted to share my experience.

I will have to rewind a little bit to earlier today while at my office, I took 15 minutes to meditate after my last client left and before I finished my paperwork. As I sat there imagining my heart chakra open and energy swirling up from Mother Earth and the sunshine flowing down from the sky, a vision crossed my mind's eye of a deep opening in earth at my heart chakra and rushes of water were flowing into my heart - like a waterfall flowing off a cliff into the abyss. I felt my heart expand and I felt the warmth of the sun shining in and it was as if my body wasn't really there, that it was just a thin permeable veil that lay between what I know as my body and the rest of the world.

Fast forward to this evening. As I was walking, I was really taking in the cooling night air, paying attention to how it felt on my skin and in my lungs and that smell of nature. The pond is a very popular place to walk. And like most nights, there were many people out walking, running, biking. I first noticed a family (mother, father, son) on bikes, riding in unison side by side. I noticed a couple ( older man, younger woman ;-) walking their dog, holding hands. I noticed an older mother and her young adult daughters sharing a juicy story with each other and laughing out loud, and then a younger mother with her 2 young daughters - who were riding their bikes.

And then I noticed that oh so familiar feeling within me of wanting, of yearning for what's 'out there'. And then the idea of everything, including me, is love. And that all that I am seeing is a part of me and I of them. So I shifted to joining with these various people in - what I imagine to be - that place of pure LOVE. And my heart burst wide open. I felt so connected to all of them as if I were walking along side them or holding their hand. I felt connected to the earth and the air. I felt as if I dropped into this place that is the undercurrent that lies just below this surface material world we live in, the heartbeat, the pulse of life and my mind was blown! And I realized that I have access to all of their experiences because we are all one and because I can drop into that place again and again to remember this.

As I continued walking - with a huge ecstatic smile on my face - I look down and see this leaf (picture attached above) that is in the shape of a heart - so validating of the experience I was in. And I said thank you universe, I love you too! And then I noticed several of these leaves, scattered all around me and the thought came to me - I am walking the path of love! And oh how wonderful it feels.

Life really is juicy and sweet.

Love,

Kristina Marie