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Day 11 – The Light Inside

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Day 11 Heart by Mary Gow

Our hearts have an intelligence of their own, separate from our brains. I first heard this from a talk by Gregg Braden, a five time New York Times best-selling author, scientist, international educator and pioneer in the study of human potential.

Learning to trust your gut is the same as learning the language of your heart.

Braden talks about steps for tapping into your heart’s intelligence in an article, “Resilience from the Heart”:

1. Focus your heart;
2. Slow your breathing;
3. Feel a rejuvenating feeling
4. Ask your heart intelligence a question; and
5. Listen

Read the entire article at https://www.greggbraden.com/resilience-from-the-heart

“The heart has its own independent complex nervous system known as ‘the brain in the heart.'” Read more at Heart Math Institute’s website https://wwww.heartmath.org/articles-of-the-heart/the-math-of-heartmath/heart-intelligence/

“While you probably can’t change the situations that arrive at your doorstep, you can definitely change the way to feel and respond to those situations.” – Gregg Braden

Day 10 – Heart Flow

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“Heart Flow,” Day 10 of Mary Gow’s One Hundred Hearts Project

I remember a good friend in high school whose family moved from Massachusetts to my home town, in the Deep South. She was like no other friend I had had. Back in those days of film photography she had a camera and developed her own film (it would be almost a decade before I was voraciously doing the same).

She had a sense of style and her family had a small sail boat. They lived near the big lake in town so they could go sailing often. One time, they took me with them. I had never been sailing and found the quietness of a boat skipping across the water enthrallinig.

It was quite different from going getting worms in the morning and going fishing in a paddle boat.

Once in a while, when talking about challenges like a big exam coming up, my sailing friend would quote her father and say “You’ve got to ease with the breeze, go with the flow.”

That phrase was so catchy I wrote it down. Not to mention it’s useful in these modern times and later to realize it’s a saying.

Going with the flow. . . how does that look in a pandemic?

Caring for oneself and others at the same time with a small act can make major differences.

I wish you and your family & friends some semblance of flow each and every day.

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

Day 9 Heart Bundle

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Day 9 Heart by Mary Gow

Day 9 Heart by Mary Gow

Today I scribbled on a heart I photographed then put a bow on top. Presenting a heart bundle. . . then I searched “heart bundle” and nobody is using this term much except heart surgeons. A “heart bundle” search took me to a “bundle branch block” diagnosis at the Mayo Clinic!

Bundle: “a collection of things or quantity of material tied or wrapped up together.”

Two words that aren’t used together often in everyday language, heart and bundle.

To me, this means hearts wrapped together. A heart bundle. Sending some out to the Universe wouldn’t hurt.

Day 8- Behind Every Heart

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Heart No. 8 by Mary Gow

Heart No. 8 by Mary Gow

Don’t miss the little heart in the upper left corner. This bold black lined heart is vibrant and alive. Maybe with a legion of little hearts cheering it on? Maybe a solo heart with a little admirer? However you want to interpret the little heart and big heart is up to you. Make up a story that’s empowering. Or enjoy the art as is, no story needed. No words. Just heart.

Believe in your heart that you’re meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart