Ever feel overwhelmed by the world? Sometimes it feels like it is all just hopelessly crazy, doesn’t it? But maybe we don’t have to ‘make sense’ of the world. Reconciling sane from the insane, right from wrong, good and bad is work for that part of the mind that can only experience the world in terms of duality. That is what the brain does -the hemispheres collect, interpret, and express sensory information dualistically, so it seems that everything is black and white which is forever folding into itself (think of the yin/yang symbol). But when we shift the source of our awareness from the head to the heart something wonderful begins to happen.

Unlike the brain, the ‘heart-mind’ is mono-polar -that is to say, it can only experience and interpret the world as a holon. This is the source of the so-called ‘holistic’ way of looking at things: the heart sees the world as ‘black AND white’, and all the shades of gray in between. Knowing this, however, is different as doing it. Most of us are stuck in thinking about and experiencing the world through the cerebral part of the body. Finding the way back into the heart can be tricky because many of us don’t have a lot of skill in heart-centered living, have been traumatized and therefore walled off the heart center, or simply have not been shown that path back into holistic realization.

Finding that peace that ‘passeth understanding’ can be quite simple. Remember the teaching, ‘…when Thine eye be single, then Thy whole body shall be filled with Light’? Allow your sense of ‘I’ to move away from your physical eyes and let is settle gently and easily in the center of your chest. Just let it be. Don’t let the world pull your awareness away from your heart. No matter what it is that you experience there, just feel it. Allow it. It may take some time but you will get the hang of it. Practice ‘seeing’ the world through the single ‘I’ of the heart and bless everything with Love. Sooner or later, you will come to know the true meaning of, ‘Thy whole body being filled with Light’.