An open heart is a vulnerable position. In war, in medicine, in love, in life.
Our largest muscle groups brace to protect us, curling in around our hearts to form a shield. Our mind builds barricades against the ideas that do not support our self-concept. We spend so much time building thicker skins to armour us against the world that we begin to lose sensation.
So, here I stand with an open heart. For, it is from this place of openness that joy can flow through me like water through tendrils of kelp.
So, here I stand before you. Loving you,
oh, loving you.
This is surrender. This is Truth.