The Seasons Of The Heart - a podcast by Love Hive Yoga

Perhaps the expectation that the heart stay open and soft in the face of so much suffering is misguided. Perhaps the heart has it's seasons that are wise without us having to understand, or make meaning, of the way in which the heart protects.
What if we trusted our closed hearts? What if we loved our protected places? What if we trusted that indeed our hearts will open again, and that there is actually very little we need to do, but place the teaching upon our hearts and wait for them to break open so that the wisdom of love can slip in. When Arjuna and Krishna have their talk in the center of the battlefield, and Arjuna says, "No, I will not fight, my limbs fail, mouth is dry, my whole body is tingling," Krishna does not judge him in his closed place. He takes his time, and has a conversation with him. He teaches him. He trusts that the teachings will land when Arjuna's heart is ready. He has faith. Krishna does not change his mind about Arjuna, just as God does not change it's mind about any of us. And it is in this moment of brokenness--in the center of the suffering, the ache of the broken heart--that Krishna begins to teach Arjuna about yoga. It's an offering made in love. What if we can offer love to our closed hearts as Krishna offered love to Arjuna in the form of connection, unconditional love, and the sharing of knowledge? Perhaps then, the dominate narratives of whiteness, thinness, power, money, binary gender expectations, stealing resources for our planet would lose some of their power. Perhaps there is power in re-wilding our own hearts.

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