Being Home

I just had a funny thing happen with a client on the phone. After helping him to order a few supplies for his clinic, we were wrapping up the call:

Me: Have a good day, Carl.
Carl: Okay, love you... (I mean) Have a nice day!

He had sounded a bit groggy during this early-morning call, which may have been to blame for his little slip. But I know it's not just that. In the course of a simple business call, Carl was so touched by my simple open-hearted energy that in his relaxed early morning state he for a moment believed he was on the phone with a close relative or friend.

Is there a way we can be, a level we can reach, where we emanate an energy that affects people in such away that they feel at home with us like this? I think there is, and it seems the more we connect with our own heart, the more we are connected to everyone and everything.

My home felt so far away for much of my adult life. But now, my heart opening wide, my heart consciousness expanding, I find I feel right at home wherever I am. Home is not where the heart is-- the heart is the home. And it is so much bigger than we can comprehend from our ordinary conscious mind. In a groggy, relaxed, or hypnotic state we might be able to comprehend that more, we are not as narrow in our focus of consciousness.

When our consciousness emanates from our heart we know things without mentating them, we realize who we are, and life flows joyfully and easily. That is being home.

Home is not the house or the people I grew up around or that I go to after a day at the office. It is that place from which I and you and all come before we knit into this flesh at our births, and it is always with us. The energy of home lives in our hearts.