Moving From Love

There is a quote by a mystic and spiritual teacher, Osho, that literally changed how I live:

“Don’t move the way fear makes you move.  
Move the way love makes you move.”  

This quote stopped me in my tracks and had a HUGE influence on me. AND once you open to the Soul Led invitation held within this quote I bet it will do the same for you.  Like the old saying, once you see or hear it there is no going back.  You can’t unring the bell of the soul level truth that is held in this simple little quote.  

When I first heard this quote I was in a pretty big inner storm moment of my life.  My heart horse, Diesel, had just been diagnosed with a condition that typically results in putting a horse down due to severe neurological dysfunction and I wasn’t sure if he was going to respond to the treatment well or not.  I was also feeling a bit overwhelmed with growing pains of Unbridled Change and not sure what next steps would best serve the organization, clients, and horses. Additionally, I had just had a mid-term miscarriage.  My world felt like it was becoming engrossed with grief, loss, self-doubts, and fear of what might happen next. 

It was beginning to feel like it was all too much for me to navigate. 

One of my old protective patterns started to come forward of what I call “going to ground”.  Historically, I used to go to ground and drop into a shutdown and withdraw response of isolating and cut myself off from any type of connection - family, friends, co-workers, the horses, and even my own inner connection to my Heart and Soul Beings when I couldn’t figure out a way to navigate what was happening around me in a way that would result in the world matchings my needs and wants.  The protective mechanism was born just after the coma I had at 13.  Back then I definitely didn’t have the skills to work through the pain, loss, and disappointment I was experiencing in those crazy years post coma.  This old protective part of me believed that what was happening with the perfect storm of challenges I was facing in that moment were too much as well and it needed to help shield me from the pain of the world around me disappointing me or being out of my control.  

However, as I sat with this quote, the parts of me that were being forced asleep by my protective Parts woke up and rallied.  My Heart and Soul Beings, broke through the barrier of fears that were coming from my Mental Being.  They shared with me that they wanted to help liberate and unburden all aspects of me that were starting to be bound up in old patterns of moving from fear and resentment.  

I felt a loving question come from my Soul, “How are you moving?”  

Instantly, I knew the answer, and I wanted to fight back against it. Over the next couple of days I just watched myself with that question haunting me.  Was I moving from fear or with love?  In almost every aspect of my life internally and externally I couldn’t deny the proof that I was moving from and engaging life in subtle ways that were heavily rooted in fear and shadow control.  

BUT the alternative, the invitation of this quote, to move from love was terrifying to parts of me.  

If I was willing to move and engage myself and my life from love I would be reopening my heart.  If I reopened my heart, that would allow me to feel the current pain of loss plus the projections of potential future loss and pain.  I also knew that moving from love was also going to naturally invite me to let go of my expectations, fears, and even desires of thinking that I desperately wanted so that I could be with myself and others just as we are.  

Wow, was the struggle real!  If I was going to move from love it would mean that I would willingly turn toward the waves of emotions and fears that were being suppressed and let them come and go.  My Mental Being was being asked to trust in myself and my Heart and Soul Beings support to meet and tend to each wave as they were without trying to change or shift them and to instead be with them.  

I recently shared more about the conversation that this quote brought me into and how it completely changed my perspective in two different offerings:

• Episode 15 of Soulful Practices Podcast - a free weekly podcast: YouTube | Spotify
• Season 5 Episode 6 of Connecting with JOY - our online membership community

The result of hearing this quote and letting it open me to the truth of how I was moving resulted in a deep cellular shift and called forward how I currently approach, teach, and invite all clients to engage living, loving and leading their authentic life as well - being in movement with love instead of fear.  

I invite you into a Healing Practice with this quote too:

Reflect on the over the next few days, “How are you moving?” 

Healing Tip 🙂

As you lean into this invitation, remember to do so with love and compassion.  Our Heart and Soul Being’s are not seeking to chastise or judge us, they want to help or step into great wellbeing, health, and yes living, loving, and leading a life that is moved with and from love!  

Offering you light, love, and JOY on your journey!
Michelle

PS - In both episodes, I share a powerful example of moving from love instead of fear from my book The Horse Cure - you can access the chapter of the book here where I share the same story for free here.