Dancing in the Darkness to the Beat of My Own Drum
Do you feel your own heart beating in your chest? Do you feel its pulse as you wander in the dark a few more steps? Or as you let its contents pour out over your lips or onto a public page? Fearlessness has been the consistent message of my week. Fearlessness in my own raw expression. Fearlessness as I surrender deeper into the unknown. Fearlessness as my life shifts yet again in directions that require new reserves of faith within me. I’ve felt the call to step into fearlessness more fully. To run at what scares me and to dance in its presence.
Just this morning, I had the pleasure of guiding an Inner Voice Session and these beautiful and timely words came through: “Trust that all of it is unfolding perfectly. Sometimes the growth that’s happening in the unknown is like a leap and sometimes it’s one step at a time and sometimes it’s those small steps that build into the big leap. Just let it be fun. Let it be exciting in the unknown.”
I sighed as I heard this. It’s so true. Even in the darkness of the unknown, growth is happening. It’s just a growth I can’t see until I step into the light again anew or when I take a pause on my path to see how far I’ve come. It’s those steps and leaps and the steps that lead to the leaps that take me there. I’m learning that it’s not actually about the arrival or even a destination, no matter how much my mind wants to cling to that idea. It’s about becoming what was always there inside of me more fully and learning how to live by the light of my own soul, even when the sun finally does rise again.
Every step in the darkness requires a certain amount of faith in what I can’t see. It requires courage that a surface for my foot to land on will be there. It requires tuning in to the ever-present beat of my own heart for guidance. It requires releasing the need to cling to something tangible. Just writing this is getting my heart beating.
Moving forward in the dark requires a sense of fearlessness that can only come from full surrender. It’s a conscious settling into the darkness, the darkness that’s simply gifting me with the realization that light and vision isn’t necessarily a destination I need to move forward. Not when I have my own beating heart to guide me step by step down my own soul’s unique path.
If you too are moving through the darkness of the unknown, as I am right now, remember what’s pulsing in your chest. Tune into it. Allow your light, your vision, your clarity, not to be something that is only reached at some future moment when the darkness fades away. Remember that’s in here. It’s inside your very being. It’s beating. It’s speaking. It’s guiding you home. It’s bringing you back into the truest alignment of who you really are.
So, take that step. Then take another one. Then leap if it feels right. And with each forward movement, trust that you’re on your path. That your heart will never steer you wrong. Learn to trust that heartbeat in your chest. Let it show you the way to your fullest, truest expression and path. I’m right there with you.
