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Closing My Heart

Ann Litts
2 min readFeb 28, 2019

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Photo by Alex Martinez on Unsplash

Chakras and yoga and meditation all will tell you to focus on opening up your channels — and keeping them open. Popular philosophy goes we NEED to stay open. Let It Flow! Let It Go! Yadda Yadda Yadda…

I got the very best advice from one of my very best friends this week to help me heal ALL OF ME. And since I’ve been employing it — I have to tell you — it’s been rather miraculous.

I closed My Heart. Not a lot mind you — just a bit. Just enough.

My friend sent a yoga sequence from Yoga Journal — you can find it online as well at their website. It demonstrated several asanas to help you close your heart after grieving. And It is Magic.

Because the truth of the matter is this — we need boundaries in our day to day. As awful as that may sound to the wonderful, open, empathetic among us — we simply cannot survive in a The Real World completely open all the time.

We must have the ability to recognize when we need to close down shop and nurture our own battery pack. To close our own loop. And to rest in our own Love.

I was further certain this was meant specifically For Me when The Universe also threw the same article at me on FB. I have mentioned that The Universe and I are FB friends — right? She uses my FB timeline to communicate with me on a regular. So this made me double down on the…

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Ann Litts
Ann Litts

Written by Ann Litts

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