Returning to the Heart: Reclaiming Connection in a Disconnected World

Lately, I’ve been feeling the weight of the human experience pressing deeply on my chest. There’s a sorrow that surfaces when I witness just how far we’ve drifted, from ourselves, from each other, and from the Earth. It feels like heartbreak. A collective forgetting.

So I began to ask: What is underneath this ache? What is the root of our disconnection?

The answer that continues to rise is this: we have forgotten how to live from our hearts. Especially in relation to our home, this living, breathing planet that birthed us. Earth is not just the ground beneath our feet; she is the root of our existence, the original rhythm keeper of our aliveness. And yet, we treat her like an afterthought.

True reconnection begins within. But not with the constructed self, the layers of ego and identity we so often mistake for who we are. It begins with the divine, heart-centered Self. The part of us that is still fluent in the language of energy, attunement, and reverence.

Why the heart?

The heart is not just a metaphor for emotion, it is a profound organ of perception. It generates an electromagnetic field thousands of times more powerful than the brain, influencing every system of the body. When we consciously attune to the heart, something extraordinary happens: entrainment. This is the process by which the heart begins to guide the rhythms of the brain and nervous system, resulting in greater coherence, emotionally, mentally, and physically. The body finds a more harmonious state. The mind becomes clearer. Our entire being becomes more aligned.

But heart coherence doesn’t stop with the individual. The heart is also our primary tool for connection.

We are constantly receiving subtle information from our environment, from people, places, plants, and all living beings. The heart doesn’t just feel; it perceives. It organizes. It communicates. And it magnetizes. When we are grounded in the frequency of the heart, we not only emit a field of coherence, we also entrain those around us. This is not a poetic idea; it is energetic truth.

This is where love enters the conversation, not as a sweet platitude, but as the organizing principle of life itself.

And not just the sanitized “love and light” kind of love. I’m talking about the kind of love that can hold grief and rage alongside joy and bliss. The kind of love that allows, without needing to fix. That includes, without needing to define. Love that doesn’t bypass reality but embraces the fullness of it. This love is a frequency. When we hold it, we attract it. When we embody it, we become magnetic to the field of wholeness.

This is not just about personal healing. It’s about planetary healing.

Because the same receptivity that allows us to feel others also allows us to listen to the Earth. When we are attuned through the heart, we can feel the messages of the plant world, just as our ancestors did. We can know what a plant is for, not from a book, but from the transmission of its essence. This is how people knew what healed and what harmed. It was felt, not taught.

But in forgetting the language of the heart, we’ve forgotten how to listen. And in doing so, we’ve lost our most sacred relationships, with the land, with the animals, with each other.

The most revolutionary thing we can do right now is to remember our Hearts.

To remember how to drop from the mind into the heart. To reclaim the wisdom of coherence. To return to love, not as a lofty ideal, but as a daily, embodied practice. When we lead from the heart, our stress responses soften. Our discernment sharpens. Our capacity to love, to create, and to commune expands. We become more available, to the Earth, to one another, and to the divine intelligence that lives within all things.

This is the work. This is the remembering.
Let the heart lead.

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