The Courage of Open Hearts

English to French translation of the word Heart=cœur

Courage(n.)

c. 1300, corage, "heart (as the seat of emotions)," hence "spirit, temperament, state or frame of mind," from Old French corage "heart, innermost feelings; temper" (12c., Modern French courage), from Vulgar Latin coraticum (source of Italian coraggio, Spanish coraje), from Latin cor "heart" (from PIE root kerd- "heart"). https://www.etymonline.com/word/courage

Suppressed and repressed emotions are energies (e-motion, energy in motion) that create non-beneficial adaptations. They ask to be integrated. They ask to be expressed. Do you trust life to flow through you, like the blood pumping through your veins (blood is a collective symbol and metaphor for life, as blood is a part of birth)? Do you trust your heart to express itself? Do you trust YOU? Integrating the parts of ourselves hidden away because we received messaging that said those parts were "bad" or "dark" or "shameful" or "inconvenient" brings us to a state of Cohesion, where mind, body, and spirit work together in the creation of one's self-expression inside a resonant, purpose-filled Life.

Open hearts

bleed on circumstances

that don’t reflect

the knowing of Love.

It’s to wash the constructs clean.

Closed hearts

don’t bleed out

but bleed within

pooling in the lungs

until one suffocates on

fear.

Better to bleed out, I say,

no dam(n) intended.

Let it spill from your Love

to buoy the fear,

scrutinize the constituents

then wash them away

with the breadth

of the river you are.

You are equipped to dance in the

thick crimson puddles

the way Divinity dances in your veins.

~Michelle