What is the Heart path?
There is a version of you who is purely energetic. It is the authentic heart path version of you-- the singular thread of self that popped through the veil of reality into the physical world, and will pop back through into the non-physical after you die. All of us are a singular thread of energy in this way.
You could say that your life path is the dance between the trajectory and pull of that authentic thread of self, and the human patterns and behaviours you learn over the course of a lifetime to fit in, survive, be loved.
Most people reach a point in life (often midlife!) where they realise they have built so much, achieved so much, made the life they wanted to make, but at some point lost the connection to that authentic thread of self along the way.
This realisation is painful.
Because all of the success in the world, without your own authentic heart, starts to feel hollow after a while.
This can lead to two things:
A terror that the hollowness is emptiness. That there is no true self, no true purpose, no authenticity underneath all of the stuff. If the fear that what underlies it all is emptiness remains big and unconscious, then this person will keep striving, finding more stuff to chase.
A desire to find what is true again. A remembering of a feeling of selfhood, of having desires, dreams, and wildness. "Who am I?" this person will ask. "Is that version of me still in there?" "Am I living the life that my true self wanted?" "Do I have a purpose here?"
To the second person, these questions become an insistent drum that grows louder and louder. At first they're tucked back away inside themselves-- it's not worth rocking the boat. It's too risky. What if I let that part of me out and it blows everything up?! What if I've built all of this for nothing?!
But the drum grows louder still. At some point the voice of the wild self becomes so loud and unbearable that it feels like to ignore it is to condemn oneself to a slow and painful death by suffocating ones own truth.
They are a combination of determined: I must know who I am. I must find a sense of purpose. I must get back in touch with my wildness and start to live this way-- wild, uninhibited, vibrant, fully alive. I cannot keep myself confined any longer.
and terrified: what if I do this and it all blows up. What if I lose everything. What if I hurt people. What if I am too much? What if there's not actually anything worth exploring in there? What if, what if, what if.
The former edges out in front of the latter, by a hairs breadth.
This is when to get in touch.
As an authenticity mentor, I guide people back into their true Heart Path.
I guide people into the deepest parts of themselves to discover who they truly are, and to build a life that is an expression of that deepest core self.
What does this look/ feel like?
It looks however you want it to look. This is the fun thing about deep heart-based authenticity.
It's easy to think of authenticity as eccentricity. Sometimes authenticity is eccentric, but sometimes it is understated. Sometimes a person's authentic self is loud and bolshy and sometimes it's quiet. There's no standard for authenticity, just like you'd never look at a forest and wonder what an authentic plant looks like.
(though you could tell the difference between a plastic plant and a real one)
How does it feel to be authentic?
To be living your authentic truth.
Your authentic life?
It feels free. It feels like there's no separation between you and you.
it feels like being fully vibrantly alive and immersed in your own life.
It feels fluid in the sense of not being constrained by an idea of yourself: sometimes your authentic self wants to stay home, sometimes it wants to go out. Sometimes it's lazy sometimes its active. It changes over the course of your life, too. Think back to who you were as a teenager, and what you wanted then. Has it changed? Most likely. Because who you are over the course of your life changes.
You could say that the process of life is the process of coming deeper and deeper into who we are, but that still assumes that who we are is one thing and that our task is to find it so that we can rest (die).
It's not an artifact to be uncovered, but a living breathing energy inside you. A setting on your own inner compass that is always moving and dancing with you.
Your authentic self is the heart of who you are. The place that your unique energy expresses itself directly into the physical world.
To find it, build a relationship with it, and learn to trust it, and learn to express it, and then to build a life that's a direct reflection of it, creates a life that feels like it has purpose.