{"id":6619,"date":"2014-06-24T18:58:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T22:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2014-06-24T19:01:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T23:01:46","slug":"heart-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2014\/06\/heart-drive.html","title":{"rendered":"Heart Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/107\/2014\/06\/love_norte_juazeiro_686_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6621\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/107\/2014\/06\/love_norte_juazeiro_686_m.jpg\" alt=\"love_norte_juazeiro_686_m\" width=\"240\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the realm of when life throws you a curve ball&#8230;..duck! I went back to work yesterday, saw clients in an addictions counseling program where I have worked for nearly the past two years, came home with the intention to even the work\/sleep balance and was awakened several times with a med side effect cough. Went back in today and managed to sit with one client who took one look at me and asked if I wanted to end the session early. I was able to continue but then thought it was the better part of valor to bag the rest of the day. One by one, I called my understanding clients who were more concerned about me than about themselves and we rescheduled. This would have been unheard of for me in my workaholic past. I have come to believe that overwork is indeed an addiction in which I have engaged for decades. In the midst of my tossing and turning last night, I had an overpowering thought that had I been standing, would have knocked me on my butt. On the occasions when I have offered good self care, it has been in the service of others. I reasoned that in order to use my gifts and talents, I had to be vertical to do so. Rarely I had I considered that it be just for me, that I look after my own needs.<\/p>\n<p>A friend had sent me an article entitled The Sacred Power of Rest. I had not often contemplated it in that way. I had thought of sleep and &#8216;down time&#8217; as necessary reboots of the mental and physical hard drives, but apparently, the &#8216;heart drive&#8217; needed a jump start too. As I spend quiet time, exploring my own internal workings, not just my cerebral circuitry, I know I will come out on the other side more healed, whole and healthy than I ever imagined being and more tapped into the Divine Source of All That Is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In the realm of when life throws you a curve ball&#8230;..duck! 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