Open your Heart with A Relentlessly Tender Intensity

Hi, Freddy Z. here, coming to you all from the TantraNova headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. With this new technological undertaking Elsbeth and I have taken on to generate dialogue about our life’s work and passion, we’ve been trying to figure out the best way to convey and communicate our ideas with all of you. We gathered that the blog would best be served if in addition to our joint sharing we take turns with our own personal interpretations of our experiences, thoughts and insights. That said, I opted to give it a go first. I came across a horoscope the other day that was too good not to mention. I have always been a firm believer that the most significant messages or insights in life are the ones that find their way to me. This particular astrological account was sitting smack dab in the middle of last week’s issue of New City. Rob Brezsny, Mr. Freewill Astrology himself, laid out an intimation for me and all my fellow Aries that resonated for days. It read as follows:

“ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Would you like to shed your soul’s baby fat without having to go on a diet? Do you want to supercharge your immune system, improve your memory for the events that really matter and build the spiritual power of your sexual feelings? Are you interested in postponing forehead wrinkles, getting glimpses of your beautiful future and diminishing your fascination with the media’s nihilism? The secrets to pulling off these possibilities will be more available to you than ever before in the coming weeks. And what’s the best way to ensure you’ll gather them in? Open your heart. I mean really open your heart-with a relentlessly tender intensity.”

Mmmmm! “Relentless tender intensity.” Just say it out loud, let it fall from your mouth and penetrate the air. The claim holds such a significant weight that it’s impossible, for me at least, to not desire that kind of spiritual truth. The opportunity comes, of course, when this declaration of willingness to unite yourself with all that is exquisite seems somehow easier said than done. I have found that the human experience often leaves us with some blockage and that past experiences can become the deciding factor in how we live out our present moment. We at TantraNova have worked with so many people all these years and heard their testaments to bringing about undesirable situation after undesirable situation in their lives - whatever that looked like for them.

We have found that the clarity only comes once we step back and realize that the common denominator in all these experiences was ourselves, or more importantly an ingrained way of thinking that comes from old stories we have been reliving way too long. What helped our clients, and us as well, begin to erase the story that has us energetically constipated and keeping us from “shedding your soul’s baby fat” was breathing into and acknowledging the fears and survival methods that limited positive possibilities. In other words, opening the heart with “a relentlessly tender intensity.” Relentless because nothing, especially pain, can if we choose keep us from living our lives to our greatest potential. Tender because love is what ultimately connects and reconciles all of us as human beings. Intensity because keeping your heart open when your ego and survival mind tell you to close off requires focus and intensity .