The Heart Shines Through The Hand
The Heart Shines Through The Hand
By Nellie Snyders
Take hold of someone’s hand. You feel the beating of their heart, the very substance of their life. The hands have as many expressions as the face and, if you don’t see any reactions from the face, watch the hands… their motion in creating, their movements in happiness, stillness, in idleness or loneliness, covering a face in desperation, reaching out for warmth, caressing with love, clawing to push away death, tension in holding something.
The shape of the hands follows the structure of the body – heavy, thin, muscular, fragile, strong, smooth, rough. Our mind is the energy; our hands the projection of that energy. Take someone’s hand and you will have, in that moment, begun the awareness of yourself. That moment has the seed of the creation of love, every time it is done. Use your hands in the pursuit of beauty, adding and building life.
The hands are so very sensitive to the elements of nature – feel the bark of a tree; put your hands in a cold stream; run your fingers across the sand; put your hands near a fire; hold your hands up to the rain or the sun or the wind – all different feelings.Touch the coat of a dog, a cat, a snake.
We do not need words. Our eyes speak and our touch reveals. Each new day we discover new beauty in silence, of each other. Live for today, but remember yesterday and think of tomorrow. We should receive love with as much understanding as we give love.
As the years pass, your hands gain knowledge as does your mind, and they grow older as does your body. Your hands carry episodes of your life: scarred, stained, calloused, and scratched. Let your hands become the joining together of you and another human being, the extension of your heart, the merging of two rivers, the grafting of two branches, the birth of new life.
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