Follow Your Heart

I started this week ending on an emotional high. What a great way to start the week as it has continued in this way for the rest of the week.On Monday I completed running our NoLimits 7 day NLP Business Practitioner certification at a beautiful, lush tropical retreat among the green rice paddies of Ubud. The perfect setting for personal reflection, inspiration and transformation.

At the end of the programme, we celebrated our successes of completing this highly intensive, accelerated learning and sometimes gruelling NLP certification. My husband and I treated the group of participants to a tasty dinner at Nomads in Ubud which serves a colourful array of both Indonesian and international food to  high culinary standards.

To my surprise at the end of the dinner, the participants handed over a  'thank you' card and two presents. The one present was a funky, red, pinky and yellow tie-dyed v-necked tee-shirt that had a big tie-dye white outline of a heart and on the back of the tee-shirt were the signatures of all the participants. The words inscribed above the shape of the heart were: FOLLOW YOUR ........

On several occasions during the programme, I had been referring and agreeing to what one of the participants said "I believe in the saying 'follow your bliss' so this is what I do in my work and life." By following her bliss, this participant has moved from Hungary to London and now works in a beautiful estate in the hills of Ubud and goodness knows what other magical places and experiences she will continue to encounter because of this empowering belief.

The second present I received was a beautiful beaded, hand sewn, rectangular shaped purse. I had been admiring one of the participant's exact purse all week and couldn't resist feeling and admiring the small beads, only the size of a pin head that were carefully sewn into gold, cream and warm brown circular patterns. As I had admired the purse so much the participant went out to find the same purse for me but she couldn't find one so she kindly gave me her purse as a gift instead!

I was heartened by these kind acts and noticed when I got home that the participants had inscribed the words 'FOLLOW YOUR' in their own handwriting!  I will treasure and follow these words and kind acts forever.

Follow your bliss and your heart will sure to be there too.