You Move Me

Transcript

I was thinking about this phrase in Spanish. I don’t know where it came from, where I heard it first or if I invented it but I doubt I invented it Me conmueves; me conmueves con tus palabras.

You move me with your words

And I noticed in a lot of English Speaking countries in our western culture if you can say that. In countries like Britain they have that stiff upper lip and they don’t want to show their emotions. People want to be cool, they don’t want to wear their heart on their sleeve.

Sometimes we will be talking to somebody and they will say something. They open a little part of themselves and they show us something sweet or beautiful and we will be moved and maybe a little tear wells up in our eye.

Then we will be able to see it if we’ve been observant, we will know that we can be moved but we don’t acknowledge it a lot of the time. We pretend its nothing or we try to hide it or try to pretend we weren’t affected emotionally.

I don’t know why this happens exactly, there’s a whole bunch of cultural reasons and background and baggage I suppose on why this happens.

But I think it’s important when we can be open to being moved.

When someone says something profound or emotional or sentimental, we don’t have to shut off our emotions immediately.

We can be with it, breathe into it, simply see what’s really going on there when we’re moved.

A lot of the time we will sit watching a movie and sometimes its easier to be moved by a movie than the people in front of us.

Of course movie makers know this and they have techniques. They put music to amplify emotions and build things up. They have their little formula and psychological tricks.

Of course in real life it’s a little more subtle. We have to really be listening to people to hear what’s going on to hear that profundity that is going on within a person’s soul and yes it’s a bit harder to find.

It’s not something that’s going to hit you over the head but when we listen we can find that magic, that emotional depth and resonance and when we do find it, when we do start welling up a bit we can verbalize it. We can say those magic words, you have moved me. You move me with your words.

Of course it’s not easy in the moment. You might have to interrupt them to say that or something like that.

Maybe by the time its your time to speak the moment has passed. But of course we can say other things, we don’t necessarily need to say you have moved me.

Sometimes in these situations I’ll say something like that is really heartwarming what that person did for you and we can notice, acknowledge and amplify those sentiments. We can.

Often the things we notice, the things we give power to, where attention goes energy flows. By acknowledging verbalizing these emotions we can open ourselves up, open a little more vulnerability.

Opening our souls to the people around us forming greater connection and union simply by saying those words.

You move me.

Thank you for listening, thank you for being a little more open as my yoga instructor keeps saying “Cada vez más lejos”.

Every time a little further.

Opening our hearts a little bit more.