Anahata means from the Heart – A better way to Live. We all long for a better way to live – and a better world. Some people call this the “new paradigm.” At its heart is a simple realization: we can meet far more of our needs when we exchange our energy with something larger than ourselves. I like to call that larger whole the common good.
The old paradigm has conditioned us to believe that pure self-interest is the path to meeting our needs and securing our future. The methods of the old paradigm are transactional and competitive, rooted in scarcity, fear, and greed. The new paradigm invites a shift in how we understand the very idea of “me.” As our sense of self softens and expands, our exchanges are no longer limited to personal gain – they become part of something greater and much more abundant. In that shift, more of our needs can be met, because we enter into relationship with the whole. The consciousness that begins as “me” evolves into “we,” and ultimately from we into “one.”
Anahata is designed to teach us how to cultivate an internal world that changes how we see our needs – instead of asking “what’s good for me”, we ask “what’s good for us”. This is a spiritual practice. We learn to satisfy our needs for connection, security and abundance through a collective effort – a group effort that requires the participants to willingly release some autonomy in exchange for a whole that is bigger than the sum of its parts.
Through the experience of examining and changing self identity and honoring the interdependence of all things, we tap into a collective abundance. This shift reshapes our core beliefs and offers a fundamentally new way of seeing the world and the abundance that is already here now. It takes a type of surrender that requires courage, and as with all transformations, there is a learning curve. The results of collective abundance speak for themselves: a more joyful, connected way of living and engaging with life as a force that is already supporting us unconditionally.