Integrating Joy & Service

She describes dharma as your soul's purpose: the integration of your highest form of joy with your highest form of service. It is meant to feel good to you and good to others, rather than coming from sacrifice. She calls living this way embodying love.

The touch gives you something to focus on while you breathe and feel your heartbeat, the thump, thump, thump in your chest. She asks you to inhale deeply into the heart and exhale, letting its warmth expand. She says your heart has its own brain and knows the way, so the questions that follow are answered from there.

You are asked how you can serve through what you already love or feel excited about, and how that could help someone else. Then: what can you teach, how can you volunteer your time, how can you empower others to overcome what you have overcome, and which causes you align with. You answer from the heart rather than with logic.

You picture people whose lives you touch, seeing their gratitude, hearing them say thank you and feeling their hug. Then you follow how they change the way they act with their families, their choices and their conversations. The effect spreads to others, then to others again, like circles around a raindrop on water.

Near the end, with your hand still on your heart, you repeat: My purpose is to be of service. It comes right after she asks how you can get out of your own way to make this your reality. You can bring the line into your day as a reminder.

After she guides you back by moving fingers and toes, circling shoulders and rolling your neck, she asks you to write down any ideas that showed up. Insights can fade quickly once you open your eyes. Writing them down lets you return to them and take a first step.