World Interfaith Harmony Week ˗ˏˋ ♡ ˎˊ˗Jedi Edition, as walking the Way of the Heart in a divided world

I have never been brave enough to share anything about my faith and what I believe in so directly until now, this year’s of World Interfaith Harmony Week. It was such a strong invitation , I felt the encouraging call to do soy especially as there were prompts from clients too that there is a need for that not to handle this topic as taboo. World interfaith Harmony Week is an invitation to pause and realise something inevitable, that beneath our different beliefs, languages, and traditions, we are still sharing one human heart. (Even the Jedi🙃)

I often describe myself as “a mix” and not because my faith is confused, but because it is alive.
I believe in God, in a loving, sustaining Presence.
I also learn from many wisdom traditions, from neuroscience, from the body, from lived experience and yes, sometimes even from Star Wars😊because if you strip away the costumes and the special effects, the Jedi path to me is really a story about how to live in alignment with something greater than the ego.
You could call it God.
You could call it the Force.
You could call it Unconditional Love, Truth, or Life itself.

What matters isn’t the name.
What matters is how we live it.

In Buddhist teaching, there is a beautiful word.Inhave just learned as I follow the Walk For Peace movement in the USA. Lokānukampā means compassion for the world and it describes the motivation of awakened beings not to prove, not to dominate, not to win, but to serve life. To me, this is deeply aligned with the heart of Interfaith Harmony Week too.
Not blending everything into one, not erasing difference, but choosing compassion over fear, again and again…and again…

A true Jedi doesn’t fight to feel superior either you know. They train to stay present and they learn to notice fear without being ruled by it. They practise self mastery, not control over others.

That’s not fantasy.
That’s nervous-system wisdom.
That’s spiritual maturity.
That’s everyday, embodied faith in my world🙏

…and of course the heart as our inner compass… in my work, I often draw on HeartMath, a beautiful, science backed approach that shows how the heart and nervous system shape our perception, emotions, and choices.

When we’re stressed, reactive, or overwhelmed, we don’t see clearly, but when we slow down, breathe, and return to the heart, something shifts.
We move from reaction to response.
From fear to clarity…and from separation to connection🙏

You could say this is what it means to “return to the Force” or to return to God, to Unconditional Love, to coherence, to inner alignment.

This is not abstract spirituality, but a daily practice.

How do I speak when I’m tired?
How do I treat my body when I’m stressed?
How do I listen when someone believes differently from me?
How do I show up when life is uncomfortable? Well, some days or situations are.more successful than others, but I do my personal best to operate from the heart. Because faith isn’t what we claim.
It’s how we show up for ourselves, for each other, and for the world🙏

…and one of the reasons I love the story of Christ is that, for me, his message was never about control or fear. It was about how to live and he lead with example. With humility, truth, courage, care and deep compassion. About seeing God not only in heaven, but in people. …especially in the ones who are hurting.

In Jedi terms, I could say, don’t serve the dark side of fear and ego, but rather choose to serve life, because faith becomes dangerous when it forgets love you know.
…but it becomes healing when it remembers the heart.

There was another area that I shared a post on social media during this week and that's about the fact that many of our beliefs, religious, personal, cultural, were formed way before we had a real choice. We sort of grew into them and often in moments of fear, stress, or not feeling safe. Part of the Jedi path is unlearning. …and I believe that part of any path must be gentle self inquiry. The most essential questions for myself to ask and answer honestly are
Is this belief bringing me closer to love and connection from the heart, or pushes me further away?
Does it create more peace in my body or more tension?
Does it help me live with compassion or with judgement?

God is not threatened by honest questions, you know, because truth doesn’t shrink when examined, it just becomes more embodied🙏 and I love that.

In my little safe cave space, at Bee’s Holistics, I work with the whole person and not just symptoms, not just the skin, not just the stress, because we are this created masterpieces of mind, body, heart, and spirit woven together beautifully 🙏 A Jedi also trains the whole being.
Not just the mind, not just the flesh, but the heart, the awareness, the capacity to stay present under pressure. And actually that's the biggest challenge for me personally, to be able to apply these practices in action if you will. In real scenarios and life will provide with lots of practice and as long as I can go to bed with a clean heart, knowing that I did everything I could, come clear with what I can do better time, I am grateful.

So every treatment, every session, every interaction is, for me, a small act of rebalancing, like offering the nervous system, the heart, and the spirit a gentle massage back into coherence🙏 Sometimes it's more challenging than other times, but valuable ever time.

That's why you often hear me talk about that caring for our wellbeing is not selfish. It’s a beautiful act of reverence for the life we have been given… and I am immensely grateful that I can see life this way today. There were times in my life when I couldn’t. Times when I was in so much pain that I made plans to throw this life away and I share this not for drama, but for truth and for hope! Because something in me, and something beyond me, kept whispering that my life mattered even when I couldn’t feel it. And I read lines, heard songs that spoke to me, people turned up and I was shown that there is hope, I must choose though. We always get to choose what we do without pain 🙏That is why I’m choosing to celebrate my birthday month, February, by fundraising for PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide. https://www.facebook.com/donate/2637121456662251/?fundraiser_source=external_url

PAPYRUS is the UK’s national charity dedicated to preventing suicide in young people and they work tirelessly to ensure that no young person has to face despair alone🙏by offering confidential support, guidance, and hope, and helping create a culture where we can speak openly about suicide and reach for help without shame. So my birthday wish this year is simple and comes from the heart🫶 that PAPYRUS is supported to continue the work they are so deeply committed to doing. This is a beautiful service, carried by dedicated hearts, saving lives in moments when hope feels far away.

If my story, and this path I now walk, says anything, it’s probably that life is precious, even when it doesn’t feel that way yet. And sometimes, compassion in action is what helps someone stay🙏

Interfaith harmony does hold that we may not agree on the above either, interfaith harmony does not mean we all believe the same thing. To me it simply means that we learn to stand rooted without superiority and listen without fear🙏…you know I'm my experience fear is the opposite of love…just think about it for a moment.

The galaxy was never meant to be uniform and neither was humanity.

We don’t honour God, or the Force, by proving others wrong, right? We honour truth by becoming more loving, more grounded, more awake.

Unity is not sameness. It never was, as we are all unique individuals, meant to keep shining our light brightly ✨👐so unity is shared dignity🙏…to me This is The the Way. …and World Interfaith Harmony Week is never about celebrating any religion, but about remembering a way of living. We share this beautiful planet, this is our shared home and we are responsible for how we show up in it each day🙏 A way where faith looks like kindness, care and compassion for one another.
Where strength looks like self regulation, emotional maturity…
..and where peace is practised through breath, presence, and choice. “You may say I am a dreamer, but I am not the only one”. This is my faith. Where compassion for the world lokānukampā becomes something we live and embody daily, not just admire and share famous quotes about with cute pictures.

Thank you for staying with me and reading this post this far. May we walk this path a little more gently and a little more bravely with steadier hearts and softer eyes, because in the end, the most powerful thing we can offer this world is not being right, but being present, being kind (with a backbone https://www.beesholistics.co.uk/beesholisticsblog/kindness-with-a-backbone-why-being-nice-mustnt-hurt)

It’s choosing, again and again, to live from the heart.

And yes…
May the Force, and the Unconditional Love behind all names, be with you always 🙏 🤍✨

Always with love

B✨🫶🌕🫂❤️👐🙏🕊️🤍🌱