What defines our community?

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Some think it is our location.

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Others feel it is our heritage.

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And some think it is about beliefs.

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While all of these things can play into what makes a community, there is still something more most people have not considered.

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For people come together not because of what is in their veins or their head.

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Community is formed around something much deeper.

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And it often forms around something we didn't expect.

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For people connect through their hearts, not their minds.

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The strongest communities are formed through a shared experience.

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While lineage and familial relations can play a part in it, they are only the soil in which something can grow.

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Certainly our beliefs and our physical proximity can also foster the creation of communities.

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Yet when a group of people come together to heal, to grow, to evolve, that experience creates an even stronger bond.

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The desire to have a better life, to feel better in our bodies, and to feel safe with the people around us, are some of the greatest factors in forming a community.

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Sometimes, perhaps often, when a group of strangers come together for the sake of healing and finding wholeness, something special happens.

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They may have started off as strangers.

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Yet when they leave they feel a sense of connection and a bond of trust that surpasses many other types of connections.

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What started off as a group of strangers ended up being a tribe of brothers and sisters.

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That is the power of doing our deep inner healing work together.

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The shared experience of releasing the energy of trauma and pain is a powerful one.

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One that surpasses many of the other types of connection we have in our society.

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An unexpected result of this type of connection is the level of trust that is built.

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Trust not in the traditional sense.

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But trust that each person is doing their best to be a better version of themselves.

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To be honest about what triggers them and what they feel.

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Perhaps not all at once, and perhaps not from just one experience.

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Yet over time the way we see each other showing up for themselves, builds that trust.

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And whether we were looking for it or not, we find a community.

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A community that grows individually and together.

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Making space for people to truly be with one another without distraction or hidden agendas.

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That is what a real community, one that comes from the heart, is all about.

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So do you have a community of like-hearted people around you?

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Can you bring together or find the people who also desire the same thing?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour