Baby sister love! Photo by Naomi Larsson
Humans are quite brilliant, really. We have the intelligence to innovate with light-like speed, developing ways of life that provides immense material comfort and freedom for so many. And yet, despite our unprecedented progress, so many hearts feel heavy and empty. We sense our progress comes with a cost—separating us from nature and harming our planet for future generations. Depression, anxiety, and dissatisfaction seem to have become the norm. So many feel widespread disconnection to our selves, our communities, and our planet.
We learn to create ways of connecting to ourselves and each other that actually restore our hearts, allowing us to mend the separateness from each other.
We learn to reconnect to the feelings that unite our shared human experience, discovering how similar we are in our longings and finding ways to truly live in harmony.
Heart’s Longing as expressed viewing the Earth rise from the Moon. The first image of the whole Earth taken by Apollo 8.
That wish is there in all of our minds. Every action we take is consciously or unconsciously guided by those feelings. SYHP believes we all have the innate potential to be happy, to be fulfilled and to love lying dormant within us.
We can learn how to wake them up. We can learn to create peace in our hearts so we have more power to choose which of these qualities to project onto our experiences and world. How we wake it up to this power is the quest.
SYHP is a modern mandala for human connection. We engage in its practices to learn how to relate to our life thoughtfully, honestly, and with great joy.
SYHP wants everyone in the world to have access to the power to a peaceful mind.
A SYHP Mandala made over a year with the Elders of Agesong Assisted Living Facility. For 2 years creator Shannon Bronson volunteered at Agesong, teaching elders Tonglen meditation, gentle yoga and how to make the hearts. Each one of these artists is 65-95 years old.