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Rainbows in my heart,’ in my coming-of-age fairy tale, describes that space in our awareness where our thoughts and feelings intersect through one second of profound connection to the life both around and within us. The result of that intersection creates a sense of happiness. After studying self-awareness for 15-years, it is more than a feeling, and it is more than a thought. It’s that space in time where we ‘think less and we live more’ abundantly in the story of the moment’s gift. Self-awareness is, thus, a three-part connection. We must understand it, feel it, and live it through its living, breathing, daily adapting commitment in our heart that’s a micro reflection of life itself. That’s why I call this fairy tale, a story for the 10-year-old inside all of us. A story we can all learn from when we forget about learning, and we embrace the story’s fairy-tale quality since we mature not by age but by stories.
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H.L. Balcomb (Rainbows in My Heart: Fairy Tale and Coloring Book)