The Light Language We Speak
There is a light language I am hearing in the most surprising places and circumstances now. It creates a spontaneous spaciousness in the nervous system that reassures and calms. The question becomes whether we can receive it or not. It is so very different from the place most of us live.
Light language is not just a set of words. They are words strung together as a transmission of hope and beauty that we can feel in our bodies and that invite our hearts to open. According to Lorna Byrne, author of Angels in My Hair, our hearts are 75% closed. That statistic no longer surprises me. What surprises me is how quickly the heart opens when the right words arrive.
So when we learn to open our hearts, it is often through unlocking what is trapped, so the light can come in. The light invites us to step through habitual patterns we may carry from our ancestors and the broader collective. This is not a coincidence—everything is constellated. Light is constellated with all of life, and once we find those channels, we heal tremendously.
Light language is a channel that collapses time. Although we can work with teachers who help us reframe things, light-language comes through spontaneously. It could be compared to Hildegard of Bingen’s veriditas — the greening force of divine life. It greens the world around us. It makes it a welcoming space where we can relax, let our burdens down, and simply be.
I believe there has been increasing pressure on humanity over the last few hundred years as we have forgotten that we are light beings—that we come from the light, and that light is our native language. It is all one light, even though the ways we speak that light language vary between species, people, and cultures.
Often, we get caught up in what to call this light, and then we make wars with ourselves. Where there is so much conflict, it is difficult to hear our inner light-language, let alone speak it. Light language often comes like a whisper. It feels like it comes from nowhere and everywhere. You might wonder sometimes when you speak it—“I didn’t know I knew that!” But it was the right thing at the right time for the person you are talking to, and you can feel it land in them. Light language opens a little more space for self-compassion.
I see us trapped in our habitual ways of knowing ourselves and others. Our defence of our habit-selves is what keeps our hearts closed, and learning to listen beyond the heaviness of that habit takes a lot of intention and courage—the courage to begin inhabiting a self we don’t already know.
So learn your form of light-language. Perhaps it is a simple sound or mantra, a prayer, or certain books where you can feel the light moving within your body as you read them. They serve as a reminder and awaken the light-language within. We all have this capacity. It has never left us.
Learning light-language is an act of remembering. We are resonating with something very deep within us — a timeless dimension where we remember that our home is right here, in this moment, together with all of life. We simply stop engaging in relationships or activities that obscure our light language or dampen it. We find people speaking this language and build our confidence in it. Similar to learning any language—except that this one was never foreign. It is the first language we ever knew.
Light-language speaks very clearly: you are already home.
Thank you for reading. Your comments are welcome. I also write twice a month on Medium in a more outward or exoteric fashion: medium.com/@lauramadsen_17353