Listen To Your Heart
Listening to your heart comes when you are ready to face the pain of the past that has been buried there. We often cannot go into a heart space because it is so painful. So we spend years and sometimes decades creating barriers to our heart. These barriers take the form of all types of external distractions that keep us safely away from our own pain. Unfortunately, this blocks the entrance to very thing we seek. It is impossible to bypass the heart and find true joy and fulfillment. People who spend their lives bypassing the heart often end up with heart conditions that require a bi-pass to save their lives. This is the body’s way of copying with our movement away from the heart.
It takes courage to enter the heart. In fact, the word courage is derived from a French word which means of the heart. True courage then is be willing to be in your heart and allow yourself to feel what is present. To the degree that we are willing to feel our own pain is to the degree that we will feel our own joy. It has a reciprocal relationship. This joy is what we all seek; it is not an external joy but the joy that comes from within.
Living in truth or living in integrity means that our heart is aligned with the rest of us. This is only possible if we give it the attention it deserves. In a culture that values the intellect above all else, emotional intelligence is not given credence. If we are to always follow our head and not our heart, we become alienated from the world and ourselves. In some cases, logic is called for and necessary and if it is the only thing that you rely on, you will never be happy. Logic is a tool; it is not a compass that will lead you to your own truth, only the heart can lead you there.
ACCEPTANCE * EMERGENCE * FAITH
Look into the sky and see the beauty of the sky and know it is a metaphor for the heart. The clouds in the sky often block and sometimes filter the rays of the sun. The clouds represent past experience that now block or filter our own light from emerging. If we can create a space for the clouds to be present and then to clear, our heart can become a clear channel for our inner light. It is not that we will never encounter clouds again because this is part of the human experience but we will bring a resonance to our life that honors the way of the heart. When we reside in our heart it is easy to connect to what is true for us and we make choices based on what is in our highest and best interest. This leads us to an authentic life and nothing is more satisfying than this.
