How do we listen to our heart to find out just what it might tell us?
Our brain, our mind tends to be the insistent voice, the voice that wants us to believe that it knows all there is to know. Hearts think just as minds do. It has been known for many years now that our heart is much more than a mechanical pump. Neale Donald Walsch, from Conversations With God, has said that we will not find truth about ourselves from our mind.
Your heart holds the key and therefore the wisdom of living within our own truth, our authenticity, our quiet, inner knowing voice. Our heart holds the wisdom of this moment, whereas the mind wants to go to the past and continue to live our same patterns and replay our memory tapes.
You can cultivate the ability to listen to your heart with practice. Be quiet with yourself. Focus on your heart, breathe deeply, imagine breathing in life energy and breathing out tension and doubt. Relax and give yourself this time to just be. It's not wasted time, by any means. Think of it as getting in touch with your essence, your creativity and love.
As you go within, let any thoughts go that are not loving thoughts. Loving thoughts take us to a higher vibrational level which will then open us into heart consciousness.
Going within also includes being present with all of our feelings-they may not all be positive but by embracing/accepting them, we are accepting ourselves, loving ourselves. And, we are not able to extend love to others if we cannot love ourselves.
Listening to our heart requires patience, as well as, practice. It does have information to share and, I have found, that the information is not always what we want to hear. For example, your heart may be telling you that you have to slow down, to rest. You feel that you simply cannot do that because of bills to pay, projects to complete, but, you will be shut down, now or later, if you continue to ignore the wisdom of the heart.
It helps me to think of the brain as the organ of competition, whereas the heart is one of cooperation.
I invite your questions or comments.
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