FOLLOWING
YOUR HEART
Find Your Joy by Following Your Heart!
When you live with your
Heart, you feel full, rich, and life seems to flow effortlessly. You feel in
control, confident, connected to your life’s purpose. You feel joy and deep
inner Peace. You fell free, you feel Alive!
The sincere practice of
self-inquiry leads to an inner experience of freedom and joy. Compassion and
loving-kindness are states which arise naturally from this freedom
Life purpose
-At
the root of every life purpose, no matter what it is we DO, is the feeling of
love. Love of self, love of others, and service with love.
-Just
remember that when we don’t pick up the lesson in this situation, we may be
faced with it again under a different guise.
Benefits of
following your heart’s desires
1. Enthusiasm
2. Effectiveness
3. Excellence
4- Love
5- Compassion
6- Loving-kindness
Positive
feelings in the heart are a person's source of intuitive knowing. When we feel
joy, peace, care, or appreciation, we access a wider perspective of intuitive
understanding. The mind expands, leading us to creative ideas and commonsense
solutions to problems. When we feel frustrated, angry, self-judging, or
miserable, the heart shuts down, stress hormones are released throughout the
body, our perspective narrows, and it's hard to focus on anything
WHAT STOPS
YOUR HEART’S DESIRE? Obstacles to following your Heart
·
Ignorance
·
Fear
·
Ruts, obstacles
·
Distractions/obligations
HOW TO
FOLLOW YOUR HEART’S DESIRE
These
three steps activate a feeling of joy and peace, and accelerate learning.
Step
1: Understanding the Difference between Your Head and Your Heart so they work
for you in balance
too many head thoughts, without the balance of heart
intuition, generate rationalizations, over analysis, self-judgment, anxiety, and
many other attitudes that block real learning. Head thoughts tend to run in a
loop, generate negative emotional reactions, and are hard to shut off.
Your
heart intuition can show you a more creative way to respond to a situation. By
focusing your attention on your heart and choosing to activate the feeling of
love, care, or appreciation for yourself or another, you balance your head
reactions and you can then hear the voice of your intuitive intelligence. You
literally "open your heart" to receiving more information.
The
bonus is this: You gain self-empowerment instead of feeling like a victim.
Step
2: Learning How to Listen to Your Heart intuition
learning to access and listen to your heart intuition takes practice. The
accompanying heart feelings of "ah ha," peace, or joy are like signals
that confirm your intuitive feeling of knowing. If you're unsure, you can always
stop and ask yourself again, "Am I listening to my heart, or am I just
listening to my head concerns or emotional reactions?" Then, shift your
attention back to your heart feelings, still the mind a moment, and listen
again. A feeling of "knowingness" and a new perception of the
situation arises as your mind can now give you an intuitive readout of your
heart promptings.
Step
3: Following Your Heart – Act on what your heart intuition is saying
many people hear the promptings of their hearts but don't follow them. Following
your heart takes courage. But each time you follow your heart directives and see
situations improve as a result, you build more inner security and confidence.
You can build self-security and courage by playing the heart and head game in
decision making at home and at work every day until it becomes automatic. The
reward is in seeing the quality of your decisions and the quality of your life
improve.
Heart
management of your day-to-day mental and emotional reactions builds
self-empowerment. The more you follow your heart, the more you access powerful
energy accumulators that make any situation more fun, regenerating, and
rewarding. As you practice, the voice of your heart becomes louder and clearer.
The heart intuition helps you make quick on-the-spot mental and emotional
attitude adjustments that save you time as well as energy. You find yourself
experiencing more fun and quality-more love, joy, and appreciation of the good
things in your life. Heart management of your attitudes and reactions allows the
head and heart to work creatively together to bring balance and fulfillment.
Again,
the process is simple but takes practice. When you feel stress or find yourself
in the middle of a head reaction, simply tell yourself to stop. Quiet your mind
and emotions, and shift your focus to your heart. This shift helps you to stop
identifying with the reaction and gain objectivity. Send out a feeling of love,
care, compassion, or appreciation for yourself or another-such activity will
open and activate your heart. Then ask your heart intuition, "What would be
the most efficient response to this situation?" Pause and listen. Your
heart intuition will give your head a creative answer.
HOW TO ENSURE THE QUALITY OF YOUR HEART’S DESIRE
1. Entrust your heart to God and God within. He will give you the
desires of your heart
2. Examine what you enjoy. Determine your passion
3.
Explore the possibilities. Living life differently means that we have to start thinking
differently.
4. Spend time with wise and passionate people.
QUALITY
OF YOUR HEART DESIRE: LOVE
-Stop
feeling self-conscious and you will discover the real value.
-Develop
Love, Compassion (Karuna practices) and Loving-kindness (Metta practices)
for
yourself,
your benefactors
those close to you
those for whom you have neutral
feelings
even those for whom you have
negative feelings.
-Cultivate
the intention to embrace all parts of yourself and to overcome feelings of
separation from yourself and from others. Thus, you learn to receive and work
with your faults as sources of needless suffering, and spontaneously move
towards change in order to relieve that suffering. As these practices mature you
feel a sense of warmth, good intention, and deep sympathy towards yourself.
-
Cultivate Unconditional Love
May I be filled with loving-kindness
May I be well
May I be peaceful and at ease
May I be happy
YOUR
HEART'S WISDOM
The
key to living a life of love, peace and prosperity is to live from your Heart.
Your Heart is far more powerful than your brain. The human Heart actually
produces 10 times more electromagnetic energy than the brain. During the
developmental phase of the human embryo, at day 25 of gestation, the first signs
of life are registered in the Heart, not the brain.
When you live from your Heart, you feel full, rich, and life seems to
flow effortlessly. You feel in control, confident, connected to your
life's purpose. You feel Joy and deep inner Peace. You feel Alive!
When love radiates from your Heart you feel vibrant, energized and blissful.
The feeling of being on purpose inspires you to new heights... some
you never dreamed possible.
Living from Your Heart keeps you focused on what is most important to you in
your life. You move from focusing on conflict to re-focusing on what is most
important to you...Your Deepest Heart's Desires.
When we learn how to love ourselves first, we then have so much more to give
others. Loving ourselves is the greatest gift we can give...for when we do so we
are honoring the very nature of the Human Heart...our Source of Life.
THE SEVEN STEPS TO OPENING YOUR
HEART TO LOVE
Step
One: Breathe Deeply
-Begin by taking a nice deep cleansing breath in...Breathing in life, energy
and abundance...
-As you exhale release any stress, strain or tension from your body...
-Release any thoughts, feelings...and just allow yourself to relax...
Step Two: Focus on your Heart
-As you continue to breathe deeply, gently shift your focus from your head to
your Heart and take a few moments to dwell here in this place of peace...
-Your place of Peace...
Step Three: Breathe Deeply Into This Place
-Breathe as deeply as you can into this place of peace...Your Heart.
-Feel your Heart expand... soften... and relax...
-Feel your lungs expand, your entire body filling with life, and every cell and
in between every cell... feeling fully alive!
-Feel the unconditional love that lives in your Heart...
Step Four: Connect with the Truth that Lives in Your Heart
-Gently place your right hand over your Heart...
-Ask "What does my Heart want for me, now, in this moment'?
-Listen for the answer...be open to whatever form of communication you may
receive
Step Five: Trust
-Trust the answer that you receive...
-This is your inner wisdom speaking to you...Your higher self...
-Your place of Truth
-This Truth will never fail you!
Step Six: Follow Your Truth
-Follow your Truth to the extent that it feels right for you...
-Visualize yourself following your Truth...
-Feel the feeling you have when you follow your Truth...
-Breathe into this feeling and embrace it fully...
Step Seven: Let It Go
-Surrender to a Higher Being...The Divine...
-Know that you have done all you need to do
-and the rest of the details will be handled...
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