The greatest journey we can take is the one from our heads into our hearts. – Greg Braden, author, scientist and teacher (on behalf of numerous spiritual traditions and modalities)
Out of all the practices and development tools I’ve run into in my years as a personal discover-er and life-explorer, cultivating my Heart Center is a hands-down must, foundational, non-negotiable, awesome practice—for so many reasons.
And going bigger in the heart center is always better.
So, what exactly is the big-hearted deal?
Excuse the “heart” puns, but… it’s a direct way to get the heart of, well, everything.
It’s the literal center of our body and our chakra energy centers, making it a bridge between the higher self, the mind, and the body.
By connecting your busy, overwrought mind with your magnificent heart, you begin to bring your mind-body back into coherent working order, which (science is now showing us) has the following positive effects…
- Optimized health and longevity
- Higher mental functioning
- Enhanced physical and mental performance and focus
- Less stress (more contentment)
- Better emotional management and perspective
- More harmonious relationships and interactions
- A clearer connection to our intuitional capabilities
- And that’s not all…
Ancient spiritual traditions to modern therapies and modalities have known the heart to do all the above, and so much more…
When your inner-stuff harmonizes together as it should with your Heart at the center, there is a non-resistant opening for our Higher Intelligence and Power to take its rightful place at the helm, and for our higher goodness to flow to us and through us.
This connection creates a direct, non-resistant portal into alignment with your unconditioned Authentic Self, your limitlessness, creativity, and truest nature—capital L-o-v-e, Love.
This is where your true power resides.
It’s where you can directly access your Inner Guidance, and really begin to hear the accepting, empowering, and compassionate language of the heart and of the Essential True You (i.e. your soul, inner being, inner guide, higher self, or that intuitive still small voice…).
Through our heart space, we can tune into the multi-sensory and multi-dimensional aspects that exist within, and without. And we can experience life at its fullest.
Without a relationship with the Heart and our Core, our center of life and being is hollow. We sense something is missing, and try as we might to fill it externally, we come up lacking, unfulfilled or empty.
“When your vision, intention or next step comes from the love within your heart, you are on the path of highest good and outcome. And the love, in its many forms, will come back to you multiplied.”
I’ve experienced time and again, that when you let go of the clutch, and let the loving wisdom of your heart take the lead, all the stuff we are desperately seeking (happiness, purpose, health, relationships, careers, prosperity, answers…) comes to us in the surest and best ways—beyond what our conditioned monkey mind could plan, control, micromanage, or even manifest or vision board.
When we center in our heart and flow from there, things begin to line up, and “click!” We’re in the zone more than we’re out, and our lives harmonize and hum at our ever-expanding, highest level.
If this is too woo for you, hold on…
There is mounting Western research proclaiming the powers of the heart, showing it to be a highly intelligent “brain center”, in its own right with a measurable, far-reaching magnetic field—far greater than any other part of our body. This electro-magnetic field emits our perceivable emotional state. The impact of this is only beginning to be understood by research.
Plus it’s a physiological center that can defuse stress levels, calm our nervous system, and affect wellbeing down to the cellular level. The research also sheds light on the heart’s intuitive abilities, as well as the overall life-affirming benefits of a happy, open heart—and that’s just a start.
“People can harness the power of their physiology to regulate their emotions and expand intuitive perception.” – Doc Childre, HeartMath Institute
However you look at it, the heart is here for a powerful purpose. We can all learn to wield this power wisely, and watch as the feel-amazing benefits, affect our health and wellbeing, and truly serve our lives and our world.
And the real beauty is—your heart space is unfailingly there for you, with overflowing unconditional love, any time, any place, 24/7—it is always welcoming you home.
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