Tapping into the Power of Your Heart
“It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.”
… Thomas Carlyle
The heart is the seat of our power. It holds wisdom that the head cannot reach. It’s in our hearts where we remember that we are connected and that we belong to each other.
Everything starts here. What we hold in our hearts shows up in our lives – not just in what we give out, but also in what comes back to us.
When we live from our hearts, we become a channel for love to flow out into the world with its transforming power. We remember that we are all one family.
We are all energy beings, and whatever feelings we hold within us determine the energy that radiates out to those around us. By choosing love, we are not just choosing a wonderful feeling. We are choosing to show up as the highest expression of who we are.
This enables us to relate to others without judgment or disapproval. We are open, receptive, and able to respond with compassion and patience. Others feel the loving energy and they respond to it, as well as to our words and actions.
This sounds simple, but we often find ourselves slipping back to our everyday mind and reacting with annoyance or even just the frustration over the physical and emotional demands of our lives. This is understandable.
Be patient with yourself. Take it one step at a time.
We can choose to bring love into any situation. We can step back, take a deep breath, and respond with kindness, no matter how the other person is acting. It takes practice, but over time, it becomes easier.
It is all about how we want to be in the world. Do we want to be in charge of how we show up in the world? By reacting to others in the way they act toward us, we are giving away our power.
It is easy to get pulled off the kindness path but tapping back into your heart will return you to your center of power.
The heart is also the center of our intuition. No matter what we are facing in our daily lives, when we receive a feeling or a thought to take a certain action that we have not been thinking about, that is a message from our deeper knowing that there is a better way to proceed than what our mind is telling us.
I have had many experiences that demonstrate the power of intuition in my life. One occurred when I was a single mom. We needed to move, since the house we were renting had been sold. I went out every evening after work to look in neighborhoods I liked to find a house with a For Rent sign. One evening I was headed for an area I liked. While stopped for a red light, I had an urge to turn left, so I let go of my original intention and followed that urging. I drove one block and had another urge to turn left.
A few houses up that street was a house with a For Rent sign. I wrote down the phone number to call – this was long before cell phones – and I drove home and called the number. I got an appointment to meet her at the house the following evening.
When I arrived at the house, I met the woman I had spoken with, but there was also a couple looking at the house as well. We toured the house, and it was perfect for us, with an enclosed yard for our dog.
I held my breath as the couple explained that it was also perfect for them. The woman said that since I had called 5 minutes earlier than they had, I could have the house. My long search was over.
Intuition. It is within us, but where does it come from? I believe it comes from a source of knowing that is beyond us, yet still within us. It’s part of the mystery of life. I don’t need to understand it. I have simply learned to trust it.
So living from our heart serves us in so many ways. It enables us to be in this world guided by our deeper wisdom and powered by love.
What more can we ask?
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With love from our hearts to yours,
Pat and Larry
