LIVIN G WITH S PIRIT
Only the unlimited and unconditional love from the Source of Love can open our hearts and end the pattern of mind dominance.
We can close our hearts, by choosing to follow our emotions and staying trapped in the trance of our mind-dominant lives. Or, we can choose to turn away from that. We can stop… and choose our heart and allow it to be opened.
to open. The opening of our heart to the Source of Love is exactly the same — as automatic as the opening of that flower to the sun. That’s the purpose of OUR existence. All we need to do is leave our dominant mind behind. So how do we do that… leave our mind behind? Here it is… mind domination involves
some level of emotional reactivity. We are always — 24/7 — in some state of ‘fight/flight’ response. Our sympathetic nervous system is triggered constantly so we are NEVER fully relaxed… just less stressed than at other times… but those less stressed times we now call ‘relaxed’. So, the end of mind domination comes first through the doorway of being relaxed. Try it now…
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Close your eyes… and relax… really really relax. Give yourself permission to relax. Let your
shoulders stop resisting gravity so your shoulders can relax and comfortably sink as all the tension keeps dissolving.
Now… after a while, lift your hand slowly without rushing and gently touch the centre of your
chest where your heart is located at the level of your armpits. No need to focus on the spot under your fingers as your heart wants to open way beyond your chest. Touching your heart shows your willingness for your heart to be opened, but you are not doing it!
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Now, smile sweetly and freely to your heart without trying. Let your smile be natural, gentle, soft
and free. Smiling changes your mood, helps you be more relaxed and helps to release endorphins and increases the uptake of serotonin in your brain, which ultimately improves how you feel.
Keep letting go of any seriousness or determination… any effort or ‘doing’ (it’s such a strong habit).
This is not a technique. This is about the relationship between your heart and the unconditional love from the Source of Love.
Now feel the true heart feelings… peacefulness, gratitude, calmness… the gentle light and
expansive feelings. Just keep feeling and enjoying all those feelings.
Those steps will unlock the doorway
to your heart. Regular heart meditation will open your heart even more as you release the negativities and blockages that have built up in your heart because you have followed your emotions for so long. Slowly, but surely, you will feel compassion start to flow from your heart. Stress will begin to ebb and your feelings toward others will soften. Grudges and feeling of non-forgiveness will make way for your true heart feelings as the blockages dissolve and your heart opens even bigger.
So what are you waiting for? Relax. Smile… and enjoy all the beautiful feelings in your heart… peacefulness, calmness, lightness and so on. Just let them be… allow them to grow stronger… don’t do anything! It’s THAT simple. Your heart will keep opening forever while you can relax, smile and enjoy and, with an open heart, all our interactions with others will be filled with love and joy. Others will begin to feel those feelings too as their hearts also respond. When we do things with love in our
hearts, our hearts will open more and people will feel the difference. Without our hearts open, our actions will feel hollow or driven by our own needs and expectations. We’ll do good things perhaps, but it will be because we think we ‘should’ do them, not because we feel like it’s the most important thing we should do as living humans. Our hearts want to share and
reconnect again with the Source of Love. It’s a very deep longing to belong. The time is now. n
Steve Ray is one of the co-ordinators of the Open Heart and Padmacahaya inc. activities in Victoria. He regularly teaches Open
Heart and Reiki Tummo workshops and has been a practitioner in this field for 13 years. He is also a groupwork facilitator working with individuals and teams in organisations across Australia helping people develop their emotional resilience to enable deeper communication and better understanding and appreciation of others.
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