STEP TO OPEN OUR HEART

IT’S EASY

The great news is that no special talent is needed to open your heart. Everyone has a heart, and it is your birthright to open your heart and enjoy. Some will be able to feel their hearts right away, while for others it can take a little longer.

If you are having difficulty with feeling your heart, it is because you are not relaxed enough and you are trying to open your heart, rather than feeling your heart open.

Feeling your heart is very different from observing your heart. If you are observing the experience, you are not properly in your heart.

Initially, some people may not be aware of the feeling in their heart because they are only used to “feeling” from their physical senses, such as being pinched or tickled, hot or cold, sweet or salty.

The feeling from the heart is most similar to what you feel when you are happy and joyful. This is not to be confused with emotional expressions.

RECOGNIZING THE DIFFERENCE

Head

1. Take one minute and think about a problem you are having at work, home or elsewhere.
2. Now realize which part of you was active and what happened. Can you notice that your brain or head was dominant?
3. You may have experienced a pressure or heaviness in your head area as you thought about the problem. This is normal and it is how many people experience most of their lives.

Heart

1. Remember a happy or joyful moment you have experienced. Re-experience the feeling of the happy or joyful moment again. Don’t visualize or try to capture the details…. just relax and re-experience the feeling again, as if you were in that moment.
2. Now, realize which part of you became activated and what had happened.
3. Many of you will have experienced a nice feeling in the center of your chest. That is the very beginning stage of feeling your heart.

The above exercise can help you distinguish the difference when you are in your head and when you are in your heart. It is important for us to know the difference. If we are not able to clearly distinguish head from heart, then we will be very limited in our capacity to live a heart centered life.

(source : www.heartsanctuary.org)