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Heart Based Awareness
Let the strength of your heart-based intentions motivate your actions. When we bring our awareness into our hearts and feel what is there, we experience whether our motivations and intentions are coming from a place of integrity and purity of heart or from a different place of selfishness and desire to cause harm. When we get really quiet and still with ourselves, our body and mind will speak what is true to us. We need to be humble enough to be silent and hear the answer and the truth. Sometimes we are so busy and distracted rationalizing or talking to ourselves that our mind cannot rest without thought. Now is the time to intentionally take time each day to surrender our thoughts and let them go. By sitting quietly every day and just listening to the sound of your breath or feeling the rising and falling of the chest when you breathe, you can cultivate the inner and outer space to be still with yourself. This easy practice will help to heal you and gives you time to slow down from your busy mind.
As we cultivate this simple body-mind practice of being with the breath, we notice that the heart may feel more alive and perhaps more vulnerable. It is opening, awakening. We have dropped down into the feeling space at the center of our chest from the busy space of our analytical minds. Now it is a totally different experience. Our lives look and feel very different from this heart-centered place. Our world can broaden and our actions and motivations may change. Living in connection to the truth that arises within your heart leads you to the wisdom within. It is that voice of your Higher Self that speaks to you and guides you in your life. It has always been there, but perhaps the mind was too busy and distracted to fully listen and hear. We can live conscious lives in connection to this wise inner guide and voice. We must practice, like in all spiritual traditions, the ability to trust, the ability to listen and the humbleness to receive.
May you discover the miracles of Spirit each day in connection to your own wise, inner guide and voice.