Why the Heart

The heart is the key to your Higher Self. The heart is the key to self-awareness. The heart indicated here is your heart chakra, an energy center located in the center of your chest. Linking with the heart brings the Higher Self down into your aware consciousness. Utilizing the heart you come to understand how to positively engage the energy that flows from your Higher Self through your heart, and how this affects your personality, your relationship with others, and your interaction with all there is.

When activating and developing the heart, there is an attunement with the energy that flows through you, and you begin to discover your own creative self, your true potential, truth and wisdom.

Engaging the heart to come to a deeper understanding is a different process from that of using the mind. When using the mind you think about a decision you would like to make and decide. When using the heart you place the question into your heart and wait for an answer to come through your mind or through an inner feeling. Try to experience the difference.

Think of a problem to which you would like to have an answer. Analyze the problem with your mind and come up with a solution that you think is correct. Then take the same problem and imagine placing it into your heart and let it go. Wait for the answer. Is the answer the same, or is it different? It may well be that the answer from the heart is different from the mind answer and that it feels right for you.

The answer from the heart most likely is much deeper and more comprehensive. Yet, you may take the answer you received and again put it into your heart to still come to a deeper level of understanding. Working with the heart in this way will open your heart, and your connection to it will become clearer and stronger. You will come to feel the heart energy as the energy of love, compassion, understanding and wisdom.

Understanding what Someone is Really Saying

In education it is very important to come to a clear and precise understanding of what someone is saying. However, how is this being done? First, connect with your heart by focusing your full attention on it. Then ask your Higher Self to connect with the speaker's Higher Self and link your heart to the speaker's heart in this way. This is a good process to help you come to more clearly and deeply understand what the other person is saying. (This exercise was adapted from Higher Self Yoga teachings.)

Heart energy is that part of you that is so vitally necessary to be opened and applied in education. It is heart energy that can bring about a balance of mind and heart, a balance of intellectual knowledge with inner wisdom. It is the energy that inspires you with creative ideas and that helps you to aspire to higher knowledge and wisdom. Working with the heart will activate this natural ability. We all can access this energy that comes from the Higher Self through the heart.

Disclaimer
All exercises, suggestions and ideas provided are for general information purposes only, do not constitute professional advice, and are not intended to substitute for the guidance of a professional or specialist. All use is therefore at the user's sole risk and responsibility. Irene van Kessel assumes no liability or responsibility whatsoever for any loss or damage of any kind regardless how arising.