It’s never too late to start listening to your heart. A concentrated focus prepares us for the energetic shift that comes with a heart focus.

Following Your Heart And Not Your Mind

Your heart knows what you want, even if your mind doesn’t. Trusting your heart will lead you to your true path in life, even if it’s not the easiest path. Following your mind will only lead you to what you think you should do or what others tell you to do. But your heart knows what’s best for you overall.

Let Your Heart Shine

The more we connect to our heart and higher nature, the more we begin to change for the better. Slowly a belief in unity replaces our belief that we are separate individuals. With that comes a sense of harmony. 

At first, we are out of practice connecting and creating a link to our hearts. In order to polish our rusty link and have it communicate smoothly, we need to mentally release, letting go of everything so we can flow with our higher nature. This means returning our mental ego to balance.

Before we begin our transformation, we are focused on wants and needs, like wealth, fitting in, pleasure, accomplishments, and respect. Our hearts know deep down that this is not our primary focus. We then begin to teach the ego that compassion and universal love are the true focus our heart needs to strengthen the link to our higher nature.

Building A Relationship With Our Ego

We learn through our interconnection with everything in the universe that what we do to another, we do to ourselves. What we fail to do for another, we fail to do for ourselves. These lessons build a relationship with our ego based on compassion and universal love. 

When we take the time to get to know our ego, we are able to develop a strong and healthy relationship with it. When we understand its wants and needs, we can better provide for them. This understanding starts with a quiet mind. Our heart is the center of our being, and it is from here that our ego speaks through our quiet mind. By listening to your heart, we can learn what our ego is trying to tell us.

It is important to remember that our ego is not always right. It can be mischievous and lead us astray if we are not careful. However, if we keep our hearts open and listen to its guidance, we can stay on the path of truth and universal love.

Developing Communication With Your Mind And Heart

We live in a world where anything is possible, yet to work with the energy of all potentials, we must be totally honest with ourselves and everything within our circle. We must come to accept our faults and strengths. This is not something everyone wants to do, but it liberates our hearts and strengthens our minds.

Using stillness, gratitude, and mindful attention accomplishes a great quest for personal acceptance. Honesty and acceptance is an ongoing practice which is essential to having clear communication with our higher nature and, thus, our heart and mind. With time our practice becomes a way of living, and many of what we perceived as faults evolve into strengths.

With this new way of living, we connect more with our higher nature and thus with the Divine Source. If we look again at the interconnection with everything in the universe, we begin to see how living with our own truth and acceptance reduces and burns away karma. In doing so, we are reducing karma for others, and we are building honesty, love, and compassion for the world.

Listening to your heart, I can’t think of a better gift for yourself and the world. —David Bennett

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