Working with the Heart

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Working with the Heart

 

The Heart is a woman. The Heart is female. The Heart is Love.

 

When dealing with it, especially you men, you need to gentle it, calm

it, not make it feel as if its very existence is in danger. Like a

woman it likes to feel secure in its place, protected, it likes to

feel valued and it likes to feel loved. Like an anemone it shuts down

when attacked too often or too severely, and often this is for a

lifetime as so few of us know how to open up our hearts even by

ourselves let alone when they have been so brutally hurt or

endangered as this life has to offer.

 

Native Americans used to say man had two minds, one in the head and

one in the chest. Both were needed to be a well-rounded person. First

there was the wisdom of the head, and then came the wisdom of the

Heart.

 

Since the heart is female it can easily be hurt and want to recede

inside itself, inside a shell to hide away from that which would hurt

it or to help heal its wounds. Unfortunately, then it has trouble

coming out of that shell again for the courage of the heart is weak

without the willpower associated with the mind to help it.

 

So many of the women I have worked with over the last dozen years of

so are 'doormats' because they lack this associated courage of the

will (the masculine aspect associated with the thymus -- the seat of

the will). And when it comes to men dealing with a doormat,

unfortunately even a good man will wipe their feet on a doormat

because that's what it's for.

 

When working with the major chakras of the body there is a front side

to each and a back side to each. If the enegy flow is blocked in the

front then it is because something in our development has blocked the

flow. If the chakra is blocked in the back it is because WE ourselves

have shut it down, usually for our own protection or perceived need

for protection. Thus when working on opening our hearts it is

necessary to understand if the blockage is in the front or in the

back.

 

The heart chakra opens in our development between about 4 1/2 to 6

1/2 years of age, and then opens again wider every 12 years or there

abouts. Its key issues involve Love, balance, self-reflection, self-

acceptance (though this is more so in the solar plexus or 3rd

chakra), relationships, intimacy, anima/animus, Eros/thantos,

grief/compassion, and devotion. The heart ckara gets blocked in its

development if at that age we do not see 'natural, real' love

expressed in those around us or in our immediate contact -- i.e.,

family, and 'loved ones'. This is where many gay women are blocked in

their initial energetic development, thus leading to the stereotype

of the 'hard' lesbian character.

 

Developmental blockages are usually chosen by us when we first choose

our family situations before coming to this lifetime. We choose them

specifically for the spiritual lessons they offer us in life and the

chance to grow and move forward in our awareness IF we learn the

lessons and then overcome the blockages.

 

The female energies move in a counter-clockwise direction. The male

in a clockwise direction. The heart chakra can be opened from the

front bu twirling the index finger or palm of the left hand (heart

side) over or in the chakra in a counter-clockwise direction. Other

chakras can be affected one way or the other by using this technique

appropriately using the correct direction of opening or closing and

the right hand (male side) or the left hand (heart side).

 

When the heart chakra is closed at the back it is usually a self-

protection mechanism.

 

One motivational speaker who had spent more years in a Vietnamese

prison camp during that war than any other American soldier has a

glaring reminder of how much the heart can be hurt. He says that no

matter all the pain and suffering he had been through during those

years of prison he had never experienced what he thought would be

more painful, the pain of a divorce or emotional separation.

 

Losing loved ones is a fact of life. Our grief is not so much for

them. for they are in a better place than this, our grief is more for

our own selves and our loss of them. It's a major problem that man,

and especially woman, get overly attached to things on this planet

and that then shuts down the flow of life.

 

Life is a river flowing and love should be that way too. It flows

best when we are in the mainstream current of life, and when we

withdraw ourselves from that mainstream then the flow lessens. It

takes a great deal of work to 'swim' out to that center of the stream

where the current is swiftest, but the effort is worth it because

then the current does most of the work of carrying us along on our

journeys. Most of us never feel that grand flow because we are always

too busy hanging out along the banks too afraid to push off from the

perceived safety it offers. Thus we get caught up in every little

whirlpool and eddy along the sides of the river, even to getting

caught up in the foul-smelling and foetid spots along the river banks

where the water does not flow at all.

 

The heart thrives on adventure and love and freedom. It is suppressed

by anything less than these three magical qualities. Since every

relationship on this planet is karmic then the challenge is to learn

the lesson that relationship has to offer us and then to move on

until we are free of those karmic relationships, have learned the

lessons life and love have to offer, and then can be totally free to

love who and what WE choose, and then to go have the adventures of a

lifetime in service to Spirit and to the Higher Will.

 

Most often the problem stems from a lack of understanding of the

educational process that life affords us. One of the great lies of

planet Earth is that love or marriage is supposed to last forever. In

an eternity would you really wnat to be stuck with this one soul and

never progress to anything more, much as the Mormons are told their

relationships and marriages are for eternity?

 

I was slow to learn it but eventually did that when one woman left

there would always be another along to help me learn my lessons,

until I finally did. The ultimate lesson of all this of course is to

learn to balance the two sides of ourselves, heart and mind, male and

female . . with Spirit, to make that grander whole which is the

completion of this balancing process. So many higher individuals who

have achieved such a balance no longer NEED a relationship with a

member of the opposite sex because they have found that peace and

balance within themselves.

 

With the Higher Self being the opposite 'gender' of that which we

find ourselves here in the physcial body, this is our

true 'soulmate', the other half of ourselves, not a person physically

incarnate. They can only reflect what it is we see in our own Higher

Selves. The grand search for love is only the search for a perfect

balance within ourselves of 2/3 Heart to 1/3 Mind, the true balance

ratio of yin to yang, male to female qualities. It is the longing to

return to the Source where we feel that connection of Love with all,

with everything, with the FATHER. But there is no need to return to

Source to feel this situation once again, the easiest way to feel it

is to just be. -- once we know what this means and can then apply it

to our lives and to oour pysches.

 

Heart without mind is a doormat. Mind without heart is just cruel.

Heart needs the balancing aspect of mind to give it more courage,

more sensibility, more 'reason'. Mind needs more Heart to make it

more understanding, more compassionate, more heart-felt in its

dealings with self and with others.

 

Life must flow or it will stagnate. It is said that the Universe

hates a void, well it hates stagnation just as much, the not moving

forward that shutting down one's heart or forward progress implies.

Yes, there are rest points in eternity to allow one to recuperate, to

just be, to cease the endless struggle of 'seeking' the awareness of

what one already is in soul. But stopping 'learning' is stopping life

and forward movement and growth. It has been proven that brain cells

die with no use. More connectors actually grow as the brain is used,

even in 'old age', hence making the circuitry faster and more

sophisticated like a new high-speed computer chip.

 

The heart grows stronger and more resilient with use. The best way to

keep it this way is to fall in love at least once a day, with

someone, something, with the grandest feeling of all -- service to

others and to the Higher Will. Love can be in the briefest meeting of

the eyes between two people in a grocery store -- the recognition of

another awakening soul or perhaps of a past love from a previous

lifetime now on a different aspect of their journey. Love can be in

the antics of a pet, the feel of the wind against the cheeks, the

grasp of a tiny child's hand, the feeling of the open road and

freedom. Love can be so many things, and it must be allowed to flow

for things that we love only die when they are held too close to the

breast and strangled of their life. Read John Steinbeck's classic Of

Mice and Men and see the lesson of attachment and holding things too

close to one's self until we strangle all the life out of them. Learn

to love and let go as the old saying about 'letting the things we

love go and if they come back to us then they are ours to enjoy, if

they don't then they never were ours' and we should feel blessed that

they even chose to come by our way, even if for seemingly too brief a

moment.

 

The heart has complexities the mind can never grasp, but the heart

needs the mind to follow its passion with some semblance of reason to

it, but without being too constricted. I have met very few people who

live totally in the heart, but you know what, they were dangerous

because their spontaneity held its own form of dangerousness without

the 1/3 reason to keep its spontaneity within reason. Unfortuantely,

with most of us it is the total reverse that our hearts are totally

controlled or shut down through the mind's fear of spontaneity and

the 'what if' games the mind likes to play. The New World Order also

hates spontaneity for this is the flapping of the butterflies wings,

the chaos it did not create in order to impose it's own levels of

control. The darkside is almost purely mind-oriented and hence it

seeks to shut down this love within all of us.

 

So should you seek to serve, should you seek to help overturn the New

World Order, should you seek to eradicate darkness from this corner

of the SuperUniverse, then the answer is simple, simply love . . .

 

In service, Peter

www.4truthseekers.org

[Guest guest]

Hello Peter,

My name is Fatima and i really enjoyed this article as it is so true with the

heart everything you have written. Thanks for making my day---Tima

 

peter6264 <peter6264 wrote:

Working with the Heart

 

The Heart is a woman. The Heart is female. The Heart is Love.

 

When dealing with it, especially you men, you need to gentle it, calm

it, not make it feel as if its very existence is in danger. Like a

woman it likes to feel secure in its place, protected, it likes to

feel valued and it likes to feel loved. Like an anemone it shuts down

when attacked too often or too severely, and often this is for a

lifetime as so few of us know how to open up our hearts even by

ourselves let alone when they have been so brutally hurt or

endangered as this life has to offer.

 

Native Americans used to say man had two minds, one in the head and

one in the chest. Both were needed to be a well-rounded person. First

there was the wisdom of the head, and then came the wisdom of the

Heart.

 

Since the heart is female it can easily be hurt and want to recede

inside itself, inside a shell to hide away from that which would hurt

it or to help heal its wounds. Unfortunately, then it has trouble

coming out of that shell again for the courage of the heart is weak

without the willpower associated with the mind to help it.

 

So many of the women I have worked with over the last dozen years of

so are 'doormats' because they lack this associated courage of the

will (the masculine aspect associated with the thymus -- the seat of

the will). And when it comes to men dealing with a doormat,

unfortunately even a good man will wipe their feet on a doormat

because that's what it's for.

 

When working with the major chakras of the body there is a front side

to each and a back side to each. If the enegy flow is blocked in the

front then it is because something in our development has blocked the

flow. If the chakra is blocked in the back it is because WE ourselves

have shut it down, usually for our own protection or perceived need

for protection. Thus when working on opening our hearts it is

necessary to understand if the blockage is in the front or in the

back.

 

The heart chakra opens in our development between about 4 1/2 to 6

1/2 years of age, and then opens again wider every 12 years or there

abouts. Its key issues involve Love, balance, self-reflection, self-

acceptance (though this is more so in the solar plexus or 3rd

chakra), relationships, intimacy, anima/animus, Eros/thantos,

grief/compassion, and devotion. The heart ckara gets blocked in its

development if at that age we do not see 'natural, real' love

expressed in those around us or in our immediate contact -- i.e.,

family, and 'loved ones'. This is where many gay women are blocked in

their initial energetic development, thus leading to the stereotype

of the 'hard' lesbian character.

 

Developmental blockages are usually chosen by us when we first choose

our family situations before coming to this lifetime. We choose them

specifically for the spiritual lessons they offer us in life and the

chance to grow and move forward in our awareness IF we learn the

lessons and then overcome the blockages.

 

The female energies move in a counter-clockwise direction. The male

in a clockwise direction. The heart chakra can be opened from the

front bu twirling the index finger or palm of the left hand (heart

side) over or in the chakra in a counter-clockwise direction. Other

chakras can be affected one way or the other by using this technique

appropriately using the correct direction of opening or closing and

the right hand (male side) or the left hand (heart side).

 

When the heart chakra is closed at the back it is usually a self-

protection mechanism.

 

One motivational speaker who had spent more years in a Vietnamese

prison camp during that war than any other American soldier has a

glaring reminder of how much the heart can be hurt. He says that no

matter all the pain and suffering he had been through during those

years of prison he had never experienced what he thought would be

more painful, the pain of a divorce or emotional separation.

 

Losing loved ones is a fact of life. Our grief is not so much for

them. for they are in a better place than this, our grief is more for

our own selves and our loss of them. It's a major problem that man,

and especially woman, get overly attached to things on this planet

and that then shuts down the flow of life.

 

Life is a river flowing and love should be that way too. It flows

best when we are in the mainstream current of life, and when we

withdraw ourselves from that mainstream then the flow lessens. It

takes a great deal of work to 'swim' out to that center of the stream

where the current is swiftest, but the effort is worth it because

then the current does most of the work of carrying us along on our

journeys. Most of us never feel that grand flow because we are always

too busy hanging out along the banks too afraid to push off from the

perceived safety it offers. Thus we get caught up in every little

whirlpool and eddy along the sides of the river, even to getting

caught up in the foul-smelling and foetid spots along the river banks

where the water does not flow at all.

 

The heart thrives on adventure and love and freedom. It is suppressed

by anything less than these three magical qualities. Since every

relationship on this planet is karmic then the challenge is to learn

the lesson that relationship has to offer us and then to move on

until we are free of those karmic relationships, have learned the

lessons life and love have to offer, and then can be totally free to

love who and what WE choose, and then to go have the adventures of a

lifetime in service to Spirit and to the Higher Will.

 

Most often the problem stems from a lack of understanding of the

educational process that life affords us. One of the great lies of

planet Earth is that love or marriage is supposed to last forever. In

an eternity would you really wnat to be stuck with this one soul and

never progress to anything more, much as the Mormons are told their

relationships and marriages are for eternity?

 

I was slow to learn it but eventually did that when one woman left

there would always be another along to help me learn my lessons,

until I finally did. The ultimate lesson of all this of course is to

learn to balance the two sides of ourselves, heart and mind, male and

female . . with Spirit, to make that grander whole which is the

completion of this balancing process. So many higher individuals who

have achieved such a balance no longer NEED a relationship with a

member of the opposite sex because they have found that peace and

balance within themselves.

 

With the Higher Self being the opposite 'gender' of that which we

find ourselves here in the physcial body, this is our

true 'soulmate', the other half of ourselves, not a person physically

incarnate. They can only reflect what it is we see in our own Higher

Selves. The grand search for love is only the search for a perfect

balance within ourselves of 2/3 Heart to 1/3 Mind, the true balance

ratio of yin to yang, male to female qualities. It is the longing to

return to the Source where we feel that connection of Love with all,

with everything, with the FATHER. But there is no need to return to

Source to feel this situation once again, the easiest way to feel it

is to just be. -- once we know what this means and can then apply it

to our lives and to oour pysches.

 

Heart without mind is a doormat. Mind without heart is just cruel.

Heart needs the balancing aspect of mind to give it more courage,

more sensibility, more 'reason'. Mind needs more Heart to make it

more understanding, more compassionate, more heart-felt in its

dealings with self and with others.

 

Life must flow or it will stagnate. It is said that the Universe

hates a void, well it hates stagnation just as much, the not moving

forward that shutting down one's heart or forward progress implies.

Yes, there are rest points in eternity to allow one to recuperate, to

just be, to cease the endless struggle of 'seeking' the awareness of

what one already is in soul. But stopping 'learning' is stopping life

and forward movement and growth. It has been proven that brain cells

die with no use. More connectors actually grow as the brain is used,

even in 'old age', hence making the circuitry faster and more

sophisticated like a new high-speed computer chip.

 

The heart grows stronger and more resilient with use. The best way to

keep it this way is to fall in love at least once a day, with

someone, something, with the grandest feeling of all -- service to

others and to the Higher Will. Love can be in the briefest meeting of

the eyes between two people in a grocery store -- the recognition of

another awakening soul or perhaps of a past love from a previous

lifetime now on a different aspect of their journey. Love can be in

the antics of a pet, the feel of the wind against the cheeks, the

grasp of a tiny child's hand, the feeling of the open road and

freedom. Love can be so many things, and it must be allowed to flow

for things that we love only die when they are held too close to the

breast and strangled of their life. Read John Steinbeck's classic Of

Mice and Men and see the lesson of attachment and holding things too

close to one's self until we strangle all the life out of them. Learn

to love and let go as the old saying about 'letting the things we

love go and if they come back to us then they are ours to enjoy, if

they don't then they never were ours' and we should feel blessed that

they even chose to come by our way, even if for seemingly too brief a

moment.

 

The heart has complexities the mind can never grasp, but the heart

needs the mind to follow its passion with some semblance of reason to

it, but without being too constricted. I have met very few people who

live totally in the heart, but you know what, they were dangerous

because their spontaneity held its own form of dangerousness without

the 1/3 reason to keep its spontaneity within reason. Unfortuantely,

with most of us it is the total reverse that our hearts are totally

controlled or shut down through the mind's fear of spontaneity and

the 'what if' games the mind likes to play. The New World Order also

hates spontaneity for this is the flapping of the butterflies wings,

the chaos it did not create in order to impose it's own levels of

control. The darkside is almost purely mind-oriented and hence it

seeks to shut down this love within all of us.

 

So should you seek to serve, should you seek to help overturn the New

World Order, should you seek to eradicate darkness from this corner

of the SuperUniverse, then the answer is simple, simply love . . .

 

In service, Peter

www.4truthseekers.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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