Lessons in speaking to the heart and body are endless because the answers are never-ending. There is always something more that you can learn. With attention focused on these two areas— the heart center that guides and protects, that loves and receives, that expresses gratitude and thanks, and the body that enables you to have life, to have experiences, to act and react and to live in the world of animal, mineral, water, air, earth and fire, that allows you to experience all the creature comforts and all the depravations you can want—give yourself time each morning and each evening to go through your expectations and your results.
At the crack of dawn, ask: How am I going to spend the day? What are my intentions? And as you settle in for the night, ask: How did I do today? Did I have a beautiful day? What can I do differently tomorrow? No matter your answers to the questions you choose to ask, begin each day and end each day with love and gratitude for yourself, and ask for your dreams to help you decipher more of what you need to know. You can’t go wrong if you stick with learning and growing with your heart, your body, and your dream guidance.
As you learn to listen to your heart and your body you will notice how much easier it becomes to tune in and ask, how are we today? What can I do for you today? Tell me what you need and I will listen. As you speak directly to your heart and your body, and begin to ask direct questions, you will be surprised at how often you get direct answers. It’s up to you to pay attention or not. Free choice is also part of being human. You can choose what you want to do at any time of the day or night. Just be aware of what you are doing. Choose with awareness.
Sit quietly and listen to the flow of your heart, to how it slows down and beats calmly when you tell it to go into the flow of life, into the flow of the calm air around you, and how it begins to hold itself in a steady state of persistent peacefulness. Let it be as it is. Without tension or intention, just be with the sound of your heart.
How can you love yourself when you are so imperfect? How can you possibly grow when you fail so often? How can you expect miracles when you are so caught in mundane worldly habits?
Begin by letting go of those questions, those judgments, those ideas of self. You are whole and perfect as you are. You are where you are right now, and that is perfect.
Let your mind be still, your inner critic quiet for just a moment as you reach for something new. Let your mind relax into not doing. Let your heart open and your innocence ask for guidance. In your innocence you are perfect.
In this state of perfect innocence allow your breath to be easy and natural. Let it just do its magic. See how magical you are? Your breath shows you this. Where does it come from and how does it keep on flowing? That is the magic of you.
Allow your eyes to soften their gaze, your muscles to relax, your thoughts to cease. Just be with each calm and slow breath, with each beat of your heart, with each soft puff of air as it enters and leaves your nostrils. Let yourself sit quietly with the calm and perfect self that you are in this moment. Nothing else matters.
As you sit with your perfect self, begin to allow a new idea to enter your mind: I am perfect. I am perfect. I am perfect.
Each day you are the perfect person to live the life you are in, the perfect self for the day. There is no need to be anyone else. Just be yourself. As you wake up each morning state your intention: I am perfect today as I am.
Allow your body, your mind, your spirit to be in the flow of the day as it comes, whatever comes. Without struggle address what comes up, because that is what is perfect for the day. There is no need to resist, to fight or to be angry. Just be with what is. This is the day I am granted and it is perfect.
Let your perfect day be fulfilled in the most perfect way. Accept it with open arms and heart: it is the perfect day for what needs to be done and for what I need to learn. Today is perfect.
Notice how calm you become as you ponder taking this attitude to each day. Come what may, I am okay! Come what may, I am okay!
May you be calm. May you be safe. May you be peaceful. May you be happy.
How does the body speak to you? The body also has its own unique ways of communication. You may feel distress or pain in a certain region of the body, signaling something to be aware of. You may hear gurgling sounds that you will have to decipher. You may feel your blood pressure is too high or your pulse is racing. These are all signs from your body to pay attention, that something needs attention, that perhaps some habit needs to change. You may feel tension, anxiety or chronic stress. These are all signs from your body that changes may be called for in your life. Likewise, feelings of calmness, relaxation, peacefulness signal to you that your body is happy, that it likes what you are doing. Feelings of sadness, tiredness, despair signal that there is emotional disruption happening within the body and that it’s time to get back to those other good feelings of calmness, relaxation, and peacefulness. Over time you will learn that your body is probably talking to you all the time, just as your heart is.
So how does the heart speak? It will vary from person to person. You might hear your heart speak in words, in pictures, or in abstract symbols. You might hear it reverberate through nature, in the natural world outside of you. You might receive messages from animals, from angels, from those you love and whom love you. You might even hear a direct message, loud and clear, a voice in your head. These are some of the ways that the heart may speak to you. But everyone is unique, and just how your heart speaks to you is also going to be unique. Stay open and available, and gently ask to be guided.
