Return to your inner space whenever you feel the need, even if only for a minute or two. Take a gentle breath or two to calm you down. Close your eyes, let your mind chatter cease, and go quiet inside. From this momentary place of quietness ask for the guidance you seek. If you don’t get an answer, immediately be assured that it will come at some point in your day. Look back at the end of the day and let your experiences of the day show you just how heart-centered and heart-focused you stayed as you kept your mind’s eye on the anticipation of help to come.
In learning heart-centered speaking, you will gradually learn how your heart speaks to you, how it indicates that you have gotten something right or wrong, how it guides you to accept something that you may not even have thought of. Your heart speaks its own language. Part of your practice of daily heart centering is to learn its language. In silence it speaks, so get calm and quiet and silent within. It’s then that you will begin to hear its language and how it speaks to you.
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.
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.
