Emotional Model of the Heart

Including the Left and Right, we further differentiate four dimensions. Everyone's heart has all of these dimensions, to a greater or lesser degree:

1. Collaboration - Harmony The width of your heart is shown by your ability to extend your arms to embrace others. It is the quality of being "big hearted," able to take disappointment in stride, reach out to many people, and harmonize with situations and groups.

2. Courage - Creativity The second dimension of your heart is also horizontal, but extending forward and backward instead of sideways. It is shown by the force of your heart: the ability to give, to radiate, to lead, to innovate and to create. It produces charisma and magnetism.

3. Compassion - Compelling Idealization The vertical dimension includes both height and depth. The height of your heart is shown by your idealism and optimism; the depth of your heart by your ability to empathize with others and be deeply moved by the world around you.

4. Capacity for Constructive Change The final dimension is inward; it consists of all that your heart contains. The heart has a capacity, like a bowl. This dimension shows the size of that capacity. Your capacity is your potential for growth in the future. It makes a person rich, complex, multi-faceted and resourceful.

Each of the four dimensions can be developed by Heart Rhythm Practice.