The Heart

Love, joy, creativity and courage are among the heart's treasures, the greatest assets of your life, waiting to be utilized. Your open heart will open doors as every heart opens in response to an open heart. The qualities of your heart are what make you attractive to others. While your soul is the seed of your self, your heart is the focus of your soul, the flower that produces a new seed and a fruit-gift to the world. The heart receives the wish of your soul and nurtures it to become a swift stream running through the lake of your heart, driving and guiding your life. As the heart becomes conscious, this guidance emerges as interests, then intense and creative desire, and then courageous action.

Opening the heart is the objective; living from the heart is the goal; Heart Rhythm Practice is the method. This "heart" is the emotional heart, and is also that which is anchored in your chest as your heart of flesh. The emotional faculty called heart and the organ called heart are homonyms wedded through the mind-body connection. One affects the other: the emotional aspect of your heart can be discovered by concentrating on the physical aspect of your heart. Even just holding a sustained thought about your heart will shift your self-perception toward the holistic and shift your behavior toward both a greater harmony with your world as it is and a greater effectiveness in changing it to be what it can be.

While education and work have been centered on the mind, there is a shift beginning in our time toward the heart. The mind works by analysis, whereas the heart works by synthesis. We recognize that the heart and mind work together, and we call the mind "the surface of the heart." We have found that concentration on the physical heart provides a reliable access to the guidance and power of the emotional heart.