VERY often deciding what you want, plans, and goal-setting are a left-brain process. Perhaps you sit down, think about what you want, and write down a list (if you take the time to do that).
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| Aine Belton |
This can be valuable as with any goal-setting, but how much of what you think you want is what you REALLY want at the deepest level?
Asking your heart what it wants can reveal dreams, goals and desires beyond those you may be consciously aware of, and ones that will always most benefit your life (and others).
I share a very simple exercise for asking your heart what it wants below, along with how asking mine led to some recent trapeze lessons!
There’s no ‘right and wrong’ with goals – you have free will and can create your life as you choose – but there may be goals and dreams that are most serving to you and the world at this time – things that will most reward and fulfill you and others, bring greatest joy, enhance your energy, and engage and express more of your gifts and true nature.
I’m not the most left-brain goal-setter! Some of my goals are far from conscious plans. The Global Love Festival, for example, began in a night-time dream in which I was organizing a festival followed by several other dreams, and many waking-life synchronicities.
I didn’t sit down and think “I know, I’ll organize festival”. I don’t think I would ever have consciously come up with the idea, not least because I knew nothing about putting on a festival! With the sheer extent of what’s involved, from a purely logical perspective I would probably run from the idea.
BUT, I so believe in the dream and am so passionate about it, I am fully committed, despite challenges and steep learning curves.
The ‘Ask Your Heart’ exercise below is a waking process you can use to access visions, dreams, and desires beyond those you may consciously hold.
It’s not an intricate meditation or specialized technique, it simply creates the space to listen to your heart so you can give it a go right now.
I recently began taking some “Ariel Skills” classes (i.e. trapeze)! This certainly isn’t out of any desire to do it publicly or professionally (if you saw my lack of knack at it you’d see why
), but I am having a blast. I love it! Aside achy muscles and flailing attempts to actually get onto the trapeze, once up it is such fun.Why am I doing Trapeze?
Earlier this year I asked my heart what it wanted. One of the things my heart said it wanted was “to fly”.
This was quite unexpected. Then came flooding to mind a dream I used to have of flying an airplane or helicopter in my twenties. I used to be really passionate about the idea and even looked into pilot lessons, but I had little funds at the time and it just fizzled out.
Since hearing my heart say “I want to fly” I’ve had a lot of synchronicities around flying lessons – hearing an advert for flying lessons on my car radio (never heard that before!), hearing my friend talk about flying lessons he had not far from where I live, and perhaps the funniest, a neighbor that purchased a mini helicopter he loves remote-flying that I’ve been seeing whizzing about. I am now booking flying lessons.
Then came the news about someone nearby teaching “Ariel Skills” classes. My heart lit up instantly. I was on to it
My heart shared several other ‘recommendations’ that weren’t on the conscious radar at the time yet have led to very rewarding experiences and new ventures.
Your heart is a gateway to the loving wisdom of your Higher Self and Source. What your heart wants will always most serve you (and all). You can ask what your heart wants in general, for its guidance in a specific area, or on a daily basis even.
Ask your heart when you wake up what it wants for your day ahead, for example. This will always be something that honours yourself and others and brings greatest love, joy and success.
"Listen for the voice of love in the crowded house of mind, soft it speaks yet endless are the blessings of this treasured find."
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| Your heart always has the answer |
1) Get quiet, relax, take a few deep breaths, settle yourself and close your eyes (after you’ve read these brief steps so you can read them
). 2) When in a peaceful calm state, place your awareness on the area of the center of your chest behind the sternum bone – this is the area of your heart chakra.
What does it feel like to place your attention here? Get a sense of the energy here. How is your heart feeling?
3) With your focus on this area of the center of your chest, allow yourself to feel your love – the love you have for yourself, for someone you know, for nature, or any wonderful experiences that you are fond of, for example.
Whatever comes to mind, allow your heart to open and feel your love, gratitude and appreciation. As you do, see if you can sense the energy in this area of your chest expand and become more alive and tangible.
4) You are now going to ask your heart what it wants.
You might like to imagine a mini-you inside this area of your chest – the loving, joyous, kind person that you truly are residing here in the center of your chest.
OR, you may just imagine asking this area of your heart in a more abstract way what it wants – asking the love you feel inside for its wisdom and response.
Whatever feels right to you, simply ask: “Dear heart, what do you want?” And then pause to receive a response.
You may prefer other words, or to extend the question for more specifics, such as:
“Dear heart, what would most serve me in my life at this time?”
“Dear heart, what do you desire today?”
“Dear heart, is there something you would like to share with me?”
“Dear heart, what would enhance my health/happiness/love-life/success at this time?”
5) Listen to what your heart has to ‘say’. You may hear words, feel feelings, have thoughts, inspirations, images, ideas, or just get a sense of awareness and knowing. Just be open to what comes after asking your heart what it wants. Then thank your heart.
This exercise gets stronger the more you practice it and connect to your heart, so don’t be put off if you don’t feel an instant connection or get a clear response. Like any muscle, it gets more adept with use.
SUMMARY:
* Relax and still your mind
* Sense your heart area
* Open to and feel the love in your heart
* Ask your heart what it wants
* Open to receive a response
Try asking your heart what it wants right now, even in a simple way as with the summary just above.
Be open to whatever arises. It might not be something practical or tangible. Your heart may say “I want you to forgive yourself/your mother/your ex”, “I want you to share your feelings more with your friends”, or “I want to go outside and enjoy nature more”, etc.
Anything your heart revealed with this simple exercise? Any insight, inspiration, revelation or awareness?
Love and joy,
Aine Belton
Article source: http://globalloveproject.com/2013/07/ask-your-heart/
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