Day 8 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Open Your Closed Heart

Lesson 8: We grow by opening our closed heart...

Today's lesson focuses on opening the heart which leads to a lot personal and spiritual growth. We gain connection within ourselves, other beings and then the Divine. Like I mentioned in my last post, I would love to be that open one day. This lesson talks about there being 4 openings to our heart that leads to this growth - one that leads into another. How this happens, I'm not sure. Nothing was mentioned about how one goes into the next though it's a natural progression. The exercise today was to close your eyes and breath deep in through the nose and out through the mouth until you feel relaxed. I had to imagine my human heart and think about how open or closed it is, how open would I like it to be and if I could allow it to be more open today. 

I visualised divine light shining upon me, opened my chakras and rooted myself to the earth. What I did visualise is my heart pumping and seeing the blood circulate in my body. From there I focused on light entering my heart and my heart shining bright. I allowed the light to circulate through my body as if it was my own blood. With every pump of my heart, more light got pumped around my body.

What I want to be a purely good person. To not be overwhelmed with worry and trust in the universe's plan. There is one for me. There is one for you. I want to have a more open heart to that. I know there is something bigger for me to do and I need to be released of what closes my heart. I am slowly, but surely doing this. I'm finding my true self and I'm happy with that.

 

Day 7 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Our soul is infinitely complete

Lesson 7: Our soul is infinitely complete...

I realise that I'm running a day behind which is something I need to work on around time management more than anything. Weekend plans can really take up all of my time but I don't want to place pressure on myself to have to rush to post. I truly want to write with a genuine touch. So here we go...

Lesson Seven: Your soul is infinitely complete; it is your Divine container. We are always soul, one with One. Yet in earth life, in the human experience, we exist in human container. This includes the body, the sensations, emotions, and most importantly.... the heart. In the human experience, the heart is the way in which we grow.

Exercise: Do you feel your heart is open today, or closed? Close your eyes, breathe, and ask your heart to tell you.

I feel that my heart has been closed for some time and I am only just realising that I need to open up. I know I got this way after a series of let downs from other people, a series of unfortunate events that happened in my life and then I wanted to focus on just getting my life in check. I don't want to go into major detail but I know I closed myself off. I guess it's a defense mechanism to avoid disappointment, to close off from being hurt and placing a guard up was easy in order to protect myself. I know now, by closing off, it means I'm not really experiencing everything fully. All the emotions through experience should be lived in order to learn and gain perspective. Sometimes I just didn't want to feel.

As I started my spiritual journey (after a major connection to the universe), I told people that I want to live with pure love in my heart. That was the mission I set for myself. Let me tell you, it's the hardest accomplishment to achieve. I try to live to be more tolerant and understanding of others. There are times when you really question why another human does something to another which is hurtful and wrong. I am opening pieces of my heart to the world. It's working progress and I feel that I am slowly changing as a person by embracing this path. I want to give out this love for every being in order to receive it in return. If I don't achieve pure love in my heart then I want to at least try to be more open to it.