Living In Your Heart

For millions of years, our human bodies have been progressing and evolving. Our neocortex started to develop about 200 million years ago, which gave us abilities connected to higher cognitive function, such as language, thinking, and the understanding of abstract concepts. This area of our brain also gave the ability to label things. We give ourselves names, identify ourselves as the human species, and call the planet we reside on Earth.

For thousands of years we have been integrating these abilities into everyday life. Living in our head has driven us to build cities, develop agriculture, and given us industry and technology. All of these things have contributed to the survival of the human race, by providing more stable sources of food and water and limiting our natural predators. We have been able to control our environment to a certain degree, which has allowed the human population to flourish.

But what these higher-level thinking skills have also given us is the ability to judge things as right or wrong and good or bad. When we are living from our neocortex, from this place of logic and reasoning, we compare everything to anything, which allows us to determine which choice is better or worse than the other.

The opposite of living in our head, living in our heart, can be seen as releasing of judgment and embracing compassion. When we are in our heart, we choose things that raise our vibration, expand our awareness, and increase our ability for compassion. We focus on living in acceptance, allowing everything to be perfect exactly as it is. Perfectly imperfect. We release details and facts and embrace lessons and learning.

What if we used our complex reasoning on an “as needed” basis only, and opted to live in our hearts instead? What if we conducted our existence from a place of love, compassion, and forgiveness? What if we could release all judgment and accept everything exactly as it is?

We can.

It is a choice.

Our individual awareness is like a little orb of light. Because it is directed by our intention, we can relocate this orb of light by simply imagining it moving from our head to our heart. When we place this light in our heart, then our perspective of the world comes from the vantage point of our heart, filtered only by love and compassion.

We can add more balance to both our awareness and our heart by connecting our energy system to God, above, through our crown chakra, and to the Universe, below, through our root chakra. We balance our root chakra by bringing our awareness to the present moment, and our crown chakra by having faith in ourselves and in the bigger picture. As we begin to bring more energy into our system, we bring more energy and light into our heart, which increases our capacity for love and compassion.

When we are living in our heart, we have compassion for ourselves. We start to take care of our body out of love, maybe by exercising, eating healthy, and getting enough sleep. We start to take care of our mind by slowing our thoughts and focusing them on ideas that are healthy, uplifting, and supportive. We start to take care of our spirit by following whatever brings us joy and raises our vibration.

When we learn to live in our hearts and love ourselves unconditionally, this is when we gain the ability to love others unconditionally, as well. If we can have compassion for ourselves, enough to forgive our own mistakes — we are human . . . we are here to learn and grow by making mistakes — then we can have compassion for others and their humanity, too!

Each of us can only see a small part of the bigger picture. And because we cannot see it in its entirety, we are unable to judge.

In hindsight, we can look back at our mistakes and see all of the lessons we have learned. We can see that if we removed these lessons from our past we would not be the same person we are today. In order to love ourselves for who we truly are, then we must love every action that led us to this exact moment, even our mistakes.

In the bigger pictures there are no mistakes. All mistakes are lessons to help us learn, grow, heal, and evolve. We are human, and we are here to make mistakes. Because of this,

mistakes are on purpose, so they are not mistakes.

Collectively, as a human race, our history is full of mistakes, everything from wars and genocides, to global warming and nuclear meltdowns. Humans have caused ourselves, and the world, a great deal of pain and suffering.

But what if we could see that these events are not actually mistakes?

Maybe the best way to collectively expand our consciousness would be to have a greater understanding of compassion. Things like judgement, suffering, and grief bring our awareness to our heart giving us a greater ability for compassion.

What if humanity and its collective consciousness agreed to expand our ability for compassion, so we devised a plan to teach all of humanity about compassion: a war? Sometimes the best way to learn compassion is to learn what is not compassion. So these co-created events were opportunities for ample “not compassion”, where humanity felt the heavy effects of judgement, pain, suffering, and grief.

And we cannot change the events of the past, but we can accept them and learn from them. Can we see beyond the details of these events and, instead, focus on the compassion, understanding, and forgiveness we have learned (or are still learning).

What were the lessons and what did we learn?

How did we expand our ability for compassion?

How have we grown, healed, and evolved because of these events?

To truly love humanity and accept it as it is, we would need to accept all of our “mistakes” in history as well. This includes those we have made both individually and collectively.

Can we embrace this place of contrast with love and forgiveness?

Can we have compassion for ourselves, as well as others, as we are learning, growing, healing, and evolving?

Can we have gratitude for where we are on our journey individually, as well as collectively?

Ultimately, if we can get to a place of releasing judgment, then we can live in a place of unconditional love and compassion. We can move our awareness from our heads to our hearts and to look at the world filtered through love.

We can have:

Compassion for ourselves.

Compassion for others.

Here is a list of heart-opening words to encourage us to live in our hearts:

Love

Allow

Surrender

Forgive

Compassion

Empathy

Gratitude

Getting out of our head and living in our heart requires us to examine all of the parts of our lives where we have judgment and where our love is conditional. It takes looking at ourselves honestly and embracing compassion. Living in our heart takes practice and conscious effort. It takes noticing when we are living in our head (labeling, judging, and comparing) and consciously deciding to move our awareness to our heart (allowing, surrendering, and forgiving).

It is in our hearts where we gain the greatest ability to have a perspective of love and compassion.

💜🦄 Crystal