Monday, April 2, 2012

Our Heart Connection & the Future

"Your mind knows nothing but the past. It imagines the future will be just like yesterday, so it makes it decisions based on that. Only your heart can see beyond memory's horizon." posted today by Neale Donald Walsch on Facebook. This resonates with recent messages and conversations on intuition, love, partnership and healing from the past so I'm giving it a chat today.
I've received a few downloads lately based on expanding our intuitive abilities, enhancing our living tribute to Love and how we try to steer ourselves on the path of connections, commitments and the relationships created thereof. Of course, I suspect that I am the first person being instructed to hear and follow these messages, or they wouldn't come through me. (Even though I work through my intuition every day I still have clarity to refine and new horizons in which to work.) I also experience that personal and professional relationships are on the top of the list of questions when I work with clients so I feel like it is important to discuss openly.
Reflecting on Walsch's comment about using the mind to both choose and direct our lives, we often look to experiences from the past to determine what will work, where we are to go next and with whom we should align. Our thoughts, the "science" of life lessons and those memories of perceived successes and failures often get too much credit as we look through our dreams, ideals and natural wisdom to create a future that excites, empowers and expands the life experience.

Life gives us all lessons: "good," "bad," blessings, obstacles, challenges, triumphs, opportunities. As a spiritual being driving this body on the highway of humanity, we are to see each event, not as an indicator of things to come, but as a dust storm, a speed bump, a detour or just a road over which to pass. And we are to keep driving, moving forward. We may not view the same scenery again, but because what we saw made an impression on our mind and emotions, we are braced to avoid or focused to recreate the same occurrence in the future.
Working within the limitations of the mind and ego, we are restricted to think of the future in terms of what we already know. We forget, if we ever knew at all, that the heart, and it's connections can be wiser than any information we have. EVEN if we've SEEN something happen it doesn't set forth a truth for the future.
In terms of the heart connection, I speak in reference to the physical heart, to the spirit which speaks through ones heart, and the intuitive link we share with those around us. We've all felt a resonance with a place or a person. An unexplainable attraction, repulsion, curiosity, or interest. Our training as "reasonable" humans tells us to go to our minds first to find a "reason" for this feeling. Often, when the feeling doesn't fit into a familiar mental record, we force the connection into a known category and either negate or move forward based on that predetermining information. The tragedy in doing so is that a fresh encounter is limited to merely repeating scenery from the past. Imagine driving for the first time on an magnificent coastal highway filled with exotic vegetation, bright colors and active wildlife and only seeing the gray buildings and drab fixtures of your daily commute. This is the limiting vision of scrutinizing life's events from the mind over seeing from the freshness of the heart.
Trusting your intuition and spirit-driven inspiration is an exercise in listening to the heart over the mind. Following an internal urge rather than listening to the GPS may not make sense to your mind at first. But with a little practice, you will gain access to information from beyond the satellites or technology based only on happenings from the past. Pay attention. Those places, people, jobs, foods, books, investments or projects are giving you clues to what's next in your journey.
How do you know you're getting messages from your heart and spirit rather than your head? One of the most common ways of feeling the connection are physical sensations: experiencing a tingle, "goose bumps," sudden temperature changes or a flutter in your heart. At the moment you notice a physical impression, go to what you were thinking, discussing, viewing, etc. and pay attention to the new thought or idea that came up. Don't decide if it makes sense but ask it for more details, write down what was sent to you or follow in that direction to see where it leads. If you're not feeling the physical sensations yet, start paying attention and they will show up.

As a catalyst to growing our collective awareness and deepening our intuitive connections, I teach a course called Living Connected in which we explore methods and tools to expanding, as well as overcoming the obstacles, to heart-centered living. Watch for news of the next classes to begin mid-April. Private training is also available.

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