by Deb Schnitta
An
open heart invites connection and allows the inflow of larger flows to
enter freely. This larger flow includes abundance, Soul connection and
wisdom as well as vitality for the physical body. This vitality is
required for healing as well as spiritual evolution.
The
heart has capacity that is never ending. As a connection to our
spiritual energy, it supports the union of personality thoughts and
desires and our largest essence. It allows the presence of Divine love,
love without boundary and judgment, to exist. Each of us is a conduit of
Divine love. As our personalities become more supple, less attached, the
depth of the capacity to be an open conduit for this presence deepens
as well.
A
personality experiences life through eyes of understanding based on
duality. It sees the world as right and wrong or good and bad. A Soul
sees the world as a series of experiences. These experiences are simply
opportunities for the Soul to learn about the world and itself in
relation to others. It does not view these experiences as right or
wrong.
When
the personality is supported in understanding a life experience through
the wisdom of the Soul, it has the opportunity to shift the way it views
not just the experience, but the world as well. This expanded view is a
shift in orientation. For a moment, the personality has opened to its
larger partner, the Soul. It has experienced life in a new way and if
it is willing, it has allowed its own understanding to evolve. Learning
in this way, seeing the world through the eyes of the Soul, is part of
the evolutionary path of humanity. To be our largeness in any given
moment enhances not just our world view, but allows our hearts to
exercise the capacity for the presence of love.
The
personality heart is changed in these moments of expanded world view.
Having a glimmer of the larger dynamics and flows that are unfolding
allows it to step outside what it knows. In doing so, the personality
heart releases judgment. It no longer seeks to be right in a given
situation. It also does not need to stop the inflow of incoming energy
and consciousness. In this way the personality heart moves a step
closer to its true purpose, being a conduit.
Most
often, the exchanges between people that provide this evolutionary
opportunity are greeted by our personality hearts. We respond based on
our history. If we have been hurt before, we may hold others at arms
length to avoid being hurt again. Even if what we deeply desire is the
love and connection that is waiting right before us, we may not open to
its presence. The personality heart allows the inflow of what it
recognizes and dismisses what it does not know. It does this not as a
function of being a conduit, but rather from the place of defense.
Each
time we engage with the world around us from our largeness we bring
more of who we are to the exchange. We step outside our history and
recognize that this is not the only worldview that exists. In doing so,
we embrace our largeness and recognize that in each given moment there
is the opportunity to evolve who we are, to step outside the comfort
zone of the personality and reach for what is next. When we move
outside our patterns of defense, we increase the presence of our
largeness in each exchange. This largeness is who we truly are; it is
the expression of our own divine essence here now.
To
exercise the personality heart increases the capacity to experience our
largeness. It is a direct opportunity to consciously choose to be our
largeness. If we greet an exchange with another from this place, we
have in that moment opened to the heart being a conduit. We have opened
to the presence of love.
Love
has the capacity to heal what has been buried for a long time. It
touches others in a way that nothing else can. In the presence of
divine love, the healing is profound. It transcends words and invites
forward the Divine in others in that moment.
Divine
love is part of the construct of the Soul. It exists within each one of
us. As we move more fully along our evolutionary path we recognize not
only the capacity of this love but also the impact it may have. We choose to
exercise the personality heart consciously, so that we may increase our
capacity to offer this love to the world.
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