Open Your Heart 10 Day Challenge

Living with an open heart means that we can feel gratitude, forgive easily, have compassion and kindness for ourselves and others. We can also give and receive with joy and in balance. This is an introduction to what you can expect on the challenge and a short awareness exercise will be shared.

The 4th chakra is the heart chakra and is where your love, compassion, and kindness are empowered. It’s not hard to understand the heart chakra. We all associate our hearts with love and that’s exactly what the 4th chakra is all about. Love for others AND love for yourself. When the heart chakra is overactive, you may find yourself always putting the needs of others before your own. Having an under-active heart chakra is a common imbalance that is usually caused by heartbreak. We can then find it hard to get close to others or to trust people. Today's lesson is all about balancing the heart chakra so you can more easily open your heart.

Today we dive into the lightness of being which comes from opening the heart. There are two very simple exercises for you today. They can fill and open your heart with so much love for others as well as yourself.

Louise Hay introduced mirror work to 1000's of people around the world and this is what she had to say about this powerful practice: “Mirror work is the most effective method I’ve found for learning to love yourself and seeing the world as a safe and loving place. I have been teaching people how to do mirror work for as long as I have been teaching affirmations… Because the mirror reflects back to you the feelings you have about yourself, it makes you immediately aware of where you are resisting and where you are open and flowing. It clearly shows you what thoughts you will need to change if you want to have a joyous and fulfilling life. As you learn to do mirror work, you will become much more aware of the words you say and the things you do. You will learn to take care of yourself on a deeper level than you have done before... "

The heart has its own consciousness and develops before the brain when in the foetus. Studies conducted through the HeartMath Institute have made some amazing discoveries about the heart and not just about keeping us alive. The heart and brain have a two-way communication channel. We often think the brain is the one controlling everything else in our bodies, including our heart. But studies show that this is not the case. The heart communicates and sends signals to the brain as well, and affects the functioning of the brain. The heart and brain are constantly communicating and responding to each other.

To open your heart, you need to expand your heart energy so you can receive and give more in your relationships with both yourself and others. Your heart is actually the most powerful source of electromagnetic energy in your body. It has an electrical field that is about 60 times greater than your brain and a magnetic field that is over 100 times greater! Today you’re going to access your heart energy with a very powerful exercise. You will get to focus on your heart and feel the flow of your heart’s energy field within you and all around you.

Today we’re going to look at heartbreak from romantic relationships. That could be relationships that have ended and also if we are in a relationship but we’re still living with heartbreak. A lover and partner becomes the closest mirror to us, and when they neglect to recognise what we give and who we are, we can start to feel that we just don't matter. That we are just not important. To change our outer world, we need to change our inner world and today's awareness exercise will help you to experience the deep peace and joy of a beautiful loving relationship with yourself which will change the way you interact with the world. Every woman's needs were made to be met, not overcome. You will need a journal or notebook near you as we go through the exercise.

The main reason past intimate relationships can often linger in us is that for one reason or another we experienced a break in trust. This could be because of infidelity and outright lying, emotional abandonment, gaslighting and other forms of psychological abuse or just a simple lack of clarity from our partner. And that means when the relationship is over, we can easily feel justified in not trusting others, and therefore, moving further away from true intimacy in a relationship. Or it may be if trust has broken down in your present relationship, you are finding it very hard to trust your partner again. We close down our hearts to protect ourselves from being hurt again. Today we will connect our heart to our womb space so that we can build trust in others by building trust in ourselves. A quiet and private space will be ideal for today's lesson.

Today we are going to embrace the prospering power of your authenticity and self-worth. To being seen; to stepping into your innate worthiness and celebrating your "failures". When people start seeking any kind of abundance, be it with relationships, work, health, money, they can very easily start focusing their energy “out there.” That thing you want isn’t over there. The abundance is right within you. When you’re being authentic, you’re opening the channel for the abundant YOU to flow out into the world. You can allow abundance to flow by allowing who you are to be enough. Your journal would be useful for today's lesson.

Day 10, the last day of the challenge is all about allowing yourself to receive what you want. Opening your heart to get what you want? Are you clear on what you want? Is it written down? The first exercise today will help you get clear on what you want and feeling the energy to take some action that are aligned with your heart. We will also look at ways to love yourself fully and completely so that you feel safe to open your heart to all you desire and deserve.