You know,
Over and over again,
I've seen that one of the ways that we can get ourselves in knots is,
And slow ourselves down on the spiritual journey,
Is wanting to have an open heart all the time.
And when we feel our hearts closed,
To feel bad about ourselves and to fight it.
You know,
If we,
Whatever we fight,
We'll get bigger.
So,
And the reason that is,
Is because the goal is acceptance and learning to embrace things more,
Including ourselves.
So if we fight things in a rejecting way,
It gets bigger.
Yeah,
It's just the law of life.
Anyway,
I have clients who,
You know,
Come to me and say they've got a closed heart and it bothers them.
And they work so hard to try to keep their heart open.
So it's like they're always watching themselves in this monitoring way and trying to fix themselves and judging themselves as bad or good.
You see,
And that will not bring progress.
You know,
If your heart's closed,
You can pray about it,
You know,
Do things to comfort yourself,
You know,
Warm bath or body work or,
You know,
Walk in nature,
But just be with it.
Your psyche's working through it.
It's coming up to be cleared.
You're not bad if you have a closed heart.
It's uncomfortable as hell.
I know.
It's so much easier when we feel like,
Oh,
Happy and one with everything.
But you know,
If you've got a closed heart,
It's maybe from something from childhood or from other lives.
So just be peaceable,
Observe your thoughts,
You know,
Don't let negative thoughts run amok in your head.
I mean,
You see,
If you've got a closed heart,
There's fear in there.
So your thoughts will carry negativity.
So,
You know,
It'll be there in your thoughts too.
And that's why it's so uncomfortable.
But you can embrace your thoughts even and just gently steer toward the positive.
Do things to soothe yourself.
And remember,
You know,
Your heart will open again.
It will open again when you accept yourself as you are,
Basically.
And then it will open again.
Because really it's you not accepting you.
But it doesn't feel like that.
I know.
I remember,
I think I mentioned this before,
Having walking around with a closed heart for three months and going to a healer for some help.
And she said,
You've got a closed heart.
And I'm like,
Yeah,
I know.
That's why I'm here.
You know,
Don't blame me.
So,
You know,
It didn't,
The treatment didn't help.
But,
You know,
Shortly after that,
I got some insights.
And that helped.
And the resistance released out and my heart opened again.
So just do your best with it and be patient with yourself.
You know,
Most of us have been told what to do and corrected so much.
So just learn how to gently embrace yourself in a loving way and be patient and your heart will open again.
I promise.
Because who you are is the open heart.
I mean,
You're an eternally loving soul.
So the heart is always open underneath,
Really.
So think that way.
Think that your heart's open underneath anyway.
Okay,
Bless your hearts.