I was recently doing yoga with my friend Ira Israel. At the end of the last pose of Savasana (the corpse pose of total relaxation), he turned to me and said, "This is such a good feeling. I feel like I just rebooted my heart drive." It's that surge of good energy that takes over your body, your mind and heart after you've exerted such physical energy in the practice. And you feel a wave of happiness. A little bell went off in my head, and I had a real "A-HA!" moment, that summoned up everything I had been experiencing the last four months as I have been on the road speaking about the message of Unbinding The Heart. As I have been interacting and speaking, I have been feeling that so many people in the world are operating with crashed heart drives, and that essential parts of ourselves remain unexpressed and unattended. And we suffer heartache. Our hearts ache for connection, for authenticity and heartfelt expression. So this awareness inspired me to ask the question -- why does our heart drive crash, and how can we recharge it?
The truth is that a heart drive is not really a drive, it is a server. And it recharges by activating the service button. When we make ourselves available to serve (our lives or another's), it is miraculous how our hearts will automatically charge up. When we let go of our own agendas and let our hearts be open and free to connect, express and experience the moment for the sake of the moment, then our hearts thrive. Our heart sever doesn't necessarily come with a manual; each one of us has to write and live our own manual. Here are some of my thoughts about how to activate our heart server.
We live in a world that is success-driven, goal-oriented, multi-tasking focused, and with high expectations of quick results. Competitiveness, appearances and measuring up take their toll. The concept of "less is more" is just a concept. Such a world does not nurture, support or encourage the expression of our hearts. We want to fit in, we want to be accepted, and we do everything we can to hide who we are, because if -- God forbid -- we were seen as who we are, we fear we'd be left alone. So we shut down, we hibernate, and we put our hearts to sleep, and then start operating from our mental, physical, ego, and adrenaline drive -- hoping that this will compensate for our crashed heart drive. As I have become more aware of this pattern now and what we do to ourselves, I have noticed some common emotional patterns that we all run in ourselves that cause our hearts to crash. Here are some of the patterns that I see causing our hearts to crash:
Often people come up to me after I speak at an event, and they have many of the same issues, they say things like: "I have a very successful career but I don't really know who I am." Or they say, "I have a busy life, and I do a lot of things both socially and professionally, but I still fee an emptiness." Or they say, "There is so much that I have to say and write -- so many ideas -- but I don't think anyone will care." Or, "I feel as though part of me is on automatic pilot, and I have forgotten who I am." So, if we don't address this issues of our hearts, pains, dissatisfactions, lost dreams, separation, wishes and desires, and we pretend that these things don't matter, then we turn on our mental, ego, and physical drives, and, as a result, our hearts collapse. So, it is imperative that we take time out to listen to our hearts, and find out what is really going on inside, speak our thoughts, voice our emotions and express buried parts that we might have judged that they don't matter So here are my six essentials keys that I see can assist us to reboot our heart drive.
It is through listening, attention and willingness to engage in the most vital energy of our lives, our hearts, that that we reboot our heart drives. Vulnerable? Yes. Rewarding? Immensely.
Please share with us how you reboot your heart drive.
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Dr. Judith Rich: Ubuntu and Forgiveness: Keys to Living an Abundant Life
The way I re-boot is to spend time alone doing my spiritual excercises, it allows me to let go and move beyond my limitiations into a higher perspective above the mind and emotions. From my experience it regenerates me and allows a new and different altitude. Lately I have been spending more time embracing the parts of me that I have judged or negated, and just appreciating all that I am. Reading inspirirational books by Agapi and John-Roger also helps.
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People here in New Mexico jokingly call it the Mañana Republic. Even though frustrating at times, there is something healthy about that attitude. LIfe is short. Get your priorities straight. You only have so many heartbeats. Spend them carefully.
My Brazilian friend taught me that their name for hummingbirds is Beija Flor - flower kisser. I like that better. Go kiss some flowers.
-- Gareth Harris - SentimentalStargazer.com
Joyfully,
Ed
These are so wonderful and so "internet" friendly. What I like most about your 6 keys is that they are "experience near," meaning you can experience them without having to think much about them. In this too busy to think world, "experience distant" language that you have to think about often makes it to comprehension with a little effort but rarely makes it to retention and then later to retrieval.
Thank you.