What makes our heart so important?

Our heart is important because it is the:   

• Key to our connection to True Source
• Center of peace
• Center of calmness
• Center of true happiness/joy
• Center of love
• Key to our physical, mental and emotional health
• Key to our spiritual growth
• The center for heart intelligence/true wisdom

Why is our heart so special?                                                                              

Our heart is special because it is at the core of our heart that we have the direct connection with the True Source.  This is why it is so important for our hearts to realize and remember that the True Source is the Source of Love and Light, and the Source of our existence.  Our heart is the center for receiving the blessings of Love and Light.  Our heart is the key to return to our True Home, and our ultimate destination.

Are you referring to our physical heart?

No, we are referring to our non-physical heart located in the center of our chest at the level of our armpit.

Why do you use the term True Source?

We prefer the term ‘True Source’ because it is a neutral term which does not have a charged history.  Feel free to replace the term ‘True Source’, with whatever phrase for you represents the Ultimate Source of Love and Light.  

Where do the peace, love and joy originate from?

The deepest peace and love that is available to us in our earthly existence is the spark of light and love in the core of our hearts.  This spark is the purest aspect of our deepest self and is directly connected to the True Source, the source of Love & Light.  

Does everyone have a Spark of love and light?

Everyone has a spark of love and light in the core of their heart.  However, not every spark is radiating freely and sweetly yet. 

What is our ultimate purpose as human beings?

The ultimate purpose of our life is to love the True Source completely with all of our heart.  We are being invited to open our hearts and to share the blessings of this love with the hearts of every being.   When we share this love, we are also loving the True Source and getting closer to the home of our True Self.  The deepest intent of Open Heart Workshops is to assist us in fulfilling our ultimate purpose. 

Do you have to change your beliefs to take Open Heart Workshops?  

What if someone feels heartbroken?                                                                       

What people refer to as heartbroken is actually a word to describe unresolved emotional pain.  The solar plexus is the center for emotional pain and trauma.  On the contrary, our heart is the center of feeling peace, calm, love, gratitude and joy. Our heart is calling us, and inviting us to relax, smile, and enjoy all of the gifts that Love and Light offers. Moreover, our heart wants to be free to be an instrument of light and love. 

Why do we need to open our heart?

Why is it so easy to be in our head?

Our head is the center of ego and the center of thinking. We have come to believe being brain dominant to be a normal existence. As a result, we have not fully realized how this colors our perceptions, determines what we think is reality, or how this keeps us disconnected from true joy and our deepest purpose here.  In the Open Heart Workshops you will learn how to clearly distinguish being in your head from being in your heart.  

Why weren’t we taught how to enjoy and be in our hearts?                                               

Our educational system is based on brain development. We learned in almost every moment to be brain dominant, and very seldom did we truly get to experience our hearts. There was not a proper understanding or experience that our heart is the center of feeling and the key to happiness and joy.  Many of us were actually taught not to feel, because all priority was given to the rational thinking mind.  In Open Heart Workshops you will be able to feel the best of the best.  That is, feeling the blessings of love and light.

Why do I feel hesitant in Opening my Heart?

Even though we have been told the importance of opening our hearts, we are often hesitant in doing so. The reason is that there is a concern, or perhaps even a fear, that opening our hearts will make us vulnerable or that we may get hurt again like we did in the past.   We may equate an open heart with emotional hurts from our past. Paradoxically, opening our heart does not mean that we will be easily exposed to negative emotions. On the contrary, as our heart opens and becomes stronger, positive heartfelt feelings will grow and automatically reduce negative emotions.  Being in our heart can not hurt us. Actually, completely opening our hearts will heal us on the deepest levels so that we can feel whole, complete, satisfied and fulfilled from moment to moment in our lives.   

Why have our hearts not been able to sufficiently open?                                    

Every time we have negative emotions, we deposit negativities in our heart. Our hearts have become more closed because our hearts have been filled with negative emotions from past experiences, interactions, and misunderstandings. An accumulation of stuck energies have polluted the layers of our hearts thereby closing our hearts.  

How can we cleanse our hearts? 

An important part of opening our hearts is the process of allowing the blessings from the True Source to help us forgive others and ourselves completely.  When we have held onto emotions of judgment, anger, fear, sadness, resentments, disappointments, arrogance, self-righteous positioning, or other emotional expressions, then the negative energies from these emotions have muddied the field of our heart.  As a result of these stuck energies, our hearts have not been able to open completely.  As no one, except ourselves can dirty the field of our heart, only the Love and Light of the True Source can properly cleanse and take us into the inner depths of our heart.   

I have tried so hard to get out of my head and into my heart.  Why has it not worked? 

We have learned to achieve and accomplish through focus, effort and trying.  These ways fail us when we try to get in our hearts, for we can only experience our heart by letting go of all concepts, thoughts, focus and effort.  Open heart workshops are experiential and will help you to experience getting out of your head and into your heart.  

Isn’t it too vulnerable to live in our hearts all the time?                                      

Our heart is not a place where we get hurt; it is a place where we heal. Our heart is the center for making clear, insightful, wise and loving choices. Our heart is not a place where we can be manipulated; it is the center of clarity where we can experience truth. Our heart is the center of our greatest strength and it is not a place that can be contaminated by others.  We are the only ones who can pollute the field of our heart. 

Do I need any previous experience to come to the Open Heart Workshops?

No previous experience is needed or necessarily helpful.  Most people with no previous meditation practice can experience the beauty of their heart.

Do I have to sit on the floor for long periods with my eyes closed?

You can sit on the floor or in the chair.  What is most important is that you are comfortable.   There will be many closed eyed exercises that you will do and most of them will be for relatively short periods.  Participants do not find that the exercises are too lengthy.   The different exercises are systematically designed to help you integrate the experience of your heart, so that you can transfer the experience of the workshop to your everyday life.