To create relationship with the heart is to first recognize that it is there, far beyond the physical manifestation of keeping your vehicle alive. To accept it as the center of your being is to invite in and be open and receptive to all the magnificence it has to offer. You must open the door in a profound and prophetic leap of faith that signals that the dance has begun and you are willing to return home to your True Self. This will quickly become the gift that keeps on giving.

Having been programmed and taught to view and experience the world from the perspective of the head creates temporary  but significant roadblocks to living the heart centered life. It is not possible but requires awareness, action, and follow up to solidify the transition. Author Michael Hetherington offers these useful comparisons taken from his book, Moving from the Head to the Heart:

1. The head takes time; the heart is quick, fast and spontaneous.

2. The head’s main reference point is past experiences and future expectation; the heart has no reference point.

3. The head formulizes expectations of particular outcomes; the heart has no expectations.

4. The head is time bound and linear; the heart is timeless and non-linear.

5. The head is primarily selfish and seeks things that are good for me; the heart is selfless and only works on things that will benefit all beings.

6. Using the head usually generates some sense of strain, stress or effort; using the heart requires no strain and no effort and often generates energy.

7.   Moving from the head often brings up a sense of restraint and doubt through thoughts like, “What will others think of me?” or “Is my behavior acceptable?” Moving from the heart does not bring up any sense of restraint or doubt because you do not care what others think and know it on the deepest level to be true.

8. Moving from the head often brings up a sense of uncertainty and, therefore, weakness. The heart brings up a sense of power and confidence.

9. The head uses logical and cognitive processing to find meaning. The heart uses nothing by sense and knowing and is not logical.

10. The head relies heavily on verbal communication, whereas the heart utilizes non-verbal communication more.

11. The head is mesmerized and obsessed by forms and appearances, whereas the heart sees through all appearances to see the essence.

12. The head person sees the world as full of problems, concerns and troubles. The heart person sees the world as perfect, complete and exquisitely beautiful.

13. The head person tends to see the world is made up of separate entities and therefore the self is independent. The heart person sees no entity as separate and therefore sees the self as not independent but as part of a whole.

14. The head is always carrying uncertainty and doubt, which is therefore a weakness. The heart does not doubt, and this generates only confidence and inner power.

15. The head comes to decisions and conclusions from the process of reason and cognitive processing. The hearts decisions and conclusions come from nowhere.

16. The head person often has a tight chest. The heart person’s chest is soft and open.

17. The head person often has little body awareness and lack of body sensation. The heart person has a finely acute sense of body awareness and bodily sensations.

18. The head person is often predictable, as the behavior relies on past behavior and thinking patterns. The heart person often surprises oneself because the heart creates new behaviours from a space of spontaneity.

19. The head person often talks too much and does not do enough. The heart person does not tend to talk so much, but does a lot.

20. The head person is generally not a good listener. The heart person is a great listener and hears everything.

21. The head person is often in a state of urgency, running from this to that and back again. The heart person is more mellow and free-flowing, taking things as they come.

22. The head person doesn’t trust life and instead seeks to control it. The heart person trusts life fully and allows it to unfold naturally.

23. The head person can often lack discipline, patience and focus. The heart person is patient, persistent, dedicated and self-disciplined.

24. The head person is always grasping for and seeking security and certainty in the outside world. The heart person understands that life is changing and nothing is certain.

25. The head person can easily come to depend on others for identifying sense of self. The heart person does not depend on others, yet is grateful for any assistance.

26. The head person focuses on what one can “do” in this world. The heart person is more focused on how to “be” in this world.

27. The head person’s energy and focus is directed largely outside into the outer world. The heart person focuses most of their energy inwards to the inner world.

He establishes 5 practical tips for moving from the head to the heart:

1. Surrender the worship and pride for the mind

2. Increase body awareness and sensitivity to body sensation

3. De-clutter lifestyle and Simplify

4. Reduce desires and wants

5. Meditation, yoga and contemplation

Hetherington, Michael (2013-12-31). Moving From Our Head To Our Heart (Kindle Location 413).  . Kindle Edition.

As your design is love and heart center based, the most essential tool to create the new expanded life is awareness and attention. Focusing on the heart and the heart space ignites the vibration of the Source within you. The open heart then filters out the lower vibration within the bodies, systems, and the minds. Part of your incarnation is to reach the point of awareness when you can consciously give permission for your personal truth to reveal itself.

The heart center then attracts all that is necessary in circumstance, form, and people to align the frequencies of I Am That I Am Expressing as You. Again, and this cannot be underscored enough, it is you who must consciously put the knowing into action…without hesitation and with full faith and trust. Your being will then be able to reach the unified state of congruence where everything flows and feeds and co-creates to bring the perfect alignment.

Tending your garden of awareness, response, and action is essential in the early phases of transition. Turning to the heart space, feeding the heart space with thought, word, and action, relying upon and trusting without hesitation the heart space impulses, witnessing the expansion of the heart space in others, living from that heart space…a sequence of reclamation for you to embrace and engage.