PATHWAY TO JOY AND HEALING

I have been talking with and helping some friends with their romantic relationships lately. What I have found is that the heart can be mysterious.  When open, it can love many people, but when wounded it can love no one, not even ourselves.  The heart is the center of our being, the part of us that we cannot control like our mind.  Our heart determines who we love, resulting in our relationships and friendship in our lives.   Our heart is the central command center for our wishes, dreams, behaviors, and actions.  Although we would like to believe that our mind is in control, our heart easily can overrule the mind.

I am most intrigued about the wounded heart.  Emotional injuries to our hearts may occur in childhood or as adults caused by our parents, lovers, relatives, friends, or others.  These injuries may occur as betrayal, rejection, physical or emotional abuse, violations of healthy boundaries, or other forms of hurt.  It may be intentional or inadvertent, it really doesn’t seem to matter.  When the heart is wounded, we store the memories of these injures in our minds, and the pain in our hearts.  Then all subsequent similar circumstances or even situations that remind us of our past will trigger the heart to shut down.

The only way to overcome the heart shutting down, preventing us from loving others again, is to heal the wounded heart. Healing the heart has less to do with the mind; it is purely feeling emotions that bypass the mind’s full control.  I realized this after many years of psychotherapy, where I tried to talk myself into healing, but I failed to heal myself because I did not truly feel the pain of my past, and heal the wounded feelings stored within me.

When I began spiritual work, I started to feel things, focusing on healing the feelings of pain within.  In fact many times, I consciously understood a situation in my mind, but I could not let go emotionally.  Acceptance through our conscious mind only gets us so far, we must be able to emotionally let go of our past, dysfunctional relationships, and unhealthy situations.  I have used emotional release practice in my spiritual work to heal my broken heart, please click HERE for my earlier post on emotional release practice.

This work is healing the pain caused by another, and we may work through these issues through someone currently in our lives.  It is letting go of the emotional pain of our past that will finally release us from the hold of our wounded hearts.  When our hearts mend, we first begin to learn to love ourselves, and that is where I am now.  When we finally learn self love, we can then spread this love to others freely and unconditionally. ~ Infinite love to you, Brooke (Copyright 2013 Kundalini Spirit with All Rights Reserved)

The beautiful artwork selected for this post is by Celeste Johnston.  Please see her link for her works:  http://www.celestejohnstonart.com