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The Leadership of the Heart

Maximum well-being and efficient soul expression is possible when our heart and brain are in synch with each other. There is a natural tendency to create this synchronization because of the principle of entrainment, which is found everywhere in life.

Through this principle the strongest rhythm (positive or negative) brings lesser rhythms into synch with it. The heart has the strongest rhythm in our bodies, and therefore brings all other organs into harmony with it – unless we interfere in the process. This interference is commonly experienced when we are anxious, stressed, in a negative emotional state, or when we insist on using our brain to the exclusion of the heart.

There are several things that we can do to bring head and heart into harmony and establish the leadership of the heart. We need to learn to manage our thoughts and emotions – which much of the Soul Journey training does. We need to develop a positive focus that we can use whenever we are anxious or stressed. And, we can work at understanding and eliminating the obstacles to head-heart synchronization.

But perhaps the most powerful thing that we can do is to focus on, and internalize, specific soul qualities. The spiritual soul within is a trinity of power, love and light, but the essence of soul is love.

When we focus on various love qualities – such as compassion, acceptance, gratitude, caring, forgiveness, appreciation, etc. – we put our heart into a state of harmony with our essential nature, our universality, the soul.

Every expression of gratitude, every thought of appreciation, every act of forgiveness, every caring gesture – brings soul into the personality, aligns head and heart, and creates an enhanced state of well-being in our bodies.

Exercises: 1. Take five minutes and focus on something for which you are grateful. Feel gratitude and allow the soul energy to awaken within you. 2. Later today reflect on the need for forgiveness – toward yourself or another – and open your heart in thoughts and feelings of forgiveness and acceptance. Experience the difference within you after you have done so.

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