The more we rest attention in the Heart, the more we can trust that our speech and actions are coming from this space.
Where we place our attention is a powerful aspect of deepening a spiritual practice, and our spiritual path in general. When we attune to the space of the heart, a shift starts to happen. We start to move from our heads to our hearts, away from a thought-dominated reality. While thoughts have their usefulness, they also fill up the space, lessening creativity and us being in the flow with the movement of Consciousness. When we are living life relying on our thoughts to guide our feelings and decisions, the caution is that our reactions may be fear-based, more reactive based on past and future desires, and/or not coming from a place of compassion. So when we rest attention in the heart, we are opening up to the endless potentiality of the Heart Space, which is Awareness, Consciousness: the space of Love. Then, our speech and actions are more likely to be coming out of this spontaneous space. We are more tapped in to the intelligent movement of the Universe, to the Dance of Shiva, to the Play of Lila.
Finding the pathway to this Heart Space is intuitive. It is to sense this space, first through the physical identification of the heart's location. Following the breath can help increase the felt sensation of being in the space of the heart. The awareness of the heart space will grow the more we return our attention to this space. One can make this a life enhancing practice by finding the heart space in the beginning of the day, throughout the day as one remembers, and finally before bed. After a time of sincere effort, attention will start to spontaneously find the space of the heart. If one continues to do this practice, attention will finally come to rest in the Heart Space. No conscious effort will be needed. Awakening is ever-possible as the expansiveness of the Heart Space grows to include Everything. Boundaries dissolve until it is realized that there is only One Heart, One Consciousness. This is our True Nature, the Self. We simply come home to our own hearts and rest in this limitless awareness. This is finding our way home to the Awakened Heart.
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