What does your HEART want?

What does your HEART want?

July 23, 2013

By Aine Belton

 

Very often deciding what you want, plans, and goal-setting are a left-brain process. Perhaps you sit down, think about what you want, and write down a list (if you take the time to do that).

This can be valuable as with any goal-setting, but how much of what you think you want is what you REALLY want at the deepest level?

Asking your heart what it wants can reveal dreams, goals and desires beyond those you may be consciously aware of, and ones that will always benefit your life (and others). Your heart always knows what’s best for you.

I share a very simple exercise for asking your heart what it wants below, along with how asking mine led to some recent Trapeze lessons!

There’s no ‘right and wrong’ with goals – you have free will and can create your life as your choose, but there may be goals and dreams that are most serving to you and the world at this time – things that will most reward and fulfill you and others, bring greatest joy, enhance your energy, and engage and express more of your gifts and true nature.

I’m not the most left-brain goal-setter! Some of my goals are far from conscious plans. The Global Love Festival, for example, began in a night-time dream in which I was organizing a festival followed by several other dreams, and many waking-life synchronicities. ­­­

I never sat down and thought “I know, I’ll organize festival”. I don’t think I would ever have consciously come up with the idea, nor would have dared, not least because I knew nothing about putting on a festival (though a lot more now fortunately)! With the extent of what’s involved, from a purely logical perspective, I would run from the idea. BUT, I so believe in the dream, am so passionate about it, I am fully committed to it – despite challenges and steep learning curves.

As a waking process you can use to help you access visions, dreams, and desires beyond those you may currently consciously hold, is to ask your heart what it wants.

I share a brief process for doing this just below.

I recently began taking some “Ariel Skills” classes (Trapeze and Silks). This certainly isn’t out of any desire to do it publicly or professionally (if you saw my lack of knack at it you’d see why), but I am having a blast! I love it! Aside achey muscles and flailing (often failing) attempts to actually get onto the Trapeze, once up it is such fun.

Why am I doing Trapeze?

Earlier this year I asked my heart what it wanted. One of the things my heart said it wanted was “to fly”. This was quite unexpected.

Then came flooding to mind a dream I used to have of flying an aeroplane or helicopter. I used to be really passionate about the idea and even looked into pilot lessons, but I didn’t have the funds to buy a plane so didn’t know where it would all lead and it just fizzled out. I had totally forgotten about that dream until my heart said, “I want to fly”.

Since then a lot of synchronicities around flying lessons have happened – hearing an advert for flying lessons on my car radio (never heard that before!), hearing my friend randomly talk about a flying lesson he once had not far from where I live, and perhaps the funniest, a neighbour that has purchased a­­­­ mini helicopter he loves remote-flying and I keep seeing it whizzing about outside.

I am now booking flying lessons.

Then a friend told me about someone nearby that teaches “Ariel Skills” classes. My heart lit up instantly. It was on to it

I wouldn’t be doing either if I hadn’t asked my heart what it wanted. I’m so glad I did. That was just one of several of its ‘recommendations’.

Your heart is a gateway to the loving wisdom of your Higher Self and Source. What your heart wants will always most serve you (and all).

You can ask what your heart wants on a daily basis, or ask for its guidance in a specific area.

Ask your heart when you wake up what it wants for your day ahead, for example. This will always be something that honours yourself and others and brings greatest love, joy and success.

ASK YOUR HEART EXERCISE

1) Get quiet, relax, take a few deep breaths, settle yourself and close your eyes (after you’ve read these brief steps so you can read them ).

2) When in a peaceful calm state, place your awareness on the area of the center of your chest behind the sternum bone – this is your heart chakra. What does it feel like to place your focus and attention here? Get a sense of the energy there.

3) With your focus on this area of the center of your chest, allow yourself to feel your love within –the love you have for yourself, perhaps, for someone you know, for nature, for life itself and any wonderful experiences you hold dear, for example. Whatever comes to mind, allow your heart to open and feel your love, gratitude and appreciation. As you do, see if you can sense the energy in this area of your chest expand and become more alive and tangible.

4) You are now going to ask your heart what it wants.

You might like to imagine a mini-you inside this area of your chest – the loving, joyous, kind person that you truly are residing here in the center of your chest.

OR, you may just imagine asking this area of your heart in a more abstract way what it wants – asking the love you feel inside, for example.

Whatever feels right to you, simply ask: “Dear heart, what do you want?”, and then pause to open to any response.

You may prefer other words, and you can extend the question for more specifics, such as:

“Dear heart, what would most serve me in my life at this time?”
“Dear heart, what do you desire today?”
“Dear heart, is there something you would like to share with me?”
“Dear heart, what would enhance my health/happiness/love-life/success at this time?”

5) Listen to what your heart has to ‘say’. You may hear words, feel feelings, have thoughts, inspirations, images, ideas, or just get a sense of awareness and knowing. Just be open to what comes after asking your heart what it wants. Thank your heart for its love and sharing.

SUMMARY:

• Pause to relax
• Sense your heart area
• Open to and feel the love in your heart
• Ask your heart what it wants
• Pause to receive a response

Try asking your heart what it wants right now, even in a very simple way with the summary just above.

Be open to whatever arises. It might not be something practical or tangible. Your heart may say “I want you to forgive yourself/your mother/your ex”, or “I want you to share your feelings more with your friends”, or “I want to go outside and enjoy nature more”, etc.

Is there anything you would like to share that this simple heart exercise revealed? Any insight, inspiration, revelation or awareness?

Let us know!
Love and joy,
Aine Belton