How the Heart Speaks to You

When you stop allowing your mind and feelings to determine your actions and responses to life, something else steps in and unfolds your life according to its intentions. You may be afraid that you won’t know what to do if you don’t listen to the mind, but you have always acted spontaneously to some extent. What is it that moves you in these moments when the mind is not moving you? Many times throughout your day, even when you are identified with the egoic mind, you respond from the deepest part of yourself rather than your mind. It’s good to notice this when this occurs because, in noticing this, you strengthen your ability to live more fully from essence. Noticing that essence is already living through you is a very big step in becoming more conscious of who you really are and dis-identifying from the false self, the egoic mind.

The Heart speaks silently. It speaks in the silence between your thoughts. It rarely uses your mind to communicate to you because the mind is too cluttered with false ideas, and the Heart’s communication is likely to be lost or misinterpreted by the mind. Instead, it catches you when your body is still and your mind is quiet. This may be in a dream, or when you first wake up or are going to sleep or awaken in the middle of the night. When you are so busy, these may be the only times the Heart, or essence, is able to get through. Those who meditate create an opportunity for the Heart to communicate, which it does sometimes, even in words, when the mind is still. Mostly, however, the Heart communicates through your intuition as much as it is able to in the midst of your thoughts, feelings, and actions during your day. In those brief moments between thoughts, feelings, and actions, the Heart communicates through spontaneous ideas, urges, insights, and inspiration: Ideas and insights pop into your mind, and the urge or inspiration to do something arises. This is how the Heart leads and guides you in your life.

This is very different from how the egoic mind leads and guides you. It prods you with “shoulds,” fears, and fantasies. It promises wealth, success, love—all that you desire—if you follow its ideas, desires, and counsel. It shames you, scolds you, bullies you, flatters you, or praises you to get you to do what it wants. Whatever it takes, it will do to get you and keep you paying attention to it. If you stop paying attention to it, it draws you in with juicy thoughts and desires and disparaging remarks about the spiritual reality you may be experiencing. It brings up a memory that stimulates negative feelings, and if you get caught up in those feelings, it tries to help you solve the problem of having those feelings. It ties you to its world with fears, ideas, fantasies, memories you find interesting, and feelings you have felt in the past.

It takes you out of the present moment, where essence can be experienced and where essence’s communications are received. It draws you into its unreal world, then it pretends to be wise enough to guide you. If you listen to it, your actions will be in response to what it says, and you will have the experiences it designs for you. If you don’t, the opportunity exists for your actions to follow from something else deeper and truer. But you probably won’t discover what that is if you remain caught in the spell of the egoic mind.

You are programmed to pay attention to the egoic mind. Like television, it draws you in by once in a while having something useful to say. You get hooked on the possibility that the mind has something important, interesting, useful, or meaningful to say, but it rarely does. Any meaningful insight that does arise doesn’t come from the mind but from the Heart, although the mind will quickly latch onto it, twist it, and make it its own.

If this sounds like the mind is the villain in this drama, that’s not far from the truth. It’s designed to do what it does, just as a villain is crafted to drive a story. The mind is not evil or bad. It’s just doing what minds were designed to do. If it weren’t for the mind, you would remain in oneness, and there would be no drama, no story, no growth, no evolution. If the Divine wanted to experience oneness solely, it wouldn’t have created this reality, which brings it the challenges and experiences that evolve it. It loves the challenge of the drama and the unpredictability of it. Every mind is programmed differently, to make different choices, and this programming brings about very different experiences and many challenges, which are opportunities to grow. The mind is as much a creation of the Divine as everything else. It’s not apart from it at all but designed to be the troublemaker that fuels the drama of life here in this reality.

The Heart interacts with you very differently than the egoic mind, which pushes you with thoughts, desires, and fears. The Heart uses another kind of prodding that rarely involves thoughts and never involves fear. It drives you toward what it intends for you with feelings of inspiration, excitement, and joy. It drives you with longings, rather than desires, which take you in a general direction rather than toward a specific goal. Longings, like a magnet, pull you in a certain direction, and you don’t really know why or what the outcome of that direction will be. Desires, on the other hand, are born from the idea of obtaining a specific outcome. The egoic mind plans specifically how this outcome will be achieved, while the Heart leaves you in the mysterious Unknown. You don’t know what the Heart will have you do next to fulfill its intentions. You don’t know until the urge to do something arises, then you do it, and you are left in the mysterious Unknown once again.

These are two very different ways of living, which bring very different outcomes and very different levels of satisfaction. The satisfaction from following the egoic mind is very brief. There is great relief and happiness in getting what you want, but it fades very quickly. The satisfaction that comes from following your Heart, on the other hand, is much deeper and more long lasting because the Heart doesn’t bother with things that won’t really make you happy.

The way you know you are on the right track and on your way to finding satisfaction on the deepest level is how you feel: You feel enlivened, excited, happy, and at peace with what you are doing. The doing is its own reward; you are not pushing yourself to do something for some far off reward. When you are aligned with essence, you love what you are doing. It is actually possible to love doing what you are doing in every moment, but only if you stop doing what the ego insists that you do. Do what the Heart intends, and you will feel this joy, and you will be happy. It’s really this simple, but it’s not that easy to ignore the drives of the ego and the arguments of the egoic mind.

When you stop allowing your mind and feelings to determine your actions and responses to life, something else steps in and unfolds your life according to its intentions. That is divine essence, which speaks through the Heart.

Gina Lake has a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology and over twenty years experience as an astrologer and a channel. She is the author of several books, including Radical Happiness and Return to Essence. Gina is available for astrological and channeled phone consultations that support awakening and living a conscious life. For more info, to order her books, to read excerpts, or to download the free e-book: Radiance: Experiencing Divine Presence, please visit http://www.radicalhappiness.com.

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