HOW TO ASK YOUR HEART WHAT IT WANTS (AB)

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).

That can be valuable, but how much of what you think you want is what you REALLY want at a deeper level?

Asking your heart what it wants can reveal desires, wishes, dreams, and goals beyond those you may be consciously aware of, and ones that will always most benefit your life (and others).

I share a very simple exercise for asking your heart what it wants below. I often include a version of this exercise in my seminars and it’s always so revealing, life-changing at times.

You have free will and can create your life as you choose, but there may be 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. Your heart knows what those are.

The “Ask your Heart” exercise below is a waking process you can use to access insight, guidance, and dreams beyond those you may consciously hold. It’s not an intricate meditation or specialized technique, it simply creates the space to listen to your heart, so you can give it a go right now!

Your heart is a gateway to the loving wisdom of your Higher Self. What your heart wants will always most serve you (and all). You can ask what your heart wants in general, or for its guidance in a specific area, on a daily basis even.

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

Listen for the voice of love in the crowded house of mind, soft it speaks yet endless are the blessings of this treasured find.”

ASK YOUR HEART EXERCISE

1) Get quiet, relax, take some deep breaths, settle yourself and close your eyes. Enter a deeply relaxed state as best you can. You may want to do a meditation to relax, or whatever technique you use that best helps that.

2) When in a peaceful calm relaxed state, place your awareness on the area at the center of your chest behind the sternum bone – this is the area of your heart chakra.

What does it feel like to place your attention here? Get a sense of the energy here. How is your heart feeling?

3) With your focus on this area of the center of your chest, allow yourself to feel your love – the love you have for yourself, for someone you know, for nature, or any wonderful experiences that you are fond of, 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 meeting a mini-you inside this area of your chest – the loving, joyous person that you truly are residing here in the center of your chest as a personification of your heart to communicate with. 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 its wisdom and response.

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

You may prefer other words, or to 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.  Then thank your heart.

This exercise gets stronger the more you practice it and connect to your heart, so don’t be put off if you don’t feel an instant connection or get any clear response. Like any muscle, it gets stronger with use.

SUMMARY:

• Relax and still your mind/meditate.
• Sense your heart area
• Open to and feel the love in your heart
• Ask your heart what it wants
• Open to receive a response

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

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

If you don’t sense anything when you first do it, don’t let that stop you trying it more than once. What’s more, your heart may communicate with you in another way after – through a sense of knowing and awareness, synchronicities, an unexpected moment when you’re ‘out of the way’, etc. Just be open.

Give it a go now and let us know if you got anything from the exercise.

Anything your heart revealed with this simple exercise? Any insight, inspiration, revelation, feeling, or awareness? Feel free to share in the comments below.

Much love,

Aine Belton