Still your mind – Journey to your HEART!

They say that the longest journey we will take is not anywhere “out there” but within. And this journey is the journey from the HEAD to the HEART. The thinking mind to the feeling wisdom.

This is our journey. I’ve been SO present to this journey in my own life, and lately I feel as if the message I am getting from The Uni-verse is the vital importance of this journey.

The mind is a genius creation. Our logic is powerful. But wisdom is stronger than logic. And wisdom is something that can be felt in the heart and then attempted to be described by the mind.

All art, music, poetry and sacred words are nudges from the heart as articulated by the mind – and not the other way around. So what does the journey from the head to the heart feel like?

To me, it FEELS like meditating on being connected to all that is, to The Uni-verse and to The Divine and then focusing on feeling that expansive feeling in my chest. It’s a joyful feeling that I could write books and books about. But it’s a sense of bliss, a sense of peace, a sense of contentment and appreciation that words cannot describe.

It doesn’t feel like the doubtful, questioning mind. It feels like an open, expansive heart. And our goal could be to surrender the back and forth mind chatter and spend some time checking in with our heart. As I have been doing this meditation lately, it is as if my heart is GIDDY that I am finally paying attention – CONSCIOUSLY – to it.

It feels that when I tap into it, I know the answer to almost any question I am asking about my life. It feels like a wise and knowing friend that will never abandon me or put me down. It truly feels like this is the center of The Divine within me. And what I’ve noticed as I do this meditation is that for the majority of my life and even still, my mind has been running circles around it – using thoughts and judgments and justifications for why it is wrong. And I’ve been slowly opening up to this new perspective, but it’s been a long road with a lot of confusion.

It is as if I’ve been shown that tapping into this – this is the key to my continued living Salvation. That is to say – the promise of Love, Joy, abundance and challenges overcome. And it feels as if this part of myself is connected to the Greater Source that is the energy that supports The Uni-verse. So when I am paying attention to my heart, it is literally God/Source/The Divine speaking to me.

So, I must ask myself, which would I rather listen to, The Divine or my own mind? Well, I can tell you that my own mind has almost killed me with drug and alcohol addiction. And even though my mind is intelligent and clever, the wisdom that emanates from my heart is Cosmic in nature. That is to say, it’s beyond the rational part of my mind. It’s tapped into a Larger Perspective.

So my journey from this day forward is to make daily conscious contact with this part of myself and see where it leads me. I await with MUCH positive expectation!

We all have this ability. How can you quiet your mind and tap into the feeling and wisdom of your heart today?

As always, the action happens in the comments below. Leave a comment and join the conversation! The TDL Community thrives in the comments and it’s a GREAT place to get support!

Love,

Mastin

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Mastin Kipp is the founder and CEO of The Daily Love. Follow him on Twitter here.

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http://beyouliveyourdream.blogspot.com/ Sarah Noel

Ahhhhhhh….. yes! When I quiet my mind and go into my heart, I always find true peace and happiness. It is truly amazing!

Sarah
http://beyouliveyourdream.blogspot.com/2013/02/live-for-audience-of-one.html
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1064964424 Rachel Yerxa Grantz

I have recently made yoga and meditation a practice. I am amazed at how disconnected from my body I felt and didn’t realize it until I started TUNING in. Wow the difference in feeling a centered peace. The practices have become daily in one way or another because I crave that balanced feeling between my mind and my heart.
Cminor7flat5@hotmail.com

I’ve started doing this about 6 months ago and it gets easier and easier to get to that good feeling place in my heart and to hold it there. I used to feel a lot of anger and impatience in my life and as a result my health and relationships suffered. Now that I have switched to carrying the feeling of love in my heart, those areas of my life are both improving. I started getting to this place of love feeling in my heart by looking at a cute photo of a cat. Now I can get to that feeling without viewing the photo.
Michelle Crowley

I’ve also been tapping into this Divine space. It surpasses the mind chatter and brings me wisdom that I can incorporate into my life. It reminds me of a show I saw on H2 on Ancient Aliens in which they talk about how Einstein, Tesla, etc would meditate (Einstein called it ‘mental experiments’) and all these ground breaking Scientific knowings would come to them. The Divine is there for us to tap into.

Love,
michelle crowley
Kimberly Rex, MS

Mindfulness and moving into your heart creates the opportunity for entrainment of your body-mind system. For more on this: http://windowstotheheart.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/loving-yourself-wherever-you-are-on-the-path-5-meditations-from-your-heart/
Tiffany

Changing my routine…Sunday morning I usually start bright and early with an obligation…and though today I still have some…I put others aside to focus on myself a bit…Enjoy the silence…and stop the chatter to listen to wisdom…Anger…I have been feeling that a lot, so I am doing some inner work today…
Matea

I`ve got love for u and this article
http://www.are-you-there-kathleen-its-me-god.blogspot.com/ Kathleen Reynolds Chelquist

I quiet my mind when I write. Writing is often so effortless for me because I am not thinking. The words just flow. I have no plan. No beginning. No Ending. And, it all comes together as if I had written an outline. But didn’t. The topic comes to me often at the gym. As I am pedaling my way on the lifecycle and listening to the ipod, my heart speaks to me. Gives me direction for the day. I then do as I am told. I laugh often because my heart usually relays a message that is NOT what my mind told me to do prior to the work-out. For example, when I was asked to be a, “Contributor,” for TDL and write my first blog…I THOUGHT I was going to write about, “Choosing Love over Fear.” After a long walk on the beach, a James Taylor’s song, “How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You,” spoke to me. I KNEW then to write a blog of thanks to our magical Uni-verse….FIRST. I even laughed out loud and said, “Really? This is my topic?” Everyday is so magical when my first priority is surrendering to the whispers of THE ALL. If I am working as a Dental Hygienist, my day is easier when I choose love…even when I don’t want to. I have spent most of my life being a slave to my EGO. I know it doesn’t work. So, why not be a cheerleader to my heart? This is the journey of choosing love. Choosing Love. Choosing Love…The only journey for me.
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Kathleen
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JeanMarie

This is an amazing post. Thank you! And as a yoga teacher i will share your words to help explain why to meditate!
Ashley Smaldino

I make a commitment to exercise every day – yoga, running, weight training, walking, hiking. Today I am going hiking since the sun is out! I always find myself in nature so anything outside, rain or shine, connects me to my heart
Foodforthinkers

Mastin,

I think we can learn a lot about ourselves if we slow down and listen to that inner voice as well. I find great satisfaction in being able to know that I am not the only one who values that quiet still voice inside that is full of ideas and life withing itself. Keep up the creative thoughts. Mike
http://www.peacefoodlove.com/ peacefoodlove (Stacia Trask)

Words are a huge part of what brings me joy–but I can trip on them, and hamster-wheel on them, getting “spiritually syntax stuck” in my head. Sometimes the English teacher in me is kind and useful–I just added a compassionate comma to your gentle challenge, Mastin, and came up with “Still, my mind.” Meditation is feeding me by teaching me that I can never really STILL my mind–but I can coexist with it. Thoughts are always there, my mind is always there. Still,…The goal of meditation is not (as initially thought) to empty my mind–it’s to get OUT of it. I do this when I *choose* to melt down into my heart. Sometimes, it’s less gentle melt and more of a Rumi-stallion-style leap of faith that my own heart (and the collective heart of the Universe), will be there to catch me. Any time I serve someone else (literally and figuratively), I drop out of my racing mind and into my heart. I hope it’s not off-color to say…this gives me a huge heart-on! Thanks, Mastin.
Drgdclark

Aum nahmna shivaya! Be still and know that I am God.
Rgpotero

Your thoughts a nd writings are true.y amazing and inspiring. I read your emails every morning and that is exactly what you have done for me … You have opened my heart and that is how I start my day. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Barbara Hames

Hi Mastin, I Pin all your blogs…so that I can come back to one of them any time I need a kick in the butt…or some inspiration. X