What Does "Heart Centered" Living Mean?
©Katherine Rone, 2013
Heart centered action is self-empowerment. This means taking charge of your own life, and developing skills needed to open your heart, increase self-esteem, and make positive choices.
Heart centered choices are those that we make from a win-win stance, taking into account how our behaviors touch everyone around us, especially those who are weaker or more vulnerable.
Heart centered living means that we stop and listen to our core self, our deepest, heartfelt senses, before we make important changes. We strive to be authentic to who we are, while honoring the world we live in.
Coming from the heart in relationships means that we do not try to change others, nor expect them to "make" us feel any certain way. Instead, we care for ourselves, communicate our needs to partners and listen openly to what they are saying to us. Then we make choices that increase the flow of love and joy between us. True love is never attained through force, manipulation or dishonesty. It develops instead from honest communication, acceptance of who each person really is, and a mutual desire to share the adventure of life.
Heart centered action related to health means taking responsibility for our own wellness, and actively participating in the maintenance and healing of our bodies, minds and souls. Learning to understand the intimate connection between our thoughts, feelings and physical activities is a self-empowering skill that helps us "listen" to our bodies' needs, and then address them before physical symptoms "yell" at us and cause "dis-ease." True health is similar to true love, in that it requires that we accept our body as it is, and choose to love it.
Heart centered action related to career, finances and life direction means that we understand we are here to give something special of ourselves to the world. When we try too hard to fit ourselves into societal molds that do not fit our heart, we eventually run out of steam, and may develop either illness, fiscal debt, or both. It is important to find those activities that create energy in our lives (in all areas) so that we can more easily transfer this to career activities. Again, learning to accept ourselves as we are is a prerequisite to finding a path to financial security that we can live with comfortably.
