{"id":483,"date":"2016-05-15T22:08:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T22:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/becausethisisyourlife\/?p=483"},"modified":"2016-05-15T22:08:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T22:08:43","slug":"the-journey-to-the-center-of-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/becausethisisyourlife\/2016\/05\/the-journey-to-the-center-of-your-heart.html","title":{"rendered":"The Journey To The Center Of Your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the course of your life you&#8217;ll go on a variety of vacations.<\/p>\n<p>Some will be what I call &#8220;road trips&#8221; for a day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some will be actual vacations for a certain amount of time to a certain place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some may actually turn into making a move to a different place and calling that your home.<\/p>\n<p>You may experience all of these. You may experience a few of these. And you may experience them once or consistently throughout your life.<\/p>\n<p>In my life these have been all too familiar&#8230;because after all we moved around a lot up until I was nine years old. At one point I attended 5 different elementary schools in an eight month period from 3rd grade going into 4th.<\/p>\n<p>These are all journeys that take place throughout your life&#8230;and no matter what it may seem to you they do benefit your life in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>Yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There is one more journey to mention here.<\/p>\n<p>And ironically in terms of physical distance it&#8217;s the shortest one you&#8217;ll ever go on&#8230;but in the amount of time it takes, it can be the longest one as well&#8230;unless you&#8217;re aware of how to effectively make it your shortest journey ever.<\/p>\n<p>What am I referring to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The journey to the center of your heart.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a saying that goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The longest eighteen inches you&#8217;ll ever travel is the distance from your head to your heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a saying that is so true&#8230;and for some people it will be easier than it is for others.<\/p>\n<p>So the question is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can it be easier for you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How can you &#8220;get out of your head&#8221;&#8230;where it seems like there&#8217;s endless mind chatter going on&#8230;where you experience those unwanted negative emotions (which are actually lies)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And go into your heart and discover the truth of who you are&#8230;why you&#8217;re here&#8230;and be able to come up with the answers to what may feel like the most difficult questions you are faced with?<\/p>\n<p>The answer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Approach your life from a two-sided perspective.<\/p>\n<p>What this means is that every situation you encounter throughout your life has two sides to it&#8230;the so called &#8220;positive&#8221; and so called &#8220;negative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I say &#8220;so called&#8221; because different situations will have an equal balance of both in different ways&#8230;it just depends on you, what is most important to you, and what you&#8217;re looking to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>For example&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say you and your spouse are getting married today and it&#8217;s an outdoor ceremony on the beach. But just as you&#8217;re getting ready to leave it starts to rain and there&#8217;s a massive downpour that ruins what you planned. You&#8217;ll be likely to see this as a &#8220;negative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s take a farmer who raises crops for a living. To him this massive downpour is a &#8220;positive&#8221; because it&#8217;ll help his crops grow.<\/p>\n<p>So the obvious question is&#8230;is this a positive or negative situation? It&#8217;s both and it will depend on one&#8217;s perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that but in each of these situations there&#8217;s an equal amount of &#8220;positives&#8221; and &#8220;negatives&#8221;\/benefits and drawbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this important and worth bringing up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Because when you see ALL events in your life as being neutral you&#8217;ll get &#8220;out of your mind&#8221; and &#8220;into your heart&#8221; faster&#8230;which is the most powerful place to be.<\/p>\n<p>As a result&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be relying on your intuition rather than fear&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll come up with the answers to the most difficult questions you have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll come up with solutions to what seems like the problems in your life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And you&#8217;ll be true to who you are and others around you.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;ll also feel more grateful for your life because you&#8217;ll now be living from truth.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, HEART stands for:<\/p>\n<p>Healing<br \/>\nEnergy<br \/>\nAlways<br \/>\nResonates<br \/>\nTruth<\/p>\n<p>As you already know it&#8217;s the truth that sets you free. and this path of freedom is that eighteen inch journey from your head to your heart.<\/p>\n<p>And the best part of all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No matter what your situation is in life right now&#8230;no matter where you are&#8230;no matter where you&#8217;ve been&#8230;and no matter what you&#8217;ve done or not done&#8230;you are always in control of the amount of time it takes to make that journey to the center of your heart.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s a fulfilling journey that gets you to see all along the way how special of a person you are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Along with how important you are and the tremendous amount of value you bring to the world by just being YOU!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the course of your life you&#8217;ll go on a variety of vacations. 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