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Aspect #15

ESSENCE BOOK #1

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“It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi

ESSENCE: Heart-centeredness resides at the core of conscious and regenerative living.

Heart-Centeredness is puts the heart at the focal point of one’s life. Heart-centeredness enables us to live peacefully and harmoniously with Nature, the Universe, and ourselves. As a result, our positive thoughts, ideas, behaviors, actions, and love originate from our hearts, not our minds.

In our life’s journey, the longest distance to travel is the 18 inches between our mind and heart. Westernized conditioning has embedded in our collective consciousness that we should lead with our minds, trying to figure out life’s challenges, imposing our egos and personal wills to get the outcomes we want. This thinking is flawed, as evidenced by our fear-based reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s time we move our egos out of our minds and into our hearts; it’s time we collectively become unconditional love.

Sleeping Souls generally have closed their hearts. Fear is keeping them closed, as many fear rejection if they dare to truly love another. Societal programming views love as a jail sentence, because it’s perceived as a loss of freedom and control. A controlling mind cannot coexist with a loving heart. People’s need to control others stems from their own fears and insecurities about themselves, and it represents clear evidence of a closed heart. The greatest crimes, fear, and hatred all come from closed hearts. Souls tend to view the world through a perspective of separateness, which is a reflection of living in the mind, and not in the heart. Separateness fuels wars, discrimination, religious differences, judgment, resistance, inequality, and a host of other negative outcomes. The illusion of separateness is a form of oppression, because the best way to control a society is to separate it–just like the political divide in the United States at this moment in time. Too many Sleeping Souls fail to realize that if we drop the political narrative created by the politicians and no longer identify as being Republicans or Democrats but as Americans, then we’d unite as One, becoming at least twice as strong as a country. So long as we are divided, we will remain weak. It’s time to unite. Some begin to seek.

Seekers tend to be traversing from mind-centeredness to heart-centeredness. They tend to transition by viewing the Earth through eXpansive awareness, vastly broadening their perspective. This new perspective enables them to let go of fear, the illusion of separateness, and other limitations. Many choose to create a new personal vision, using it as a blueprint to then build their new heart-centered life.

Awakened tend to have successfully moved their egos out of their minds and into their hearts. Many perceive the ego as a powerful source of energy, and what directs this energy are the intentions fueling its direction. So when the ego is in the head, the energy is constricted; yet when the ego is in the heart, the energy is maximized. This is why Awakened fully trust their hearts to naturally guide them in the right direction. They realize that when heart-centeredness is a challenge, then it’s time to go inward, expressing forgiveness....