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Navigating from the heart
Using our internal guidance to guide our
creative activities
The basic
concept
Doorway to
conscious creating - navigating from the heart
Heart
consciousness
The guiding
star
Using
“Heart intends - mind attends” to access the intention for your life
Navigating from what is
symbolized in the heart
is about learning to use our internal guidance to guide our creative
activities. The
heart
is the symbol of our
creative life energy/creative spirit.
Navigating from the heart is learning how to focus on the
flow of our creative life energy that arises from the intention
we hold and access the awareness and knowledge available to us
through our
creative spirit to navigate the unknown of a creative endeavor.
It needs to be remembered that any true creative endeavor takes us
into the unknown and
mind is of limited use to create what we desire.
Navigating from our
internal compass or navigating from the
heart,
is much like how an old sailing ship could navigate across the ocean
using a reference star or the Sun. This is, of course, if we know
how the Sun moves across the sky. The difference here is that our
compass is internal and we no longer need the external reference. It
is more like how a modern submarine uses and internal navigation
system so that it reduces the time it must surface and reveal where
it is. We have our own internal compass and all we need to do is
calibrate it properly for what we desire to create and then use
it to guide us to create what we desire.
Navigating from the
heart
is to allow the
internal compass to feel the direction for our life. That
direction is toward the feeling of a
fulness of being or alignment with what we desires to create.
Every choice that we have in life we simply need to ask themselves
“What do I feel?” and “Does this choice take me toward the fulness
of being or away from the fulness of being or toward the feeling of
what I desire to create or away from it?” In the awareness that
comes in response to these questions, we use our
mind to attend to the detail and make the choice we made happen.
But we check with our heart to ensure we are moving towards the
feeling(s) we have selected. Of course, this includes keeping the
awareness of the heart focused on what is happening to see if we are
being pushed off course because of what mind thinks it must do to
make what is desired to happen.
Often we will find ourselves being pulled by
mind and its logic one way and
heart
and the
fulness of being or the flow of what we desire to create pulling
us another. It is recommended we follow the heart in spite of the
opposition of mind. Mind only knows what it has experienced. It
cannot see into the unknown and where the flow of energy is going.
Heart can do that and will do that if we allow it to lead.
The
basic concept (Top)
What we will discover from
navigating from the
heart
and using it as an
internal compass is that calibrating the heart is about
awakening our consciousness and shifting
nonconscious awareness. If we wish, we can look at our
mind with its conscious awareness as the scale of the meter. We
can label the scale as
what serves and what doesn’t serve our being. One end, 100, is
what totally serves our being, 0 does nothing, negative 100 (- 100)
is causing maximum harm to our being. The instrument itself is the
body and it is our body what is sensing the energy. The heart is
what moves along the scale telling us what serves and doesn’t server
our being in what we sense.
What needs to be understood is that non conscious awareness [knowing
without a conscious mental way of knowing] and
heart
consciousness [awareness of feelings and direction of flow of the
energy] that feels the infinity of being lies outside of the
mind as we know it and what the mind thinks and knows. Mind only
knows what it has experienced. It cannot see into the unknown.
However both the
nonconscious awareness and heart consciousness are in direct
communications with all that is. As such it can perceive and look it
the unknown beyond mind.
Calibration of the
internal compass is about awakening the
mind to the awareness of the
heart
to both understand what heart feels and doesn’t feel and what we
know and don’t know without a conscious mental knowing. It is about
mind understanding there is information beyond what our
current mind knows an has experienced. Calibration can be seen
as about bringing the awareness of the heart consciousness into the
consciousness of the mind or as expanding the consciousness of the
mind into the realms of the nonconscious for heart consciousness and
nonconscious awareness is not normally available to mind to use. In
either case it is about making the nonconscious conscious and then
creating from that awareness. The key to this process is
understanding the flow of energy as perceive by our being
Doorway to conscious creating - navigating from the heart
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Navigating from the
heart
is about learning to discern the subtle feeling we sense and use
feelings as an
internal compass to know where we are going in life and with any
creative activity. We also view the feelings to align with and hold
focus on the
deep undercurrent for our creative efforts. The main feelings
that we will discern are those that arise from the intention we
hold, those that arise from the intention that brought us into this
world and those that arise from within our environment. Navigating
from the heart is a bridging technique that allows us to move
between
mind and heart allowing mind to intend and heart to attend to
create what one desires and alternatively surrendering to the
existing flow in our life by allowing the heart to intend and mind
attends to the details of life to bring the existing desired
creation into form. We can unconsciously navigate from the heart and
what we will find is that it looks and feels like the
heart’s desire and/or the longing for the
Beloved/beloved. But is the conscious navigating from the heart
that allows us to
dance between the masculine and feminine aspects of the
creation process to become a conscious creator and bring harmony
into our life.
Navigating from the
heart
is much the way and captain of on old sailing ship would use a
navigation star to steer them across the unknown sea. Knowing the
position of the starts, that always remained outside of one
immediate environment, the captain would never get lost. If a storm
arose and blew the ship off course, as soon as the sky cleared the
captain could figure out where they were and what direction they
needed to sail to get back on course. No matter how much the
surrounding environment changed or appeared not to change, for
example when traveling across a very large sea, the stars always
read true and the captain could always know where they were relative
to the stars.
We too have an navigation system that can guide us through whatever
experience we have in Creation whether it be an experience in the
seen or unseen realms. However, rather than being external to our
being, we have a navigation system that is internal to our being if
we knows how to use it. To use it, we need to awaken to our feelings
and to the existence of the
heart
consciousness or a consciousness of the heart. That is our ability
to discern what we feel to know its source. The heart consciousness,
whether used consciously or
nonconsciously is capable of guiding us through whatever is
happening in our life. It is also capable of providing an internal
bliss and joy that has little to do with the external world. But to
use the flow of our
creative life energy, we have to know the flow is there and how
it can serve us and when to step out of it or step into it and align
with it
Heart consciousness
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Heart consciousness, using and discerning the flow of our
creative life energy in conscious awareness, is about feeling.
It is about an internal knowing that tends to be seen as illogical
from the perspective of the
mind. Heart consciousness includes the
body wisdom that grew us from an fetus in the womb into an adult
body without the need of our mind as most of us understand mind. It
is also about
intuitive guidance and seconding knowing.
Intuitive guidance,
body wisdom, and seconding knowing all have their origins in the
energy we experience and the feelings that arise from that energy.
Their difference is only in is how we become aware of the
information that they communicate to us. Intuitive guidance is an
awareness of about situations and people that we cannot find a
rational way of knowing from where the awareness comes. Body wisdom
is about body sensations with no physical discernable cause. Second
knowing is knowing something specific like facts or information that
we have no way of knowing.
We could say they are all a forms of the “sixth sense” but in some
ways to call them a “sixth sense” would be very misleading since
intuitive guidance,
body wisdom and seconding knowing do not represent an
alternative sense. Rather, they represent an aware of the energy we
experiences before
mind steps in and characterizes and/or judges the energy. Many
physical sensation we have are an awareness of unseen energies.
Mind, because of its limited experience and knowledge of the unseen
judges what is relayed to it and find some “logical” rational for
what it feels or dismisses it.
Heart consciousness, the ability to feel and discern the energy
we feel and in time to know its source, is an alternative
consciousness that compliments the consciousness of the mind.
The
guiding star (Top)
In relation to what we desire to
create, the focus is on the
internal compass such that the particular feeling becomes the
“guiding star” and becomes the reference point for what we desires
to create with our life. That is, we creates “situations” where we
experience the feeling we are using as our internal compass rather
than creating any other type of experience, pleasurable or non
pleasurable or “things.” The feeling we use as our internal compass
will lead true in any environment and transcends a particular
environment. In fact we must learn to feel beyond what we see in our
immediate environment and what our immediate environment is telling
us. In following the feeling of the internal compass, we will not
become lost. It will always lead us to the source of the flow of our
creative life energy for what we are desiring to create. As such
it will keep us close to the source of our creative power to create
whatever we desire.
In this approach,
mind must attend to that immediate environment, those everyday
aspects of life, to manifest what we desires. The mind should be
directed down into the immediate environment to assure that we are
safe in our journey and is not going to “run aground” or into other
obstacles that lie in our path to navigate around the hazards in the
environment. If the mind does not focus on the immediate
environment, we will run into unseen obstacles. If we try and
navigate a long journey based in the immediate environment, we will
become lost. This is one of the most basic problems we have in
creating what we desire. We look to see what must be done in our
immediate environment with our mind and allow mind to lead rather
than going to the
heart
and our
intuitive guidance and look at a longer range perspective. The
mind will lead us into blind canyons, or into shallow unsafe waters,
or seas with no outlet.
Our
intuitive guidance accessed through feeling on the other hand
often takes us on what seems to be a journey in the wrong direction
only to find out it was the shortest and quickest way to get where
we need to be going. The reason for this is often the simplest and
easiest way is to “sail around” the obstacle rather than deal with
it directly. But if we are not keeping a focus on our
heart,
our guiding star, we will go off course and become lost as we
attempt to sail around the obstacle. Yet heart will continually have
to be checked to ensure mind does not compromise the path we take to
keep ourselves safe. It is a different way of being in the world
that most of us have been taught
Navigating from the
heart
can use this heart consciousness in unawareness through our feeling
as a “black box” that is, to use it but not understand what we use.
Or, we can awaken our heart consciousness through the conscious use
of our
intuitive guidance. Here intuitive guidance refers collective to
intuitive guidance,
body wisdom, second knowing and internal knowing. It is to
consciously use our intuitive guidance to discern the source of what
we feel to become a conscious creator and access the
deep undercurrents of Creation. This
Releasing Your Unlimited
Creativity material will provide us with the essence to access
this ability that already exists within, our being. We just have to
know how to use it. Although we will have to practice and develop it
and maybe learn more about it, it can ultimately leads us to an
inner satisfaction,
an internal bliss and joy that can never run dry no matter what is
happening in your external world.
Using “Heart intends - mind attends” to access the intention for
your life (Top)
To live life is this manner is
probably the most fulfilling way to live life but also can be the
most challenging to our
mind. The reason for this that it challenges us to fully live
the uniqueness of our own being at every level of our being. It will
probably cause us to face the
reason for incarnating. This way is to navigate from the
heart
allowing feelings of the
fulness of being and/or the feeling of spontaneous and innocent
childlike play
of discovery and exploration of ourselves and our universe to lead
if we allow ourselves to have a conscious experience of this state
of being. Here the heart, the flow of our
creative life energy, intends the path in life and mind attend
to the details to make it happen. To follow the
heart’s desire, seek the
Beloved/beloved, or that perfect soul mate is to use the heart
as a black box. We use it as a black box because we don’t really
understand what we seek but the feelings are guiding us to what we
seek. Here we allow the heart, the feelings within the heart, to
intend the direction and the mind to attend to making it happen.
Of course, we determine how
heart
intends our path in life by what we choose to create. But here we
choose our heart to lead as that symbol of the source of the flow of
our
creative life energy and make the feeling of the
fulness of being as a
single point focus/meditation. In using the technique of
navigating from the heart and allowing our heart to lead our
creative efforts we will probably intentionally or unintentionally
find and use the feeling of the fulness of being or move towards
such a feeling. Following this feeling will cause us to align with
the
reason for our incarnation which can be extremely rewarding from
and
inner satisfaction
standpoint but very challenging to our
enculturated mind
and what we have been taught is important in life. Most probably we
will find we will we live the
left hand path of convention. Nevertheless, using feeling to
navigate through life opens the door to live in alignment with our
life purpose. But, it is recommended we do not pursue this path
unless we feel what our
mind knows cannot give s the satisfaction in life we desire. If
we are happy with what our mind has created and the life we
experience, continue to allow our mind to intend and our heart to
attend to the details.
We can set an intention and then align with the flow of energy
generated from that intention. Or, we can set the intention to align
with the feeling of the
fulness of being and/or
our life purpose. That is, our
heart,
the source of the flow of our
creative life energy, to lead. Allowing heart to intend and
mind to attend is accomplished by allowing the heart and what
heart feels about a situation to be compared to the fulness of being
within our being such that the alignment toward the fulness of being
intend the direction and path in our life.
Or, a third option that most use in unawareness is that we can look
to feel our environment and chose a flow of energy within our
environment to follow what feels good. But in any case, once we set
our intention we follow the feelings and
intuitive guidance that goes with that intention. This is the
essence of the
heart’s desire and looking for the
Beloved/beloved. This is how many find a mate in life or can use
a
muse. We search their environment until we find someone who we
think feels right in accordance to the criterial of
mind and then pursues them. Mind then attends to the details to
making that path happen within the environment in which we find
ourselves and we use the heart to verify that what mind thinks is
verified through feelings. It is here we try and become very aware
of how our thoughts, words and deeds feel and where or not what we
feel is
serving us
and moving to those that optimize the feeling to which we set our
internal compass.
Related topics
Intuitive guidance
Honoring intuitive guidance
What does navigating from the heart and/or following our intuitive
guidance look like
Issues we face in using our internal compass to guide our creative
endeavors
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