Just as the human mind is something extraordinary that can take you beyond the limit of your senses, so the human heart is even more extraordinary. It can play notes from one end of the spectrum to another. Your heart can go from absolute ecstasy to deep pain and sorrow in a matter of seconds. It can raise you to heights where you feel like angel wings are carrying you to heaven, and it can bring you down to your darkest hours...what an amazing instrument you carry inside of you.page 139
I love this description of the heart that Michael A. Singer offers us. I love looking at the heart as a beautiful musical instrument...a violin, chelo or a harp maybe. Something that can create the most amazing music...that which can move us to tears, be they tears of joy or tears of the deepest sorrow. Up and down our hearts beat out so many notes of emotion, creating this music Life would be so empty without.
Why are we not okay with our hearts then?
The trouble is you're not okay with the full range of your heart. You want to control your heart so it only plays the notes you can handle. Spirituality is about learning to thank your heart for the beautiful expressions it is creating within you.140
We are not okay with our hearts because we only want them to play certain notes. We don't see how each note is needed in this melody. We do what we can to shut down or prevent the low or unpleasant notes from being added to the arrangement. When we hear or anticipate we will hear what we, in our tone deaf states, believe will be painful and unnecessary we step in, waving our flimsy batons in the air ...saying "No, no, no!" As if we know better than the heart or the brilliant composer behind the music does. We know nothing...except that for a second or two it is sometimes unpleasant inside and we don't like unpleasant. So we shut down or push down those notes and we destroy the masterpiece of this perfect performance the heart is giving us. We mess it all up when it would have been perfect...full of sorrow, full of joy...just as it is if we would only let it in and let it all be.
What we need to do is appreciate and thank our hearts for the beautiful range of notes/emotions it is giving us to experience. Remember we are here to experience, not control. We are not here to control the music. We do not know enough about Life to do so. But the heart knows. We need to learn to appreciate what the heart can do...all of it!!
Learn to enjoy your heart by ceasing to resist it, Its not about losing yourself in your emotions. It is about being willing to experience them in the same way you experience a beautiful sunset. You simply let the sunset come in...You are simply allowing awareness to be aware of what is in front of it. Sometimes it is a beautiful sunset, sometimes it it is a sense of loss...You are not clinging or suppressing it.Page 142
All is well
Michael A. Singer (2022) living untethered. New Harbinger/Sounds True
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