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The deeply trained heart embraces all with knowing sweetness, deeply personal warmth and profound joy. The heart generates and responds to love. It trembles when it discovers profound truths, and swells with the passion of moving music. Deeper hearts are united in love, loving everyone, knowing that we all at some point in our growth. The untrained heart indulges in fanciful love, daydreams, and experiences an emotionally blurred existence. The body may be tired, sick or in pain, yet the strong heart can overcome all things. So it is the soul is that which directs the body. During yoga and meditation one trains the body to be submissive to the soul. One controls their attention so to gain great focusing power. Beyond this the soul find pure love and itself becomes pure. Pure hearts have unbound compassion. Pure hearts raise from shallowness of the wandering soul. It is a matter of turning to our personal God within, and listening to God's loving direction. The world will never be perfect as in a perfect world there would be nothing to do. But the world of the heart can become perfect independently of any circumstance. "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me."--Ps. 51:10
Our inner world consists of one thing—how we feel. Our thinking is only the story of the mind. We call the mind a tool as it is directed by our inner being, our inner soul. The soul elects. The mind and body respond. The soul is the source of all voluntary decisions in our life. When the heart becomes weakened, sick or neglected, it becomes estranged to our being. Those who are actors instead of real people are shells. Only through unity of both heart and mind does the person become whole. It is true that if the heart has abdicated, there is no upper management and one is set adrift in the shallow seas. The upper emotions find direction for us. If we shoot with our eyes closed, we never even see the target. This is being apathetic. If we shoot with no training we shoot and miss. This is lack of education. Only if we shoot with a trained eye, we hit the target. Our target is goodness, the things that make life worth living. Yes, there is a higher power, a higher mind that made us and the world! God is extremely powerful and intelligent. One of the ways to train the heart is to find a Church of Religious Science and take classes. At home one can read Science of Mind.In addition one can meditate and learn to chant.Now meditation may not seem easy for some people, yet these people may benefit from this practice. By participating in what is known as "kirtan" one can learn to quite the mind. By repeating the same phrase over and over again, one keeps the mind at bay and gets control over it. After some practice one can turn off thinking and daily chatter. One can also turn of music that is going on and on that normally you cannot stop. Kirtan lifts one up effortlessly to a place of quiet, to stillness. Kirtan is one of the oldest sacred music traditions of the world, the kirtan call-and-response chanting genre comes from India. One can practice in the home, but being with other participants increases the energy. Listening to live music without distortion helps the music sink deep inside. After doing Kirtan one feels high, a natural high. One can concentrate and note that their feelings are uplifted and not dependent so much on others or circumstances. Thus Kirtan is not so much about the artistic side of music, but the effects on the soul of the person. It also effects the brain and allows it to focus and relax. What people call vibration or the buzz is actually physical changes in the circuitry and chemical makeup of the brain on the physical level. But at the level of our being it can make us a deeper heart, a higher spirit, and in many a calling to help others learn about its power. The Sanskrit lyrics may not be understood, and actually this is a help. We are working with the heart and not the mind. The lyrics are various messages of devotion to different aspects of God. If you do not understand Sanskrit, then they are only sounds that heal. How can one find kirtan chanting? One way is to Google kirtan mp3. You can play MP3 files with WinAmp. Once you install WinAmp you can listen to hundreds of radio stations for free over the Internet through SHOUTcast one of the features found in the WinAmp library. By searching for kirtan you can listen in your own home. My favorite however is Integral Yoga Kirtan chanted by Sri Swami Satchidananda in 1987. It can be ordered by contacting skakticom. By turning to God, and doing spiritual practices, one can create a body where the various parts are working together. By listening to your body and sending love to each part, healing can take place. Healing can also take place by knowing that God also heals through doctors and others. "The Wisdom of the Heart"
My Flame Always BurnsDeeperheart, an essence Turing to God, log becomes bright As the fires dim, glow still lives deeply Warmth, warmth allows deep forgiveness If ever pangs of doubt Warmth from deep glow never fails This fire is fanned by love And what is beyond my flame? We are small flames Essence never dies. The deeper heart is filled with the delight. The deepness brings peace, hope, joy, and dreams that come true. Visit www.deepermind.com and learn about psychology and explore your deeper mind. September 3, 2008
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