1. Open Mind-Heart Balance
November 10, 2013
We need the mindʼs clarity, but intelligence requires a balance that
includes emotional clarity too. Common sense rules, but is not too
common, and requires experience, discernment, questioning, and a
balance of the mental and emotional. Everyone desires as much love as
they can imagine, yet rarely does anyone get it through life, leaving them
ʻbankrupt in love energyʼ, love poor, or ʻlovelessʼ. Brilliant or not, most are left with a mind that
lacks the energy of a positive balance of the emotional and spiritual qualities of full working
order. Satisfaction is seemingly always left leaving room for completion.
Inner peace while driving through life rarely comes naturally, but like the air in life, is just there
but hidden and waiting for your letting go, and moving upward into the light of your real self
unencumbered by the negatives of the past.
Iʼve asked many as to whether they have an open mind with the
normal resultant answer that they do. Self perception is frequently
self deception. Those Iʼve asked were often fundamentalist
Christians who clarified ʻopen mindʼ as within the words of the bible ouch! Iʼve met many, many people who are friendly to other people,
and in addition to pets. Iʼve asked them if they regarded their heart as
open, knowing beforehand that each of them had some level of a
ʻfear of intimacyʼ (which, by the way, is common). Often they say, yes.
Few are ʻopenʼ toward talking about lifeʼs many issues, values, and
their personal limitations.
Keeping an open, inquisitive, non judgmental, discerning mind
coupled with an open heart that has no fears of intimacy is a conscious standard
that will be a healthy, well rounded being to attract likewise. The downside of that
openness is that the vast majority of others settle on a ʻpartial open eclipse of the
mind and heartʼ, and likely will consume or vampire that energy from you.
Letting go of mind and heart attachments is a road to the paradise within, but that doesnʼt
happen with just a light conviction that gets lost in memory while doing little to make it happen in
the ensuing days, weeks, months, or even the rest of your life. Go deeper in intimacy, but
mindful that you can meet the barriers of your partner which will bring up frustration, angers,
hopelessness, and you name it. Love without the built in ʻlife preserverʼ of deep self love will be
like diving into the ocean not being able to swim or finding any ʻshoreʼ. At this point, moving into
as much of life and love as positively as possible can itself become a prayer and a meditation.
To supplement that journey alone, set aside times of meditation on a continuing basis that will
aid the ease of letting go and disconnecting from negatives, creating the opening of mind and
heart totally.
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