How is your heart? How would you answer this question if God asks you?

How is your heart? How would you answer this question if God asks you? I say God but it can be the Universe, Source, Divine Energy, or however you call the omnipotent, omniscience, or omnipresence force that moves this world.

This is a question that cannot be answered easily without doing some introspection. It requires humbleness and radical honesty to be able to answer God how is your heart.

Place your hand over your heart and ask yourself, as if you were asking a good friend of yours, how is my heart? Take a moment to feel and meditate on it. Do you think your heart is full of love and compassion? Are there parts of your heart where resentment has found a place? How about anger? Do you carry anger or disappointment? Can you feel a glimpse of guilt or shame? Is there room in your heart for more love and less criticism?

Believe it or not, we are the ones who decide what we allow in our hearts. Life situations give us the opportunity to experience all kinds of emotions and feelings. We may experience joy and laughter, we may experience peace and contentment. We may also experience resentment and envy, or despair and anxiety. While we let go some of the emotions, we decide to hold on to a few of them. In an ideal world, after the experience we would only keep the emotions that make us feel good, but in real life, we feel like life is not ideal and many times we keep emotions that harm us.

How do we harm ourselves? Every time you remember a difficult situation over and over again, the anger you felt, the betrayal you went through, etc. Our brain cannot distinguish past from present. If you think about it and feel it again, the brain thinks it is happening.

When you give yourself the chance to feel and keep emotions of high vibration (love, compassion, patience, joy, empathy, optimism, etc.), your life becomes easier and you stand stronger. You feel empowered and happy.

On the other hand, if after an experience you allow yourself to keep emotions of low vibration (anger, resentment, envy, guilt, frustration, worry, jealousy, etc.), you see your life like a nightmare or a bad place to be in. Everybody seems like an enemy and you feel powerless and insecure. 

Some low-vibration emotions can stay in our hearts and pile up, and if we don't pay attention one day all come out as rage and hatred. Before you allow this to happen, it is important that you ask yourself the question about how is your heart? Answering in an honest manner will allow you to decide what you are letting in and what you need to let go.

Are you up for the challenge?

If you are, here are a few steps to guide you through the process of answering the question How is your heart?

1. Find a quiet place where you are not interrupted - also tell the people around you not to interrupt you for the time that you need.

2. Get a pen and a notebook - if it is a pretty one, even better.

3. Place your hand over your heart and go through the list of high-vibration emotions - write them down as you identify them in your heart.

4. Continue with the exercise but this time go through the list of low-vibration emotions -if you feel any of them in your heart write them down, and remember radical honesty even when it hurts, it is ok, we are not perfect.

5. Analyze each of the situations that cause you to feel a low-vibration emotion - ask yourself what is life trying to teach you? Is something yours or something you inherited from others (maybe it is the way your family felt about certain things)? Is it worth your inner peace, your time and energy? If the answer is no, then create the intention to let it go, learn whatever you need to learn and move on.

Completing this exercise once in a while can really help you answer this question to God and feel good about your answer because now you would know how your heart is and what is that you need to let go.

If you need more guidance, feel free to contact me.