How is your heart?

Imagine that God (Universe, Higher Source, Divine Energy, etc.) asks you the question, how is your heart? How would you answer?

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

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 forgiveness?

Believe it or not, we are the ones who decide what we allow to live in our hearts. Life situations give us the opportunity to experience all kinds of emotions and feelings, while we let go some of the emotions, sometimes we keep decide to hold on to them. In an ideal world, we would only keep the emotions that make us feel good but life is not ideal to our eyes and many times we keep those emotions that hurt us by just remembering the difficult situations over and over again.

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

On the other hand, if 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 looks like the enemy and you feel powerless and insecure. 

Some low-vibration emotions just 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.

5. Analyze each of the situations that cause you to feel a low-vibration emotion - ask yourself if it is worth your inner peace, your time and energy. If the answer is no, then create the intention to let it go.

Doing this exercise once in a while can really help you answer this question to God and feel good about your answer.