Episode #146: Cultivating Heartfelt Emotions and Healing Power of The Heart

How can we cultivate heartfelt emotions and use them to heal ourselves and build more resilience? 

When we live in a state of fear, our hearts are closed, and our nervous system spends most of the time in a fight or flight mode. We feel less energy, and although we wake up every morning and do the things we have to, it may feel as if we are not living. 

When we begin opening our hearts to life and embracing heartfelt emotions like joy, compassion, forgiveness, gratitude, or even deep sadness, we will experience more aliveness and resilience. 

How embracing heartfelt emotions supports our healing…

Think of it this way: where is gratitude fear can’t exist. If we are healing from the place of love and compassion, we are more courageous to look at our past and address it in a healthier and more productive way. 

On the contrary, when we live in fear, we live in a state of judgment and negativity. Healing from this place may often become impossible. 

In today’s podcast episode, I will lead you through a series of simple exercises you can use to cultivate those heartfelt emotions and begin learning how to open your heart to life while healing powerfully. Please make no mistake. When I say “open your heart,” I don’t mean to go and love the world. Rather, focus on feeling and becoming love. Everything else will work better from that place. 

Here is a glance at this episode…

[01:40] How is fear preventing us from opening our hearts, and why do we develop this protective mechanism early in childhood? 

[02:41] The importance of heartfelt emotions during our healing and the profound difference it made in my recovery. 

[04:44] What opening your heart means, how it looks, and why it is not what you might think. 

[08:20] A powerful story of a warrior that illustrates what it means to live with an open heart. 

[12:05] A few simple exercises to open your heart and embrace heartfelt emotions and the power of intentions.