Moving From Head to Heart
It Takes Time
The mind rules our civilization.
From a young age, you were taught to use your mind to navigate life. To make good grades. To choose the right partner. The right job…
To follow a conditioned path towards an accepted definition of success.
The mind is worshipped for its ability to think and explain concepts logically. It’s revered because it can store knowledge.
And yet, it’s not the TRUE brain in our body.
The mind was created to do two things: 1) Keep you alive, and 2) Create your reality. But it was never meant to “drive the bus” as I share with my clients. It wasn’t ever meant to be the deciding factor of everyday life, and certainly cannot reconnect you to yourself, the divinity that is within.
Late last Fall, a man named Jeffrey (name changed to protect his privacy) booked an Akashic Soul Reading with me. At 62, he was going through a massive shift after defeating prostate cancer and wanted clarity on his path. After our session, it became clear that he was being called to go deeper and joined my Akashic Transformational Mentorship program.
While there was a lot to unpack with Jeffrey and the spiritual awakening he was going through, it’s been clear from the beginning that one of his biggest detriments is that he's lived his entire life from the mind.
In the Enneagram (one of the systems I use with clients), he’s a 3, the Achiever, which means that his childhood wound is that at a young age, he was taught that love comes through achievement. Therefore, since he was a young child, achieving has been his main goal in life. Finding the right partner, becoming a CEO, building wealth, and having a beautiful family.
His heart was left behind. Left to be covered up in unfelt emotions. Ego. Trapped memories. And unspoken needs.
The main share of the work we’ve been doing is beginning to rewire his body to use his heart to make decisions, to lead through life, and to feel again. And this is no small feat because he’s lived his entire life from the mind.
But Jeffrey is far from alone—most of us are operating our everyday lives from the mind. We’ve been taught to do so from the beginning! Unless you’re fortunate, you weren’t raised by people who taught you to make decisions from the heart. You were taught to make pros/cons lists. To ask someone else for their opinion. To “think it through” before making a decision.
However, again, the mind isn’t the true brain of the body—it’s the heart! And this isn’t some woo-woo thing, scientists discovered this several years back. Through testing, they uncovered that the heart knows the answer WAY before the mind, and it echoes throughout the body.
Therefore, to begin reconnecting with yourself, your true self, you must begin learning how to live through the heart, not the mind.
In my course, An Akashic Journey With the Body, the Akashic Records taught us how the mind is connected to fear, as these two components are nearly the same. The mind’s main job is to keep you alive, meaning that anything outside of what has been accepted as safe is seen as something that might kill you. If that sounds extreme, try doing something you don’t normally do and watch what happens to your body! You’ll likely be flooded with fear, sweat, feel anxious, and won’t follow through. That’s because your mind is enacting warfare on you to ensure you don’t do anything that might be unsafe.
This is why it’s so depressing to live from the mind! And why you can become so easily disconnected from yourself when you do.
Learning how to live from the heart isn’t an overnight process, it takes time, patience, and diligence. It requires you to dive into the mechanics of why you feel safe living from the mind, becoming aware of how this is creating your human experience, and then actively choosing to create new neural pathways by focusing on the heart.
To begin, one of the easiest practices I teach my clients is tuning into the heart. Let’s break this process down:
When you need to decide on anything, place your hand over your heart chakra (in the middle of your chest).
Bring your consciousness down into your heart space by focusing on the connection between your hand chakra (in the middle of your hand) and your heart chakra.
Take 3-5 slow, deep breaths and imagine white light filling up the heart space and clearing it out.
Ask your heart the question.
When you do, know that you will automatically want to shift into the mind because you may not get an answer right away. But stay with your heart, take another breath if you need to, and give it time—stay with the heart.
Listen to your heart. It will speak to you and it will be gentle. It won’t scream or be urgent like the mind, it will be calm and soft.
TRUST whatever you receive. This is the hardest aspect of this process because you weren’t taught to trust the still, quiet voice inside.
HINT: If the answer feels open and expansive, then it’s your heart, and it’s aligned. If it feels urgent or restricted, then it’s your mind/ego.
Depending on the connection you have with your body and your level of patience, this is a practice that takes some people longer to learn. But rest assured, the heart will speak if you give it the time to do so.
Jeffrey has been growing by leaps and bounds since we’ve begun working together, but he’s still got a long way to go. And I share that with you because, as I often remind him, he’s spent an entire lifetime living from his mind, and everything in his environment is pushing him to continue doing so…
It will take time.
But learning how to live from the heart is one of the most life-changing habits you can cultivate for yourself. Start today and don’t give up!
Your heart will ALWAYS know your truth. It will ALWAYS direct you to the best path. It will ALWAYS look out for you. And it will ALWAYS lead you back to yourself.
Isn’t it time?
If you’re ready to TRANSFORM your life, heal your deepest wounds, and expand into the greatest version of yourself, apply for my Akashic Transformational Mentorship — one spot available!
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Don’t forget, When you invest in yourself, the world benefits!
Many Blessings, Ahna
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