A Grateful Heart Opens Channels for All Things Greater
The heart chakra represents the Divine qualities and intelligence of the heart. It is linked to peace, harmony, love, understanding, clarity, compassion, empathy and forgiveness. 

Expressing gratitude with a full heart opens us up to God’s grace, for only in those moments of gratitude do we recognize the love of all that was created and its role in our own soul’s evolution. This journey is not a solo one. 

A Way of Life
Gratitude is extremely powerful in this life. We often underestimate what gratitude can do for our life here and beyond this one life.

​Living in a state of gratitude as much as we can is one of the most effective ways of getting in touch with your soul – your higher level of consciousness and connection to all creation, which is connected to the Divine and all other creations.

What does gratitude look like? It is mindfulness-living, noticing and appreciating the gift of the ups and downs 

“I write of love and am still not able to describe the truth of love, for no words can fully express the truth of love but the word love itself.” Ch. 1- Love, Love is the Seed, Love as Supreme Thought; Monday, December 28, 1981 Notebook #26 Page 8

How can one define love, but to live it? The way in which we can experience love, divine love, is to connect with it through our heart center (Read about the significance of the heart.). This love is expansive, warm, peaceful, still, radiant, pure, empowering, healing and uplifting. 

Perhaps you have already connected with it through dream, which is often where you connect with it most, as you are not distracted. Or perhaps you meditate or sit quietly, and a wave of peace, warmth, or expansion comes over you or you smell a sweetness in the air that is strong and distinct but does not come from your surrounding environment. This is divine love revealing itself.

Love is Understanding
All have love. Through love, we can find confidence in ourselves and find that measure of ourselves that exists in others. Imagine what the world will be like when more people understand that we are not so different, that at our core, we are all the same. Intolerance would weaken, and peace would expand. 

Love is evolving to understand that the justice in the soul's heart, mind, and vision, is that which the soul shall have. Love is understanding that each element contributes to each element, all are created equally and with purpose, and that God is in each and each is a part of God.

Understanding Love Brings Heightened Awareness
When we truly understand this Divine Love, life begins to change and becomes more alive. And when this happens, it does not have to be a big ‘aha’ moment or even big changes at first, but when this happens our perspective begins to change of ourselves and others. 

A heightened awareness energy grows within us, and the things around us begin to change. You have heard the saying, “change your thoughts, change your life.” Much the same, when Love is being consciously lived and expressed through you, your vibration heightens, attracting more of the same. A love given is a love received. This is the justice of love and so shall you have it. This shift, however small, changes the way you see the world and yourself. You begin to see things in a new way.

Love is truth. 
Love is just.
Love is mercy.
Love is the Supreme Being, All That Is, All.
Love is beauty recognized.
Love is appreciation. 
Love is giving.
Love is patience.
Love is eternal.
Love is purposeful.
Love is genuine.
Love is here, now and forevermore.
Love is the seed.
Love is…All.


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There is a center in the human body where love, spirit, intuition and intelligence are joined. It marries the ‘physical’ with the ‘spiritual,’ balancing the world of form with the world of spirit. It is called upon consciously and subconsciously consistently.
 
It works harmoniously with all orders within the body, sustains the body and communicates with the brain in ways that can completely transform our lives and greatly affect how we perceive and react to the world around us. That center is the heart.
 
It is the heart that starts beating in the unborn fetus before the brain has been formed.
 
When making an important decision, “what does your heart tell you?” Do you “listen to your heart.”? It is the heart that aches or fills with love, that feels and emits compassion; and it can feel empty or void or overflowing and expansive. It is the center where you connect to another soul.
 
The heart holds all answers.
 
Soul Utilizes Heart and Mind
 
Soul—we can call “knower” soul—utilizes these two powerful instruments, heart and mind/brain in the body, among others for the fulfillment of purpose. At the core of that purpose is the giving of love. Each element in our bodies – physical, spiritual, emotional, etc. when giving out of love consciously create a functioning body, mind, soul through which to live purposefully in form and evolve as soul.
 
Where Spirit Meets Form
 
The heart is both intelligent and loving. The fourth, or heart, chakra sits at the center of the seven chakras. It can be thought of as the epicenter for unconditional love, grace, compassion, empathy and connection. It connects the lower three ‘body’ chakras with the upper three ‘spiritual’ chakras.
 
The heart chakra governs the heart, lungs, various systems and regions in the body, and joy, love, peace, forgiveness, stress, unity, and decision-making between the egoic mind and the loving heart.
 
Heart Meditation

There are answers and messages always available to you.
 
To help you connect, I have created a short meditation, a relaxing practice really, to simply give attention to your heart. As you do so, you will begin to feel a newer energy—perhaps healing or loving or understanding/knowing—move through you and your body. You will also see glimpses of objects or visions, which you will later interpret utilizing the power of the relationship between your heart and mind/brain.
 
As you practice this meditation—available to you for free on the Resources tab at www.LoveIsTheSeed.com--spending a few minutes each day to connect with your heart center, you will begin to get glimpses of what you need to know. Although fleeting at times and incomplete, answers and messages will be revealed to you and you will find your life starting to change. Be it waves of gratitude or an “all is well” attitude, or waves of joy, peace and overall flow. This is the flow of the love from which you are created and of which you are a part.
 
Take me to the heart meditation >

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