Earlier this year, I woke up early one morning and in the silence I began to become very still, like I was sinking into the bed - it was almost a paralysis....strange thing was I didn't panic. I let it happen. My heart began to beat faster and faster and faster, pounding in my chest and still I seemed to have no ability, indeed, no intention to try and do anything about it....I let it take its course. I didn't really know what had happened. Then, gradually over a couple of weeks, I would wake up again early in the silence and feel an overwhelming feeling of bliss/joy - a feeling of absolute pure love in my heart. I had already experienced this transiently while meditating, but gradually this began to manifest itself when I was fully awake - waiting in the car, working on the computer.....just a need to stop and invite the feeling in....now it is always there and I seem to have integrated it into my everyday life.

I have a very close friend to whom I described this and of course she didn't understand until she had her own heart opening a couple of months ago...she finally understood what I had been blethering on about!

I post this here because I'm sure this is an experience that more and more people are having and it can be quite disconcerting if not down-right scary when it first happens.

I now understand that both my friend and I had heart chakra openings.

Since then I have become very conscious of the heart-based way of being, which follows this event. I recently wrote the following about this new way of Being...my scientific mind is still there, but my heart is becoming a greater and greater guiding force..I feel my mind being guided by my heart...

There is a way of "seeing" - from the heart,
Through feeling.

When the heart opens, it is easier to understand this.
It is something that can't be understood from the mind - only from the heart...

But of course,
It is all about balance - allowing the energy to flow freely Through all of the chakras...
The higher ones and the lower ones.

The heart is the centre,
The balance point,
The fulcrum,
So we can find that balance.

It's great to go into the silence,
To recognise the feelings in the heart.
Those feeling are full of bliss and joy,
The closest to experiencing Heaven on Earth.

I loved what she said:

"So I am now trying to embrace my feelings and sense where in the body I sense them,
And be thankful for the calm, loving, fearless feelings I have (almost in an affirmation-kind of way)"

I know what she meant - "fearless" - love that!

By trying to identify the feelings,
In analyzing them,
They can be chased away...they dissipate,
Those feelings cannot be grasped....

It seems that it is only necessary to recognise the feelings,
Embrace them,
Accept them,
And bless them...

That is all...

That's what to aim for...
By embracing the feelings in Your consciousness,
You honour their presence and the energy keeps flowing.

You may find the following of interest: There is also an emerging scientific basis for heart-brain interactions The HeartMath Institute http://www.heartmath.org/ and the wider emergence of heart based consciousness globally http://www.glcoherence.org/

With blessings,

Seagull

http://theseagullspeaks.blogspot.com/2010/12/seeing-with-heart.html