The heart seems to be one of the most vulnerable organs in the body because it is the one that has held the most fear, and pain. It is the one that is most afraid to open to pure unconditional love, which is where your power lies.

So, in essence, when you open your heart and heal without fear, you are opening to your own spiritual power. When your journey is confused, and you are afraid to turn this way or that way, it is the confusion that keeps you from walking forth in true connected power. It is fear that keeps the heart from unconditionally loving and stepping into your self-empowerment.

Now this may seem, a bit trite or perhaps not as important as other things in your life. However, this is one of the most important aspects of your journey – to strengthen your heart into self-empowerment. This is the first step toward true healing: allowing the heart to feel and generate passion in your life.

When your heart just exists and does not fully love, numbness and stagnation occurs. If there is a blockage, there is no connection to your own passion. This means there is no true connection to your own creativity, which affects the immune system and may cause physical challenges.

There are exercises to help strengthen the heart. This exercise is required to go deeply into the heart on all levels — feeling the pain, the joy, the confusion, the openness, the expansion, the repression. As you go into that place and hold it open instead of fleeing from it, you will strengthen the heart. When you try to run from your feelings, you only exhaust the body by running from that which you cannot escape. You cannot run from your heart. The importance of going into your heart is because it is aligned with your soul and purpose. You can share and teach others how you strengthened your own being, by strengthening your connection to self.

Be proud of your healing wherever it takes you. Do not be ashamed. Do not feel fear. For those of you balancing body, mind and spirit, remember that the only real strength comes from the heart. When your heart is not strong, your mind is fatigued because it clearly depends on the emotional support and faith to keep it alive. So, for those of you who are fearful about exploring your feelings, you are compromising your energy on all levels. This is an important understanding, to create a more balanced life. The rational mind has really no clear sense of soul purpose, and your body has its own limitations. The connection of the heart and the soul are what move you through time. Your healing and heart opening will support you in your new limitlessness.

Guilt is the feeling that results when you tell yourself that you have done something wrong.

HEALTHY GUILT

Healthy guilt is the feeling that occurs when you have actually done something wrong – such as deliberately harming someone. This is an important feeling, which results from having developed a conscience – a loving adult self who is concerned with your highest good and the highest good of all. People who never developed a conscience and feel no guilt or remorse over harming others are called sociopaths. These people have no loving adult self and can wreck havoc – stealing, raping, killing – without ever feeling badly about it.

Healthy guilt results in taking responsibility for our choices and being accountable for our actions. When we have not behaved in a way that is in our highest good and the highest good of all, our loving adult self will feel remorse and take over, doing whatever we have to do to remedy the situation.

UNHEALTHY GUILT

Unhealthy guilt results from telling yourself that you have done something wrong when you haven’t actually done something wrong. For example, if you decide to do something for yourself with no intent to harm anyone, and someone gets upset with you for doing what you want instead of doing what he or she wants, what do you tell yourself? Here are some of the inner statements that can lead to unhealthy guilt:

“It’s my fault that he is feeling angry.”

“I should have done what she wanted instead of what I wanted. I have caused her to feel hurt.”

“I’m being selfish in doing what I want to do.”

“It’s my duty to put myself aside and do what others want me to do.”

“If he gets angry with me, then I must have done something wrong.”

“If she is hurt, then I must have done something wrong.”

Many of us have been trained to believe that we are responsible for others’ feelings, so that when others are angry or hurt, it is our fault. But unless you deliberately intended to harm someone, his or her feelings are not your responsibility. Others get hurt when they take your behavior personally, and they get angry when they make you responsible for their feelings. But this does not mean that you are responsible for their feelings.

You are responsible for your own intent. When you intend to harm someone, then you are responsible for the results of that. But when you just want to take care of yourself with no intent to harm anyone – such as want some time alone when your partner wants to spend time with you – then you are not responsible for your partner’s upset.

Unhealthy guilt comes from telling yourself a lie. When the wounded, programmed critical part of you takes over and tells you that doing what you want with no intent to harm anyone is wrong, that is when you will feel unhealthy guilt. This critical part of you wants to control how others feel about you, and so tells you the lie that you are responsible for others’ feelings.

Unhealthy guilt also arises when someone blames you for his or her feelings and you take on the blame. Many people have learned to blame others for their feelings rather than take responsible for their own feelings. When you accept this blame, it is because you want to believe that you can control others’ feelings. You will feel unhealthy guilt when you accept blame for others’ feelings.

Healthy guilt is an important feeling and leads to positive action, but unhealthy guilt is a waste of energy.

The human body is in essence a body of light, which was created first by God’s divine intention which created the soul. The soul’s divine intention to enter the world of physical form created the passageway through which God’s light could manifest the miracle of conception and birth.

All of life is a miracle, and each precious soul you encounter is living proof of God’s great love, which created the manifest and un-manifest universes. All possibilities and probabilities exist as One within God’s divine mind. Within the infinite realm of possibility, God’s light exists and actively participates within all of life.

God’s light can be activated as a healing force within the human body, whenever you are sick or injured. God’s light can bring healing, comfort, and can even completely transform even an apparently hopeless situation. Light can expand and open possibilities, and can support all other healing modalities you are using.

To activate the presence of God’s light within your body, it is helpful to create a sacred space within your home that can be used for meditation, prayer and healing. Create an altar that expresses your innermost hearts connection with the divine. Keep it simple, clean and place it in an area that can be devoted to sacred activities.

Spend a few moments each day, or several times a day, quietly praying, meditating or sitting quietly at your altar. In time your altar will develop a vibration of light, and you will begin to feel this when you sit at the altar. The light will help you relax, and will aid you in your healing process.

When your body is fatigued, sick, or injured, you can rejuvenate and regenerate your body by sitting or lying in front of your altar and breathing in God’s light. Place your hand over your heart and pray for healing, and then imagine God’s light descending from the heavens and infusing your body through the top of your head. As you breathe, allow the light to circulate through your body.

You’ll notice certain parts of your body that will feel more tense, or that will be holding pain. Imagine the light deeply infusing these areas, bringing warms, comfort, and peace. The cells of your body know how to heal themselves, and God’s light will activate these inner resources of healing.

As you do this regularly, you will begin to notice changes in your body and your health. The infusion of God’s light will begin a process of self healing within your body. Sometimes, if your body has been out of alignment for a very long time, the healing process takes longer because the body needs to re-balance itself on all levels.

your body is not separate from your mind or emotions. In fact it could be said that your mind is your whole body! As God’s light begins this healing process in you, you will find old memories and emotions form the past re-surfacing. Allow these to pass through your consciousness. See them, feel them, and then let them go.

At some point you may find it helpful to join with others who are in a healing process. If you have many challenges happening at once in your body, it will be helpful to work with a practitioner of healing arts who can act as a facilitator, helping to strengthen the light and support your body through the healing process.+

In times past, healing was thought of as something separate from everyday life. Now, as spiritual consciousness on the Earth evolves and transforms, it becomes more clear to us that all of life is a healing process. When our bodies are in need of healing, God’s light can provide stability, grounding in our primary reality as a soul, and a sense of peace, comfort and rejuvenation. God’s light can support us and enhance all other healing modalities and treatments, and is available freely to all beings, because God loves us and is always present and available to support our lives.