E178: The Dance Between Mind and Heart
5/4/202650 min
The mind is constantly trying to solve disturbances that originate in the heart, but the mind cannot truly resolve them. These disturbances come from stored emotional impressions that must be released through awareness, relaxation, and non-resistance. Spiritual growth occurs by working at the level of the heart—allowing energy to rise, be processed, and ultimately transformed into higher states of consciousness.
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Hmm. Jai Gurudev. Jai Masters. There's so many techniques, paths that people often struggle with to try to come closer, not to God, but to who you are, 'cause that's who you are. All of them, at some point, deal with mind. You have to deal with mind. Why? Let's say you're an alcoholic or a drug addict. You're not gonna go further until you take on that problem. The mind is the reason that you don't feel tremendous shakti, spirit pouring through you all the time. It's very important to understand the nature of mind, and more important, as important, which we're gonna discuss tonight, its relationship to the heart. At some point, and you wouldn't be here if you hadn't, you have stepped back and realized you are aware of your mind. You are not the mind. You're aware of your heart's emotions. You are not the emotions. You're aware of them, otherwise you wouldn't know they were there. It's that simple. The spiritual teachings shouldn't be very complicated. Are you aware you have thoughts? Yes. What part of you is aware that you have thoughts? You have positive thoughts, you have negative thoughts, you have all kinds of thoughts, and you are the same one that is aware of all those thoughts. And you have emotions