Is is safe to Live from Your Heart?
My first keynote was over 20 years ago at a church women’s retreat. I talked about Living From Your Heart.
I felt good about my topic and my message. Until a few hours later.
The minister opened the afternoon session by saying to all the participants, “Lea told you to follow your heart. That is not good advice. If you follow your heart and live from your heart you will be too vulnerable and you will get hurt. Living from your heart is not safe.”
As you might imagine, listening to that I felt many emotions. At first I felt startled, hurt, embarrassed, a little defensive and even a bit betrayed.
Reflecting, I realized the minister was well-intentioned. She was speaking from her own painful experiences and she wanted to protect her people. Perhaps she did not know how to be safe while living from her heart and so she did not believe it was possible.
I also realized she had given me a gift. She helped me to see that if I truly wanted to help people live from their hearts I needed to address the fear, mistrust and misunderstanding of the heart that is so common in our culture.
How can we open our hearts and not be overwhelmed by our own emotions or the emotions or needs and demands of others?
How can we live from our hearts in such a way that we become even more be strong and successful in the world?
My clients and students are big-hearted people who often have been told it is not safe, or not intelligent, or not sophisticated, or not practical or not good business to think and live from their hearts.
I disagree. I believe - and increasing research supports - that the heart is a source of love and wisdom and intelligence and electrical activity that surpasses the brain. It is the source of our deepest strength and our most true power.
Over the last two decades I have developed many strategies, processes and resources to Awaken Heart Power in ways that feel safe and natural to each individual.
Awakening your Heart Power allows you to:
** Connect to your inner truth and courageously bring that into the world.
** Become stronger, more confident, resilient, compassionate, connected, joyful and more successful in reaching your most important dreams and goals.
** Live with a deep sense of purpose and meaning in every part of your life.
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“ The power of the heart is to be connected with who you are at the deepest level.” Eckhart Tolle
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I’d love to hear from you: Do you believe living from your heart is valuable? Do you feel safe living from your heart?
Believing in you,
Lea
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“I’ve always been a Heart Thinker — however it was Lea’s excellent coaching that helped me realize how valuable, rewarding, transforming it is to be a Heart Thinker. If you are someone looking for a true and amazing transformation, Lea is the one who will take you through the steps. With the worldly ways, I lost myself, I didn’t know who I once was; with Lea’s guidance I have found my true self again.” ~ Linda, Marketing Advisor and International Entrepreneur
