Today is mine and my partner’s anniversary! And in honour of that I wanted to share just a little something about love… Your heart knows things that your mind can’t explain, because your heart is where your soul resides. Love is the very essence of our souls and our entire beings. Love is everything, the meaning of life and the meaning of us. When I met my partner, I got the strangest, but most amazing feeling of coming home. As if I had all along been walking around looking for something without knowing it, and when I found it my whole being went “Ah, of course, that’s it!”. I’m sure many of you have experienced the same thing; that when you meet someone special, you feel like you already know them.  You let them into your heart, your most sacred space, and you just know that this time, you’ll never have to regret it. Because this time it’s simply for real. This is the time you’ve knowingly or unknowingly been waiting for all along. Up until that moment you had to go through the other hurts and heart breaks, in order to get to the state you needed to be in, for your two hearts to melt together – in full trust, in full comfort, in true and eternal love. Two hearts that had been waiting for the right timing. We met “by chance” (not at all, I’m sure) in London. He was travelling the world with London as home base, and I was there working. Like two wandering bums we stayed at the same hostel for a couple of months. We ate breakfast together, and he tried taking me out for dates several times, but things kept getting in the way. Until one day, when we finally got some alone time, and a new chapter of both our lives was written. Every single day I am so incredibly grateful to be sharing life with this amazing man of mine. He makes me feel like the happiest, the luckiest, the most beautiful and the most loved woman in the entire universe. Just the way it’s supposed to be. My partner and I at the end of a lava tube in Hawaii. For all the ladies out there: If a man doesn’t go through his every effort to spoil you, love you completely unconditionally, and make you feel like the princess you are, he’s not man enough for you. Keep looking. That kind of “fairytale” love you’ve only ever heard about really does exist (I didn’t think so a few years ago, but I was proven wrong!) and it’s so worth waiting for! For all the men: Treat your girl the way she deserves to be treated. She is a goddess, and you don’t know what you’d do without her, right? If you don’t feel like that – keep looking. Your goddess will be out there looking for you in this very moment. Never give up on love, people. Love is worth looking for, waiting for, fighting for. It’s the most magical and wondrous thing we have – the closest to divinity we get to come during our time here on Earth. Endless love to you all, Post navigationPhoto: Photodisc/Thinkstock Your heart is more than your body's most important organ—it's also the essence of your spiritual and emotional being. Find out why listening to your heart is much more valuable than always making decisions with just your head. "A good heart is better than all the
heads in the world." When you fall in love, you feel your heart flutter, beat loudly or leap for joy; when you're rejected, your heart breaks. You are called heartless or cold-hearted when you show no care or love...and big-hearted when you extend your concern to others. You "take things to heart" or "talk heart-to-heart" about deeply personal issues. You love someone "from the bottom of your heart" but are half-hearted about something when you're emotionally uninvolved. You experience your heart as the center of your feelings, as seen on Valentine's Day when love-filled hearts abound. You know this instinctively, as you always physically point to your heart when you say "I" or want to express your deeper feelings. Yet your heart is so much more than a vessel for romance. It has been described as the king, with the mind as the king's adviser. When faced with a decision, the king may ask his advisers for advice, may even send him out into the world to gather information, but ultimately it is the king that makes the final decision. Even though the advisers do not always agree with the king's decision, the king is invariably right, because the king's view not only sees the bigger picture but is also aware of the needs of others. In the same way, when faced with a decision or conflict, your mind may come up with numerous, different and quite logical reasons why you should act as it advises, but if you listen to and trust your heart—however illogical or irrational it may seem—it is usually right and you are happier as a result. There is great brilliance and beauty inherent within the mind, because it is capable of understanding the most intricate scientific and mathematical theories and can make complicated corporate decisions. Yet the same mind can get caught up in trivia and nonsense, becoming upset or even unglued over a seemingly harmless remark. It runs your life, pushing and pulling you in all directions, from attraction to repulsion, creating endless dramas in acting out your insecurities and fears, because it is not in touch with your deeper feelings. Living inside your head all the time is actually not much fun! While the mind is the content of who you are, your heart is your essence. Your true heart is not subject to chaos or limited by pain, fear and neuroses, but is joyful, creative and loving. Some believe the heart can be too uncertain and even misguided, but that is the head talking! It is actually a source of great richness, and this wealth is one that cannot be squandered or lost. It is the core, the essence of your being, a reservoir of joy, powerful love and infinite compassion that lies within you. Try Ed and Deb's opening heart meditation Photo: Courtesy of Ed and Deb Shapiro When you honor the wisdom in your heart, then you act from this core of your being. You experience it in those moments when your needs and worries quietly dissolve and confusion or pain no longer dominates. Tears may spontaneously arise and there is a sensation of great warmth and peace. It is the letting-go of fear and the need to control. Try the meditation below to get more deeply in touch with this loving center of your being. Opening Heart Meditation Now bring your attention to the heart space in the center of your chest. And just breathe in and out of this space. As you do so, with each in-breathe feel your heart gently opening and softening; with each out-breathe release any tension or resistance. As you do this, silently repeat, "My heart is opening and softening." You may experience great joy or even sadness. Let the feelings come and go, while you just keep breathing into your heart space. Stay here as long as you wish. When you are ready, take a deep breath and let it go. Gently open your eyes and take the peace of your heart with you through your day. Ed and Deb Shapiro are the authors of Be The Change, How Meditation Can Transform You and the World. They are featured weekly contributors to Oprah.com, HuffingtonPost.com and Care2.com. Ed and Deb write Sprint's The Daily CHILLOUT inspirational text messages. They have three meditation CDs: Metta: Loving Kindness and Forgiveness, Samadhi: Breath Awareness and Insight and Yoga Nidra: Inner Conscious Relaxation. Deb is also the author of the best-selling book Your Body Speaks Your Mind, winner of the 2007 Visionary Book Award. Keep Reading More from Ed and Deb Shapiro: Published 06/11/2010 Do you go with your heart or mind?Cognition vs.
Seventy-nine percent of the people that Medical Alert Buyers Guide polled said they use their head to make decisions, but 21% used their heart. Even more people ditched the heart when it came to work-related decisions: 68% agree that following one's heart when making business decisions clouds judgment.
Who said sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows?Paulo Coelho on Twitter: "Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept something that your mind already knows" / Twitter.
What's the difference between heart and mind?The heart is believed to be related to emotional sentiments such as love, kindness, affection, caring, etc. while the mind is associated with capacities like logic, rational, education, knowledge, memory, judgement, etc.
How do you follow your heart and not your mind?The best way to follow your heart is to listen to what you want and not to what your head says other people expect of you so you can be free to do what you care about. Since this is harder than it sounds, practice listening to your heart to ask yourself regularly what you truly feel.
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