~take a comment to heart
~feeling a heart connection~a bleeding heart
~a heart-to-heart
~after my own heart
~absence makes the heart grow
fonder
~have a change of heart
~eat your heart out
~a heart of stone; a heart of gold
~coming from the heart
These words
don’t refer to the heart physiologically, they refer to it in an emotional
state which can illustrate our strong
relationship between mind and body.
While many in the medical community may not put a lot of stock in the
strong connection between the physical and emotional, there are lots of
metaphysical followers, including me, who do. It is a growing trend to accept
just how much our thoughts and emotions significantly affect our physical
beings.
Whenever I
have a problem, a situation that is causing me grief, I take it to heart. What
I do literally is sit in silence, as in meditation, and think of something
positive, something that brings me joy. Usually I think about my cat, Kali. When I am
feeling love and joy for her, I visualize the heart in my chest begin to open
and expand. This hole that begins to widen in my heart contains that love and
joy I am feeling. When I’m all comfy with this joy, I take that problem
situation or person and plunk it right
down in the middle of that hole in my heart. My problem becomes all enveloped in that joy and love. But how does that help me?
