Do you live your life with your heart open to receiving love and new opportunities or do you tend to shield yourself? We often believe we are safer by living with our hearts encased, attempting to protect ourselves from our vulnerability.
The pain we can feel from loss makes us question if opening up to receiving is worth it. The suffering we feel from loss can be so torturous our self protection instinct is often shutting down and closing our hearts off. If we chose this path, what do we gain other than the relief a false sense of control momentarily brings us? I can’t think of one thing we gain by choosing to close our hearts off. We will still experience loss, but without the possibility of love alongside the loss. I think there is much greater risk in not trusting, feeling, and loving than there is to opening our hearts to new possibilities. Life seems to bring more of these opportunities when we are open to them.
Living with an open heart is a way of life and something we have to practice over and over again, especially as we experience heartache. Giving and receiving love takes work; it is a muscle in need of constant exercise. What would it feel like to trust ourselves enough to know when we open our hearts we will be okay, regardless of the outcome? Contrary to what we may think, we have a lot to lose regardless of whether our hearts are open or closed - so why not open our hearts?
What would it feel like to expand from a lens of fear to one of possibility by opening ourselves up a bit? It will be scary at times but what is the greater risk? We have everything to gain by opening our hearts to new experiences, relationships, opportunities, and love. We have so much to miss out on by withholding and shielding our hearts.
The world is not against us. This is not about trusting others. It is about trusting our own hearts.
xx,
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