The Heart of Love

THE HEART OF LOVE
Breaking Through To Transformation

by Scott and Shannon Peck

Most of us are seeking or faced with transformation.

We don't generally plan for transformation. We just find ourselves in a
really stuck, uncomfortable place that needs to change. The transformation
list is long and it includes: loneliness and isolation, an inability to get
along with your loved one, feeling deeply hurt by someone, experiencing an
old physical problem that just won't improve, poor self esteem, over giving
to others and never seeming to have enough money. These are important areas
where we need our greatest transformations.

Transformation generally deals with core issues. It could be that you've
practiced anger for many years and it's no longer working for you as a
defense system. Now would be the time to learn how to feel safe, speak up,
set boundaries and trust in your higher intelligence to help you shift your
entire nervous system to one of greater self-trust, inner peace and
tranquility. If you've practiced years of anger from how you've allowed
yourself to be treated by others, you can set a new standard for how you
wish to be treated. That will also require you to change your pattern of
accepting people into your life who treat you disrespectfully or who ignore
you or who don't listen to you. Now there's transformation.

What we most need to realize is that transformation means change. It is a
transitional place where we are breaking down the problem by facing it and
trying something new to replace it and actually making changes which break
old patterns.

Transformation sometimes feels miserable, as though we're even dying. That's
part of it. Something in you needs to die in order to give birth to the new.

During transformation, we allow buried feelings and memories to surface in
order to deal with them. Perhaps it's a grief or sadness, a fear or a
disappointment. It's very healing to allow this to occur in order to clear
it once and for all. Validate these feelings as you allow yourself to
receive your love and understanding.

When old buried patterns - those we've become accustomed to - rise to the
surface, it can feel like we aren't making any progress. Yet this is a good
sign. It's essential to expose them to yourself in order to clear them out.
The result is a higher and more refined place which no longer has the energy
of the old problem. You will feel differently. You may even look around you
and wonder why everyone else doesn't realize what you now see, since it's
become so obvious to you.

Admitting the problem and facing the fear allows us to explore ways we can
courageously go forward past fears. Reminding yourself to practice faith in
a positive outcome as well as listening intuitively for the inner voice to
guide you can lead to positive transforming outcomes.

Believing that transformation is possible is a huge step towards progress.
Of course it is hard to believe when you are in the middle of a giant
challenge, but it is your spiritual right to experience transformation that
takes you closer to the Light. Knowing and acknowledging that transformation
is your natural, spiritual nature shifts your energy into receptivity,
openness and expectation of good.

Although our challenges seem to be outside our control, the answer lies
within. As you begin to explore ways to change your thinking and become more
of an observer, you will allow new ideas and possibilities to emerge which
you haven't yet considered or tried. This shift of perception is a key to
transformation. Let it happen. Be open. Let go of pushing and outlining the
solution. There's hope for our stuck positions!

If you are someone who has a daily spiritual practice of meditating or
praying, you are actually generating transformation for yourself. Millions
of people in the world practice mindful meditations in order to expose "bad
habit energy" and allow the creation of "good habit energy" to replace it.
Transformation then becomes a way of life. Breaking old patterns and
creating new, better ones is a way of ending suffering. When the mind
becomes quiet with stillness, we can see more clearly where our problems
arise and what to do about them. It works.

You deserve to live in inner peace, to express love and harmony and to
experience deep joy and beauty. Even as you finish reading this column, we
are holding the space with you for every transformation needed in your life
to take you higher into the Light. We are with you. Welcome to the heart of
love.

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Shared with Love and Light,Rosalie xo