Heart Healing -
Healing The Broken Heart
by Dr Silvia Hartmann
Heart Healing Introduction |
Importance of Heart Healing |
Self
Heart Healing |
Benefits of
Heart Healing | Heart
Center |
Healing Hands |
Heart Healing
Prayer Meditation
The "heart of energy" is the center
of our energy body and the true ruler of how we experience
life, what we think, and what we do. All major human
emotions are "cries from the heart" - joy, love, ecstasy
just as well as sorrow, pain, anger and fear. For 12,000
years or more, human beings have unsuccessfully tried to run
their worlds via the mind and it has not worked to bring
about a true emergence of Even Flow - a harmony of all in
mind, body and spirit. Here is a very simple yet very
profound technique for "Healing The Heart", a powerful tool
for all who seek healing or are actively involved in human
actualisation.
In ancient text, the "heart" is
held to be the king of the energy system - the ruler. You
can read more about this
here.
Although I do not consider the
energy systems a hierarchy, but view them as an interactive
ecology, I also believe the energetic heart to be of central
importance.
In my simple pyramid model of the
human energy system, it is clearly the heart system which
sets the experiences of a person - or in other words, if
they feel pain, fear and sadness with all the corresponding
effects on thoughts, beliefs, choices and actions; and let
us not forget the toll this takes on the body directly and
in second hand fashion through poisonous addictions and
behaviours.
The heart system also provides the
other kinds of emotional energies which likewise produce the
opposite effect - joy, love, ecstasy, happiness, feeling at
home and light, effortless, balanced.
Most importantly, the feedback from
the heart systems sets the mental states for people. Simply
put, if you are happy in yourself, you think positive,
loving thoughts; you see opportunities everywhere and you
have the enthusiasm and energy to do something with them.
To me, it is of utmost importance
to take the healing of our heart into our own hands.
Let me explain just why I consider
this so important.
You might well be familiar with the
wonderful feeling of "being in love". The entire world looks
as though it has been freshly washed and polished for you;
rain clouds smile at you; gravity is much reduced, or so it
seems.
You find a smile for every tramp,
for every beggar and all your tasks seem so easy all of a
sudden.
Being in love is indeed, a
wonderful feeling.
Unfortunately, it is really easy to
mistakenly attribute this state of being to another
person or even, another entity, such as a prophet or
spirit.
Because this particular person
triggered the state of being in love, it seems logical that
it was THEIR love which caused this wonderful feeling and
being, but consider this.
How many rich people, for example,
have been simply targetted by a ruthless trickster who
didn't love them at all, but just pretended that they did?
And believed it, and as a result of
this, danced off joyously, entirely happy, entirely in love?
No real love was ever given at all,
and all that joy and happiness was entirely generated WITHIN
the person themselves - the state of being in love was
always theirs, and theirs alone.
It is such a shame that people
don't know this, or if they do, don't really appreciate what
that means. If they did, they could no longer be blackmailed
by false gurus, tricksters and con men and women into having
to pay for being allowed to feel loved. If they did, they
would no longer be terrified that "this one person" might
leave them one day, and with them, all that love would
disappear, leaving them lost and their heart broken, all
alone.
Having a go at healing your own
heart, as best as you can, sets you free from second parties
and their attempts to manipulate you on the one hand, and on
the other hand, makes sure that your heart receives true
love at last, which is what it really needs to heal.
Although the false love of a
trickster can make a person feel better for a time, or while
they are under the spell of the trickster, as soon as the
spell goes, the good feelings go as well.
When you address your own heart
directly and give it your own love, you will be giving true
healing love which is what your heart needed all along and
you will be twice empowered by being both the giver as well
as the receiver.
I have said many times that our
energy systems are not working as well as they could. The
energy of "love" is something which is generated by the
heart; so if someone's heart is broken, they will not be
able to generate this energy as powerfully as would
otherwise be the case.
Many people feel because of this
that their healing might not be good enough or it might not
work; or that they have to seek out a great healer so that
these might heal their broken heart for them.
However, in the realms of energy it
is not the quantity that counts, or the so called purity, or
power, or anything like that. A prophet once said that the
tears of a prostitute, honestly shed, were worth her
salvation when the bowl of gold from a rich man was nowhere
near enough.
I sometimes use the simile of a
learning disabled child who after years and years of trying
their heart out says their first word. It's just a single
syllable, nothing more and yet in energetic
healing terms it is
worth a million times more than a mindbogglingly clever
speech a bored university educated artist might spout forth
at any time.
To give ALL you have to give
is the key to heart healing and to
healing your broken heart. Whatever it is, however little
or however much, whatever you have, if you give it freely
and willingly and with all your heart, it will be powerful
and it will begin the healing process in that instant.
If your heart is "broken" and ALL
you have is 15%, then that ALL is ALL and as powerful as it
could possibly be.
That is why your healing will be so
effective and so powerful; and although as more of your
heart's systems come on line, are restored, refreshed and
re-energised your healing will become more powerful, it will
always only be as effective as your will to give your all.
Even if one was to consider the
energy system of the heart in a strictly technical sense as
the nuclear reactor at the very center of our energy body,
it would be immediately obvious that just about everything
else depends on the state of function and the output of this
reactor.
Personally, I believe that all the
major human emotions are "cries from the heart" - joyful and
terrified both, it matters not.
What does matter however is the
power of human emotions to drive endeavour, totally control
thought, absolutely impact the body and of course, entirely
control behaviour.
For thousands of years, people have
tried to control emotions, not to have them at all and to
run the world and our affairs through the thought system.
It has blatantly failed, because
the thought system is and was always only the "general" the
true "king" - the heart.
It is the heart which gives the
orders and the mind which tries to carry them out, and
really it is as simple as that. Emotion overrides logic,
every time and to try and cut out your heart leads to
nothing but nonsense, misery, and enormous suffering in
mind, body and spirit.
Heal the heart and the mind MUST
follow suit. It cannot do any other. It is structurally
impossible to feel vibrantly happy and to think suicide; to
feel love and think hatred or revenge; to be joyous and
think sad thoughts. Intelligence, insight and creativity are
all at their very peak when there are mental states of
clarity and connectedness, when everything flows cleanly and
a person is absolutely grounded in their own selves, and in
the here and now.
Lastly, I would draw your attention
to a further benefit of concentrating on the heart that I
consider to be of supreme importance and impact on the
quality of a persons life.
People "think" the most bizarre
things about themselves. Whether they are having delusions
of grandeur, or delusions of misery or whether they are
wildly fluctuating between the two matters little; all of
these delusions are thought-constructs and worth - nothing.
Yet, their churning and conflicting
messages and motivations cause THE most intense problems to
people on a long term basis; some settle with one kind of
construct or another and this will functionally become their
very own cage from which they will never be able to escape;
others drive themselves insane vacillating between this and
that from day to day, always at the mercy of a stranger's
look or comment to send them into a spiral of misery, or on
a brief and just as ill-fated journey of delight.
All these different self-constructs
are nothing but fragile thought forms at the energetic
level, and none of them actually have a true heart - only
the REAL energy body has that.
By focussing on the one and only
real heart, a stabilisation of the true self begins to
occur. It becomes clearer and clearer and ever more
powerfully apparent what is really the self - the true
totality - and what was nothing but a half formed thought
form, created from pain or confusion, as an accident, as a
shield from fear or pain or simply because it was pushed on
an individual from the outside.
By focussing on simply healing our
hearts, we begin the process of getting to know ourselves
again, to find out who we really are. What our true heart's
desires are. What is real and what was always just an
illusion.
So, I would offer you the simple
heart healing meditation to try for yourself and find out
for yourself what it can do for you. It takes no time at all
and can be done for its own sake; indeed I would encourage
you strongly to consider giving some attention to your heart
of energy in the same way that you would remember to brush
your teeth. Hearts go on when teeth have long become
history, trust me, it is really worth it on so many levels,
for so many reasons.
You can also use this very, very
simple healing technique at any time you are sad, or
frightened, and when you feel lonely.
It really doesn't matter why you
feel the way you do, who it was that broke your heart or
what happened in the past. When your heart is really healed,
there will be no more history. You will be you and you will
be new. In this spirit, this technique does not require any
investigation and hardly any thought - just the will to
healing and the gesture is quite enough.
Should you ever find yourself in a
place where you cannot place your hands on your heart, it is
equally effective to imagine the healing hands on your heart
of energy, allowing your own energy system, who knows you
the best and most intimately in all the world, do what must
be done to help restore the Even Flow.
Simply follow the instructions
given in the poem below. You might like to repeat the poem
as you place your healing hands on your own heart to help
you focus your mind on healing the heart, and to get into
the right attitude and state of being. Hold the posture for
as long as you want, or just a minute or two; when you are
done for now, take a deep breath in and out and come back to
ordinary awareness. Please do not be deceived by the
apparent simplicity of this method. The most powerfully
effective principles in this world have a habit of being
extremely simple, and the theory and practice of Heart
Healing are an example of this.

The Heart Healing Prayer Meditation
Place your own
healing hands
on your own
broken heart
with the gentleness
and with exquisite care
the care
you would afford
a tiny frozen bird
you found
there on your doorstep.
With your gentle
healing hands
speak in your touch
of warmth and love
of your desire
to make whole
what once was broken,
of your desire and your will
to right what once was wronged.
Whisper softly,
I will do
what I can
for you,
my little love.
Fear not.
I am here for you.
For sure, I am no angel
but what I have to give,
I give to you.
Heart Healing -
Copyright Silvia Hartmann May 2003.
Heart Healing Introduction |
Importance of Heart Healing |
Self
Heart Healing |
Benefits of
Heart Healing | Heart
Center |
Healing Hands |
Heart Healing
Prayer Meditation
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