Moving with your heart
Have you ever taken the time to listen to your heart truly, to see what your heart wants to say to you? I was reading this book called all about love by Bell Hooks. This book is fantastic, and I believe everyone should give it a read.
This book has many gems, but the page that stood out to me was the intro page, as shown in the image below. On this page, Bell Hooks brought to light that we can converse with our hearts. It was interesting to read because society often tells us not to listen, yet speak to our hearts because they believe our hearts lead us astray. In all actuality, our hearts never lead us astray. However, our unhealed trauma wounds cause us not to trust that our hearts will guide us in the right direction.
In my life, I began to lose sight of trusting in my heart because pain and human nature blamed my heart for breaking. Going through my healing journey, I realized that my heart was not physically broken. Yes, the pain of whatever I faced hurt, but my heart was not to blame. When I looked back on my journey with love, I realized that my heart was giving me insight into particular situations in the form of warning signals such as uneasiness, tension in my chest, or feeling unsure. Still, I failed to trust my heart, aka myself, because I listened more to what I was seeing within a person rather than some of the warning signals my heart was giving me regarding people or even my desires that were not helpful to me. Once I began to talk with myself and listen to my heart, I learned to release anything that didn’t feel like a pure expression of love. My heart is full of love because I know God. If things don’t express a passion similar to God’s love where I feel safe, protected, sure, and confident, that is how I know this love is not mine to keep, and I talk it all out with my heart, and then I’m then okay to release anything that is not for me.
Learning my heart and conversing with it made it easy to live in this world because I understand that not everyone knows their heart. Not everyone knows what love is, and I am not usually the one that handles healing them. Even though it’s not my job to heal anyone, I can still find it in my heart to give grace and understanding and pray that they can one day learn to trust their hearts and let love lead the way.
I pray that anyone who reads this finds a way to learn to trust their hearts and continue to let love lead the way. As you have conversations with your heart and understand what love looks like. I pray it becomes easier for you to recognize how love should look and feel. Knowing what love genuinely is allows you to give grace and walk away from anything that isn’t loving. I love you, and I pray that you find peace and true love.
With love,
E
