Dear Ones, we are wanting to let you know that the heart is not as fragile as you believe it to be!
Many people guard their hearts as if they were gold bullion, solid and impervious to hurt by sheer force of their will. Your heart is born beating and flexible and open to all the love in the world. Circumstances teach you that sometimes you will feel pain in your heart when others make choices that hurt you. For most the response is to build a wall around their heart so that the energy of hurt cannot cause more pain to them. For others they make a decision to believe that they are not worthy of love, that there is no one who will love them as much as they desire to be loved and so they shut down their hearts and decide not to give love, in case they are hurt in the giving that is not returned.
We would tell you that there is always more love to give and to receive and that building walls around your heart prevents the flow of love that is the healthiest state for a human heart to inhabit. We are not talking just about romantic love but about that essential love that wishes for the good of another, that is selfless and that is appreciative. Romantic love flows from this essential love.
When you concentrate on giving love and being open to receiving love, you can find love in the places you might least suspect to find it. Lovingly giving something to a homeless person or a child can open you to receiving a smile of appreciation, a hug filled with love. Taking care of someone in need, visiting the sick, helping an old or infirm parent, giving a fun experience to a child ? all of these are opportunities to give love and to receive love in return. But if you have built a wall around your heart, your generosity will come from a place that is ego, not filled with love. And you will be denying yourself the opportunity to receive love.
Try interacting with others from a place of open heartedness. Give love without expectation and allow yourself to be open to receiving love. You will find that there is great satisfaction in this and that you will be happier when you are not spending your energy in maintaining walls around your heart. Spend your energy sharing love on a two-way street!
And so it is. Blessings to you!
Mystic Messages 