Category: Heart Centered

Open Your Heart Big, That Is How You Will Heal Yourself And The World

1/9/2019

An open heart can illuminate the darkest of places

Today on my 10000steps gratitude meditation, I had a big download. This morning I awoke feeling very heavy hearted. So I intentionally grabbed my big rose quartz crystal (this amazing stone embodies unconditional love, forgiveness, and compassion) and mindfully I placed some doterra wild orange essential oils on my temples (wild orange has the holistic benefit of eliciting joy) and then I took off on my 4 mile ocean therapy meditation practice.

I began my practice by connecting with Mother Earth in the Palisades Park. I soulfully see the beauty, spirit, and magic in each tree, every blade grass, and every flower. Then I meditate on my internal world, I focus on each Chakra, cleansing and bringing in bright light within each sacred center. When I begin my walk on the beach, I am a clean slate and I open myself to any messages from Gaia and her gorgeous Nature spirits, my Higher Self, my angels, and my guides. Today, Mama ocean was fierce and captivating. With powerful and giant waves crashing a shore. As I was connecting with gaia consciousness and cosmic consciousness, I imagine I am a bridge between heaven on earth. I envision every single cell in my being, filled with the light of the divine. During this process I had a flash of intuitive insight. A very powerful message.

I heard to truly heal one must have your heart wide open. We are taught or programmed to shut down heart when we experience pain and heartbreak. Today I was told you must have the courage to live life with an open heart. In this powerful state of being, you heartache will be healed. In turn you can heal the collective shadow, whose heart is protected and shut off. Living from space of an open heart aligns you with the heart beat of the Earth. So much power is yours in this love field. You will receive vast expansion and,love. Imagine a number eight, flowing with love and compassion to your heart from the Earth and the Sky.

Consider what shuts your heart down? For me it is my anxiety, grief, and my fears. I realized to truly heal my wounds, I must open the heart wide. Connecting with telluric heart beat of Gaia and the Cosmos. Opening your heart big heals all wounds. This is where truly healing occurs.

Just like in ancient Egypt believed in the after world your heart would be weighed against Maat's feather of truth. "To reach the eternal paradise of the Field of Reeds, however, one had to pass through the trial by Osiris, Lord of the Underworld and just Judge of the Dead, in the Hall of Truth (also known as The Hall of Two Truths), and this trial involved the weighing of one's heart against the feather of truth.The goddess Ma'at, personification of the cultural value of ma'at (harmony and balance) would also be present and these would be surrounded by the Forty-Two Judges who would consult with these gods on one's eternal fate." states The Egyptian After world and the Feather of Truth. While in Egypt I had a dream on our plane ride to Abu Simbel. A voice said I had a very heavy heart filled with wounds. Over the past ten months, this lightening of my heart has been a transformative process.

The way of the feather is everyday we must open our heart, forgive, let go, surrender, and let the light in. This how we will reach our greatest potential. This how we will connect with strangers from the heart centered place. As intuitive Lee Harris says, "True connection will be what actually saves the planet."

Living from an open heart, this is how will transform our world into better more empathic, benevolent, altruistic, and caring place.

Try it! Today, practice on opening your heart and see what transpires.

Here is a couple Harmonia Practice Tips to Open Your Heart

- Best to do this outside in nature if you can. Then holistically breath into your heart space. Connect with your Heart Chakra as you breath, visual a beautiful green sphere in the middle of your chest, swirling around. There also a wonderful practice called Dolphin Breath, where you mindfully pull your breath from the crown of your head down into your heart. Then you consciously pull up your breath from the crystal core of earth into your heart. Then exhale. Read more about the dolphin breathe HERE.

-Embody self love and compassion in all of your Chakra's.
-Be grateful. Fill yourself up with three things you are thankful for.
-Make deep connections with strangers.
- Incorporate essential oils into this practice. Best ones for the heart are Juniper, Rose, Wild Orange, Sandlewood, Helichrysum, Chamomile
- Buy rose quartz to mediate with
-Do simple yoga poses to open your heart: Child's Pose, Cobra, Cat Pose, Camel, and Eagle
-While in this state create a mandala of your deepest hearts desire.

#intentionalliving #heartcentered #telluric #field #heartmath

Muse and Artivist

Lisa Rasmussen MFA is the Founder and Director of the Harmonia Institute. Lisa Rasmussen—artist, educator, curator, life coach, arts and healing practitioner, and art advocate—believes art can change and heal the world.

Lisa is the Co-Founder and Practitioner of Artemis Sacred Journeys. Which women's empowerment retreats to Tinos Greece. Rasmussen also served as Executive Director and Co-Founder of Art 4 All People and AY Atelier Art, an international Center for arts and consciousness in Malibu, CA. She is also Co-Founder/Co-Director of the non-profit, Art is Moving and International Art Break Day, an annual community arts event that has been held in the U.S., India, Mexico, and West Africa.

Rasmussen is an award-winning professional painter, who has been represented in galleries in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. As well as Lisa’s work has been in numerous solo and group exhibits and publications. For her painting is a very visceral, physical, and metaphysical process. Rasmussen’s paintings have been called abstract expressionism, with a spiritual twist. Her paintings reflect her holistic worldview and her deep connection with the natural world. For Rasmussen, art making is a transcendental experience. When she paints, Rasmussen taps into a force greater than herself; a force that creates through her. Each painting is a product of her dance with divinity. Through her process she hopes to invoke in herself and the viewer a deeper connection to the world within and around us through reflection and inspiration. Early on Lisa developed a thirst for travel and distant cultures. A key conceptual element of her artistic process is the study and travel to ancient cultures and sacred sites around the world. Some of her travel adventures include Nepal, Greece, Egypt, Peru, Ireland, and Brazil. She has also lived and taught English in the mountains of South, China, as well as she had studied antiquities, the Art of the Renaissance, and Ceramics in Florence, Italy.

Rasmussen is also known as a pioneering and passionate arts educator. For many years, she has taught art to residents of under-served, at-risk communities. In 2006, she created the Transformative Art Program at a mental health institute in Oakland, CA for emotionally traumatized youth, ages 5-14. Her art therapy program to create public youth art installations and gallery exhibits garnered awards, grants and media attention.

Rasmussen worked as a fine arts consultant at the prestigious Merrill Chase Gallery in Chicago and The Weinstein Gallery in San Francisco. She also managed The Red Door Gallery & Collective, a grassroots art-reach gallery in Oakland, CA. Rasmussen earned her BA in Sculpture and Ceramics and her MFA in Arts and Consciousness from John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, CA. She earned several academic awards, including Graduate Student of the Year, in 2008, and Alumni of the Year, in 2013.

Open Your Heart Big, That Is How You Will Heal Yourself And The World

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