THE	Power OF THE	Heart

THE ONLY TRUE POWER IS LOVE. Love is the Source and the power of everything in existence, of everything that has ever existed or will ever exist. And Love comes from the heart.

The heart was designed to be master of the mind -- but the mind has grown to dominate in most of us. The mind seeks any opportunity to overrule the heart.

The following quotations are from Love Without End: Jesus Speaks... (by Glenda Green). It's probably the most miraculous and beautiful book I've ever read. I say that as someone who was raised a "Christian" and had never, until reading this book, been able to relate to Jesus. As presented in the Bible, He never appeared to me as a believable human being.

The story of his appearance to Glenda Green is miraculous in itself (and is told in the book). Glenda had long conversations with Him, hours every day for 4 months, as she was painting his portrait! As we might expect, he talked a lot about spiritual things. As we might not expect, he also said a lot about scientific things -- about the origin and workings of the universe, for instance -- as well as explaining several things in the Bible that have long been misinterpreted or misunderstood.

This is a book -- like Michio Kushi's Book of Macrobiotics -- that, if the material in it were presented to young children as soon as they could comprehend it....what a different world we would have! (Glenda also has a website: Love Without End)

This is Jesus speaking to Glenda Green about the heart and the mind:

"The mind will actively seek to compensate or to exploit the heart's troubles, but it will never seek to remove or to cure them. For the heart's despair is the mind's option for power."

He goes on to say that "the mind can be a very good servant, if you allow it to be just that. You must realize and hold firmly to an understanding that the mind has no power of its own [emphasis mine]. The mind either integrates and projects from experience, or else it develops a logical matrix to serve, to explain, and to implement the powers of the heart and the soul. The problem arises when the heart is oriented negatively in some way toward life, because when the heart gives the mind a negative impulse such as insufficiency, insecurity, fear, or anger, the mind operates with reverse logic."

This is the sequence He describes:

Through lack of recognition and appreciation of the infinite abundance of life, a person develops "poverty consciousness" and a belief in scarcity. Once the heart is "attuned to scarcity" the mind works obsessively to find ways of making money. Though there is logic in this, it can never solve the real problem or change the belief in scarcity. Even if the person accumulates a lot of money, it only perpetuates the poverty consciousness. The person works harder and longer, always to get more money, because no amount is ever enough! A true sense of prosperity is never attained. Life is dominated by material concerns -- and inevitable unhappiness.

The same pattern can be applied to one's health. One who carries a fundamental belief in illness will struggle always to be well. The mind will discover "many ways to prevent or to remedy the ailments" -- but it will never remove the source of the problem, which is the belief in illness. Given a negative impulse, the mind works in a negative manner and is not able to solve the problem; the best it can do is to compensate for the problem.

On the other hand, one "who believes in health and wholeness will set his mind to the positive service of making it true." Likewise, a person who looks for and appreciates the infinite abundance of the natural world will spontaneously find ways of creating abundance in his own life. The crucial thing is to give the mind a positive belief as the basis for its actions.

Jesus tells Glenda this about the relationship of mind, heart and soul:

The soul is the totality of your love, awareness, experience, ability, memory, emotions, and potential which comprise your immortality. Your mind is the recorder and administrator. In this capacity the mind is a useful and important asset to your existence. But it was never built to be the commander. The mind has no power of its own, and it can't alter basic conditions.

At the center of your soul is the Sacred Heart. This is the point at which you are one with God. The heart sees infinity within and without. It can behold perfection. It can ascertain the origin of conditions and change them. The heart is your higher intelligence. It is centered in a viewpoint of infinity established by your Creator. Thus the heart honors your individuality, the oneness of God, and the integrated unity of all that is.

In order to create our own abundance, Jesus tells Glenda, it's helpful to "contemplate infinity every day, inwardly as well as outwardly." She asks how to contemplate infinity inwardly, and He says:

"Infinity is not a subject limited to vast spaces -- or even to immeasurably small ones. Infinity is not about quantity at all. It's actually about quality [emphasis mine].

He goes on to say:

The heart of which I speak is not the physical organ, although the physical organ is an appropriate symbol for the true heart, because the physical organ nourishes your body with lifeblood every moment. The heart of which I speak is the central focus point of your very soul. It is the lens through which your soul integrates all of your Earthly emotions and all of your divine awareness into a focused point of infinite integrity. This point is on the threshold of your physical existence, at a point slightly below and behind your physical heart. [At another place in the book, He says the exact location of this point varies somewhat from person to person; in some it can be slightly above the physical heart.]

And further:

This is the source of power your Creator has established within you, not your mind. Your mind is merely a servant, and it behaves well if it is given positive impulses; it behaves very poorly if it is given negative impulses. The heart generates all of the Earthly emotions as well as the blissful emotions of the higher realms. But it is so much more than just emotion. It is infinite awareness, and the basis of all the higher consciousness you will ever assimilate. It is from this power, within the center of your being, that the entire script of your life is written. Live in your heart -- not in your mind -- to fulfill the script of your life or to rewrite it [emphasis mine]. Your mind is powerless to bring that about. But every desire of your heart will be fulfilled.

He advises Glenda to practice 3 things every day:

1) Gratitude and admiration
      (to strengthen the positive emotions)

2) Forgiveness
      (to disempower the negative emotions)

3) Innocent, childlike perception

Regarding perceptions, He says the mind has the tendency to alter them. In its desire for control and domination, the mind will change the perception of what is actually seen, to make it conform to its own idea of perfection or structure or desirability. This tendency brings in the element of judgment (elsewhere in the book, He points out that judgment -- the assignment of good and evil -- was the original and the only sin of humanity) -- which separates us from God.

"All you have to do," He says, "is to perceive and then to regard with honor that which is already here. Behold, be grateful, and forgive that which you did not understand or control. For life is divine, it is perfect, and it naturally manifests the will of its creator."

For more on Deliberate Creation, see:

• All is Energy
• Desire Versus Want
• Mikao Usui and Deliberate Creation
• The Secret Medicine for all Diseases
• A Template for Deliberate Creation