The Important Differences Between the Human Heart and the Spiritual Heart

(This blog post is an excerpt from the newly released “Compassion Alive and Meaningful”)

The Human Heart

The human Heart is conditional. It can be open or closed, Loving or withholding of Love. It can Judge some situations harshly and embrace others. It can Love some people and not others. The human Heart can Love then be subject to dishonesty or betrayal, and in a flash not Love and become conditional.

For better or worse, it is our destiny as human beings to experience all of the aspects of the human Heart. Our experiences are meant to keep us present in our life. They subject us to feelings of Bliss and also those that make us retreat in pain. This is the gift of duality! It is the knowledge of what we label ‘good’ and ‘bad’ that shows us where to travel next. We can choose to stay with our suffering and misaligned intentions – or we can choose to chase the Blissful feelings we have tasted. A third choice would be to choose to evolve through all of our experiences – those that are painful and those that are blissful.

The Spiritual Heart

When the spiritual Heart determines that Love is needed, the request is not examined for its validity. Love is freely given regardless of the circumstances. Not only is it spontaneously given, it is absolutely unconditionally given.

When the spiritual Heart gives, it does not require Gratitude or even Acceptance. To require either would make the gesture conditional and the spiritual Heart has no knowledge of agenda. It only knows to share Loving Compassion when it is awakened to the need for it. It shares its gifts unconditionally – and it does so easily and spontaneously because it is always open.

The Spiritual Seeker’s Search for Resolution

The spiritual seeker longs to be open and Loving to a fault, but still lives on Earth where the potential for Judgment and conditional Love are also options. Most seekers live in both worlds traveling blissful, as well as, uncomfortable terrain. Duality gives us both options – not to show us the error of our Earthly choices but because we need both experiences for our personal evolution on a soul level – and because we can not feel Compassionate unless we witness pain and suffering with our eyes and Heart open.

It is how we manage a challenge that determines our success not the actual choice we make – because in truth, any intention to offer Compassion to self or others is a good one.

The spiritual Heart chooses Love easily. It gives us clarity and easy passage. But in our Earthly lives, we do not always choose Love when challenged. Sometimes we choose to Judge and travel in darkness – always for the sake of evolution.

As spiritual seekers, if we do not consciously choose our direction, we will be led to a place where we will see the gift in our choices. We will not feel victimized because our Trust will be deep and wide.

Wherever we journey, however we get there, we know we are traveling exactly where we need to go to fulfill our personal goals.

This is something the spiritual seeker must understand to feel fulfilled:

We can not choose incorrectly. We are always being guided to exactly where we need to go and to exactly what we need to see to evolve. This happens because it is what we declared when we decided to evolve spiritually. It is important that we allow ourselves to be present in whatever unfolds in our lives, and to ask truthfully and without Judgment, the quintessential question – “Why am I here?”

If we lack Self-Compassion, we will probably find this difficult to do.

It is Self-Compassion that motivates us to see beyond the choices that derail us without derision – and to choose a new direction.

If we can feel Self-Compassion no matter what configures in our own personal lives, we can make it the motivation for The Answer.
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This article is an excerpt from my just released book called “Compassion Alive and Meaningful” available at TheWellnessBookshop
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Written by Corinne S. Ramage, Leader in True Wellness® Studies
Creator of The Spiritual Healthcare Network of online programs
Author of “Compassion Alive and Meaningful”

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The Awakening Heart

The human Heart is called to awaken when challenges are their Darkest – and when Beauty reaches a magnitude of expression that can not be processed. When Tragedy or Beauty occur at a magnitude greater than what seems bearable, the Heart is called to break open to reach out beyond its boundaries. It does this to birth into a new level of possibilities and productivity.

The Heart must break open and awaken to hold information it is offered. The calling is to break the restrictions to receiving more information, and to open the door of the Heart to new data that requires processing.

The awakened Heart has new eyes and ears to Beauty and Tragedy. It also has a new strength that allows for Right Action to be contemplated and acted upon.

The awakened Heart knows duality without limits. It processes the most horrific event, as well as, the most beautiful. Unlike the human Heart that can be stunned into non action, the awakened Heart must see and respond. It has the potential to effect meaningful change because it blankets and shifts What Is for the Highest Good. The energy vibration of the awakened Heart trusts so completely and absolutely that the Highest Good can configure as it must without any interference.

The awakened Heart then
1) sees and hears What Is without the restrictions of personal fear or egoic intentions
2) must respond with Right Action and
3) trusts implicitly in what unfolds.

The awakened Heart is called to respond with Right Action to the expressions of Tragedy and Beauty. In the case of Tragedy this means the action would be to relieve the pain; and in the case of Beauty, the action would be to share the joy. The awakened Heart must be present and must respond in the worst of times and the best of times.

DEFINITION: The Awakened Heart is fully aware of What Is, is deeply trusting, is infinitely Compassionate, and must respond with Right Action.

DEFINITION: Right Action is a spontaneous expression born out of Compassion that unconditionally serves What Is.

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Written by Corinne S. Ramage, Leader in True Wellness® Studies
Creator of The Spiritual Healthcare Network of online programs
Author of “The Art and Practice of True Wellness” and many other enlightening and inspiring books