The heart is the true home of the mind.

The heart is the true home of the mind. The mind is Not home in the scattered, reactive limbic brain. Here I am referring to the mind as the deeper consciousness the sages speak of— luminous awareness.
Conscious presence.

We are not our thoughts or beliefs. We are not our emotions or reactions. We are not even the personality. They all change! What remains the same is the pulse beneath it all— the original essence.

My heart is beating — and that is real. Everything else is simply an imprint to be unraveled: a memory of the past, a projection of the future, a survival pattern rehearsing pain. That all keeps me caged away from truly living. But this pulse, this breath, this presence — is now. This is freedom. This is life. And it's so simple, the practice.

When we can bring awareness to the actual physical beat of our heart, while resting in the rhythm of our breath, something profound happens. The nervous system begins to settle. The brain begins to shift from the grip of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn — into the pre-frontal cortex of coherence, into harmony.... into the muse!

This isn’t just poetic. It’s physiological. The awareness of the heartbeat in conjunction with riding the breath through the spine, deeply affects the nervous system, and actually reroutes the brain from chaos into calm.
This is the heart temple I return to breath by breath.
This is my path.

The true seat of consciousness is not in the head. When we live in the head, we are lost — tossed like a tiny ship in a stormy sea. But the heart is shore. It is home. And it’s not an idea. It’s an actual place inside the body. When I live from here — when I feel instead of overthink, respond instead of react — I reclaim my life. I become truly self-responsible, able to respond creatively to what life presents to me moment by moment— versus living in a constant state of reactivity.
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In this heartbeat, I remember I am here.
And from here, anything is possible.
This is the ground of manifestation within the physical realm.

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