Unkink Your Heart!

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~Rumi

Do you want to fall in love? Of course, we all do! Falling in love feels great! Remember what it felt like when you first fell in love? Your heart opened and your breath felt free and easy inside your chest. You had a whole new appreciation for the beauty of life. The future appeared bright and full of possibilities. You were content in the present moment and excited about all the happy moments that were coming your way in the future.

What is stopping you from feeling like this every day? Afterall, when you first fell in love and felt all warm and fuzzy inside, it was your heart that was opening. The experience of love flowing through your being is what felt so good at the time, not the love coming to you from someone else.

Rumi believes that love inherently exists within each of us. Love is our basic emotional state, although it is often buried under accumulated layers of stress and emotional baggage. Therefore, to experience love right now, you don’t need to seek it out or acquire it from an external source, you simply need to dissolve the blocks inside your heart that inhibit its natural flow.

Imagine an old, tangled hose that is attached to a water faucet. If you turn the faucet on, water will start to flow into the hose. However, if there are any kinks in the hose, the water will get stuck. The moment that you remove all the kinks, the water will begin to flow freely again. In the same way, love is always flowing through your heart but your fears, insecurities, and past traumas act as kinks, impeding its flow. So, this Valentine’s Day, unkink your heart! Let go of your fears, take a deep breath into your chest, and allow yourself to fall in love all over again.