Step 6 -Follow your Heart
Dare to be happy ! Live a life of joy and happiness instead of a life of imprisonment!

Learn how to be free of other’s demands or expectations
Learn how to break away from judgment
Lean what makes you happy and brings you joy.

The Understanding of Following Your Heart

Dare to be happy! You have a life destiny! You can be free of other’s demands or expectations. This is a key element to manifesting your dreams; yet first you need to be clear on what you desire and know how to go for it without interruption.

“Don’t let someone who gave up on their dreams, talk you out of yours!”

All you need do is follow the voice of your heart to realize your greatest potential and live they way you choose; doing only those things that bring you happiness.

There are multiple ways to follow your heart to your happiness and all the other wonderful things you intend to have in life. The quickest and most empowering way is being free to express the real you without concern of the opinion or judgment of others.

"When you get clear about your heart's desires; the Universe steps up in magnificent ways to support you!"- Heather Ann Amora

Stop thinking and trying to figure out how to follow your heart; as the answer from the logical mind will only be unending demanding reminders of your, so called, responsibilities or obligations to your job, family and others?

Relax for just a moment and give your brain a rest! The how and way to is not your job to figure out. That postion belongs to feeling what is right for you; and then surrendering to your intuiton who will direct you to all the details to deliver your happiness and all else you desire. Your part is to feel it out by following the inspiration voiced by your heart.

To follow your heart; you must be present with your emotions to be assured of what feels good and realize what makes you happy to begin with. If you don’t already know what brings you joy; then this step will help you know for sure what makes you smile. Logic has no place here; the rational mind does not get to interfere with imagination. Do not allow yourself to get caught in the trap of limiting what you are capable of having, or achieving based on what your present conditions; such as finances or education or whatever. To base what can be on what is; is nothing more than non-sense.

Feeling good is your heart speaking to you through your emotions to allow you to become aware of what if right for you and what is not. You do not need to hesitate to seek anyone else’s advice or opinion before you follow your heart’s direction; as others are not your higher inner authority and do not know what is right or wrong for you.

Please note, following your heart by doing what feels good for you does not give you license to inflict harm on others. When I am speaking of doing what feels right; right is based on a healthy mental and emotional aspect having high regard for life and all others. Following your heart is also fully knowing all others are  to be treated with love, honor and respect. Following your heart does not permit you to impose your will upon another person, place, animal or thing just because it gives you a charge.

Following the direction of your heart by engaging your thoughts, words, actions and deeds in what feels good to you in any given moment; brings about the much desired trust in self and peace of mind that permits you to leap into the adventure of life in any given moment.

As you practice following your heart you will never force yourself to do anything even if that something once felt good in a past moment and in the present it does not. We continually shift and change and what may have been right for us in the past, may no longer serve our happiness in the present or the future; as one moment you will feel very inspired to act on something and absolutely be in joy with it. A few hours later you may not feel so motivated and thusly if you force yourself out of a sense of obligation, it becomes work rather than play and obviously is no longer joyful or right for you at that time.

Many of you have words confused, like responsibility and obligation. Most people will claim they are acting responsibly when they are really perceiving obligation. Responsibility is the ability to respond to self with love, whatever self is feeling in any given moment and the moment changes constantly. Sometimes you may feel happy, sometimes sad, sometimes angry, sometimes tired; whatever the feeling; honor it and be with it in the moment it arises. The uncomfortable feelings pass quickly with loving acknowledgment of them. They are free to move on because they have been heard and felt. If you deny their voice, you only suppress them and there they can fester; keeping you from moving forward with joy, love and happiness.

Obligation is more related to participating in another’s expectations or demands; you may not really feel like doing it. Even though you sense resistance; you perform upon another’s demands because you fear the loss of something; i.e. loss of money, loss of love, loss of whatever, it matters not because it is nothing more than fear.
Out of obligation we carry out a task that is not joyful and end up exhausted, angry and resentful; especially when we don’t receive gratitude or acknowledgment in return. This is not loving for self or for anyone else either. Obligatory words, thoughts, actions or deeds will never lead to your happiness; they enable unhealthy behavior rather than support your joyful well-being.

It is time for you to stop forcing yourself into obliging things for others, as you have already found one moment you may feel some sense of self-worth; but before long you will feel victimized and valueless. Obligation will always end up with you doing more for others than you do for yourself; leaving you with no time, money or other forms of energy available for you.

When you live continually in obligation; you are doing nothing more than insisting on living in a hell of victimization by others. You continually project blame or responsibility onto others for what has happened to you or for not having the courage to follow your heart. You fear who you truly are and hide behind others, holding them accountable for what you are afraid of accomplishing. You live in the viscous cycle of incorrectly perceiving you are obligated to and as a result blame partners, children, parents and many others for holding you back or not supporting you in some manner or another; rather than owning the responsibility of how you hold yourself back when you choose to live in the lower ego levels of the state of fear. It is time to be responsible by responding to the heart of self with the love and light of your divine magnificence, rather than continue to simply survive.

We all have engaged in a mundane ego based survival rather than to follow our heart's intentions and desires on the adventurous journey of life. You remain a victim because you think this feels good to you and no one or thing has the power to take away what you wish to feel. This is why it is imperative to follow healthy feel goods rather than continuing to punish yourself with abusive behavior that doesn't do anything more than temporarily satiate an insatiable ego who manipulates you into believing a feel bad is really a feel good.

Continuing to feel bad, while rationalizing that it feels good, is nothing more than harming yourself and adds insult to your multiple injuries. It fuels your sadness rather than gaining you joy.

Following your heart is the only way to achieve genuine happiness. It matters not if your life is short, as it is far better to live a responsible self-loving short life consisting of a few months, weeks, days or even a few hours in blissfully loving freedom of self-expression, than it is to live to a ripe old age in a prison of mental and emotional slavery of the victimization of insisting on being right in feeling bad rather than following your heart to happiness.

We all have been conditioned to fear following our hearts. We are afraid we will make a mistake, scared to death of choosing incorrectly. The beauty of it all is; whatever you choose you are fully empowered and have the authority to change if and when you determine it doesn’t really make you happy. You need not ignore your exciting inspiration any longer because you have that other voice in your head that warns of caution and steals your dreams.
 
Is it any wonder why so many in this world seem to lack compassion and understanding for self and others? How can they be any different, as they were most likely coerced and manipulated into making the lower mental ego mind more important than the very feeling sense of the soul self within their heart? They have been taught to survive in fear rather than live in love and happiness.

Go ahead, take a risk; follow your heart and dare to be happy!

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