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Your spiritual heart is intuitive. That is one of the reasons why the response of your spiritual heart is so insightful.

The two-and-a-half watts of electrical energy generated by your beating heart creates an electromagnetic field. Some scientists have called that heart-generated field the intuitive field. As the physical heart changes and is impacted by the spiritual heart, it enhances our intuitive capacity.

At the school bus stop, the change I made by activating my spiritual heart opened my intuitive connection with my children. In that moment I intuitively understood their stress, their frustrations and their needs. When my head, with its frustration, was creating the world I saw, that intuitive connection was shut down. That intuitive field was closed .

When Anna connected with her spiritual heart, she understood her brother and what would make a difference in her situation. Her heart’s wisdom used that intuitive insight to direct her into a path of action that was effective for her.

I’m sure you have been in that same situation, with someone you cared about, where you suddenly had an intuitive insight. You “knew” or had an understanding into their situation, and saw a way to be of help. That is the intuitive capacity we access most easily and directly though our spiritual hearts.

The scientists are able to explain the biophysical and electromagnetic changes that result in the opening of this intuitive capacity. With it, we sense and understand the needs of those around us at a deeper level. My children in our car, when we missed the bus, had needs and experiences that I sensed and understood when my heart opened, giving me access to my intuition.

I have noticed that I perceive the world differently when I am in my spiritual heart. I am aware of what is taking place around me at a different level. This intuitive capacity of the spiritual heart will result in your perceiving your situations as a whole. You will find that you understand the situation with sensitivity to other’s roles and needs, as well as your own. Your new understanding will include expanded feelings and thoughts, as well as expanded awareness. The spiritual heart’s wisdom can direct you to an effective interaction with this greater whole that you now perceive.

The importance of this amazing intuitive capacity of your heart is hard to overestimate. For most of us, the vast majority of our challenges involve other people.

Have you found yourself in situations that were becoming difficult because you didn’t know what the other person was thinking or feeling? The way they were responding made no sense to you? Without your intuition, you were left out of important information that was influencing your world. In those kinds of situations, I have found that when my spiritual heart was activated, I gained some understanding of the other person. Suddenly I was able to glimpse into their thoughts, needs and feelings .

I went from feeling separate or isolated from that person to finding myself understanding, or at least having a sense of how to respond to them. I found a sense of connection with them, thanks to the intuitive capacity of my spiritual heart. As a result, my heart directive was more effective for us both. Your spiritual heart also has that capability. By activating it, that intuitive wisdom becomes yours too.

One of the great gifts in my life has been that others have shared with me their experiences of connecting with their hearts. Some of these have been a simple understanding of how to deal effectively with a life challenge or question. Other insights have been more startling, because those insights resulted in the heart-resolving issues that the head had been dealing with for years. Their spiritual hearts revealed a completely different insight or understanding of themselves, and of another person, from what the mind had been holding.

When I have presented workshops on how to access one’s heart, after people have received an answer from their heart, I have occasionally asked how many of them found responses that they had never considered before. There are consistently 10 to 20 percent who find a totally new perspective. The other 80 to 90 percent had previously experienced the insight as a thought or idea, but had discounted or totally rejected it.

This is quite understandable, since the heart is suggesting wise approaches to us throughout our lives. If our spiritual heart is not activated, we do not have the deeper understanding to realize the importance of the thought that carries the heart’s wisdom. Because of the way the brain processes and explores alternatives, we are seldom able to recognize the true wisdom and effectiveness of the heart’s suggestions.

People often describe that experience by saying that the heart’s wisdom, which is so clear to them after they intentionally engage their spiritual heart, was just a random thought before. They did not understand its value, prior to activating their spiritual hearts.

When a person has never even thought of what the heart reveals, they receive the wonderful awareness that what seemed hopeless is hopeless no longer. What a freeing gift this is – a gift from the intuitive capacity of their spiritual heart!

A woman once shared with me that she had tried activating her spiritual heart, calling on its wisdom in a situation that she believed to be hopeless. She was deeply frustrated by her relationship with her sister. The two had been estranged for more than a dozen years. The woman thought about it often, and tried everything she could think of to open a positive relationship with her sister, whom she really cared about.

The woman was learning about her spiritual heart in a workshop I was leading. She decided to see if it would help in this hopeless situation. She activated her spiritual heart. What did she have to lose? She called on its wisdom. She focused on her steps for ninety seconds – maybe it was even two minutes. Then I saw her smile. She wrote something on a sheet of paper, and then kept writing. She was radiant. She turned to her husband, who was seated beside her, and began sharing excitedly with him.

A few minutes later, I asked the people in the room if anyone wanted to share what had happened for them. She joyously shared that she had been estranged from her sister for many years, and had tried everything to reconnect, to no avail. Now, she knew what to do and how to do it. She said she knew it would work. Her smile was radiant.

It is one of the most beautiful moments in life when we discover the amazing wisdom responding to us through our spiritual hearts. That wisdom is there for you.