“My heart’s crippled by the vein that I keep on closing…”

-From “Bleeding Love” by Leona Lewis

Closing off your heart is one of the worst experiences you can have. When we own and/or manage a business, we tend to imagine that it’s all quite cold. It’s all about your “rational” mind, the dollars and cents, the profit margins, the pros and cons. But it’s not.

Our “logical” mind is not as rational as we like to imagine.

Humans are emotional creatures. Vulcans existed in Star Trek, but they don’t exist here! And honestly, if someone was purely rational and utterly devoid of emotions, you wouldn’t want to be around that person anyway… it would be like the ultimate form of sociopathy. We often make decisions either about buying a product/service or launching a business based on emotions. How will this make me feel? I want to be happy. I want to have a sense of calm at work. I want to have freedom. One of the things that is important to me in my coaching business is working with other people who have some sense of spirituality, some notion that there are forces in the world beyond what we can immediately perceive with our five senses. I love reading the Space & Physics section on LiveScience.com and allowing myself to be amazed by just how vast and mind-blowing the universe actually is. And we can only see a small amount of it! Imagine how much is out there that we don’t see.

The IDK mind.

There is a great Zen teaching called the “Don’t Know Mind.” Left unchecked, your mind can drive you crazy. It is always asking, worrying, searching, grasping, replaying memories, etc. You can think yourself to death. Ruminative thinking is a key issue in both anxiety and depression and it’s easy to see why. Once you understand that you don’t know it all, can’t, won’t, and don’t have to, it’s incredibly liberating. It reminds me of the Ancient One telling Doctor Strange, “Your intellect has taken you far in life, but it will take you no further.”

So much magic happens from your heart.

There is a very cool website called HeartMath.org. One of the topics they discuss is the energetic field we each have from our heart:

“The heart is the most powerful source of electromagnetic energy in the human body, producing the largest rhythmic electromagnetic field of any of the body’s organs. The heart’s electrical field is about 60 times greater in amplitude than the electrical activity generated by the brain. This field, measured in the form of an electrocardiogram (ECG), can be detected anywhere on the surface of the body. Furthermore, the magnetic field produced by the heart is more than 100 times greater in strength than the field generated by the brain and can be detected up to 3 feet away from the body, in all directions, using SQUID-based magnetometers.”

How awe-inspiring is that? It certainly underscores the importance– the absolute no-way-around-it importance– of keeping your heart in your business. This applies to everyone; it’s not just a rule for lightworkers, shamans, ministers, etc.

Consider these questions:

• Am I focused solely on money?
• Do I show up in my business to genuinely help or heal others?
• Do I talk myself into working with someone even when I feel it’s not a good match?
• Do I set intentions that only revolve around meeting my own needs?

 

Does your business have heart? More specifically: are you infusing your work with good, healthy energy from your own heart? If this is something you’d like to explore with the help of a coach, let’s talk about it.