The heart…
What comes up for you when I say that word? Love? Pain? Hurt? Sadness? Anger?
If you want to be healthier and happier, healing your heart from the past will help. The most important thing we can ever take ownership of is our heart. We spend so much time focusing and working on the outside, but it’s the inside, the heart, that needs the work, the time, the attention.
Everything that is on the inside, hidden deep down, eventually shows up on the outside in some way.
“You will never find home in an external place until you are completely at home within yourself.” -Christa Black
People that haven’t dealt with their pain can’t show up for you in yours. I use to be one of those people. I didn’t think I was broken or had any pain, talk about lack of awareness!
After being in the health and wellness industry for over 20 years I have come to realize that our food and exercise is a very small part of our overall health. Don’t get me wrong, eating healthy food to fuel your amazing body you’ve been given and to move your body daily is super important and a must, however, you can eat all the organic clean food you want, work out 6-7 days a week, be skinny, have “normal” blood levels, and still be super unhealthy and unhappy due to the state of our heart.
We don’t give our heart pain the time and energy it needs and deserves. We numb it by shopping, exercising, consuming alcohol, living on social media, keeping busy (aka productive), watching tv, you name it. Our culture doesn’t want to acknowledge the pain that is in the deepest and darkest parts of our hearts. We don’t know how to mourn, heal and walk through our pain. If you have any health challenges, I encourage you to take a look at your pain and trauma from your past and work on healing it. Sadly, most of us have some sort of pain from our past.
Our stored emotions and unhealed traumas affect our present moment. Looking at the state of your heart, taking ownership of it, assessing it, renewing it and resting in the present moment are all things Christa Black takes you through in her Heart Course. It’s actually really simple, we just make it hard. “Therefore if anyone is in Christ (Jesus is your savior), he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!” – 2 Corinthians 5:17. We have to live like a new creation. The old has passed. Let it go. It’s not you anymore! Thank God! We just make it hard. We have all these layers and walls up, our minds get in the way, the world influences us, etc. But once we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we have the mind of Christ. Instead of lookin inwardly towards ourself, we look outwardly toward Christ. The goal is to be so connected to God that whatever comes our way our heart can thrive in the pain. But, if you’re like me and need help knocking down those walls you’ve had up, whether you know they’re there or not, here’s a few things you can do…
1. Get a relationship going with Jesus. Connect with God and believe His truth about what He says about you and who you are.
2. Sign-up and participate in Christa’s 6-week Heart Course (info below).
3. Find a highly-recommended and awesome counselor that can help you work through, heal and mourn the losses you’ve had.
I highly recommend this 6-week Heart Course by Christa Black. Don’t worry if you can’t finish it in 6 weeks, you have unlimited access to the program and can finish it when it works for you. You can even go back to it as much as you need in the future. Trust me, the heart journey is not a quick one to heal, but boy is it worth it! Christa has you read her book Heart Made Whole: Turning Your Unhealed Pain Into Your Greatest Strength during the course. I actually read the book before I knew about the course. If you have any questions about the course, please let me know, I’d be happy to answer any questions. You don’t have to be a believer to take the course, but please know she is a big believer an talks about God’s love and her faith. It’s awesome!
Here’s just a few tid-bits from Christa’s book that spoke to me:
- Pain itself is not the enemy, pain is inevitable. Unhealed pain, however, will become your greatest foe if your broken heart is not made whole again after each collision.
- You cannot hide a wounded heart and expect it to heal.
- Traumas are wounds left inside our heart that keep us from living in wholeness.
- We react to the world and those around us not only as our adult self but also as the hurt, broken and unhealed child inside.
- A heart that doesn’t believe it’s worthy of love tends to act unlovable.
- Trying to hide, numb, or avoid heart pain never makes it go away. It must be felt, embraced, and brought to the Healer.
- The condition of your heart determines the condition of your life. What do you want your heart to look like?
It’s time for you to have a healthy and amazing life!
Shine On,
Ali
P.S. If this spoke to you, you might be interested in the blog Your Heart Journey.
