Learn to notice when you’re getting defensive.

Learn to become aware of signs that indicate you’ve become defensive.

Perhaps your voice changes.
Perhaps your body tenses.
Maybe you get angry or emotional.
Maybe you start pointing at the other person.
Or your heart rate increases.

When you get defensive, understand that there is usually something that the other person has touched on, that was already there in you and that you’re judging yourself for.

If we’re not judging ourselves for something, then someone else’s words will not trigger any need to defend anything.

You can’t ever rush yours or someone else’s letting go process.

If we try to skip over something within our growth or our letting go, it will resurface somewhere.

We can’t rush our process.

We can become more consciously aware, and this might help us move through things more quickly, as our will is engaged in staying connected with ourselves so something can work its way through, however it doesn’t mean we get to skip anything. And we can’t make someone else do this, it can only come from within.

Also, be careful to respect other’s processes. We all have our own pace and way. Don’t impose what is right for you on someone else.

What helps you to open your heart more?

When you feel your care deepen.

When you feel your stillness widen.

When you feel your joy lifting.

When you feel your curiosity allowing.

When you feel your presence strengthen.

When you feel your sense of time and measuring slip away.

Do more of whatever it is you’re doing when these things happen, and be aware of your own presence in this space.

Come home to your ever present open heart. Its always and already there, ready to hold you.

Don’t be afraid to cry. It is not a ‘low vibration’. Crying is the movement between a lower vibration and a higher vibration. That’s called healing.

No emotion in itself has a low vibration, it’s how you relate to it and what you do with it.

Do you deny, suppress or avoid it? Do you sink and get stuck in it? Do you get sulky with it? Do you look for someone to blame for it?

These responses keep you in a wounded vibration.

Or

Do you allow emotion to be there? Are you authentic with it? Do you let it move through you and let it go? Do you observe and release thoughts that come that might keep you hooked in and reactivating an emotion if it sticks around past it’s time? Do you let it out, be honest with yourself about it and be kind with it?

These responses lead to a healing vibration.

You can’t fully heal without feeling the full spectrum of emotions.