Open Your Heart and Mind to Limitless Love..

The New Moon in Leo occurs on Monday, August 9, 2010 at 8:08 pm pst and brings the opportunity to build a strong future in love, romance, creativity, generosity, determination, celebration and fun. During the day take advantage and prepare for this strong energy by clearing out and tying up loose ends to old issues or old projects. Open your heart to change and avoid starting anything new until the New Moon occurs in the evening.

So how do you open your heart? You can genuinely open our heart when you escape from your thoughts, emotions, ego and attachments. When the desire to define yourself is diminished, you can say you have truly opened your heart. Experiencing an open heart, will open doors to receive the love you long for while strengthening your connection to your true self. Here is a brief lesson for your guidance.

Where the mind goes, energy flows. If your mind is full of negative thoughts or old emotions, energy gets stuck and stagnated. It becomes more and more difficult to see your way clear. Energy needs to flows naturally and will occur when we clear our minds by opening up the chest meridians. The Fourth Chakra, also known as the Heart Chakra, is located behind the heart toward the middle of the chest. It links and integrates the energies of the mind and body together. It encourages wholeness, boundless love, centeredness and empathy. A calm mind loosens the chest and facilitates the flow of energy. When activated, you can experience a sense of pure love and compassion from a centered and balanced place.

By opening the energy pathways of the chest and heart through exercises and breath work, you can activate your heart center to achieve greater mental and physical harmony. Breathe!! The amount of air you inhale will increase and your breathing will deepen after you have exhaled all the air in your lungs. By lengthening each exhalation, you can release unwanted stagnant emotions and baggage.

The following exercises will teach you how to relax your mind by relaxing your body. This will open your heart center. Repeat each set four times.

• Using your finger tips, lightly tap your entire chest area. Experiencing tenderness especially in the center of your chest is normal. Continue to tap in that area.
• Sit in half lotus and lock your fingers behind your back. Inhale and bend your upper body forward from the waist while lifting both arms up behind you toward the back of your head. Exhale while slowly returning.
• Sit on your knees. Place your palms together with your arms extended out in front of you. Inhale, opening your chest as you stretch your arms out to the sides as far as possible with your palms facing forward.
• Sit half lotus. Place both hands in the prayer position in front of your chest. Inhale. Open your hands and extend your arms as far as possible at chest level. Focus on expanding your chest, keeping your spine lengthened while holding your breath. Gently pull your shoulder blades toward each other and hold for five seconds. Exhale and bring your hands together back to the prayer position. Inhale and slowly pull your arms apart as far as you can, with elbows bent and wrists flexed. Face your palms toward the sky with your shoulders and hands parallel.
• Sit in half lotus position with your thumbs and index fingertips touching. Focus on your heart, breathing slowly and gently. Imagine energy connecting the heart and expanding as you breathe. Continue for about 15 minutes. You will feel your heart becoming stronger and stronger

The New Moon sets the stage for setting new goals, hopes and wishes. I suggest writing in a journal within 48 hours after the New Moon. The optimal time would be within the first 8 hours.  Please avoid the following timeframe August 10^th 12:10pm pst – 4:01pm pst as the Moon goes void of course. If you’ve missed the opportunity within the first 48 hours, you can resume writing your new goals, hopes and wishes after 4:02pm pst on August 10 through 5:04 pm pst  on August 11^th, 2010.

Some suggested goals or wishes as it relates to this New Moon might be:

“I easily attract and experience a healthy, happy romantic relationship”

“I easily find myself re-entering the dating scene in a way that is successful for me”

“In a relationship I easily find myself being who I am so I can stay involved in the relationship that encourages my spiritual, emotional and physical well being”

“I easily find myself rising every morning with enthusiasm for the coming day”

“I easily find myself choosing projects that allows my creativity to flow”

“I easily find myself actively giving love, approval and support to the people who are important to me”

“I easily find myself giving others the benefit of the doubt”

“I easily find myself doing at least one thing a day that brings me pleasure”

“I easily find myself taking a risk outside my comfort zone to have fun”