A lot of us carried our hardened hearts into our awakening , whether it is the result of a trauma response or the adoption of negative beliefs and patterns of thinking, we are disconnecting from the higher possibilities that reality can offer to us.
In response to trauma, danger and stress, the heart hardens as scripture says (Scientifically, there is a energy wall built) , this prevents our ability to feel love, to feel safe, and to connect to others in a meaningful way.
When you find yourself questioning the purpose of life, living passionlessly, having low energy and feeling negative emotions like fear, anger, disappointment, depression, shame, unworthiness, among other negative states of cyclical or reactionary thinking and feeling, you most likely have a hardened heart.
Deep within our subconscious minds, we are storing a significant amount of information from our past, both from our past experiences and the experiences we have had or that we have observed others experience, and as a result, our behaviors and mental programming has affected us in ways that we have not fully realised until we have begun the process of introspection through self awareness of our thoughts, emotions and beliefs.
It is the moment that you choose to go beyond your conditioned state of being into a new, elevated state that becomes aware of the old way of thinking that you will become more like your true self and less like the personality that is the product of the environment.
Ezekiel 36:26–27
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
A stony heart = hardened, resistant, emotionally numb.
A heart of flesh = responsive, living, sensitive, teachable.
A clear sign of a heart of flesh is how well you are at GIVING & RECEIVING, Love , help, compliments, compassion, generosity, mercy and the list goes on.
A hardened heart is restricted whereas a living heart FLOWS!
Is your heart still hardened? Have you done the internal work to allow your heart to be softened?
Ephesians 4:32
“Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted…”