Dear One,

What is the doorway to Love? It is mastery of self-knowledge and the process of integration. Self-honesty and self-honoring are required to attain true self-knowledge and to reclaim the separated self. This self-knowledge and self-integration is necessary for transformation and Self-actualization. We speak here of the process of self-discovery in which one awakens to the splendor of the deepest essence of who they are.
As this happens, one learns not to wait to become perfect but to accept ALL that one discovers about one’s self. This is true self-knowing and it leads to an intimacy with one’s self that brings great inner security.

It is a process of becoming more and more willing to love everything that’s observed about oneself in honest self-discovery. This includes the so called bad as well as that judged to be good. Learning this lesson of Love brings great peace into one’s life and leads to realizing the truth of the Love and Light of one’s being.

Knower of Self is the impulse of the spiritual pioneer. First, known thyself, then to thine own self be true. We are all in a continual process of self-discovery, experiencing more of who we are.

An important benefit of living in this way is that – as we pay attention to who we are, loving what we meet – we begin to meet others who more truly and clearly mirror who we are and who we are not.

To progress in this, the magnetic part of our natures – the yin, or feminine quality – can be called upon to aid us – it brings loving compassion. And it compels commitment to trusting experiences that reveal self-knowledge.

It is time to manifest more of who we are. It is crucial now that we demonstrate self-trust and not abandon ourselves in judgment. It is also time to recognize how much we have grown and to celebrate our lives. Every moment of each life is what has brought each of us to the point of readiness we are at. We can celebrate this, dear ones!

True self-knowledge is the fire of divine light combined with the passion of elevated emotions. Together they are pure alchemy, creating a combustion of self-illumination that integrates the splintered, wounded aspects of self.

Truth paired with self-love leads us to reclaim those parts of ourselves forfeited to others. We also then can integrate those splintered identities separated in pain and wounding. And we regain those parts of ourselves and our lives that we have suppressed.

We – all of us – are ready now to face the next stages of our own self-knowledge for it leads to self-realization. This happens naturally when bringing our simple honesty and self-kindness into our times of reflection. We learn about who we truly are and are not, what we really want and do not. And then we can gently embrace the changes that rise up to meet us.

May loving kindness and compassion be our guides, this is my prayer for us today.

~ 💕 Mayet Leilani

Dear Lover of Love,

I often share messages I receive from the what I call the Heart of Love. I recently came across a message from the Heart of Love explaining to me what is meant by that. It’s lovely. I think you’ll enjoy it.

Deepening Into the Heart of Love
A Message From the Heart of Love

The Holy Grail is the sacred chalice established in the heart that overflows with Love. At the heart of love is openness, trust, and clarity. You also find emotional integrity there and a capacity to express Love as a radiance of Light full of nurture and Love’s wisdom. The Heart of Love is the source of self-nurture and nurture of others. The Heart of Love is generative in its nature and gives freely, but without either giving too much or being too self-protective.

The Heart of Love is the perfect mirror for the Soul of another. It does not push away nor does it chase after the experience of love. It chooses wisely, heals self and others masterfully and rises to the challenge and opportunity to open and reopen in response to life.

The Heart of Love is a great communicator of Love both in words and beyond words. It expresses self-love from deep within including an appreciation of the personality, the ego and the physical body. The Heart of Love returns always to emotional balance, emotional integrity, balanced nurture and trust, expressing an openhearted nature.

Within the Heart of Love, one is always in movement toward balance, balance being, always, the return to Love. Love dwells in you, you are this Love and you are Love’s certain return Home. This is what is meant by deepening into the Heart of Love. Welcome, dear one, to the Heart of Love.

~ 💖 ~ 💖 ~ 💖 ~ 💖 ~ 💖 ~

It might be fun to go on Google Images and find an image that represents this place in you that is the portal to the Heart of Love. Keep it in front of you in some way: print it and place it on your altar or cut images from a magazine and create your own montage with a glue stick.

The Heart of Love within is a powerful Ally. It is inseparable from the most powerful force in the universe – that which is God. And it lives in your own heart. Call on it daily.

In Love and from Love,

~ 💜 Mayet

Article Highlights:

• What the subconscious thinks about it
• The game changer for opening the heart

Dear Opening Heart,

We talk about opening our hearts, we place a high value on having an open heart with others, we think we should live open-heartedly, we try to do so with varying degrees of success. And do we succeed?

Not perhaps as much as we like. So what’s that about? I was pondering this the other day and happened upon something interesting that I thought you might find interesting too.

We do value heart openness and we’ve even adopted it as a should. Moving deeper in inquiry about it, however, I found an inconvenient truth there – buried in my humanity and yours.

We value it at an intellectual level and hold a sincere belief about it and we do enjoy many moments of heart-warming-openess. BUT we do not believe it’s a wise way to live. We do NOT believe – at deeply subconscious levels – that it is in any way wise or safe to live that way. We do not.

This limits our ability to live in more open-hearted ways, no matter how strong our desire is to live that way. So we are then stuck earnestly striving to. Hard work, 😓 all that striving. Ugh, lol.

When I became willing see what was there instead of what I wanted to be there, that’s what I found. It explained a lot. And it exposed one of those spiritual idea areas where quite a lot of strain has become part of it.

It’s a bit of a classic failure set-up because of the falling short of an ideal, which leads to self-criticism, creating stress and expending a lot of energy. If you think about it, we set up this kind of scenario about a lot of our spiritual ideas – they become shoulds. But that’s another matter.

The truth is that at the core of this matter there’s a strong survival instinct: you simply don’t expose your soft underbelly. Why? It’s a sign of subservience. And it can be downright dangerous, that exposure to other’s teeth.

Thus, we are somewhat parsimonious about opening our hearts to others. A little stingy. We dole it out rather carefully. There are a lot of rules around it.

I’m not going to elaborate on them because I know you can easily drop into the truth about what being human is really like regarding this.

In fact, we’re extremely selective about opening our hearts. Not during arguments, or even disagreements, nope, nope, nope. The ego is very engaged in protecting us then and it’s also not remotely interested in losing the argument because of whimpy open-heartedness. Oh, and no open-heartedness with people who don’t deserve it either, nope. Bless our pointed little heads, haha. It’s such a funny thing, this being human.

As often is the case, there’s some wisdom in our instinct not to open and if there’s going to be change in this, our subconscious doesn’t want another ideal. It wants to know we have the right level of discernment to be wise and open.

To live open-heartedly feels incredibly vulnerable if others aren’t. The psyche – which is a bit of a nervous Nelly – worries about that. And we already pointed out what our Ego is up to in this. Then there’s the consistent world training that has taught us what a bad idea it is, and our own personal experience that’s convinced us just what a bad idea it really is. Plus our sub-conscious needs us to have discernment skills before it lowers the guard at all.

So it’s a quadruple-triple-double bind. And a real conundrum. A nice riddle to solve. The solution lies in recognizing that while I want to live more open-hearted and I do strive to do so, and am even doing better and better at it, I really don’t believe it or trust it, and I really Do Not intend to do so to the extent I imagine I do.

Admitting that, I let myself feel the extent of my actual resistance. From there, I can finally begin to ask the right questions rather than endlessly strive after yet another should.

Only then can I start to learn what on earth living open-heartedly means, as a human. What it IS. And what it looks and feels like to live that way. It needs an honest self-dialogue.

Before I go for today, here’s something else very important to know about being open-hearted living. It’s the real game-changer.

Open-heartedness is a frequency, not an ideal to strive for.

It’s a frequency. The heart’s elevated frequency. Matching a frequency is a very different thing than trying and trying to be more open-hearted, it’s much easier. It’s an accessible frequency, it’s already there, built-in, for us to access. Plus, the subconscious doesn’t resist frequency in the same way it resists other change. And that’s something very interesting to ponder.

Which I’ll leave in your capable hands.
Feels like a nice thing to share with you today,
Love, as always,

~ 💜 Mayet Leilani