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Beauty InformationBeauty, Feeling
and the Open Heart
by:
Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
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Title: Beauty, Feeling
and the Open Heart
Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
E-mail: mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com
Copyright: © 2003 by Margaret Paul
Web Address: http://www.innerbonding.com
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Category: Spiritual Growth
Beauty, Feeling
and the Open Heart
Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
"…beauty on your earth is a shadow of the beauty of our heaven, and it’s a bitter thing to have a sightlessness for beauty on earth, for it does a longer teaching to see the beauties of heaven." Spoken by an Irish spirit in the book The Boy who Saw True (anonymous author).
I have been counseling individuals, couples, families and business partners for the last 35 years, and am the author of eight promulgated books. Since my activity is spiritually based, I have developed galore route of portion folk open their hearts to love. Opening to beauty is one of those way.
I have always appreciated beauty. Since I’ve been a small child, I’ve collect beautiful things - shells, rocks, wood, as well as works of art, and there are always lots of plants around. There is obscurity
in my environment wherever
there is not thing
beautiful to look at, several inside and outside in nature. Once
I walk through my house and the land about it, my heart fills with awe and love as I appreciate the beauty about me. I’ve done this so mechanically
throughout my life that it ne'er
occurred to me that galore folk do not open to beauty nor create beauty about them.
In working with several of my clients troubled
to support their heart open, I’ve mentioned focusing on an object of beauty, and have been amazed to find that galore of them have no beauty about them - no plants, flowers, works of art or objects of nature. Once
they look about they see walls, appliances, computers and another buildings. Their left brain functions simply fine in this environment, but what simply about the right - the creative, intuitive, spiritually-connected aspect?
I want to encourage everyone who reads this to consider feeding your soul with beauty. There is nothing like awe and feeling
for thing
beautiful to open the heart to feeling
in general. If you can love the byzantine design in the bark of a tree, or the plangency of a flower, or the balance of a attractively
thrown piece of pottery - that mightiness lead you into admiring and appreciating the beauty of you and your own soul. It mightiness open you to feeling feeling
for your life and the sacred privilege of experiencing your journey on this planet.
How more of your thinking time is spent being upset or unhappy simply about something? What if all that time was spent in feeling
for what you have and for the beauty about you? What if you were present enough in this moment to revel in the fact that you can turn on a regulator
and have hot water move out? That you have food to eat and a bed to sleep on? If you are reading this, it is likely that you have a computer, which means you have more than most of the folk on this planet.
Try this little experiment: find thing
of beauty - it can be as simple as a leaf, a flower, a photograph, a small activity of art or the top of a tree out your window. Now let yourself wholly open to the thing of beauty. Let yourself feel the beauty in your body - in your heart, your star
plexus, in your stomach, arms and legs, in your forehead. Let the beauty enliven your body and fill it with vitality. Breathe in the beauty and feel your body’s reaction to it. Open to gratitude, thanking God for this experience of beauty.
Notice the peace and joy it gives you to be in this moment with this simple object of beauty. What would-be life be like if you spent more moments like this, in the present with beauty and with all you have? How more of your waking time is spent in this way?
Beauty and feeling
are soul foods. Once
you choose to open to them, you extend an invitation to love, peace and joy. This raises your frequency and opens the door to your spiritual Guidance. Your Guidance is always here for you, portion you on your soul’s journey. Opening to beauty and gratitude, with a deep intent to discover simply about what is admiring to you and others, wish open you to your spiritual Guidance.
Just simply about THE AUTHOR
Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is the best-selling author and co-author of eight books, including "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Admired By You?", "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Admired By My Kids?", "Healing Your Aloneness","Inner Bonding", and "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Admired By God?" Visit her web site for a FREE Inner Bonding course: http://www.innerbonding.com or mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com
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