Opening To Abundance: Opening Your Heart 
by Dr. Trish Whynot

When you really let yourself feel Love, you feel a presence in your heart. From there you have a choice to brush it off or breathe it in. When you choose to breathe it in, it just glows like an ember glows when you blow on it. It fills you and takes you to heavenly heights.

That is the feeling I get when I am really present with Nature, and allow myself to receive her. This feeling is multiplied exponentially when experienced with another human being. Nature is always a willing participant; she does not restrict her flow of Divine Love. You just have to let your guard down, and be willing and open to receive it.

Nature offers a safe haven in which to begin opening to Love. It is your call, and you set the level of intensity; that is why it feels so safe. The experience is more challenging with another person because humans are complex, have free will, and tend to build protective walls that will restrict and divert the flow of Love. In either case, your level of experience is directly related to your willingness to take your protective guard down.

In the world that most people live in, it isn’t always safe to have your guard down. There is much fear of judgment, blame and condemnation in this world. It would be foolish to render yourself defenseless here. But there is another world just beyond the mists created by the illusions of judgment, blame and condemnation. It is the World of Truth, Love and Beauty. Here, it is foolish to have defenses because they would only serve the purpose of blocking out the flow of Divine Love, the abundance of the Universe, God. When you let your guard down in nature and receive her, you get a glimmer of this New World. 

When your heart is out of the equation, judgment, blame and condemnation are as far as you can get. Judgment, blame and condemnation are the mind’s attempts to logically explain a situation. The mind can only tap into a database of what it knows. When you engage a well-developed heart, you see a much more vivid picture—this picture is bigger—it goes deeper, wider and higher than the mind can go by itself. When your mind and your heart work as partners, they see the truth, love and beauty—the God—in all things. When the mind shuts out the heart, you get an opinionated interpretation of a one-sided story heavily colored by your past experiences, rather than the whole, true story. 

Without adequate training, exercise and stimulation, the heart cannot fully develop. It becomes lethargic from lack of use, and doesn’t have the training necessary to handle adult pressures. The mind tends to receive a great deal of education, stimulation and exercise, but without the support of a well-developed heart, it has a tendency to become chauvinistic. Your heart needs to be open and developed, and your mind supportive in order to make the journey to this New World. 

You have created many walls to protect your heart from the pain induced by judgment, blame and condemnation. These walls have shut the abundance of the Universe, which is your birthright, out of areas of your life. The abundance can’t come through because you have blocked out the divine guidance, which aligns you with it. This guidance comes through your heart. Even when this guidance can get through, an immature heart and chauvinistic mind won’t know how to listen, or interpret the message.  

Who you were had to change drastically if you wanted to stay out of harm’s way in the Old World. You began to identify yourself with what you did to keep safe and lost touch with your true self. Even some Old World mentality religions have become chauvinistic by taking the Heart, the Goddess out of the teachings of God. The term, God, was meant to embrace masculine and feminine attributes. This fragmented Old World cannot maintain itself, yet in the New World people are thriving, following their dreams, and sincerely supportive of each other’s happiness. As your walls come down, the mist disperses, and there before you appears this amazingly vibrant and abundant world that has been anticipating your return.  

In the Old World, God—the Wisdom of the Universe—is continually questioned. Walls continue to be reinforced, and eventually the sparks go out in relationships, in your desire to live, and in your hopes to prosper. The focus of life ends up being survival—to get through it without getting too badly scathed. As the unaddressed issues accumulate, the walls continue to get wider, higher and thicker, and your heart becomes imprisoned. The subsequent deterioration produces all forms of dis-ease. Life becomes barren—filled with fear of lack, and people stepping all over each other to get their needs met. Simply stated, the Old World is a picture of the thriving of suffering.  

Your walls can only come down permanently in a safe, trusting, sincerely, loving environment. You can’t let your guard down safely with someone who is not willing to let theirs down because it will only be a matter of time before you find yourself condemned. The immature heart needs tender, loving assistance and wise counsel during the opening and developing process. Your walls have to come down in order for your heart to open—the process is actually one and the same.  

As you allow your heart to melt where it has been frozen, awaken where it has been sleeping, heal where it has been wounded, and understand where it has been ignorant, your walls come down. As they come down your capacity to love and be loved increases. The level of abundance you experience is directly related to your willingness to receive, which is directly related to your willingness to take your walls down, and open your heart.

Your spiritual life and your everyday life want to be wed. They were meant to be lived out in union this time around. They naturally want to be together but you often go to such great lengths to keep them apart. In getting to know and love yourself, you learn to understand your energy as it relates to the world; this is your relationship with God, the Wisdom of the Universe; and the World of Truth, Love and Beauty is His kingdom. He looks forward to the day when you choose to rejoice in abundance with Him in the kingdom where Mind and Heart are revered equally.

Experiencing life as a vessel for God’s Love to come through and touch you is indescribable. When you truly allow yourself to feel God expressing through your life, and open to receive that Divine Love with abandon, you feel lifted to this place of Truth, Love and Beauty. Maybe this New World is Heaven. I’m not sure, but it is definitely heavenly.

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Are You of Old World or New World Mentality?

a. Do you go into the depths of why you are relieved and find an opportunity for change?
b. Or do you simply re-schedule?

2. You are invited to a friend’s wedding.

a. Are you touched to be considered a dear friend?
b. Or do you feel a sense of obligation?

3. A friend is in a challenging predicament.

a. Do you ask if he’s interested in your viewpoint?
b. Or do you find yourself giving advice and frustrated when he doesn’t take it? 

a. Do you entertain the possibility that you might be feeding your energy to a job that no longer serves you?
b. Or do you ignore your feelings, and live for the weekends?

5. Think about an activity that nurtures and delights your heart and soul.

a. Do you treat it as a necessity?
b. Or do you treat it as a luxury?

a. Do you acknowledge that you took it personally and explore the reasons why?
b. Or do you tell others how irritating she is and how she needs to change?

7. You have plans with a friend and she wants to see a movie that doesn’t really interest you.

a. Do you explore your feelings so you can make the most loving decision?
b. Or do you just agree to go without really thinking about it? Perhaps even assuming that going is the most loving decision.

8. You are hurt by the actions of a loved one.

a. Do you follow your feelings back to where they were birthed to do some healing, and then talk with them about the situation and your findings?
b. Or do you stew for a few days, let it blow over, and hope it never happens again?

9. You had a traumatic experience a couple years ago.

a. When the subject comes up do you talk about what you have learned from it?
b. Or do you talk about how you were wronged and how others were to blame?

a. Do you ask them what is going on, put yourself in their shoes, validate their pain, help them figure out why they are really crying, and then give advice?
b. Or do you tell them not to cry, don’t let it bother you, and that everything will be alright? 

If you answer yes to the a’s your thinking is New World. If you answer yes to the b’s your thinking is Old World.

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Dr. Trish Whynot is a Holistic Counselor and Doctor of C.O.R.E. Education. She utilizes meditation, aromatherapy and crystals in her alternative approach to eliminating the root cause of problems. She experiences life as an amazing journey and assists those ready to view their lives from a healing perspective. Private appointments available via phone or in person at her Middleton, MA office. Call 978.314.4545 or visit www.holisticoncepts.com for information.