Many years ago, a teacher of mine kept repeating, “Love is the healer.” That phrase was always in the back of my mind as I moved forward with my own healing.

It’s clear to me that love is the glue that holds everything together, and that peace is not possible until we reach a tipping point where love is the predominent emotion.

In order for love to prevail, our hearts need to be open to:

• Ourselves
• Other people
• Other beings
• New ideas
• Opportunities
• Receiving

Unfortunately, because of family-of-origin issues, many hearts close to love, making it difficult to receive that which is needed to thrive and prosper. When love is withheld from ourselves or others, we block the free flow of energy through our lives.

How to open your heart to receive:

• Become aware of any constriction you feel in your heart when you are with others. Maintain this awareness at meetings, during sales calls, when preparing marketing information, and when new ideas are presented to you.
• Any time you feel this, take a deep breath in while imaging the breath is filling your heart as you repeat to yourself, “I open my heart to receive.”
• Whenever you are in an interaction with someone, you have the opportunity to protect yourself, which can be a fear reaction, or to be open to giving and receiving love. Any time you find yourself in conflict, you can choose to stay in conflict or move towards love.

The goal is to develop the habit of choosing love.

Choosing love means choosing love of and for yourself. This requires that you know what you need and how to set boundaries. You can be open to receive, yet still say no when something comes along that makes you uncomfortable.

It takes some time and practice to develop a balance between being open and setting boundaries and to know when you are being rationally protective rather than closed to receiving. As soon as you increase your awareness using the exercise above, you’ll be on your way to developing the skill that allows you to safely choose love.

In order to help you open your heart to receive, I’ve created a new 20-minute treatment that combines the energy psychology technique Be Set Free Fast (BSFF) with visualizations. Read more about this audio at ProsperityPlace.com/catalog/hs_receive.html