Everything you do - every meditation, every exercise of the Principles, every breath you take -  must come from your heart for it to operate at its maximum effectiveness.  This is why we allow healing to occur in the heart.

It is in your heart of hearts that your Truth can be found.  Here is your direct connection to the Original Divine Light Source and it is here where your truest thoughts are born.  It stands to reason that any hurt - expressed and unexpressed - that you hold in your heart is just unnecessary 'old inventory' blocking the hallway between your conscious awareness and the heart song which is uniquely yours to sing... to live... to express... to celebrate... to be.

The heart is the first creative organ created in your soul carriage, which is often called your body.  It is through your heart that all things must eventually pass.  It is your heart which filters events and gives information to your intellect on how to interpret those events.  If your heart is filled with old mud, of course it will muddy the waters in the way you live and interpret the events of your life.  Another way of saying this is: old hurts and bitterness, held in your heart, will distort your receptive and transmission channels.

This is why we accept and receive healing in the heart: to clean up and purify the waters of the flow of Divine Light which, in turn, refines our ability to transmit, receive, express and be a more refined vibration of the Divine Light.  Bottom line, without the poetry: you'll just live happier.  Period.

It is in your heart that you want to feel so expanded, that you feel as if you are on the edge of bursting with the joy of Divine Light.  When you get to that point, you discover that it doesn't burst at all.  In fact, just the opposite happens.  You find that it expands to even greater horizons than you've ever imagined, with a capacity to express, transmit and receive Love in degrees you've never even remembered to dream about.  Yet.  This is the total opposite of when a heart gets so clogged up with old emotions - unexpressed and expressed,  but held onto like a precious piece of candy gone stale - that it physically explodes in the form of a heart attack simply because the heart imploded on itself, in an effort to break open the 'walls', to let the expansion vibration of Divine Light flow. 

This is a substantial difference between the expansion and contraction vibrations in action and a wonderful affirmation of how even our bodies organically know to make their way back to their Original Light Source of creation... despite what you might do to it in an effort to deny your own Divinity.   If you don't release the old emotions - expressed and unexpressed - to create more space for the flow of the more refined vibrations of Divine Light, which is Divine Love, then your body will do it for you.  It is your birthright to swim in the sea of Divine Love and your body instinctively knows that. 

This is why forgiveness in your heart is so important.  One honest and true act of forgiveness is one of the most immediate and most effective cleansing catalysts available to you.

Like all things, it's your choice.  If you'd like to consciously release those old emotions to the vibration of Divine Light for transformation into illumination, rather than waiting for your body to do it for you in the form of some illness, here's how you do just that:

Start with the Basic Activation of the Divine Light Vibration.  Once you feel you are centered and calm, and filled with Light, declare:  “I release any old emotions stored in my heart  to the Divine Light Vibration for transformation into illumination. (Wait until you feel that you have allowed the sense of expansion that comes from allowing that thought to resonate throughout your being).  I am filled with Light.  My heart is filled with Light.  Divine Light is flowing freely through my heart, through all my bodies, and is flowing freely into the world around me.” 

What is important in all activations of the vibration of Divine Light is your focus  and your intention to allow the vibration of Divine Light to do the work (as you have learned in the Divine Vibrations ‘Open Your Mind’ lessons). To co-operate as fully as you are able at any given point in time of your growth, allow yourself to rest in between each declaration and really feel the expansion which accompanies the permission and letting go on your part.  If you feel your body instinctively wants to co-operate with that release through the form of tears, then allow them to flow.  Tears are not a sign of weakness as we have been taught to believe; they are actually a sign of strength, born out of our body’s innate  knowing on how to swim in the flow of Divine Love, not block it.

If you feel ready, this is a very good time to let go of any old judgments you have stored in the form of bitter anger, a very insidious form of the ‘gobbler’’ attack-and-consume vibration.   Do the best you can.  You’ll know when you have fully let go of that old bitterness because it will be replaced with a sense of being fully cleansed as well as a deep sense of well being.  If you don’t feel ready, or you feel you didn’t fully find forgiveness in your heart, you might want to take another look at the lesson,  Pain Comes From Resistance in the Divine Vibrations ‘Open Your Mind’ section of the website.