Sunday, February 5, 2012

Keep Your Heart Wide Open

Reference: http://www.psychology.com/articles/?p=323#more-323 - Put No One Out of Your Heart

Your heart is a war zone. People feel it’s always best that when someone is giving you a challenge by being them, shut them out of your heart and life. However, according to this article, closing people out doesn’t feel to good. As well was when you keep and open heart towards everyone, you’ll feel better, physically, emotionally, and mentally. Physically is warmth and relaxation, emotionally is empathy, compassion, and even keel, mentally is keeping things in perspective and wishing others well. It helps you feel and be stronger. It is also very helpful to having good nurturing relationships. When, you constantly keep your heart open, more people will seem to work to you and the ones who truly don’t belong in your heart, will stand out most and leave, like abusers. Keeping your heart open will allow people to truly be able to rattle you, but given time, it becomes harder to upset you. Put your heart towards everyone by being expansive and inclusive. Also, when starting to be whole and open hearted, those who you have once shut down, think, is there a way to fix it and was there another way other than shutting them out before?
This article can help open ones mind towards having an open heart. If many followed this article, many more people in our world would be closer to others and nicer to others. It could lead to more peaceful environments and make growing up and living life easier on you and the person you let into your heart. Shutting someone else out of heart shouldn’t, a lot of the time, be done for their life isn’t dandies and daisies either. Nothing is peachy great for anyone, so why make ones life worse by being rude and “attacking them” instead of letting them in.
The type of impact this article could make would require commitment to an open heart. Who is really willing to make that? Well, let’s say people are, the impact could be wonderful. More people would start to care, more people would start to share. When the going got rough and someone feels as though they’ve had enough, that they have no one to turn to, maybe in turn they’d have someone to turn to. After all, once you let someone in, they’ll eventually let you in too. It may not be the greatest bond or greatest relationship but at least you’ll have a bigger chance of having someone when you need someone.
I feel this article was written for the best. The way it was written made it easy to understand and it’s word choice and sentence structures pulled at your chest and heart to persuade you in trying Dr. Hanson’s way. The examples and ways of demonstrating an open heart is almost how everybody would like to feel all the time and people would like to become a stronger individual. As enough time goes by, the more one reads this article, I think the better our environment could be, honestly. Personally, I’m going to try to let everyone to some extent in, try to reopen my heart to those I’ve blocked out, and I’ll be trying and doing this on a fragile heart with no trust towards practically anyone. So, if I can, others can. Having faith in them, is the first step. I have faith that anyone who wants to try and open their heart and put no one out, can. Keep your mind wide open to keeping your heart and open door. <3

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