Listen to Your Heartbeat!

Listen to your heartbeat. Listen. Listen. You are alive. You are a remarkable fact, a complete truth, an evident reality, a living and breathing human being. Listen to your heartbeat. 

You are alive. But listen to your heartbeat. Your heart softly pounding in your chest. Nourish your happiness by listening. You must be quiet in order to listen to your heartbeat, so be quiet and listen. Listen.

          Your heart pumps blood through your entire system, ka-whump, ka-whump, ka-whump…. Your heart beats in your chest efficiently. But what keeps it going? Do you will it to keep on thumping in your chest? No. It just happens. It just happens. But does anything”just happen”.No.Everything must have cause. What causes your heart to keep on beating in your chest?

          Someone versed in physiology would tell you that your heart is a muscle about the size of your fist that beat about 70 times a minutes and more than one hundred thousand times in a single day. Your heart pumps 5 quarts of blood through its champers every 60 seconds and does enough work in one hour to lift a weight of one and a half short tones more than one foot off the ground. The right side of your heart receives impure blood containing carbon dioxide from your body and pumps it to your lungs. The left side collects pure, oxygen rich blood from your lungs and pumps it to your body.

          And so on and so forth. But what made your heart start beating before you were born, and what keeps it beating now Oh, that’s the mystery, that’s the mystery. We may describe the physiology of the heart and the various processes that characteristic its function until yon cows come home, but we still will not answered this question.

          Only your heart – meaning now the center of your being not a part of your anatomy—can tell you what keeps your heart thumping in your chest. Only your heart. It keep it speaks the deep mystery into a silence the mystery of your own being. It says that only your heart can tell your answer to this question but the answer is freely available for the asking, for the small and simple asking of the question. So ask.

          Listen to your heart softly pounding in your chest. It pumps the blood, but what does the sound of your heart say? Does it speak? Does it speak to you? If you close your eyes, sit quietly, and listen, your heart will speak to you. It may say something like this. Gods love – Gods love – God’s Love. If you listen, your heart may speak these words to you, or something like it. Something very like it.

          Your heart beat speaks a mystery of love. Listen and be happy.