What would it mean if you could come home to your heart and live in alignment with your soul’s path?
In 10 Sacred Principles for Soul-Hearted Living™, Intuitive Psychologist and Bestselling Author Debra Reble shares the heart-centered practices from waking in the morning to intending, affirming, and walking in grace every day.
Using these sacred principles, you will tap into this divine energy source, learn to fully express yourself, and share this inspired experience of life with others. Living soul-heartedly will open you to a more positive energy flow which creates clarity, vitality, and happiness. Ultimately, this flow of energy becomes a sacred path that leads to living joyfully, abundantly, and well.
Sacred Principle #1: Trusting Yourself and Your Divine Source
Trust is a whole energy that comes from your connection with your divine source and lives in your conscious awareness. Although you are in a physical body, you are connected to a divine energy field that vibrates, contains all the information in the universe, and flows through you. You may refer to this energy as light, God higher power, universal energy, or divine intelligence. You tune in to this spiritual guidance system in your own unique way.
When you open your heart, you consciously plug into this divine energy source through prayer or meditation, being in nature, or simple mindfulness. Trust is the energetic bridge between fear and everything working out for your highest and best. With such a spiritual perspective, you can view any problem or challenge, as a stepping stone for your personal transformation.
Sacred Principle #2: Being Consciously Aware
Like a spiritual GPS, conscious awareness is your intuitive ability to tune in to information that provides you with an enlightened perspective on life. It bypasses logical thinking and sources through your heart center. With such heightened awareness, you pay attention to your thoughts, feelings, and sensations in any moment. You become fully present, mindful, and notice the beauty and wonder in the world around you.
Being consciously aware, you can sense, feel, and intuit what resonates with your soul’s path. You shift from viewing things simply in physical terms to seeing why things happen from a more spiritual perspective. As a result, you are open to receive the powerful divine downloads in the form of intuitions, hunches, gut feelings, or physical sensations.
Sacred Principle #3: Opening and Listening to Your Heart
Opening and listening to your heart connects you to your true being. This is the center of trust, inner wisdom and your spiritual truth. By dropping into your heart space, you come into present awareness. With this energetic expansion, comes a sense of love, peace and a spiritual attunement with the universe.
The strongest electromagnetic field of energy in your body emanates from your heart center. When your heart is open, you receive spiritual guidance about who you are and your soul’s path. This awakens you to your authenticity and leads to self-healing. When you lead with your heart and then use your head, you co-create your reality.
Sacred Principle #4: Sustaining an Attitude of Gratitude
Sustaining an attitude of gratitude releases a continuous stream of love energy that supports spiritual clarity, strengthens your immune system, and diminishes fear and negativity. It brings you into your heart space and sets the positive tone for your life. Appreciating everything that shows up in your life, especially the challenges, raises your vibration which generates more positive energy to come back to you.
Your overall quality of life improves when you wake up each day with a sense of appreciation and a healthy anticipation for what the universe has in store for you. You accept life as it comes, knowing that you are getting exactly what you need to spiritually grow. Moreover, when you open your heart in gratitude, fear cannot co-exist in the same space with this high vibrational energy of love.
Sacred Principle #5: Practicing Loving-Kindness and Compassion
Loving-kindness and compassion are acts of love, and love is the most powerful force in the universe. When you compassionately reach out to someone in need, you receive more positive energy in return. The pure joy of giving, generates a high vibration, overriding negativity with love. You become part of the divine’s cycle of giving and receiving which brings more of what you want into your life. The more you are kind and compassionate with yourself, the more you can be kind, and compassionate with others.
Accepting yourself with all your perfect imperfections cultivates self-compassion. Make a compassionate covenant to nurture yourself with the love you would shower on someone you cherish. A simple act of kindness or compassion toward yourself and others raises the vibration in any situation and ultimately, your world.
Sacred Principle #6: Learning to Lean In and Let Go
Learning to lean in and let go is one of the greatest catalysts for spiritual growth. It breaks open your heart and allows you to be vulnerable so you can release unhealed pain. Releasing negative beliefs, unhealthy patterns, and emotional blocks creates the sacred space for self-healing and unleashes new energy to support your spiritual transformation.
Letting go also clears anything that’s no longer serves you or supports your soul’s path. It opens the flow of energy in your body and releases negative thoughts, emotions, or energies which can create energy blocks. It frees you from your past and the old stories that hold you back from creating a better future.
Sacred Principle #7: Creating a Soul Support Team.
When you create a soul support team, you surround yourself with people who love you unconditionally, and support you on your soul’s journey. Your soul team consists of the kindred spirits who encourage you to express yourself, follow your heart, and be the best person you can be.
With such soul companions, you have a deep emotional bond and a soul connection that transcends all life cycles and lasts over lifetimes. These are the rare individuals who know your strengths and weaknesses, are honest with you, and reflect your true being. You may have a disagreement with them or not see them for long periods of time, but the soul connection is always there.
Sacred Principle #8: Cultivating Lightheartedness and Joy
Cultivating lightheartedness includes spontaneity, humor, and play—all launch pads to creativity and spiritual growth. It is essential to aligning with your soul’s passion and purpose and sustaining joy in your life.
Being lighthearted naturally liberates the mind, opens the heart, and lifts the spirit. You take life less seriously, see it as a passionate adventure, and remain flexible as it unfolds. To live “soul fully,” you can spend time playing, having fun, and taking pleasure in the simple things in life that make your heart sing.
Sacred Principle #9: Making Inspired Choices
You hold the power to co-create the life you want by making inspired choices.
Choice is a powerful tool, when you understand, on a soul level, that you are responsible for your life. Every choice you make either adds to or detracts from the overall quality of your life and the world in which you live.
The quality of your life is determined by the choices you make. The more impeccable they are, the more you will be in alignment with your soul’s journey. It’s essential that you make the inspired choices that not only sustain your well-being, but also the well-being of the planet and all its inhabitants.
Sacred Principle #10: Living Intentionally by Co-Creating Your Reality
When you live intentionally, you consciously co-create the reality you want in alignment with your soul’s path. Like striking a tuning fork, your intention creates a vibrational space. When you bring awareness and energy to this space, you access infinite possibilities. In this space, you consciously co-create your reality.
The space of co-creation is the space between releasing what no longer serves you and manifesting what aligns with your soul. As you let go into such trust, the creational space of your life expands exponentially. It is how yesterday’s dream becomes today’s reality.
A soul-hearted life is grace in motion. You have a sense of riding the crest of a wave, dancing in the light, and being wholeheartedly aligned with your soul’s journey. There is a natural lightheartedness and a sense that nothing is more important than the present moment. There are no obstacles to fully expressing the light of your being. Laughter comes easily and quickly as does the ease and flexibility in playing with all possibilities in life.
