What can you do when your heart is cracked wide open, and you feel like there's no hope? The answer is to use your open heart as a guide to move through life's challenges and rediscover what you are really all about. Heart-breaking traumas, dramas and struggles are often a call to look deeper within to see with a new, more expanded perspective. They call us to love all the broken parts of ourselves so that we may live a life filled with love. When Your Heart is Cracked Wide Open will help you to use your heart as a guide to restore your true identity as a Being of Love so that you may align with your full potential. The ancient Wisdom contained within these pages will fill you with a sense of empowerment, as well as feelings of deep love, compassion, and appreciation for yourself. Ultimately, this book supports you on a new path. It is a path that begins with answering the call and the freedom to create anew, which leads to the wonder of fresh possibilities that you may have missed - had your heart remained closed and unconscious. YOU are the primary factor in navigating through your life and destiny. Let yourself discover how a willingness to examine and release old, worn-out perceptions can reinvent your life.

WHEN YOUR HEART IS CRACKED WIDE OPEN

Navigating With Your Heart Through The Challenges Of LifeBy TARALYNN MAJESKA

BALBOA PRESS

Copyright © 2012 TaraLynn Majeska
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4525-4839-5

Contents

Artists' Statement About The Cover By Anna Casper & Victory LeRoi Smith........................................................ixForeword By Kate Cobb..........................................................................................................xiPreface.........................................................................................................................xiiiAcknowledgments.................................................................................................................xviiIntroduction By Anna Casper....................................................................................................xixChapter 1: Answering The Call What is Joy? How Do You Create Your Life?........................................................1Chapter 2: It's All You! Your Joy, Your Calling, Who You Really Are!...........................................................6Chapter 3: Knowing When to Let Go Focus, One Step at a Time, Taking Responsibility for Your Creations..........................9Chapter 4: Tools You Can Use Forgiveness, Asking for What You Want, Assistance.................................................12Chapter 5: The Power of Presence Creating a Solid Foundation, Compassion and Acceptance, Living Your Dream.....................15Chapter 6: On the Path Surrender and Trust, All is in Divine Order.............................................................18Chapter 7: New Beginnings and Letting Go of the Endings A Matter of Choice.....................................................22Chapter 8: Notice the Miracles Gratitude, Awareness, Heeding the Call..........................................................26Chapter 9: Being Present in the Moment Balance, Boundaries, Compassion.........................................................29Chapter 10: Allowing Your Freedom Creating Anew................................................................................33Chapter 11: Loving It All Remembering and Creating Your Reality................................................................37Chapter 12: Let Peace Begin Acceptance, Wholeness, Confidence..................................................................40Epilogue........................................................................................................................45

Chapter One

Answering The Call

What is Joy? How Do You Create Your Life?

In the light of the Truth, we begin with what is now the case of the missing angels—those who have not yet taken up the call to be their true, authentic Selves. In this case we see it is not so much that of the mind that comes into play as is the thought of what is to come that is of divine importance.

For what is a thought but a manifestation of the truth as you see it? Not the TRUTH, all-knowing and everlasting, but your perception of the truth, and with that, all can be changed. Nothing is so undesirable as to be seen with the truth laden about one's neck. For it is in so being that we are limited, like an ox with a yoke around its neck, plodding and plowing the limited lines of the field that produce abundance for others but often not for ourselves. It is this limited thinking that has driven mankind into its demolition hole; it's kind of ranking in competition: to be the farmer at the helm of the plow who determines the way, or the oxen driven by those who would direct it to their own innate will. It is a question of power that has held in its hands the fate of humanity—the fate of your life.

For whom have you given your power to, but others who have decreed that they know better and must have it done their way? You too, have practiced this, and by that means have held others captive to your bidding. It is time to be set free, to set ALL free and to let go of the incessant yammering of fatefulness that many deem to be their ultimate outcome in life—a life they cannot and will not take charge of—for to do so would be the proclamation of some outmoded god.

It is with this we say that everyone is indeed One with Spirit. It is with this bidding that we ask and implore you to be of good cheer and in good standing with all your fellow humans, for what you have done is nothing more than what you have been taught, and it is without accusation or guilt that we ask you to begin to seek your joy.

What is your joy? It is who you truly are in your heart and soul. It is love for another and love so great for yourself that you would seek to stay on its course and lead no one astray with your expectations and paltry biddings. It is living in the moment that which you enjoy and giving to the fullest with nothing but love and honor at being able to do so. It is staying true to your ideals and who you REALLY you are. As you do all these things, love and joy are added unto you tenfold and more as you are filling your life and the lives of others with positive emotions of a higher vibratory nature, thus affecting the world around you and our beloved Mother Earth.

For what can we say but to do so, to live in true spiritual integrity with All That Is, giving and receiving only love is true joy and at the heart of what you are seeking to feel complete in your life.

"It seems too simple," you say. Or you may ask, "How is that possible? How can we possibly live in continual love, doing what we don't necessarily like doing and still find joy?"

Therein lies the answer to your question. It is a matter of belief that you are finding yourself bridled with joy or a lack of it. It is merely a beginning of changes in reflection that you are now seeing yourself where you are at in your present state of affairs. However, it is not a static image. Nothing ever is but Truth, and as your truth and beliefs are constantly changing, you have often ignored the real TRUTH—but that is all, indeed, up for change.

All suffering is created from our thoughts and beliefs about what has happened. It is what you tell yourself about what has happened that causes this pain and suffering. You hold onto this suffering and champion it like a trophy as you relive, over and over, that which is done with—that experience which had lessons for you that has ceased. Yet you continue to wage war with it by calling it forth again and again as you talk and complain about it. While it is important to sort through your thoughts and beliefs about an experience, it is more important to move forward and see the experience objectively and appreciatively for the lesson it offers you. With that new understanding you can go forth and create the life you want. It has not been put there to harangue you fitfully in your sleep for the rest of your life, sentencing you to years of frustrations and roadblocks. It is merely a lesson or test that you have either mastered or perhaps not yet mastered. It is merely an experience in your life, and how you choose to view it is the final outcome of that lesson.

For as you choose to extract the gratitude for what has been chosen for you and to move on with the wisdom you have acquired from this experience, your life is richer and fuller. You can find myriad ways to pursue the "Why me?" of this lesson, or you can find myriad ways to focus on "How can I use this experience as an opportunity?" by asking:

• How did I attract this into my life?

• How can I look...