The Story behind the Book: How to Live from Your Heart (Hucknall)

 




This week's book back story features How to Live from Your Heart by Nanette V. Hucknall. 

from the editor -- her original summary of the book while in its planning stage:

OVERVIEW

Imagine yourself in a deeply loving and completely fulfilling relationship, excited by each new day. Imagine you awake to intellectually stimulating work that matters in the world. Picture the deepest longings in your heart blooming into real, tangible manifestations of your creativity. You can have all of this. You already have the road map and the knowledge to create this beautiful life, and all that wisdom resides in your heart. Your heart knows:

  • Right from wrong
  • Creativity from procrastination
  • Love from lust
  • Joy from mania
  • Honesty from falsehoods

And more.

And here’s the best news. Tapping into your heart communications skills will:

  • Bring you a deeper perspective on events in your own life and in the world
  • Help you attain and retain emotional balance
  • Unleash your creativity and make it easier to tap into throughout your day
  • Bring awareness to your own gifts
  • Help you develop deeper, more fulfilling relationships with others
  • Tap into your innate intuitive guidance
  • Connect you to higher wisdom

Through parable-like anecdotes, How to Live From Your Heart will help you unlock the language with which your heart is already speaking to you.

As Buddha said: The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

This is a how-to book that explains ways in which the reader can actively work with the heart. With constant use the heart becomes a vehicle for learning. Besides anecdotes each chapter has exercises that relate to the theme of the chapter.

The heart is a very complex vehicle. It contains all the emotions from fear to love and also carries insight and inspiration.   

But what is the heart? The physical heart of course is an organ that keeps us alive, but the physical heart is very different from the heart the book is referring to. Where does one feel love or pain? It always comes not from the physical heart but from a place in the center of our chest. The saying, my heart feels like it is breaking, feels literally true: there is a great deal of pressure and pain in the chest. This center or heart chakra (a Sanskrit Indian term) is a chalice from which all the emotions pour forth. It also contains heart energy, an energy that, when properly directed, nourishes others as well as oneself.

How to Live From Your Heart takes some complicated concepts that have been written about in spiritual traditions, both western and eastern, and gives simple ways in which to bring some of those concepts into the reality of everyday life.

The book also addresses psychological issues and emotions that affect people and gives practical processes to help heal them.

Constant use of the heart energy brings spiritual growth. Without this energy the individual is walking in a world full of the disillusions of life that become finite realities, unchanging and stagnant. With the use of the heart these disillusions take on a different reality. They are viewed as learning experiences and ways to greater understanding, not only of oneself but also of others.

            The book contains six sections:

Part 1: Defining the Heart Center describes the energies of the heart and how they function.  

Part 2: Relating to Others is about how to use the energies in relationships. There develops an inner understanding that helps a relationship grow and prosper.  

Part 3: The Heart and the Higher Self describes the Higher Self and how to connect to this part through the heart in order to access its higher wisdom and all the good, refined, beautiful qualities accumulated on the path of life’s journey.

Part 4: Applying Heart Energy is about how to develop your creativity and apply heart energy in your work and in your environment to help better your life.

Part 5: Looking Within further explores the use of the heart energies and how to keep oneself balanced emotionally.

Part 6: Deepening the Experience expands beyond personal relationships to a broadened understanding of community and diverse cultures. Using the heart gives us an unbiased perspective of world events, one based on justice.

Some people feel that using the heart will make them appear maudlin or super sweet. This is a mistaken concept. People who act that way are not using their hearts: they are more involved in emotions and personal needs, which is very different from using the heart. When people express themselves with their hearts, the quality is often subtle and not obvious. It is an energy that is quiet and refined, yet all-encompassing. It’s like sitting in a warm tub of water and allowing the warmth to penetrate your whole body. Such warmth is soft and nurturing, not full of neediness. The heart energy is not always apparent. The receiver has to be open and receive it without fear or resistance; otherwise it can dissolve into the air.

The advantage of using the heart lies in its ability for diversity and its acceptance of anything new. It’s about being open to its energy and feeling the beauty of its qualities.

NOTE; Cover design from Nanette.

Awards this book has earned
Book of the Year finalist
Book Excellence Award
Best Books Award finalist
Pinnacle Book Achievement Award
Readers' Favorite Book Award finalist
Kops-Fetherling Legacy Award, self-help
New York Book Festival honorable mention


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