"My heart is source of emotional experience and expression, and I express my emotional experience in a way that's compatible with the nature and integrity of the moment"...

Here, we don't speak of the physical heart. Rather, the emotional heart. That place where we have identified as the home of our feelings about this, that, and everything else. Happiness, joy, fear, anger, sadness, and the multiple chaotic combinations of all the above. Eek!

Who hasn't blurted out something seemingly inappropriate out of a mindless reaction to some event in our day? Guilty!

The gist of this mantra is to weave Mindfulness with our emotional experience such that we 'share our truth'. Definitely important to reveal to others where we are coming from, without blasting them with an 'over the top' mindless and reactive statement that derails the conversation from a potentially constructive bent.

Words have power and can impact a person's well-being in an unintended way. Ultimately, this will detract from what it is you are hoping to convey, unless, I suppose, you are intending to be hurtful and vengeful.

I always encourage individuals to pause, breathe, reflect, and assess prior to responding to a potentially disruptive dialogue.

"My heart is source of emotional experience and expression, and I express my emotional experience in a way that's compatible with the nature and integrity of the moment"...