Shai Tubali

UNLOCKING

7 Secret
powers
of the heart
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Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Secret No. 1: Your Heart always knows what your mind forgets . . 2

Secret No. 2: You are unbreakable when you are vulnerable . . . 4

Secret No. 3: Forgiveness is a miracle that sets you free . . . . . . 6

Secret No. 4: Your heart doesn’t need a process to be able to love 8

Secret No. 5: Your heart can transform any energy . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Secret No. 6: Your heart can be your driving force and strongest
motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Secret No. 7: Your heart can reveal your divine perfection even
when you are imperfect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Introduction
We tend to consider the heart a most vulnerable and tender area of our
being. Accordingly, we develop many psychological strategies to protect
and conceal it. Deep emotions like love, we believe, are too delicate and
can only be revealed in a supportive and nurturing environment.

This small book carries a very different message: your heart is not weak at
all. A deeper insight into it reveals it is, in fact, a source of power even
greater than your strongest willpower, ambition or resourcefulness.
Indeed, when the heart turns into the hidden force behind all your
qualities and capacities, it is discovered as a supremely active engine
which provides all your actions with an inexhaustible reservoir of energy.

More than that, not only the heart is not vulnerable, it is actually
indestructible. Emotions like love and compassion are not tender but
rather invincible powers of our being which channel tremendous cosmic
waves. They require no secure environment to be shown; they can
proudly and openly flow even in the harshest and noisiest marketplace.

You will find here seven dormant powers of your heart. There are more, of
course, yet these particular seven are essential especially as a first step
towards a full activation of your heart and love. They will initiate you into a
journey in which you discover the heart as the one true driver of your life.
You are about to learn that:

1. The heart is your source of doubtless knowing

2. The heart holds the power to make you invulnerable
3. The heart can release you from all past and dependency
4. The heart makes it possible for you to love already now
5. The heart easily transforms every desire, fear or tension
6. The heart can replace your willpower
7. The heart shows you how you can love yourself even now

May we all wisely activate our heart in accordance with its original destiny
and purpose!

Let us start now…

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Secret No. 1: Your Heart always knows
what your mind forgets
Very often our brain gets overcrowded with doubts and mistrust. We then
feel lost and confused, not sure anymore what is right and what is wrong.
Of course, none of us can absolutely prevent any doubt or confusion, nor
should we aspire to achieve such a perfect doubt-free state. Sometimes it
is essential to go through such “crises” of uncertainty in order to shift to
the next phase. Nonetheless, even then, in our darkest moments, is it
important to have an anchor of a solid, unbreakable knowing.

But what could we do? How do we reach at all a knowing in such states,
when there are so many contradictory thoughts running around in our
mind? Here enters this secret power of the heart:

your heart is what I call the “body of knowing”. It is the center in

you that knows the truth, even when your body trembles with
anxiety, your mental center is packed with negative thoughts and
your emotional center is in a state of overwhelming turmoil.

It is necessary to distinguish “knowing” from “thinking”: knowing cannot be

contrasted with some thought or other; it exists beneath all fluctuating
thoughts; it is, in essence, eternal. Of course, it could evolve and expand,
be redefined more deeply or accurately, yet fundamentally it is
indestructible. It is that which we recognize in our depth as “true”.

Unlike what we may think, our heart accumulates throughout life quite a
great deal of knowing. This knowing is like the honey we extricate from
the flowers of our different experiences. Being over-cautious and avoiding
defining our understandings and learnings as “knowing” are not wise at all.
Often we are cautious because we feel it is socially too defiant and
arrogant to know things without a doubt. However, our heart is not a
social asset and knowing is essential.

We must declare that we know to make the body of knowing within our
heart conscious and present at any given moment - especially when we
need it the most, when both our mental and emotional state and external
circumstances entirely contradict and attack our knowing.

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What do you know? What do you know with certainty within your heart -
with a certainty that doubts cannot reach and damage?

To answer this honestly, you need to turn your awareness to your heart
and to slowly find there a hidden yet completely solid rock of conviction.
This may not be the type of certainty that tells us if to turn right or left on
life’s path or what exactly we should decide in any junction. But it most
definitely tells us what is real for us, even if we haven’t experienced that
enough.

To unveil your body of knowing, create your very own “book of knowing”.
Take a beautiful notebook and start, slowly but surely, to write in it things
you know within your depths. Take your time. Even if you feel satisfied at
first with only one sentence, one sentence of knowing which could never
be touched by thoughts and emotions is actually a lot!

Do you know that you are a soul and not a body? Do you know that there
is something beyond the senses? Do you know that love is an invincible
power? Do you know that a certain partnership you have is the type that
lasts for the rest of your life? Do you know that you have a certain mission
to complete in this lifetime? Do you know that anger is caused by fear? Do
you know that there is one thought or emotion that you must overcome in
this life?

Gradually consolidate your book of knowing that springs from your heart.
Whenever your being is flooded by fear or doubt, open it and read. Until
the day comes when you embody this book and become your knowing.

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Secret No. 2: You are unbreakable when
you are vulnerable
We are all afraid of being too weak. To conceal our weakness we put on
ourselves an armour, a thick layer of protection with which we defend the
vulnerability and fragility of our heart. This is why we harden, react with
anger, hatred, grudge and vengefulness, and refuse to open up.

We want to be strong and impenetrable and wish for a state of

invulnerability in which we could never get harmed and could never feel
pain. Perhaps this is a wise strategy to build such a protective wall around
our heart, as long as we do not know how to cope with strong emotions
and deep disappointments. But with this secret of the heart we can finally
remove the wall:

What we believe that makes us stronger, actually makes us

weaker; what we believe that makes us weaker, actually makes us
stronger.

The more we feel we are in a position of self-defence, threatened and in

need of protection, the more intensely and deeply we feel how fragile we
are. On the other hand, a tender heart which doesn’t try to protect itself
and remains in all circumstances open, loving, accepting, forgiving and
willing to experience is an unbreakable heart. There is nothing that it
cannot envelop and contain; no power that it is unable to melt away, since
whatever penetrates it, it agrees to receive.

What enemy could defeat such a heart? Even the strongest enemy
becomes helpless then, as it is trying with all its might to fight against, hurt
and ruin, but the love of such a heart keeps it unharmed. We can only get
hurt as long as fear nests within our heart. Any aggression and destruction
feed on our fear, while in the face of love they completely lose their
power.

Love and openness of the heart are the mightiest power in the world - a
power that only grows when we love exactly at those times when it
doesn’t make sense to open up at all. We fear getting hurt, but what could
happen if we are willing to get hurt and commit ourselves to love even in
such a condition?

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The great irony is that the more we contract our heart, the more we feel it
needs additional and even more sophisticated layers of protection.
Eventually, we don’t feel pain but also hardly feel anything else. We
become cautious and numb, hurting a little and loving a little.

Many consider the life of Jesus a perfect example of the heroism of the
heart: the way he walked around in this harsh world as the most delicate
flower - wide open, exposed and loving. Do we think that those who
crucified him defeated him? No, we know that the heart of Jesus could
never be crucified, only his body. You cannot crucify a heart that its last
words are “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do”.

Remove gently and gradually these protective layers. Remember, your

fear of doing so makes the heart more prone to damage. But if you step
forward and declare: “From now on, I leave my heart open and choose to
love even in the toughest conditions”, nothing could happen to you. Your
heart is stronger when it’s open and more breakable when it’s closed.
Wait for the next inevitable hurt and this time, don’t contract. Instead,
open up your chest fully towards it, agree to the pain, pour love towards
the one who caused you this pain - and you will quickly find out that the
pain flows through you and becomes transformed into a greater power of
love.

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Secret No. 3: Forgiveness is a miracle that
sets you free
Sometimes it seems to us that holding grudge and keeping our
disappointment with another are an effective strategy of self-defence. We
may even perceive it as our way to compensate for the pain - by
remaining angry and unforgiving we maintain a sort of a power position
which perhaps was completely lost at those past moments of deep hurt.
We could live for long years, even for a whole lifetime, without the
willingness to finally let go of the expectation which lies at the root of our
grudge.

For some reason, we harbour the hidden assumption that people should
not disappoint, betray or hurt us. Reality, however, shows us otherwise:
people, it seems, are definitely meant to disappoint, betray or hurt us. We
tend to overlook the fact that we too are perceived by others as ones who
disappointed, betrayed and hurt them. What we experience as a betrayal
is more often than not someone else’s need for self-fulfillment. Mostly, it
was not directed against us at all but, very simply, a choice made for their
own sake.

This makes forgiveness a godly attribute that the human part of our heart
is unable to realize. The human part of our heart would always prefer to
hold grudge and to feel hurt. That is why when we are willing to forgive,
we form a direct contact with the godly part of our heart - with a
transhuman love and transhuman capacity to include and contain. We are
willing to be bigger than the person in us who is completely identified
with the pain.

But there is much more to it: forgiveness is a magic power. By becoming

bigger than the hurt person and the seemingly uncontainable painful
experience, we turn ourselves into indestructible beings, completely
liberated from the memory and the emotional shock. We purify ourselves
from any imprint and energetically disengage from our so-called
victimizer.

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Our forgiveness, we must understand, does not free the other person
from responsibility; rather, it frees us from our imagined responsibility for
the other and the other’s fate. It is not us who are the judges of that
person, and so, when we judge, we only sentence ourselves to a life-
imprisonment - to forever remaining caged within the memory and within
the position of the victim.

Your heart holds within it the magical power to forgive and it also loves
forgiving. The reason it loves forgiving is not only moral. Even more so, it
is because it recognizes that as soon as it activates this magic, we get the
chance to become liberated in a way that not even a heartfelt regret on
the other’s part could grant us. We let go of the expectation and the fake
power of revenge, and instead love the other to such a degree that we
also become fully capable of loving ourselves.

Don’t say this is impossible because your case is especially painful;

always keep in mind that there were holocaust survivors who looked their
Nazi victimizers in the eye and forgave them. By forgiving them, they
didn’t let their victimizers go; they let themselves go.

Think of all the people towards whom you hold grudge or

disappointment. Forgive them with joy, not reluctantly. Let your heart fully
envelop them with love. It is not important if it’s “fair” or not. In the game of
life the question who was right is unhelpful and often also unsolvable.
What really matters is whether you are free here and now and whether
you are paving a new path for yourself to tread.

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Secret No. 4: Your heart doesn’t need a
process to be able to love
Many people assume that to reach a state in which one is able to love and
to give, one requires first a process of healing and rehabilitation: before
giving others, we must first feel good enough ourselves; we need to be
given love, to learn to give love to ourselves and to heal deep-seated
traumas and emotional wounds. The general feeling is that “one day we
will be ready to love” - but not now, not today.

This assumption is not completely wrong. It is pretty obvious that the

human part of our heart, the one that absorbed difficult memories along
the way, needs some rehabilitation and nourishment. A process of healing
is essential for emotional maturation. In the same breath, one of the most
astonishing secret powers of our heart is its ability to love and to give at
any given moment, without any preliminary process of preparation.

There is an element in our heart that is ready each and every

moment for the act of love. This means that your heart can
open here and now. It is just a matter of choice to allow this
element to awaken in you.

We know this part quite well. Any fresh mother or father knows that in
their heart they can always find a space for their crying baby, even when
their body is already on the verge of collapse. Any therapist would
confirm that even when their own life is in a state of crisis and conflict, as
soon as they sit in front of their patient, they miraculously manage to
gather their forces and to elevate their spirit for them. People who never
knew each other find at moments of common distress enough
compassion and courage in their heart to help one another - even if they
haven’t gone through ongoing psychological processes of healing.

At this very moment, your heart can love. This is not a “practice”. You
simply allow this glowing part in your heart, which requires no healing
since it has never been broken or wounded, to express. This part is the
essential quality of our heart, its true nature.

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If there is any real process of maturation, it is surely the process of slowly
agreeing to contact this part of our heart, without fearing that if we let it
flow, our story as ones who need love might come to an end.

In a way, it is true that we need love - but not so much to receive it

and so much more to give it; to know for sure it is inside us in
abundance; to sense it within ourselves. After all, the heart feels
full not when it receives but when it finally gives all that was inside
it, waiting.

When we realize there is never a good excuse for not loving at any given
moment, we also understand the unbelievable: our heart is open even
when it feels closed. We recognize this whenever we engage in a conflict
or a tension with another and choose to close our heart - deep down we
know we could open up if we only wanted to. We hear this whisper in our
ear. Yet sometimes we simply don’t want to follow it, because then we
would “lose” in the argument. However, the only loss in the argument is
our very own - missing out on one more opportunity to love.

Initiate a contact with this element when you feel your heart is closed. Do
it now - feel your open and exposed heart throbbing behind the wall.
When you feel you cannot possibly love at a certain moment, try to make
a conscious choice to act out of this abundance of love inside you. Lose in
arguments willingly. If you do all this, you will soon notice that a ray of
happiness shines from your chest, because you have cracked open the
secret your heart was trying to tell you all along: that it was ready to love
even when you said it wasn’t.

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Secret No. 5: Your heart can transform any
energy
Desires, fears and tensions are all energies we need to handle within
ourselves on a daily basis. Yet more often than not, we feel quite helpless
and confused when facing them. Interestingly, even those energies which
are relatively “old”, persistent and familiar could still embarrass us and
make us insecure. They seem to speak in a language so primal and
instinctive that our rational thinking simply cannot understand.

Of course, we are relatively capable of “overcoming” such strong

emotions and feelings using our weapon of self-analysis - and indeed, a
cognitive understanding of what is happening in us helps to a certain
degree. Another way to cope is the calming effect of meditation and
spiritual energy, which frequently relieve such inner tensions.

However, only a few know that the greatest transformer of the human
system is the heart. The heart can easily transform any desire, tension or
fear. It acts like a powerful magnet which absorbs them into it and
radically changes their nature. As soon as our center of gravity is placed in
the heart - physically speaking, in the chest - all energies are drawn to it
and quickly swallowed by it.

In the world of Tantra great tantric masters have been aware of this secret
of the heart. They have made use of it to transform sexual energy: while
desire initially awakens within the sexual system, in order to transmute it
into a more refined type of energy, one needs to direct and draw it to
one’s heart. In this way, desire eventually turns into love. But how come
the heart holds within it such a tremendous transformative power? The
answer is exactly this: love.

In the whole world there is no stronger energy than love. When

love is present, any lower and weaker energy submits to it, since
all energies yearn and long for love.

Truly, at the deepest level most of the conflicted dynamics that take
place within our mental and emotional worlds are the outcome of our loss
of contact with the power of love. As soon as our heart becomes empty,
the human system gets disoriented and lost and a vacant space is left for
the appearance of more primitive thoughts and emotions, such as desire,
anger, jealousy, fear and resistance.

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The heart is capable of overcoming any base emotion and feeling, and its
great advantage is that it doesn’t have to battle with them the way our
rational mind needs to. Its way of overcoming is sweet and tender. It
instantly envelops this lost element with the luminosity of absolute
positivity. It purifies it at once from its egoic tendency and elevates it to
the higher domain of selflessness. Most of all, it reminds the person what
one loves more than anything else and where it is most natural for one to
abide in.

Being able to place yourself in the heart to enable it to become

this great transformer is the simplest thing in the world: whenever
you encounter some tense energy inside you, physically shift your
center of gravity to the center of the chest.

For the most part, we experience that the center of our being is located in
the head - most definitely, a place we feel uncomfortable to be in which is
why our shoulders and neck are often so burdened. On the other hand, at
times of desire or anger we may feel our center has moved to the pelvic
region or the belly. Our heart is physically located in a particularly
spacious area, far more spacious than our rather small head: the entire
expanse of the chest.

Thus, in the same way you experience yourself existing and perceiving
from within the head, shift the center of your being to the chest - and
from it, watch and communicate with the world. You will quickly realize
how impossible it is to remain narrow and selfish from this new position of
your being.

You could even practice as if you have no head - as if your head fell off -
and so, your head is now located in your chest. Imagine that the chest has
eyes - how does it look at everything? What does it see? When you will
practice in this way, the heart’s magnet will begin to operate, sucking into
it any negative or limiting energy and transforming it into the invincible
power of love.

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Secret No. 6: Your heart can be your
driving force and strongest motivation
What is your source of energy, urge and motivation to do everything you
do? Ordinarily, many people derive their energy from ambition and will.
They want to achieve something, or several things, and this will drives
them to wake up in the morning to a brand new day. No doubt, ambition
and will are a powerful source which have clearly propelled tremendous
individual and collective processes in the world.

However, these motivations also suffer from an intense limitation: they

exist without necessarily being tied into any deep sense of meaning. This
is why a highly active individual is capable of waking up one morning,
after many years of ceaseless engagement, feeling completely worn-out
and asking oneself: “What is the point of all this? Why am I constantly
chasing around after things?” Indeed, ambition and willing have their
edge, and ironically with all the intensity they evoke in us, they often lead
us to a sense of emptiness.

When we think of potential sources of energy and power, we rarely

consider our heart. We may include in our list more obvious factors such
as physical energy, desire, craving, passion and of course ambition - yet
we tend to overlook love, at least as a driving force or a source of
motivation.

Nonetheless, love is a source of power. Try once to define within yourself

love as your reason for action. This doesn’t have to be an important action;
it could be the most mundane, simplest one.
Think and feel: “I am doing this because I love”. Right now I am writing this
little book out of love. I could write it because I strive for a certain status;
because I wish to reach as many people as possible, gain your
recognition, or convince you. I could even write simply because I feel like
writing - yet I am writing right now because I love.

Love is a power that can move mountains. It is not just some

tender and vulnerable feeling inside us.

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This is why it is a good enough and strong enough reason to wake up in
the morning. I wake up in the morning because I love; what makes me rise
from bed and enter a new day of action is love. I work out of love and
meet people because I love.

The wonderful thing is that tapping into this source of power also leads to
a direct connection to the meaning of life. Of course, no one really knows
what the meaning of life is, and truly, if there is one at all. Intellectually
and even spiritually we have absolutely no idea why we are here. Yet
emotionally, we do have a feeling about it.

When we love, we no longer ask what the meaning of life is,

since we have united with it.

The heart feels the meaning of life, and that is why it recognizes love as
an authentic driving force. When we do everything we do out of love, our
world is instantly filled with meaning, value and beauty. We wash the
dishes out of love, walk our dog out of love, read a book because we love.
More often than not, our action becomes empty of meaning and
everything seems tedious and dull. However, when love appears as the
background behind each and every action, the most ordinary activity
gains a new colour, for the simple reason we have come into contact with
the only reason that could instantly justify all our actions in the past,
present and future.

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Secret No. 7: Your heart can reveal your
divine perfection even when you are
imperfect
Many of us find it difficult to deeply and fully accept ourselves.
Consciously or unconsciously, we are in a state of quarrel with who we
are: with the body we “received”, with the past we were compelled to
experience, with our built-in limitations and stubborn patterns, with all that
we would never manage to be and with the specific challenges of our life.
For this reason, we could hardly imagine perceiving ourselves, just the
way we are at this very moment, as divine, whole and complete. We
believe that the experience of perfection is a future achievement which
we would perhaps be worthy of after sufficiently justifying it through
intense self-correction, successes and recognition. One day, we
unconsciously think, we will be able to deserve our very own self-love.

Our heart, however, holds the secret power to reveal our divine
perfection, even now when we are full of flaws and weaknesses; even
when we feel ourselves most unworthy and undeserving. The heart has
no need to wait for absolute self-acceptance. It requires no recognitions
and successes to justify such an acceptance and even doesn’t seek a
heavenly reassurance that it is indeed the time. This is because it is
connected at this very moment to the sense of our inherent divinity - the
one we achieved already at the moment of our birth.

To begin with, the heart has no quarrel with our built-in limitations and
shortcomings. It clearly knows that all human weaknesses, difficulties and
obstacles must be there as a necessary balance for the divine powers in
us and as a vital means for evolution and learning. In this sense, in our
heart there is no doubt that this imperfection is also a type of perfection -
one that could never be perceived by our thinking which forever
measures, evaluates and compares, yet could be sensed through feeling
and knowing.

Even more importantly, our heart knows that self-acceptance means

accepting the divine will. After all, who we are, exactly the way we are, is
what the divine or the universe wished us to be. If the divine will would
have been that we should be without any limitations, it would have taken
care of that in the first place. As far as the divine will is concerned - and
unlike the way we think - we are at this very moment in the right place
and in the right body, with the right limitations and the right obstacles.

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Not accepting ourselves implies rejecting the universe as a whole. Why
are we so ready to acknowledge that the universe is complete and
perfect; that each and every lizard and caterpillar are complete and
perfect, while we miraculously are the only element that deviates from
the holy pattern - only we, specifically, are some kind of a cosmic error?
How could this even be?

This is the way God or the cosmos wanted us to be - beautiful and weak,
confused and brave. As soon as we accept that wholeheartedly, we
discover a new type of beauty and perfection: not the perfection which is
the opposite of limitation but a perfection which also includes all possible
limitations.

A true self-acceptance is a tremendous power of the heart. It opens us up

to love, to being able to also love others as perfect wholes; it connects us
to the total feeling of the universe and enables the full flowering of all our
gifts and abilities on the healthy ground of a deep positive sense of
ourselves. All we need to do is to pass through self-acceptance as if it
were a gate leading us directly to the divine reality, since inner wholeness
is our most immediate link to the greater wholeness.

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 About the Author

Shai Tubali
has guided thousands of people
through seminars, lectures, courses,
schools and retreats in Europe, Israel,
and India in the last 17 years. He is
also the author of 21 books in the
fields of philosophy, psychology, and
of course spiritual transformation and
self-development methods.

Shai defines his spiritual teaching as a

teaching of meaning: one that puts at
the center the universal meaning and
purpose of human life.

As a spiritual teacher and philosopher,

Shai Tubali strongly believes that spirituality – the development of human
consciousness – is vital for the fate of humanity; for its present as well as
for its future. The fact that we ceaselessly advance in the technological
realm while our consciousness remains essentially undeveloped, is an
enormous obstacle to the shaping of our species’ future. In other words,
spirituality is not only relevant but crucial.

Shai Tubali believes that the development of human consciousness is a

critical key to the shaping of the world. As such, being spiritually
awakened implies a greater responsibility on one’s shoulders. The more
ignorance is removed, the more one ideally grows in responsibility.

If we want to have a positive impact in this world, our actions need to

come from a state of love, clarity and acceptance. Our inner chaos,
grudge, hatred and misconceptions need to be transformed so that we do
no longer pollute our world with them. This makes the awakening of our
heart so important, as it is the greatest transformer of the human system.

Visit shaitubali.com to access a free video training on how you can open
your heart and connect to the strongest energy in you. Let us plant
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