Heart Answers® Meditation helps you access your own answers from within
What do I really want? What should I do next? What is my Life Purpose? What would actually make me happy?
When we are searching for answers to the biggest questions in our lives, we tend to do the one thing we have been taught to do: we think harder. We make pros and cons lists, google every possibility, ask our friends, take personality tests and play out a hundred different scenarios in our heads. We try to make the smartest, safest and most logical decision. And still, sometimes, we don't know.
I spent much of my own life looking everywhere for a purpose. For my life to finally begin. Until, during my own meditation journey, I experienced something that fundamentally changed the way I looked at these questions: the answers I had been looking for outside of myself were in my own heart.
This eventually became the foundation of Heart Answers® Meditation, a guided meditation technique I developed to help you become still, connect with your heart and access the answers that are already within you. Instead of trying to figure everything out with your mind, you create the space to listen inwardly and discover your own answers.
How to Listen to Your Heart When You Don't Know What You Want
Listening to your heart is not about abandoning your rational mind or making every life decision based on an impulse. Your mind is a wonderful tool for navigating your life and career. But it doesn't have to be the only voice in charge.
Your mind works with what it already knows. It remembers your past experiences, your fears, what you have learned is realistic and all the expectations you have absorbed along the way. This can be incredibly useful. But it can also keep you inside the boundaries of what it already knows. Your heart can show you what your mind has not yet imagined. And this is why we come to the heart.
In a world that teaches strategy and success metrics, we are rarely taught how to listen to the part of us that dreams freely, feels deeply and moves intuitively. We try to solve our next life and career chapter with the same mental patterns that might have led us into misalignment in the first place. We analyse every path, weigh every risk and plan ten steps ahead, but the more we think it through, the further we can sometimes get from how we actually feel. To truly hear yourself, you have to slow down enough to notice what is underneath all that noise.
How to Find Answers Within Yourself
From my experience, and based on everything I have explored through meditation, life purpose coaching and the spiritual teachings that have influenced me, there seem to be several ways that can help us get there. However, whenever my heart spoke to me, it usually took the shape of the following process:
I became still. I let my mind quiet down.
And then I truly listened.
This usually happened for me during meditation and also in journaling, when the mind switched off after some time. This is exactly why I work with both meditation and journaling, and this is exactly why and how I developed Heart Answers® Meditation.
What also really helped was connecting with the version of who I truly am. The heart-version of myself. The soul version. The higher self or simply my most alive self, however you want to call it.
Heart Answers® Meditation does exactly that: it helps you reconnect with who you truly are. In this state of love, gratitude and aliveness, it becomes easier to listen for your own answers because you are no longer asking them only from the version of you that is scared, overthinking or trying to make the “right” decision. You are reconnecting with the version of you who feels alive. Your magic.
What Is Heart Answers® Meditation?
This is how much joy I feel when I guide others into their hearts to retrieve their own answers through Heart Answers® Meditation
Heart Answers® Meditation is a method that combines meditation, subconscious imagery, visualization and intuitive inner guidance. You are not trying to consciously construct the perfect answer. Instead, you become still enough to allow memories, images, emotions, words or a simple sense of knowing to emerge.
Meditation itself isn't about forcing your mind not to think. It is about placing your awareness on something: your breath, your body, your senses, your feelings or, in this case, your heart. As your attention settles, your mind can naturally become quieter.
Heart Answers® takes this a step further through visualization. You are not supposed to consciously decide what you should see. Instead, you allow memories and images to arise and work with whatever appears. Visualization becomes a doorway rather than an effort. And from there, we listen.
The Heart Answers® 3-Step Meditation to Find Answers Within
The Heart Answers® Meditations I guide people through follow a simple three-step process. The purpose is not to force an answer out of yourself, but to reconnect with your most alive, openhearted self first and ask your questions from there.
Step 1: Remember When You Felt Alive or Joyful
We start with memories. I will ask your subconscious to come up with moments where you felt aliveness, love, gratitude or any other heart-opening emotions. Your subconscious might produce a memory you didn't even expect.
You can try this yourself now. Close your eyes, take a few slow breaths and allow a memory to appear. Perhaps you are swimming in the ocean, dancing, laughing uncontrollably with someone you love, standing somewhere beautiful or experiencing a tiny moment that nobody except you would consider particularly significant.
Then, with your five senses, truly step back into this moment. What can you see? What can you hear? What does the air feel like against your skin? What can you smell? Most importantly, what does it feel like inside your body to be you in this memory? Remember that these memories and these feelings have always been living in your heart. Remember that this is ultimately you. That you have always been connected to your Inner Purpose, your true light; you just forgot for a while.
Step 2: Breathe the Feeling Into Your Body
Now bring your attention to your heart and imagine these memories as a warm, glowing light. With every breath, visualize this feeling of love, joy, gratitude or aliveness spreading further into your body until, little by little, your whole body is glowing in this light.
You don't have to force yourself to feel anything extraordinary. Stay with whatever is there and allow yourself to remember what it feels like to be the heart-version of you: your most alive, open and loving self.
This isn't a new version of yourself that you have to create. One of the most important ideas behind my entire Life Purpose philosophy is that you don't have to become someone else. Your Life Purpose is a remembering. You are returning to the version of yourself who knew what she loved before she learned what was realistic.
Step 3: Enter Your Heart and Ask for an Answer
Now you enter the space inside yourself, inside your heart, where your true answers lie. From that openhearted state, I guide you on a visual journey into a magical place such as a forest, mountain, meadow or garden.
Allow your own place to appear. You don't need to consciously construct every tree or flower. Let the landscape unfold around you and, once you feel settled there, ask your question.
What do I really want? What would make me feel more alive? What is my next step?
Then you wait. You don't force. You let your heart come up with images, words, emotions, knowing or feelings. You let it speak. And you finally, finally listen. Your answer might surprise you. It might be something you already knew somewhere deep down. It might not make sense immediately. Or you might simply experience a feeling without receiving a clear answer at all. The practice isn't about producing the “correct” answer on command. It is about learning to create enough space within yourself to notice what arises when your conscious mind isn't trying to control the entire conversation.
What If You Don't Get an Answer During Meditation?
Don't turn listening to your heart into another thing you have to be good at. Sometimes an answer might come as an incredibly clear image or knowing, while at other times there may only be a feeling, a memory or simply stillness.
This is why I love combining Heart Answers® with journaling. After the meditation, write down what came up before you start analysing it. What did you see? What did you feel? Were there any words, people, places or memories that surprised you? Sometimes the meaning becomes much clearer once you begin writing.
And sometimes it doesn't. You don't have to force that either.
How Do You Know If It's Your Heart or Your Mind?
This isn't always easy, and I don't believe every inner impulse automatically contains some unquestionable truth. For me, listening to your heart is about allowing another source of information into the conversation rather than blindly following every feeling you have. My approach is heart first, mind second.
Your mind is a wonderful, super-intelligent tool to help you get to where your heart wants to go. Once you have listened inwardly and discovered what you genuinely want, you can bring your mind back in to make plans, consider practical realities, assess risks and decide how you might actually move towards it.
The mind can help you build the map. But your heart can help you discover where you actually want to go.
Listening to Your Heart and Finding Your Life Purpose
This is also why listening to your heart sits at the very beginning of my Life Purpose work. We usually approach Life Purpose through Doing: What career should I have? What am I here to create? What should I do with my life?
But I see Life Purpose as having two dimensions: Inner Purpose and Outer Purpose. Inner Purpose is Being. It is the foundation, the internal state from which everything else flows: presence, self-connection and alignment with Life. Outer Purpose is Doing. It is the unique way your inner truth expresses itself in the world through your gifts, passions, contribution, work and the life you create.
So there is a reason we don't begin with the question: “What should I do with my life?” We begin somewhere else: “Who am I being?”
The first step is becoming still. Entering a state of Being. We become still and then we listen, because from this place of connection, your Outer Purpose can begin to unfold naturally. You don't have to change anything about yourself or this moment. You don't have to become someone else. You can be exactly who you are right now.
The Answers You Are Looking for Might Already Be Within You
Your heart has always been pointing you towards what makes you feel most alive. No matter how much you didn't listen. No matter how much you distracted yourself from the truth. Heart Answers® isn't about giving you another external authority that knows your life better than you do. In fact, it is the opposite. I created it to help you become still, reconnect with yourself and listen inwardly for your own answers.
You don't have to figure out your entire life today. You don't need to distrust your mind or abandon logic. But perhaps the next time you're desperately trying to think your way towards an answer, you can try something different.
Become still. Remember what it feels like to be fully alive. Come back into your heart. And listen.
Discover Your Life Purpose With Heart Answers®
Your free sneak peek into the Life Purpose Online Course
Heart Answers® is one of the core practices inside The Land of Remembering, my Life Purpose & Dream Career online course.
We begin in the Magical Forest with your Inner Purpose, where you reconnect with Heart Connection, Present Moment Awareness, Openness, Self-Compassion and Joy. Only then do we move into your Outer Purpose and explore your passions, talents, values, the wisdom you have gained through your life and the contribution you want to make in the world.
Throughout this journey, Heart Answers® Meditations help you listen inwardly and discover your own answers rather than trying to figure everything out with your mind. Because ultimately, we are not going to think our way into your Life Purpose. We are going to create the space to listen for it.
