You may think it matters what happens. But what if the only thing that matters is where you are experiencing from, where you are looking from? What if you could experience all of life from a spacious, open perspective where anything can happen and there is room for all of it, where there is no need to pick and choose, to put up barriers or resist any of it, where nothing is a problem and everything just adds to the richness of life? What if this open, spacious perspective was the most natural and easy thing to do?

It may sound too good to be true, but we all have a natural capacity to experience life in this way. The only requirement is to look from the Heart, not just figuratively, but to look from the subtle energetic center located in the center of the chest instead of looking out from the eyes and the head—and not just to look, but to listen and feel and sense from the Heart.

In some spiritual traditions we are encouraged to look in the Heart, and yet what does that mean exactly? Often we are so used to looking and sensing through the head and the mind that when we are asked to look in the Heart, we look through the head into the Heart to see what is there. Usually we end up just thinking about the Heart. But what if you could drop into the Heart and look from there? How would your life look right now? Is it possible that there is another world right in front of you that you can only see with the Heart and not with the mind?

This book invites you to explore this radically different perspective and to find out what is true and real when the world and your life are viewed from the Heart of Being. It may both delight and shock you to find that so much richness and wonder and beauty lie so close and are so immediately available to you. But don’t take my word for it. Read along and see if your experience fits with this simple yet profound way to shift in awareness to a more complete view of your life, your world, and ultimately your true nature as that openness and wonder and beauty.

Chapter One takes a look at how you got where you are, how you got used to looking out at the world through the mind and the senses.

Chapter Two provides an experiential exploration of the possibility of looking in a totally different way: from the Heart. Throughout, are exercises for your own investigation.

Chapter Three explores other possible perspectives, such as looking from the belly or from no particular place.

Chapter Four examines some of the blocks or difficulties you may encounter in applying these new perspectives. It also introduces another way to move into spaciousness by giving space to objects and experiences.

Chapter Five offers an exploration of using this perspective in daily life, including the effect of dropping into the Heart in the face of strong emotions, desires, relationships, and physical pain.

For those who like to ponder such things, Chapter Six playfully explores the implications of these possibilities. Who are you really if your awareness can so radically shift into other dimensions of reality so easily? Are you the body or the mind or even the Heart, or are you the formless awareness that flows through all of these?

(Note: Some people are more visual, some are more auditory, and some are more in touch with their feelings or with physical sensations. This book often refers to one or two of these modes, as when exercises invite you to look from your head or sense from your Heart. Feel free to translate and use whatever mode is most natural to you. If you find it easier to listen with your head or look from your Heart or any other combination, that’s fine. You may want to experiment with the other senses also.)