Out of Your Mind and into Your Heart

As a recovering intellectual, Marie Roberts offers hope to people who also percieve life through the intellect and feel disconnected from their heart or feelings. She draws on the teachings of Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and yoga to help readers reconnect with their heart. Roberts maintains that by releasing this love energy and letting it flow, readers will be able to balance and love their lives more completely. The author is a motivational speaker and conducts dozens of workshops and seminars around the country The author is an ordained Presbyterian minister who practices and incorporates other spiritual and metaphysical teachings as well Out of Your Mind and Into Your Heart is a self-help book that explores the many spiritual traditions and practices that recognise the heart as the barometer of total well-being. The book refers to the yogic heart chakra, the compassionate heart of the Bodhisattva in Buddhism, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the Jewish Tiferet centre on the Kabbalist tree of life. The book interweaves usable techniques for activating positive heart energy with anecdotes from the author's own life work, over the past 25 years, as a spiritual guide.The author describes her personal journey from mind to heart and portrays herself as a recovering intellectual. She claims that there are millions of these recovering intellectuals who have enough life experience to understand that they have been living in their heads and from their intellect and not from their heart. They experience a disconnection between heart and intellect and this book will help people find that connection once again. Her book will help readers to reconnect with their feelings. Her book is both practical and engaging, based upon the workshops she leads around the country.