Changing Your Heartprint

Once you are aware that your thoughts and actions are creating heartprints, it’s a small step forward to see that you also have the capacity to change the heartprints you are making, to shift from negative or neutral to positive. The impact may not always be immediate or apparent, but every heartprint counts.

A Few Things to Try

1. Start with yourself. “Put on your own oxygen mask first.”
2. Take a few minutes a day to say to yourself:
   • May I be kind to myself.
   • May I be peaceful.
   • May I be happy.
   • May I be free from suffering.
3. What brings you joy?
   • Discover this and give yourself time to do it.
4. Simplify. Your time is valuable.
5. Smile at your own mistakes and forget the idea that you won’t make any.
6. Let silence be your friend.
7. Choose kindness toward everyone...whenever you can.

Tell Us About Your Journey

We’re interested in the simple steps that are moving you along. Write to us and tell us what you’re doing, so we can share it with others.

“Lost in awe at the beauty around me, I and the chimpanzees, the earth and trees and air seemed…to become one with the spirit power of life itself.”

—Jane Goodall

“The strongest, fiercest force in nature is human will.”

—George Bernard Shaw

“Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.”

—Madeleine L’Engle

“Love is a seeking for a way of life, a way that can’t be followed alone, the resonance of all spiritual and physical things.”

—Ansel Adams