Awakening The Sleeping Heart: Resuscitation For Relationships With Others And With Self

Have you ever experienced the “sleeping heart syndrome?” This sounds like a medical term, but it isn’t. It is a syndrome many people experience in their relationships with their husbands or wives. It can occur at anytime once you turn and walk away from the minister, rabbi, priest, judge or justice of the peace that joined you together in matrimony.

How does this syndrome occur? How do you know if you have it? What can you do to get over it? These questions hopefully will all be answered and you may, at one point or another, see yourself. Don’t get frightened. There are a variety of cures and one is guaranteed to work for each individual if he or she really wants to be cured of the syndrome. Sometimes the “sleeping heart syndrome” is acute, but at other times it is chronic. It does not have to be terminal, although in some cases it is.

If the symptoms are recognized, help can be sought out and a cure can begin; but you must recognize the symptoms. Marital relationships are only one of the ways our hearts go to sleep. The “sleeping heart syndrome” also can occur with our children, jobs, friends and even life itself.

What does a sleeping heart feel like? As I begin writing this book I questioned that. Just what does a sleeping heart feel like? I think it feels like something that is missing. Our heart, for lack of a better example, is like a puzzle and when it is asleep, a piece of the puzzle is missing. Have you ever thought about your life and where you are and felt within yourself, “I can’t put my finger on it, but something is missing? There has to be more and I want it.” You possibly are developing the “sleeping heart syndrome.”

When hearts are asleep, the process has usually occurred over a period of time. We may have no memory of when it happened. We begin to realize that there is something just not right. We may not be able to put our finger on it, but we know there has to be a change if we are to survive. Drugs, alcohol, sex, throwing oneself into work are some of the avenues people choose to go down – trying to awaken their hearts

Unfortunately, the changes can take a very long time and do a lot of damage if thought and care are not put into the awakening process. For a friend of mine who is a pharmacist, it took 23 years. She knew early on that her heart was sleeping. For others, the changes may come rather quickly – so they choose to walk away. They do this because when their hearts awaken it is such a wonderful happening in their lives they do not want to go back to a life where their hearts may go to sleep again. They feel to stay in this particular situation will possibly be a detriment to them. However, there are those who will begin the arduous task of doing whatever it takes to get their hearts awake.

Awakening The Sleeping Heart happens only when we want it to happen. When it happens we are changed – changed for the better. We love easier and are easier to be loved. We can face life with a renewed strength and mindset. We are more whole, more capable to be what we were intended to be – creatures of love and beauty from the inside out.

This book is written for everyone and not anyone in particular. All our hearts have gone to sleep in relation to something or someone at some point in time. Our hearts want to awaken to love, passion, forgiveness, self-acceptance, our spiritual self, friendship and acceptance of others. For this to happen we must truly get out of ourselves – outside our personal boxes as we reach out, give, receive, be positive, move forward, and have an open mind.

As you read this book I hope your heart, if it is sleeping, will awaken. You will know when this happens. There will be no mistake about it. So read and allow your heart to awaken to love and life. As you read, allow your heart to awaken to the uniqueness in you, awaken to others, awaken to life – awaken and see all the gifts that await you.