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Now and then we all take a moment to look at the life we are living and daydream about how our futures will look. So, take one of those moments right now, and rather than "thinking" about what the future might look like based on your life as it is now, do the following:

WHAT IS YOUR HEART BLUEPRINT? From the earliest days of our lives, when we begin to imagine the future and our place in it, an idealistic vision begins to unfold of what could be, or as some would say, what we came here for. Think of your heart blueprint as a city map you must negotiate as you travel a city. Similarly, following ambitions and desires not aligned with what your true heart yearns for, delays the arrival at your heart’s desired destination. 

Detours away from your heart’s destination, especially during these times of rapid change and relentless demands on our time, can lead to harmful levels of stress. Researchers at the Institute of HeartMath have found that constant change and time overwhelm are leading contributors to stressful responses to situations and challenges in our daily lives. The result is a depletion of energy reserves and a breakdown in resiliency, both of which are critical for meeting the challenges of our modern world.

LOOK FOR YOUR ‘HINGE POINTS’ - Although looking back and pinpointing the precise "big" moments or encounters in life that steered us in one direction or another and helped shape our futures is often difficult, most of us are aware that they did happen. Those big moments actually are a series of smaller moments, or what HeartMath calls "hinge points," that happen most every day.  Each of us makes innumerable choices that navigate us through the day. Hinge points are those choices that arise in which we can elect to remain on the most efficient course, according to the heart’s higher blueprint, or take a detour.

Remember that popular definition of insanity? "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Hinge points are like that: If you don’t meet them, the same or similar situations may loop around over and over, and despite your heart’s blueprint, the outcome will be the same each time: detour, detour, detour.

All of the hinge points/choices we encounter daily comprise a collection of possibilities for our unrealized futures. As we act on these, we crystallize the possibilities – the words we speak, who we meet, the relationships and jobs we choose. This is the process of activating our futures according to our heart blueprints. 

Source: “Life According to Your Heart”:  Extract from The  Institute of HeartMath 2015​