Listen to Your Heart

In this episode of Infinitely Precious, host James Henry explores what it truly means to listen to your heart—not for fleeting desires, but for deeper, long-lasting callings that shape your purpose and legacy. Inspired by the classic song Listen to Your Heart, James reflects on how our hearts serve as a sacred guide, helping us discern the patterns and gifts we are meant to bring into the world.

He shares practical ways to attune ourselves to this inner wisdom, including:

• Slowing down to create space for deep reflection.

• Recognizing life’s recurring patterns that reveal our unique contributions.

• Noticing bodily cues that signal when we are truly aligned with our calling.

James also acknowledges the courage it takes to follow the heart’s voice, especially in a world that often resists authenticity. He invites listeners to reflect on past moments when they followed their hearts and challenges them to take one small step toward their deeper purpose.

With a closing reminder that you are infinitely precious and unconditionally loved for the gift you already are, James encourages us all to be true to our hearts and trust the journey ahead.

🔹 Reflection Questions:

• When was a time you followed your heart, and it led to something meaningful?

• What keeps nudging at your soul, asking for your attention?

• What small step can you take to honor that calling today?

Until next time, listen deeply and live fully.

Episode Transcript

Intro (00:00):
Welcome to the infinitely precious podcast produced by

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infinitely precious LLC. Yourhost is James Henry. Remember,
you are infinitely precious andunconditionally loved for the
gift you already are.

James (00:12):
Hello, beloved. It's me, James, here to share some
thoughts with you. Today, as Iwas listening to some music, I
heard a song I haven't heard ina long time by a rock set,
Listen to Your Heart. And itoccurred to me that that's good

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advice. It's good advice.
And that I might take a momentto talk a little bit about what
I think that means. Now, I'm nottalking about listening to your
heart for every frivolous andtransient little thing that
comes along, the things that areimpulse responses, reactions to

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the everyday. I'm talking aboutlistening to your heart at the
deepest levels to discoverperhaps the patterns and sense
of purpose that your life ismeant to have. Each of us, I
believe, is a gift for who weare. My watchword, my watch

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phrase, if you will, is thateach person is infinitely
precious and unconditionallyloved for the gift they already
are.
Not just each person, buteverything in the entire
universe. But if each of us is agift, what is it about us? What
is it that we are meant to bringinto being? Now, I can't give

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you the answer. I can't give youa simple, straightforward
answer.
But what I can do is tell youthat you have one and perhaps
suggest to you some ways todiscover for yourself what it is
that your heart is calling youto do. What is it that your

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heart is speaking to you?Because I believe, you know, the
ancients believed that the heartwas the receptor through which
it's the organ whose purpose wasto receive subtle and perhaps
not so subtle messages from thedivine. And if it is the

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divining tool which we carry inour bodies, wouldn't it be good
to listen for that divine echoof what our lives are meant to
be about? So what can we do tolook for what it is that our

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heart might be calling us to beabout in this life?
How can we listen? One way, slowdown. I know we live in a very
hectic world. There are lots ofthings going on, and even if
it's not hectic where you have aseries of things that you've got
to do, We seem to fill our timewith lots of different kinds of

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things. Some of them are veryimportant and require doing, but
some of them might be less so.
And for those less so things,what would it be like if you
tuned those out, turned thoseoff, took a step back just to be
quiet, just to sort of meditateand learn to slow yourself down?

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Certainly that is a way that youcan be in touch with what's
going on in your heart. I'm notjust talking about one sit. I'm
talking about through a seriesof time, you begin to notice
some things that are going on.You might be less reactive, less
likely to just do something onimpulse, look for something

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deeper, more meaningful.
A second way to look for what'sgoing on in your heart is to
look for the patterns in yourlife. And by that, I mean when
you see certain things that keeparising in your life, certain

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things that if, for instance,you keep a journal that you keep
coming back to that seem to becalling out to you, that seem to
speak to you, or that otherpeople in life may come by
notice as a part of theirconversation with you or
interactions with you inwhatever way that you bear

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certain gifts, certainabilities, certain skills. And
as they affirm that and as yousee the pattern in your life of
those places where you have hadthe greatest impact and discover
that you're using some of thesame things, doing some of the
same things, you're bringingsome of the same gifts to those

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moments, that's when you beginto say, ah, there is a pattern
here of the things that bringmeaning to others through my
life, through the gift of who Iam. Perhaps yet another way is
to be in tune with what you feelin your body. Are there things

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you have done or are doing thatjust feel right to you, that you
are certain inside, somewheredeep within you, that this is
the thing you are meant to bedoing?
And so when you do it, it justit has that kind of gut level

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response where you feel like,this is right. This is right. I
am at ease when I am engaged inthis way, when I am acting in
this way, when I am behaving inthis way. I feel a deep sense of
ease, of passion, of strength,of encouragement. Those kinds of

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feelings can help you identifywhat it is that you might be
called to be about in this life.
So part of listening to whatyour heart is calling you to do
is tied up with courage. It'suncomfortable to listen to what

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your heart may be calling you todo. It may be a risky kind of
endeavor for you. You've alwaysdone the you've taken the path
of least resistance, you'vefound others who affirm you for
doing that something another wayor a different way, you've kind
of gotten used to the life thatyou have and the way that it's

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happening, and so you're notinterested in the discomfort of
stretching beyond that which youhave already formed as a way of
being in the world. It'suncomfortable.
And, you know, perhaps thatdiscomfort comes from, you know,

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a long sort of repetitiousreality that makes you feel
comfortable. Perhaps it comesfrom the affirmations you
receive for being a good girl orboy or person, non binary person
who goes with the flow. It maybe that doing the thing that you

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feel called to do would exposeyou. At least if somebody makes
a fun of you when you'repretending to be somebody else,
it's pretense anyway, but ifthey if you're not received well
for doing that, which is yourgift to do, then it feels more
personal and it feels like adeeper hit, so it takes a kind

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of courage, and sometimes we'retied up in our own self doubts.
The messages we've receivedabout ourselves lead us to
believe that we are not, that wedon't bring enough, that we
aren't enough, and that's justnot true.
That's just not true, but it'seasier to believe that we're not

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enough than it is to believethat we are, and so we continue
in that. So it might take somecourage to face those voices
inside ourselves that havebecome echoes of other people's
voices and maybe of our own thattell us we don't have it, we
can't make it, we're not enoughbecause truth be told, we are.

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We are. You are enough. So Iwant to encourage you to begin
to listen at least to your heartin the small ways to trust, to
trust yourself.
In fact, you know, maybe to findthat way to be more deeply

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aligned with who you really are.That would make you more at home
in this world. I know we live ina world right now where being
who you are is not alwaysreceived well, and for some
people it means it takes a lotof courage to be who they are
because we have a loud set ofvoices that are telling us

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anything but mainstream socalled normal approaches to life
are wrong. And so those loudvoices even push down the truest
deepest self that's within us alittle further. I want to
suggest to you it's going totake courage and it may take

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allies as well, people to standwith you as you are who you are.
And I certainly hope that foryou and me we can find those
people. So I want you to, I wantto offer you an opportunity to
reflect, to take a moment tolook, try this simple practice

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with me that will help you knowmore clearly perhaps what your
heart's calling you to do. Takea moment first of all to
reflect. When was a time thatyou followed your heart and it
led to something that wasespecially meaningful or that

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mattered to you in some uniqueway? Think about that for a
moment.
When was that time when youfollowed your heart and it made
and it mattered? Take a pause.Recently? What do you keep

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feeling like you need to beabout or doing in the world? Is
there something that's nudgingat your soul, that's calling you
out to be something more?
And if you feel those, what as alast thing, how will you act on
that? What is one small step youcan take to go in the direction

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that you're feeling called to,that your heart is inviting you
to. So remember as you engage inthis practice of listening to
your heart that listening toyour heart isn't about chasing
every feeling. It's aboutdiscovering for yourself within

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yourself the things that aretruly lasting and meaningful to
you. Keep that kind of thing inmind.
May your heart be true to you,but also may you be true to your
heart. You know, listen to yourheart when it's calling to you.

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What are the echoes throughoutyou and eternity of what you're
called to be about? What gift doyou bring? Remember in the midst
of it all you are infinitelyprecious and unconditionally
loved for the gift you alreadyare.
Until the next time all the bestto you.