Rediscovering Joy through Emotional Openness

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Ever wondered if keeping your heart guarded is actually holding you back from true happiness and success? I challenge the conventional belief that shielding our hearts protects us by sharing my own journey through burnout and crisis while running a business with walls around my heart. Discover how vulnerability and openness can unlock a flow of joy, opportunities, and healthier relationships, leading to holistic prosperity and fulfillment. Join me on the Heart of Success show as we explore the transformative power of living with an open heart and the courage it takes to break down the barriers that limit your full potential.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone.
You are on the Heart of Successshow and I'm your host, larisa
Vakulina.
I go live or sometimes recordit, every Wednesday at 2 pm,
south Australian time zone, andhere on this show I'm sharing
with you different methods,tools, tips, inspiration and

(00:21):
motivation.
How can you create holisticprosperity in your life, how can
you create abundance of allforms in your life and how could
you start to really feelyourself yourself and know what

(00:43):
is your desires and wants andwishes, because a lot of time we
don't really know what we wantand what we desire.
That unclarity createsdifferent lifeline for us.
So the main thing is to startto know yourself better.

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And today I'm going to diveinto a very personal yet
universally relatable topic anda relevant topic about heart and

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about opening up heart, livingfrom the heart space.
So we let me just remove thatand remove that and go live
forever.
It's doing something here in mystudio, but anyway, so that's

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it.
I removed something that wasobstructing my life show here
today.
So I am going to dive today inan interesting topic about why
guarding our heart is actuallynot leading us for healing.

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There is a very limited beliefin our society that when we
actually protect ourselves orour hearts, we safeguarding our
happiness.
But it is actually the otherway around, because we think
that if we protect our heartfrom some potential pain, we
also safeguarding our happiness.
But that's not really the wayit works.
Because if we protect our heartand ourselves, peace

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opportunities, joy in our lifeas well, to come into our system
.
Because when we have our heartsclosed, we have our system, the
whole container of who we are,closed and regardless how much

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we want something, we strive andwork hard to achieve something
and we're all united in what wewant.
We want happiness, we wanthealth, we want fulfillment and
healthy relationships we keepour heart closed and guarded,

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well then we actually not goingto receive all of this that we
want.
It's going to bring us theopposite.
It's almost like we're buildingthe wall that protects
ourselves and our heart is notthe vibrating outside, the
frequency of openness, the trust, the frequency of receiving,

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because we are as a system thatexists in the open system of the
universe, in theelectromagnetic field, we
constantly in communication andrelational state with everything
that is outside of us, so we'reconstantly having that

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relational reality and when ourheart and system close, so we're
basically cutting offeverything from our life,
believing that by guarding ourheart we are protecting
ourselves from pain.

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Well, we're protectingourselves from everything else.
It's just simple as that.
And so we um, um to actually uh, feel more comfort and
validation of that we areachieving in our life.

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We have success, we strivingfor building healthy
relationships and all the thingsthat we all want.
We turn our attention and focusto external knowledge.
We turn our focus into theexternal you know, social norms

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for the advice from others.
We look at the experts in ourlife and we try to feel
ourselves and stuff ourselvesfrom all of this external
information, knowledge andsomeone else's experiences
information knowledge andsomeone else's experiences.

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And we think that when we fillourselves with all of this
external way of showing us howto live our life or how to
create our lives and achievewell, we do it, but we do it
with a great effort and we do italmost like circling through

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the vicious cycle of emotion weput in so much energy, we spend
so much time to achieve, tocreate what we want.
But if we open up our heart,that's a different story,
because when we drop theguardianship of our heart, when

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we open up ourselves withvulnerable parts, when we open
up ourselves with full honestyof what I'm living, how I'm
living my life.
If we drop that wall thaterroneously, we believe protects

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us, then we of course would beopen, we would open ourselves
for that flow of the energy andall the other, all the not only
energetic flow come to us, butalso some materialistic stuff,

(07:51):
some happiness, joy, healthyrelationships.
Everything then will start toflow in our lives because we
would allow ourselves to behonest, to and also to feel and
not afraid of our vulnerability.

(08:11):
Vulnerability is not weakness.
It is actually a courage to bepresent with yourself, to be
honoring where you're at in amoment and not afraid to accept
and see yourself as you are.

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Even you are in the lowestpoint of fear, or even if you
are in unknown or somewhere,like you just have doubts and
you don't know where you'regoing, what you're doing, or
possibly you are having somesort of a physical symptoms that
you feel not sharing withanyone, or not even going and

(08:58):
check up with medicalprofessionals or anything like
that.
Like I can just tell you andshare with you my own personal
story.
I am a very successful businessperson, but I used to run my
business previously from thewall, from that protected

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external barrier that I builtfor myself because I was so
afraid to experience pain painof not being loved, pain of not
being accepted, pain of notbeing enough, pain of not doing
well performing.

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From that space, when weactually leave, we don't have
any other chance as to runourselves into overwhelm,
burnout, all serious diseasesand all types of crisis there is
.
This is never going to work tohelp you to create what you

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really want, so it needs to bethe other way around.
When we drop the protection ofour heart, then we can start to
create what we want.
Because, of course, thesocietal belief in what we've
been taught for so long that wehave to create stability forever

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Like if we just start to worksomewhere and we need to
accumulate wealth and create andsave some sort of monetary
resources and our own personalemotional resources and things
like that and protect ourselvesfrom that pain well, we actually

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build in a sand castle if we dothat, because the life is a
constant change and the onlyconstant stability is yourself,
your state of consciousness,your openness to yourself, your

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self-knowledge andself-awareness, self-realization
and reaching your fullpotential only possible when you
know yourself better and whenyou're honest to yourself, to
recognize that sometimes you arehaving a mask or wall on your

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heart and you just keep running,building this illusionary
stability that will be crumblinglike a sandcastle at any kind
of shaken situation in yourfamily or in business, or in the

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country or the world.
We're observing it now reallyclearly that the most valuable
and the most stable thing rightnow is you, you unique

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expression of divinity, and onlythrough yourself you can share
that uniqueness that can createstability.
So I'm inviting you to reallylook at yourself and see and
notice from your life where youactually been letting go all the

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guardianship, all the walls,and how effortlessly you are
being doing your, your living,like your process, if you've
been creating something, youimmerse yourself into this very
exciting time and you don't evennotice how much time passed
because you're so excited,you're so immersed into your

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heart space that you are um,you're so inspired to share
yourself from that space.
That really is easy.
And when you you probably knowand can notice time in your life
, where are you just pushing andpushing and pushing and pushing
, implementing some knowledgeand some skills, something that

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was actually either forced onyou by your parents,
universities and all thestandards of our society, our
society or you honestly believedyou obtained a secret magic

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wand and you want to createhappiness and joy and peace in
your life, but it's never goingto happen because it's someone
else's method, it's someoneelse's inspiration, else's
inspiration.
So what I'm trying to tell youis find your own unique self,

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and the good news is that I'mcreating a very exclusive and
only the first time runningwomen's circle.
It is created for verysuccessful business women, women
that are created a type ofstability, created a type of
financial freedom and keeplooking after the family and

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then keep giving and giving andgiving and being over loyal to
others, but they depletethemselves.
They forgot about the self-carethey forgot about that.
They also need support and theyneed to create their own
internal state of stability,open-heartedness, emotional

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maturity, emotional maturity andunderstanding fully of what I
come here to do my purpose right.
So this circle is going tostart in February.
It is a fortnightly circle forsix circles, and this is a

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replica of my signature programwhere I'm just giving it away
almost for nothing and I reallywould like to invite you in
there, anyone and the spaces arelimited.
It's only for about 12 women.
So if you will inquire early,you will get all the information

(15:58):
and then you will have a chanceto book yourself first, so that
then you are actually includedin that circle and start to have
this short but very, very deepand effective journey with me
where you will start to become acreator of your life.

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And you will start to become acreator of your life and you
will start to open up your heart, start to live from the heart,
and all of your external andinternal first, and then
external, reality will start tochange in accordance to what
you're having experience inthrough that circle, that

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educational and practices.
So you're going to start tofeel that everything that you
transform within will start toplay without.
So thank you so much for beinghere with me and listen.
I'm going to put outro and I'llhopefully see you on Wednesday

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next week for another episode,and I wish you all the best.
And I wish you to start tounderstand the less you protect
yourself, the more you learnabout your vulnerable parts,
your honest perception ofyourself, your intention to

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start to understand yourselfbetter, the quicker you will
start to experience all thehappiness, all the joy, all the
love and just vitality of thislife and how adventurous it is
that we are here right now andlive in this transitional period

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.
Thank you so much.