According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, there is a special connection between the heart and the tongue. When our words no longer come from the heart, the heart becomes energetically unbalanced. The well-known Dutch saying “maak van je hart geen moordkuil”, do not bury what lives in your heart, touches on precisely this wisdom.
And yet we sometimes close ourselves off. Because the pain is too great. As protection, we place a shield in front of our heart, as it were. But beneath that protection something precious still lies hidden: our original feeling energy, our love, our soulfulness.
We all go through a painful period in our lives at some point. The end of a relationship, grief at the death of a loved one, or another loss that touches us deeply. It is part of life, but that does not make it any less painful.
In such moments we often try to be strong. We carry on, keep thinking, put on a brave face. Surviving by armoring ourselves.
But the heart knows another way. Especially in such periods it can help to listen inward. To what lives in the depths of our heart.
When feelings are not fully felt and expressed, and tension builds up as a result, this can place a heavy burden on both our emotional and our physical heart. It can also make us feel cut off from ourselves and from others.
The remarkable thing is: it is precisely by feeling again that the heart can open once more.
Music can be the key here. Music touches a place that thoughts cannot reach. A melody, a voice, a movement in dance can open a door that seemed closed for a long time. And suddenly there are tears. Of sadness, but also of release. As if the heart is breathing again.
Scientific research also shows that music can reduce stress, anxiety and pain, and has a positive effect on our heart, our immune system and our general wellbeing. And even more importantly: music helps us remember what we have sometimes forgotten.
That beneath the pain, beneath the protection and beneath the scar in our heart, there is still love. An open heart does not only mean that we open ourselves to the world or to others. It also means that we open ourselves to ourselves.
In my work as a coach and doctor, and in my book Doctor’s Orders: Partner with Your Soul, I pay attention to this language of the heart and to the soulfulness that is present in our heart. Drawing on both practical experience and scientific insight, I describe how opening the heart can have a deeply healing effect on our body, our emotions and our life energy.
This can be very simple…
by becoming still for a moment and listening to music that moves you.
✨ Which music opens your heart?
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