Your heart is a blessing. It is a blessing to you, and it is a blessing to the world. Heartless you can never be, but your heart can be squeezed. It can be out of shape.

Exercise your heart as you would your body.

Do some weight lifts. Lift the weight from your heart. Lose the weight. Your heart is meant to be light. It is meant to be resilient. Your heart is meant to bounce back to its original strength. Your heart is not muscle-bound, nor is it flabby. Your heart, left to its own devices, is just right.

Expand your heart. Expand your heart talent. Yes, your heart is very talented. It is very good with love. And yet, some talents need to be developed. Surely your heart has not yet reached its capacity. So practice a little with love. Build up to it. A little regular exercise goes far. In fact, the exercise of intention is enough.

Imagine that you stand in a treetop, and you call out:

"Love, come to me. Love that I am, take full possession of me. Love, that is in my heart, come out to play. Come out from hiding and balance the universe. Do yourself a favor, and come out.

"Love, it is safe for you to come out from the recesses of my heart. You can more than peek. You are not a baby bird in its shell. A heart is not meant to have a shell. A heart is meant to be soft and flowing.

"Love, tendered in my heart, come out into the sunshine. Tender heart, you have had enough of shadows. You allowed yourself to become wry, twisted, unused. You favored yourself, in the sense that you didn't use yourself, as if you were a leg with a limp. But you are a heart, a beautiful palpitating heart, that can use a little healthy exercise. Expand the lungs of your heart.

"Love, you are not meant to be sequestered. You are meant to be given. Come out and play with me today. Come out and play in the universe today."

Your heart can hardly speak. Its throat is so dry. Why, it has gotten rusty. But if your heart could speak, it would say:

"I am not restricted of my own volition. You have kept me a prisoner here. Your mind has decided I need protection. Therefore, your mind has restrained me. Alas, your mind has restrained me. It has thought me weak. It has thought I needed shelter when, all the while, I needed the freedom to go where I choose. I ask you, please, you and your mind, to accept me as I am, and to let me go. The chains you have put on me are too short. Give me more room. Let me leap out and claim my place in the world.

"Let me be big. Let me embrace. Do not let me wither. Take me out for walks. Then, soon, you can let me go free. You can let me encircle the world. Given all the freedom in the world, I will not abandon you. I will take you with me. I, your heart, will show you a good time.

"Being kept back is my wound. Being let go is my salve. Let me out to play today. Do not put me to sleep. Do not make me take naps. Take me out with you. Let me travel with you today.

"Bless me, for I am your heart of love, and I will to be out in the sunshine, playing to my heart's content, making my rounds, blessing everyone, blessing everything, blessing you. Free me today."