Aravind Padmaraju explains how the heart receives thoughts and intentions, and emotional blockages prevent manifestations. The mind, heart, gut, and body form one interconnected system. Yoga and meditation touch only parts of it. Broader healing practices that work on the whole body release stored emotional energy, often producing tears and profound relief.
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So whenever you're asking something that is going through your mind, what is receiving is your heart. Because most of the people's heart is blocked, they are not receiving what the universe wants to give, or the manifestation what they want to do. That is where the healing comes into the picture, to heal those emotional blocks in the body. And also, your complete body is interconnected— mind, your heart, your gut, and your body is interconnected. You cannot operate them separately. The biggest problem what I see, even before that I know the yoga and meditation, all of them, they're only touching one part of the body or a couple of parts of the body. It is not touching every single area of the body. So that is why when you do this healing modalities, you will see your body has some kind of a sensations, and you see tears are rolling out from your eyes, and you see the relief from your thinking process, all that.