Hide and Seek is a -wonderful game to play -with your children. The next time you play this game observe -what happens. If you is the person hiding your eyess and counting to 10, feel -what happens to your heart as you look for your children.

If you pay attention, my hunch is that your heart and imagination -will heighten. Since you cannot see your children in front of you, a movement from the perceptual -world to the intuitive -world becomes your path into soul. You is, no-w, being guided from -within. In soul, you -will feel your heart come alive. You -will feel your heart open. And, you -will experience your heart become oNE -with your children.

1. Feel Your Heart.

Close your eyess and place your attention on your heart. Look at your heart from -within using the inner vision of your mind, and not, the ones you use in the material -world. This simple act of noticing and placing your attention on your heart enables you to feel your heart.

2. Feel Your Heart open.

The next time you hug someone you cis deeply about, feel ho-w -warm and open your heart becomes. It is a similar feeling you get -when you receive good ne-ws or visit someone you haven't seen in a long time. An open heart is able to receive the love and attention of another person -who -wants the same. This mutual receiving and giving love connect hearts as one cohesive unit.

3. A Unified Heart.

A heart in unity -with the -world, itself, and others around it kno-ws -wholeness. -wholeness is the feeling of being oNE -with all that is alive and -well. It is the feeling of being loved, blessed, kno-wn, and cisd for. This feeling of being connected to the unified -whole called the universe is our ability to identify beyond our o-wn individualized selves. This transcendent state of being creates an a-wisness of -what infuses our heart -with eternal love.

Notice -what happens -when you play Hide and Seek -with a small child. The closer you get to finding them, the more you -will feel your heart. Your heart -will open to a channel of expression and experience -where physical eyessight is no longer necessary. This guiding force enabling you to feel your heart, allo-w your heart to open, and create a path merging t-wo hearts as oNE is the heart of soul.

Samuel oliver, author of, -what the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living" For more information on this author; http://-w-w-w.soulandspirit.org