Valentine’s Day is not just for lovers. It’s a time to express your love to the people you love. A moment to open your heart to the world, possibly forgiving those who wronged you and letting go of all the negative energy that surrounds them.

This is an appropriate reminder from The Daily Om.

“Approaching life with an open heart means that we have opened the door to a greater consciousness within ourselves. Recently Western science has found evidence to support this realization. It turns out that the heart has its own central nervous system and is not simply under the rule of the brain as formerly believed. Anyone who has taken the time to explore the heart knows this and, more important, has realized that the heart is the source of our connection to a consciousness greater than the ego. Approaching life with an open heart means that we have opened the door to this greater consciousness, taking up residence alongside it in the seat of our soul. Fortunately, at this time there is a lot of support for this shift energetically as well as practically. To some degree, approaching life with an open heart is as simple as shifting your attention onto your heart. This process asks us to practice some of the heart’s greatest lessons - patience, compassion and unconditional love.”