Heart

Source status: book-authored SHJ teaching language, used as a metaphorical channel of felt and relational meaning.

Heart names the part of experience that asks what a moment means personally: what is loved, feared, grieved, hoped for or kept warm.

It is not a claim that the physical heart contains a separate mind or that the strongest feeling is automatically true. The distinction helps readers hear meaning without collapsing it into bodily signal or mental explanation.

Different from: emotion. Emotion describes a wider interacting process. Heart is the method’s language for personal and relational significance within that process.

Related: Meaning; Emotion; Emotional Alchemy; All of Me.