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The Feeling Heart

Gabriel Gonsalves's weekly inspiration, practical advice and spiritual wisdom for living wholeheartedly.

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Why You Can't Feel Your Heart

Dear Reader, It’s been ten days now since the earthquake struck Venezuela, my home country. My family is safe, and I want to thank so many of you for the beautiful comments you left last week when I shared how tender it all made me feel. More than a week later, I’m still watching the news more than I normally would. I’m sleeping very little. I’ve watched people walk out of the rubble alive after ten days underground, which still feels like a miracle every time. And I’ve also read about entire...

Dear Reader, I'm writing this from a tender place this week. As many of you already know, a devastating earthquake struck my home country Venezuela yesterday. The place where I was born, where my family still lives, where so many people I love are trying to make sense of what just happened. My immediate family is safe. And I want to say thank you to the many of you who reached out, emails, messages, calls, asking how I was, how my family was doing. That kind of care means more than I can say....

Dear Reader, Over the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring with you what it looks like when your heart begins to open, how to recognize the signs, and why is it that the heart seems to close again right after it opens. This closing of the heart, or “dip” as I often call it, feels very much like a dark night of the soul or the experience that love has abandoned you. If you’ve been in that place, where love feels real, but so does the purifying fire, please know this: you’re not broken. This is...

Dear Reader, Something happened this week that I've been sitting with. Someone I spoke with, a person who has been doing real, courageous work in therapy for years, said something I haven't been able to forget. She said: "My heart hurts. It's like it has a missing piece." She wasn't stuck. She was making real progress. She understood, cognitively, so much of what had happened to her. But the understanding wasn't reaching the place in her that needed it most. This is what this week's video is...

Dear Reader, Something I have learned after nearly twenty years of guiding people through profound inner transformation is this: when the heart begins to open, almost nobody recognises what is happening. They know something is different. They are feeling things more deeply — a connection to life they cannot quite explain, a sense of beauty in moments that never moved them before. They are sensing things about people that go beyond what is being said. They are waking up with this quiet...

Dear Reader, Most of us, when we talk about our goals and visions, have our minds set on them. We think about them, plan them, work on our mindset, put them on the vision board. But we haven't actually set our hearts on them. And that gap — between what the mind is pointed at and what the heart is truly set on — is where so much of our manifestation efforts quietly dissolve. That's what this week's video is about. And I made it because I've watched too many genuinely committed people exhaust...

Dear Reader, This week I want to share something that took me years, and a lot of failed attempts, to finally understand: that the reason most manifestation methods don't work has nothing to do with your effort, your desire, or your belief. I made this video because nobody ever explained the full picture to me either — and once I saw it, everything shifted. Watch it if you have tried the visualisation, the vision boards, the affirmations, and still feel like something essential is missing....

Dear Reader, I wanted to share something with you that took me years to really understand. It’s about the difference between the life that we create by default and the life our heart is truly pointing toward. If you've ever felt like the life you're living isn't quite yours, or if you've worked hard to build something but still feel like something essential is missing, or even if you're just ready to ask yourself a more honest question - I think this week's video might be worth a watch. Click...

Dear Reader, The first thing I want to share after this long silence is a question I've been sitting with myself — one that became this video: Your Heart vs. The World's Expectations: Are You on the Wrong Path? I made it because staying with that question, honestly and without flinching, gave me the clearest sense of direction I have had in years, and I think it might do the same for you. Watch it if the path you're on has started to feel like someone else's, if you're feeling stuck, or if...

I’m walking through Granada’s Christmas streets feeling profoundly alone. Tourists everywhere. Lights strung across every building. People shopping, laughing, performing the festivity that December demands. I watch them and feel nothing but distance. This should feel familiar—I’ve lived in this city for five years. But something has shifted. Just last week, I was sitting by a fire in the mountains of Portugal, surrounded by music and ceremony and friends who felt like family. When the time...