The Mind-Heart Connection

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Where is your mind located?  Most people when asked this question point to their head.  We have been conditioned to believe that all activity is solely conducted through the brain encased within our head.  It is our brain that controls everything and sends out commands to our body.  It is our body that acts on these commands.  Is this really the way it is?

They say that when a baby is developing in the womb, the first brain that is developed is located in the heart.  This heart brain is composed of about 40,000 neurons that can sense, feel, learn and remember.  Current research has revealed that the heart communicates information to the brain and throughout the body via electromagnetic field interactions. It is the heart that generates the body’s most powerful and most extensive rhythmic electromagnetic field.   It is this electromagnetic field that makes you more than your physical body. It is also this heart brain that provides you with your connection to the cosmic consciousness.

Your heart field acts as a carrier wave and connects you to the world around you.  It is through the heart centre that you dispense and receive information.  It is why when this centre is open; you seem to be able to pick up the thoughts and feelings of others. You attract more congenial relationships and synchronistic encounters.  It is also why individuals working on a problem in different parts of the world, sometimes arrive at the same solutions at the same time.

If the connection between your heart brain and mind brain is harmonious, you will most likely find that your decision making is better.  You have increased clarity and greater creativity for problem solving.  Your intuition functions at a heightened capacity and you have access to information on other dimensional planes.  In other words, the entire body/mind/spirit/heart connection benefits on all levels. 

If however this connection is split and you are only operating through the head, you end up wasting a lot of your energy and sometimes end up going down the wrong path which usually leads to decisions of regret.  Our negative emotions such as: anger, impatience, stubbornness cloud our judgements and we end up in less than harmonious relationships.  We end up living a life where those critical inner voices in our head take over and we silence the intuitive prompting of our heart. To add to things, we end up with disease within the body.

So how do you strengthen the heart-mind connection? In the next post, I will show you how to strengthen your connection.  In the meantime, here is a video of Gregg Braden discussing how science is now seeing the heart differently.

 

Fear - False Evidence Appearing Real

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We live in a world that is continually selling us fear.  Our media is frequently citing statistics about how dangerous life is for us, and we have a corporate world that offers us a variety of contraptions and pills to save us from the boogieman of fear.  We have become so accustom to the onslaught of fear in our world that we can no longer distinguish the difference between true fear and manufactured fear. So what exactly is the difference?   

True fear causes physical responses in our body. Our vision becomes more focused; lactic acid is pumped into the muscles.  A chemical called “cortisol” is released into the bloodstream, which prepares you to either fight or take flight.  It is natural mechanism that lets us know we are in danger.  It is an also an internal response system in which our intuition provides us with information to keep us safe.  For example, you are walking through the woods and a large black bear crosses your path.  You don’t think about anything you run for your safety.  Under true fear survival is your primary mode. 

Manufactured fear has no basis in reality and is conjured based upon your perceptions about a situation or person.  For instance, the company is downsizing and you are fearful you may lose your job.  Manufactured fear is often accompanied with worry and doubt.  In the case of worry, we create negative scenarios about what might happen.   Whereas doubt is a 100% trust in a belief you don’t prefer.

The problem with continually operating from a mode of manufactured fear is our body become impervious to its natural responses.  We no longer listen to our intuition or gut feelings.  Since we are running on adrenalin our immune systems become compromised and we lose our ability to make rational decisions.  Since everything is vibration our fears actually become self fulfilling prophecies.

So how do you step off the fear vibration?

1.         Change your worry to wonder.    For example, if you are in the midst of a downsizing at work.  Instead of worrying about losing your job you might want to change your thinking to a positive outcome.  ‘I wonder what it would be like to two job offers on the same day.’

2.         Change your worry to ‘wouldn’t it be nice if’ statements.  ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if I found a better job that paid a higher salary?’  ‘Wouldn’t it be nice I won the lottery.”

3.         Get in touch with your intuition by playing games with it.  Your intuition can be in feelings, visions, auditory statements or bodily sensations.  How does your intuition work for you?

4.         Stop listening and reading the news.  Try it for one week and you may discover you are not missing anything.  You may also discover that your mood is substantially improved.

Next post I will look at how guilt operates in our life.