I have been doing loads of deep thinking, over the last bunch of years.
Primarily on what does it take for us to truly thrive, and experience deep joy, wonder and amazement; when things around us might be a bit sh#t?
How can we transcend the drama’s playing out around us?
So, what we experience of the world is not of a low vibrational nature.
How can we experience deep joy, without having to ingest something, or distract ourselves, or “buy” something to make us feel better, or have someone else tell us we are worthy of feeling good?
How can we feel joy deep in our bones, regardless of external influences?
That is what interests and fascinates me.
And you know what?
Unsurprisingly, I keep coming back to the HEART, and the power of the heart.
When I work with clients, I have an even greater fixation on them tapping into the dormant power of the HEART.
The Heartmath Institute in the USA – many years ago now – talked about the heart expressing the most powerful electromagnetic field; measurable out to 10 feet (3 metres).
It’s electromagnetic field of influence is even greater than the brain!
Which leads me to my next observation.
Is it intentional?
What follows is a hypothesis I have been playing with recently.
Society has a fixation on “intelligence” and IQ being not only worthy of accolades, but a level of reverence.
The education system highly rewards, and focuses on the development of intelligence (primarily in the form of regurgitation of information it deems important).
The brain is glorified.
With an additional focus on left-brain functions.
Structural, linear, specialisation, and focused on the minutia, as opposed to the “context” and big picture, which are very right-brain functions.
(You can read the book “The Master and His Emissary” if you want to go deeper on the topic of societies over-fixation on left-brained thinking and being throughout history).
My main point for now, is that from a societal and educational perspective there is a heavy focus on the brain, and primarily the left-brain functions.
So, point Number 1 is this:
Society and its “systems” place a heavy focus on the development of the brain (and primarily left-brain capabilities).
Which takes us to my second primary point.
We live in a world that is (maybe designed?) to have us in FEAR a lot of the time.
Fear of our health.
Fear of our safety.
Fear of our financial security.
Fear of losing our job (and income source).
Fear of the wrong political party being elected.
Fear of World War III.
Fear of our relationship ending.
Most of these fears are often not “real”, but are perpetuated by fear-based story telling on media sources, especially mainstream “news”, but not limited to them.
And yes, I do have a point to make before things get too depressing. 😉
I talk a lot about “survival emotional states” (using Dr Joe Dispenza’s terminology), which are held around the gut, or around the first 3 chakra’s / energy centres, and include other emotions beyond fear, such as guilt, rage, lust, shame, apathy, etc..
All of this fear stuff, fixates our attention and ENERGY into the gut area.
It affects how we digest not only food, but life.
It is in our guts where we all experience anxiety.
So, point Number 2 is:
Because of the excessive perpetuation of FEAR (mainly through media sources or False Evidence Appearing Real), a lot of our energy is directed to, and trapped in our gut region.
What does this mean?
The region and source of our TRUE POWER
Here is my main point.
Our world is set up so we direct attention and resources to enhance the BRAIN, and are triggered constantly by “bad news” (and a poorly-adapted autonomic nervous system to a modern life of limited real physical threats) and to the GUT.
But, our HEART, where true power and wisdom reside, is given little to no attention.
We were not taught at school (or any mainstream educational institutions) how to open our hearts, or manage our emotions, or dip deeply into gratitude, or expand the field of love within us and all around us, or to sit quietly in order to tap into the wisdom of the heart, or use our hearts coherence to still our mind, or use the heart to influence the quantum field, or any of that stuff.
After 26 years reading, researching and writing about physical and mental health, I am of the belief that the high rate of heart disease is not just lifestyle related poor choices, but because our hearts have not been fully developed from an Emotional and Energetic perspective.
Additionally, the field of “epigenetics” has opened my mind up to the idea that we are not genetically influenced as much as we are led to believe, because we can change our genetic destiny based on how we think, manage our emotions and choose our behaviours (since these three things influences what genes are “turned ON” and “turned OFF”).
Our hearts are WAY more powerful than we imagine.
WAY beyond being a great pump for transporting oxygen and nutrients into our cells.
Our heart when open and coherent, influences our inner health and the health of the world around us.
Which the yogis, monks, sages and saints have been teaching for millennia.
Our HEARTS is where the TRUE power is at.
My hypothesis laid out
Here is where I am leading this conversation.
I believe in a world that is – as I wrote about the other week – a bit (i.e. a LOT) bonkers, it is the power of our HEARTS that will change things.
I also think our hearts are an under-developed ENERGITIC and EMOTIONAL muscle, due to a fixation on intelligence, and an over-stimulation of the gut.
If we want to change our health, abundance, plus level of joy, awe and wonder, we need to work on the coherence and expansion of our hearts.
I also personally believe it is individual and collective heart coherence and opening, which will change the world.
Harmony at a micro and macro level is unlikely to come from more “thinking”, or a “fight, flight or freeze response” (a fear-based survival mechanism).
It is actually going to come from more heart-centred LOVE.
When we have a deep sense of love for ourself, we have no need or desire to fight, to prove anything, to have more than we actually need, to pine for accolades, to win arguments, and to even fear death.
We transcend that stuff, when our heart is attuned to love.
In Summary
The physical HEART and energetic heart-centre is the most powerful part of our being, and has the greatest influence on the quantum field (and ether) around us.
Our society and systems are set up to revere left-brain “intelligence” (not wisdom).
Our media sources (and repetition of their stories to others) enhance the number of things to “FEAR”, keeping us in survival emotional states, with a concentration in the gut region (physically and energetically).
If we want to radically change ourselves and the world around us we need to work on developing our HEARTS coherence and expansiveness.
LOVE transcends the ego and any desire to prove you are better than anyone else (whether that is you as a person, or you as a nation/religion/ethnicity/etc.).
My Parting Words
I have been brewing on the subject of the HEART for a long time.
How do we practically “power it up”?
Working with clients over the years who have past trauma, I am very aware that the heart has suffered.
I am also aware that when the heart is healed – or unleased – the trauma can be released or neutralised.
How many of us have actually had any training in how to best use our heart – particularly at the energetic level?
The energetic coherence of the heart is a real thing.
I have often repeated the quantum science idea that the “(electromagnetic) field influences matter”.
When our heart truly comes on line, it not only has a personal healing influence on us, but it influences the people and the fields around us.
I am still putting together the best ways to “exercise” our heart at a physical and non-physical level, but among them are definitely meditative practices and breathwork.
I like breathwork (pranayama) as it specifically stimulates the physical region of the heart, plus recalibrates the autonomic nervous system.
So, in the not-too-distant future, I will write another article on what I think are the best practices for opening and enhancing the heart.
In the meantime, explore a daily practice of breathwork, and the easiest for me is the WimHof Method.
Plus, spend 5-mins a day connecting to infinite love and gratitude, while placing your hand on your heart in order to direct your energy to you heart (where attention goes, energy flows).
Let’s all work on loving ourselves more deeply, and let the ripple effects, positively influence the world around us.
Have a wonderful day and a week of your heart opening a little bit more every day.
Take care.
Carl
Quotable QUOTE:
“LOVE transcends the ego and any desire to prove you are better than anyone else (whether that is you as a person, or you as a nation/religion/ethnicity/etc.)” Carl Massy
(Author of 18 Ways We Make Life WAY Harder Than It Needs To Be)
PS: Have you read or listened to this book yet? 18 Ways We Make Life WAY Harder Than It Needs To Be
