Mapping The World By Heart

"There is a wisdom of the head, etaeŠune wisdom of the heart"!
Charles Dickens, the Hard Times

"Where my heart remains, left my brain lie also".
Robert Burnishing, "A Word More"

"It is the heart that tests God, and not the reason".
Easter Blaise

There is a new tendency these days towards becomes more centered heart, the one that is a positive tendency in our movement towards entirety.

What do we mean by heart centeredness?

Indeed, the heart is centered term can be a little that cheats, as it could indicate a movement of the head to the heart. I prefer, rather, to look at it as opening the heart, a "the heart frankness." (And, as will discover us soon, the scientific spectacles of current research that we can already be more centered heart than we know).

As a swelling in wholism and in the entire being, I feel that we are healthier and more entire when we develop and do more use of our faculties and our capacities. In the present context, this means that we want to use our heads and our hearts (just like our entrails, our intuition, etc.) ae" And to have them all working one together in a continuous body. Then, to become more centered heart, we do not want to stop thinking! We want to open just our center of sensation and let us feel more while we think and think while we feel. (Cannot need us the surgery of open heart, as much as we can need surgery heart opening)!

The movement towards heart centeredness in the industrialized corporations of the west truly is a step towards entirety. And it is not just corporations of the west that begin to the thumb towards entirety: In a manner interesting, there is also a movement in the corporations of less than "third world" industrialized that traditionally were more centered hearts towards to develop their rational faculties and oriented heads more (technical, analytical, etc.) ae" And kissing thus their entirety.

Then, why are we not already the heart opening?

The is a question of Reason propelled our corporation of the west more and more in our heads. And our contemporary materialist home served to cement us there. As us became more "rational," we tended to discount and dismiss the "irrational" (c.-a -d., the faculties of centered heart) as in under of us or as the least attributes, and not to be counted on. The rational one, empirical, and pragmatic is to be alone trusted. In a manner interesting, even if we tended to see as left airplanes the brain or the just brain, we look at ourselves always as in our heads, as these are faculties always of the centered heads. (Of course, if we want to be centered heads, we always could be the entire brain, instead of the half brain!

Thus, our "rationalisme" took us to deny our sensations and lives in our heads. And, if we obtain in our sensations, we tend to talk about them, instead of really to feel them.

Certainly our age of specialization took us to be more of one to dimensions, in cash on only a facet of us and we taking to be less than we can be really.

When we dispose in put to bed in on the summit of these factors another influences that we saw in our corporation in the last one 30 years ae" that to hide our sensations ae" it is easy to see why we are not the more of heart opening. To increased there of the pressure in our corporation in order not to to show our emotions (or "carries our hearts on our sleeves") and is thus vulnerable. We must protect ourselves while appearing "fresh". This tendency was was more accomplice of by our advertising and our popular media that encouraged us to be conscious picture. Besides, increase the urbanization and clutter, and a rate of growing crime took us to protect us while putting our emotional armor and erect the walls between we and of others.

And, if we are not conscious pictures or acting fresh, we could have closed with emotion. Extreme emotional sensitiveness and the past pains of certain ones of us could have taken ourselves to feel the pain more easily than pleasure or the happiness. Our hearts could have become figuratively marked (because we frightened)? ae" And closed of.

It is, not astonishing that then that certain of close us our hearts of, live in our heads, or belong to the habits to think about negative (the cynisme, the fear, etc.).

Then, why should we want to become even more centered hearts? Which is so special of the heart?

Physically sit in the chest, protected by the coasts, and in fact rather hard, the heart is in form of pear and consists in four rooms. It is composed from muscle and is a little bigger than a fist. Wise health, the heart can be affected by the hypertension, the arteries mouthfuls, etc. A healthy flow in the heart is vital to his health (just as a healthy flow is desirable in our flow of general energy).

Figuratively, we know the heart as "the emotion seat," the place where our "the thoughts and the intimate sensations" lives. It is seen also as "the vital or most of essential party; the true direction; the kernel". (Complete Webster)

In a manner interesting, we always granted the heart a special place in our world, almost as if we have an innate direction of his complex importance. We use sentences as "with all a heart," or "to regulate a heart on". While we always had apparently an intuitive conscience of the role key of the heart in our emotional well-being, the scientists could have tended to dispute the validited or the empirical value of these idioms and discounted therefore this popular wisdom.

It is interesting that we traditionally looked at the heart in these two manners, also a physical organ and figuratively as vital and implied with the emotion, because, ironically enough, the recent scientific research produced some provocative conclusions that show a basis for such a marriage in the terms.

I was lucky the rather last summer to attend the annual IONS lecture (the Institute of Sciences of Noetic), where I was introduced to the work of the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) in California. To party the research in DNA ghost and to party the subtle energy (they invented also an instrument that measures subtle energy), they did the vast research in the heart, that loses lights on the question of heart centeredness. I will divide certain of their research here, but, have wants you more detail, you can visit their website (http://www.heartmath.org) and read their research for you.

They point out that the heart is the biggest generator of wave in the body. The waves that it produces (as measure by an EKG) can do climb the brain in a train in fact of the waves (as measure by an EEG)! (Entrainment implies one to synchronize of two systems of wave or energy). And the waves of the heart are able climb in fact in a train our entire physical system (the brain, the immunized system, etc.). The entirety shadows!

"The heart produces a field of electric information that penetrates not only every cell in the body, including the cells of the brain, but radiates also out in the space". (Joseph Sundram, IHM, "The Heart of Direction of Change") The field of the electric heart was detected and was measured five feet far of the body.

And a waves of heart of the person can affect and can show themselves in the waves of brain of someone of other when they touch themselves.

There is also an intelligence and a conscience in the heart: "aeŠThe heart has curious capacities perceptuelles and intuitive information treatingaeŠ. and has his own range of frequency of intelligence that is not checked by the brain or the autonomous nervous system. The heart is autorhythmic, that means that it beats alone without demanding has entered of the brain or nervous system". The heart and the brain communicate themselves through the nerves and the hormones, and the communication of the heart to the brain "affects directly the perception, reaction speeds, the balance, the intuition, and the capacity of decision takeaeŠ." The "feeling of the and the emotional perceptions of the heart," when communicated to the brain, the relaxation "the changes of chemical product in the neurotransmitters and the hormones through the body". (All the italics mine) (the Document Lew Childre, IHM, "AN Official Report: The women Take with Their Hearts") This means that the heart affects our conscience and our comprehension, for that, in the order truly to understand, we need to have our hearts open while we think. The thought with only the spirit (extreme intellectualism), while divorcing the heart while in the reflection act, takes to the sterile thoughts lacking in true comprehension.

The heart affects also the health of the immunized system, the hormonal balance (including the production of DHEA), thinking the capacity and the imagination, DNA, entrainment, the growth of healthy cell, and the inhibition of growth of cell of tumor!

When you read in certain fact of the results of research of IHM, you feel crashed by the importance of this small tiny organ localized in your chest.

Now, which does the difference in if the effects of the heart are positive or negative?

In a manner interesting enough, it is the emotion type we have that affects our heart function ae", and thus how they climb in a train our entire physical system, how they of others affect, and how they affect our own health.

Because the emotions affect the models of wave of the heart.

Dan Winter, a psychophysiologist, did the card of the emotions in the heart. It spoke two times to SFF (Witty Comradeships of Borders) the meetings, and I was heureuxment rather lucky to hear it the two times. It showed how the coherent emotions (creating a wave model with the waves that are in the phase itself) ae" c. -a -d., love, the recognition, etc. ae" To Affect the braid of DNA.

To IHM they prepared how the coherent emotions affect the heart and health. The coherent emotions produce a model of wave of heart that is smooths and symmetrical; the incoherent emotions (anger, frustration, resentment, caustic humor, etc.), by the constraste, produce a model of jagged wave.

The coherent emotions produce the variability of cardiac, vital rhythm for life and health, while the negative emotions do not do. Incoherent, or negative, the emotions close the heart and the cause constraint. (There is this factor of "flow" again)!

As if it was not rather just to feel that these incoherent emotions and feels upset, resentment, etc., they have also the following sick effects: The suppression of the immunized system; the hormonal imbalance; the inability to think clearly; tension cardio-vasculaire; of others influencing negatively; the tumor growth; and a negative impact on DNA. , Recalling in fact an angry memory for just five minutes can eliminate the immunized system for five hours. (, Eliminating Just on the other hand anger can have also the sick effects of health).

It is by to feel ae" does not do not think about, but feeling really ae" the coherent emotions that we optimize health, reduce tension, promote the longevity, optimize our thought and our creative faculties, have intuitive intelligence, have the true comprehension, done climb our physical system in a train (for entirety), have a healthy flow of energy, and absolutely of others to affect. (And we have now scientific reason for the ideas of entirety and energy flows)!

And, if that was not enough the, the coherent emotions and a heart open hold them the account of more of connection and to our world.

But to await: It there does more have!

The research of IHM indicates as as "the electric field quantique of the heart is where likes, or the Spirit, between the system humainaeŠoač Spirit meets the question". (The document Lew Childre, IHM, "Constructing a Bridge Between Science and the Religion") If a heart open opens us also more to "Spirit" uality.

This all ae" health, entirety, the flow, the true comprehension, the connection to others, spirituality ae" to feel love, the recognition, etc. !

But how do we begin feeling coherent emotions more in our upsetting contemporary lives?

Well, there are two techniques that I am conscious of the present time. The one is the "Freezes the Framework" the technique conceived by IHM (and delineated in the book, Freeze the Framework by the Document Lew Childre), that incorporates recognizing the sensation upsetting by becomes conscious consciemment of him (to live conscious), changeable your home to your heart for ten seconds, recalling a "positive, the entertainment that feels" and re-edprouvant it, asking your which heart would be a more effective response To the upsetting position, listening the response of your heart, and Note your response. Please the grade that this is a nude outline of the technique and does not give him full justice. IHM directs workshops in this technique and furnishes also services of counsel to the commercial corporations, the army, etc. (You can contact them to (408) 338-2161).

The second technique is called The technique of Natural Process. It, also, is more of a meditative technique, but contains more elements of spirituality in him.

The news on The technique of Natural Process were received by Fascinated Margaret in an experience of close death (NDE) she had in 1978. She nevertheless was said in his NDE in order not to to relax the technique until 1993. I had it luck to learn in 1994.

The Natural Process simulates an experience of close death and by him the one tests love, peace, know, the light, the perfection, and unity. It is truly a technique that the one render capable to move itself towards heart centeredness and the heart frankness in a positive manner, the one ease to feel that the coherent emotions and tests positive advantages in a body and feel models. And the one can test the transformative and last the effects of him also.

I am sure, as the time continues, we will see that more of techniques facilitating the opening of our heart and allowing we of more to move towards entirety.

What a fascinating time that we live in! And that thought would see us to give science we more and more of a basis for and spirituality validation? What is remaining more forward? ?

This item first was published in "the Magazine of Innerchange" in the April can 1997 problems.