message from the heart - PART IV 1 comment

20 Mar 2003 @ 22:55, by Jenese James Message from the heart PART IV - (PIC IS WAVE FORM OF FEAR) Gregg Braden Walking Between the Worlds – the Science of compassion Denial If you view 10,000 Iraqi’s (I am taking the liberty and changing the name from Rwandans which was the original example given in this sentence given the history we are now living) laying along the roadside and feel nothing, there is a good possibility that you may be emotionally numb or in denial. This has been a common defense mechanism to survive something that is so painful in its horror, that you remove yourself from the reality through justifications and reasons. You are speaking ‘about’ the event rather than addressing the event itself. Any emotion, if present, may be displaced as anger in defense of your logic or justification. In the loss of life, any life, you will feel something. Whatever has died is a part of you that you will no longer know or experience. Polarity If you view the images of Iraqi’s choosing feelings of anger, outrage and thoughts of revenge, retaliation and getting even, there is a good possibility that you are living the polarity of un-tempered logic. Expressed as thoughts of right, wrong, good, bad, light, dark, it is polarity that will assure that you remain in separation. While anger may be a socially acceptable way of responding to an event of horror, ask yourself, “Does my anger serve me in this moment”? Does the situation warrant your response of emotional contraction, physiological depression and the compromise of your immune system, each and expression of anger? Compassion If you are able to view the Iraq scene and feel for the people that have had the experience and their survivors, without anger, revenge and the need to ‘get even’ with those responsible for the pain, you have made the choice from a higher form of emotion. To the degree that you are able to view the events with thoughts such as the following, you are viewing life in feeling, removed from the polarity of the rightness or wrongness of that which has transpired. Í grieve for their suffering and pain, I will miss those people, their customs, the uniqueness that each had to offer our world…it didn’t have to happen. These are powerful choices of feeling that place you in a powerful position in your life. Your choices allow you the opportunity to experience in your power rather than allowing the experience to make you feel. You are remembering the science of compassion, without anger, fear, rage or revenge. This level of mastery is one example of transcending polarity while still living in polarity Our heart has been romantized as a symbol of love, it is continued to be believed that it is nothing but a mere yet critical pump in our bodies and our brains are given the supremacy in all that we do…it is the driver of everything. In this reasoning intellect is given more credence or validity than feelings or emotions. Yet we have discovered that the brain gets its signals from the heart, we have discovered that our heart has a brain and a nervous system. We have also discovered that the vibration of what we call love and all its Dervidities, compassion, joy, happiness, etc creates a wave form that can be measured and that wave form encodes our DNA. In other words that wave from of love touches our DNA strand in turn, turning on amino acids that send chemical, hormonal and electrical messengers throughout our body in a regenerative way…..these turn on the brains higher centers for feelings of clarity and well being. However we have also learned that the emotion of fear, can also be measured and this wave form does not touch our DNA in quite as many places nor in the same way as the wave form of love. However the wave form of fear and all its derivatives, hate greed, anger, etc turn on our chemical, hormonal and electrical messengers throughout our body in a degenerative way….these do not turn on the brains higher centers. This summation albeit, a very simplified account does not lessen the implications of what our heart does in our bodies, and how it affects us, neither does it denigrate the brain from its illusionary placement as the superior organ. What it does however is open the door of possibilities in our own understanding of ourselves and our world. We have also discovered our thought, feeling and emotion, which is simply energy in motion, affect our bodies, thoughts of anger, hate, greed, deception, war, degenerate us, whilst thoughts of love, appreciation, joy peace regenerate our bodies….however it is now time to introduce you to another part of our brain, the Amygadala. Remember it is only by seeing the body as a mechanical machine like apparatus that any kind of separation occurs. The body is a whole organism, which works as a loving team. From the Heartmath researchers……. Our perception and emotions were once believed to be dictated entirely by the brains responses to stimuli arising in our external environment. The heart plays a key role in contributing to mental, emotional coherence since we now know that it possess a far more developed communication system with the brain than do most of the body’s major organs. Numerous experiments have now demonstrated that the messages the heart sends to the brain affect our perceptions, mental processes, feeling states and performance in profound ways. Our research suggests that the heart transmits information relative to one’s emotional state to the cardiac center of the brain stem which in turn feeds into the thalamus and the amygdala. These areas are directly connected to the base of the frontal lobes which are critical for decision making and the integration of reason and feeling….meaning that once an emotion is experienced, it becomes a powerful motivator of future behaviors, affecting our moment to moment actions, attitudes and long-term achievements. The Amygdala is the key brain center that coordinates behavioral immunolgical and neuro endocrine responses to environmental threats. It also serves as the store-house of emotional memory within the brain. In assessing our environment, the amygdala compares incoming emotional signals with stored emotional memories in this way the amygdala makes insanities decisions about the threat level of incoming sensory information, and due to it’s extensive connections to the hypothalamus and other autonomic nervous system (ANS) center, it is able to ‘hijack’ the neural pathways activating the ANS and emotional response before the higher brain centers receive the sensory information. (Curial point)The amygdala also receives input from the heart. One of its many functions is to organize what becomes ‘familiar’ if the rhythm patterns generated by the heart are disordered and incoherent, especially as a young child, the amygdale learns to expect disharmony as familiar. Thus we feel ‘at home’ with incoherence which can affect learning, creativity and emotional balance. In other words we feel ‘comfortable’ only with internal incoherence which really is discomfort. On the basis of what has become familiar to the amygdala, the frontal cortex mediates decisions as to what is appropriate or not in any given situation. Thus, subconscious emotional memories underlie and affect our perceptions, emotional reactions and thought processes. From our current understanding of the elaborate feedback networks between the brain, the heart, our mental and emotional system, it becomes clear that the age old struggle between intellect and emotion will not be resolved by the mind gaining dominance over our feeling/emotions, but by increasing the harmonious balance between the two systems providing greater access to our full range of intelligence. Research results suggest however, that memory patterns can be reprogrammed so that coherence becomes the normal comfortable state. ___________________- The ramification of this are profound. Could this indicate our habits and patterns of years of fearing to feel, years of suppressing or denying our emotions ? Raine Eisler in her book Sacred Pleasure points out that as children we are taught to negate our own human rights violation as part and parcel of growing up. As little children we know when something is not fair, not right, and it hurts. Eisler suggests that, given this situation, it is only natural that as adults, we tend to gloss over or ignore human rights abuses out in the world. We are desensitized from an early age…we have become ‘comfortable’ with internal incoherence which is really discomfort ! Is fear our underlying motivating emotional state ? Is our collective amygdala programmed for incoherence, a ‘familiar’ uncomfortable ness in the sense we become conditioned to feeling ‘comfortable’ with internal incoherence, which is really discomfort ? Revealing that the vibrational wave form of fear is more an underlying factor in our lives than we may have realized ? Can the state of the world today and the decreasing health and freedoms of its citizens be directly related to the wave form of fear and its derivatives, frustration, anger, greed worry and war ? with the sheer overwhelming ness leading to denial and apathy ? My dictionary defines Apathy as “lack of enthusiasm” or ‘Lack of interest”. Yet author Joanna Macy writing in ‘Despair and personal power ( new society publishers) the word apathy takes on quite revealing meaning. At its root apathy comes from a Greek work Apatheia, literally meaning ‘non suffering’. Given its etymology, Joanna says, apathy is the inability or the refusal to experience pain. We fear the feelings, and fear as we have discovered, with all its derivatives, produces an incoherence in the body, setting off a chemical/hormonal and electrical response that does not bode well for mental emotional nor physical health and well-being. In our world to day much is happening that appears over whelming, to much to handle, freedoms we fought wars to protect are being eroded for profit and gain motivated by greed and fear. We have made industry the focus of our world at the price of everything. An ignorance and arrogance distorts the heart of humanity…. It is important however to understand that seeing all this is not necessarily a bad thing. The truth is that before change of any type can occur anywhere one first must see or experience the need for that change. Even if that means seeing how toxic our world has become or seeing how politically corrupt things are for the first time. In other words change can not come about if we do not see, nor realize the need for it. Admittedly, change seems like an overwhelming challenge, yet change is the only way forward, if we want the type of peaceful loving society/relationship/world we seem to say we do. With the knowledge of our heart wave being the master wave within which all other waves exist allows us to se a way of moving ourselves through what needs to be changed. Simultaneously, the wave of love and fear, appear for us to understand and comprehend how our feelings, our emotions (energy in motion) set up a vibrational frequency, (wave) that determines our state of mind, our state of body and our state of action or response. It is the body mind connection that healers and mystics of all cultures have been trying to bring to our attention. Our hearts speak to us in the language of feeling, sending that feeling throughout our bodies, and depending upon how the brain responds, will determine our actions. Surprising one’s feelings, ones emotions, also sets up an incoherence or said another way, a discordant vibration and if maintained over time, i.e. becomes a habitual response, a pattern that does have, as we have seen a measurable affect upon us. Yet if the heart feels love, not fear, than the body/mind acts in positive ways, setting up a vibrational wave that enhances our overall system which must have an affect on how we interact with others, and our world. Wouldn’t this mean that if love rather than fear harmonizes our bodies/mind to its optimum potential, then this would be the harmonic or pattern that our bodies/mind respond to best. Meaning that love would be the core of who we are, since that is what turns us on and isn’t this what the worlds greatest teachers have been trying to tell us for eons?

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