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Researchers are reporting that it seems that the heart has a mind of its own and is a major factor in how we perceive and respond to the world. The heart has been found to be a very complex processing center that doesn’t just receive information from the brain…it is often the originator of information with the brain being the second responder! In any case it is clear that these two are in a very intricate two way conversation and we can benefit from knowing how to participate!

 Everyone knows that when they are in love their basic immunity is enhanced and they seem to be able to handle life with more grace and self-confidence. Research is documenting the why and how of this which is fascinating but there is even better news…we do not have to wait for these experiences to hit us out of the blue. We can create the feelings from within with the choice to let go of negativity and replace it with the feelings that we do want. We have within us the power to create profound change from deep within ourselves with some very simple techniques.

 Emotional Self Mastery

Our emotions are very real energies that move through us. If we do not manage them, they will manage us. They do not disappear if we ignore them…they merely go underground to erode our systems and wreak havoc with our health at a later time. Time only heals if we engage in a process that helps heal within that time. We are human and so hardwired to feel. The point is to have methods that allow us to be in charge and able to transform our emotions so we do not become helpless victims of them.

A very helpful process is to notice when you are focused on a negative feeling. Stop the action in whatever way you can…imagine a huge red stop sign in your head, imagine hitting the pause button on your remote control, say ‘stop’ to yourself. Then use a memory or your imagination to get in touch with feelings of appreciation, gratitude or unconditional love. Feel as though you can breathe those feelings in and out through your heart. Keep doing this until you have shifted your emotional focus. Then see if you can adopt a feeling of ease in maintaining it. Remember this is a skill, so practice is the key.

 Conscious ‘control’ of your breath can help no matter what tools you are using to transform emotional states. Conscious breathing can help you to create new patterns and healthier ways of thinking and feeling.  Breathing deeply and fully begins to put you in touch with deeper levels, your core, your “self,” your inner being.  It strengthens your center of personal power.  It helps to slow you down and makes you aware of what is occurring both within and around you.  It tunes you in to your environment and your internal processes and places you in a position to make conscious choices … choices that support your efforts in life.

 All of these suggestions will help to boost your vitality, help you create more inner ease, feel less stress, and positively affect your energy field by bringing it into a more coherent state. A coherent energy field is associated with greater ability to create, improved health, reduced stress, enhanced ability to concentrate, and greater access to intuitive and spiritual experiences.

Life is an intimate ongoing dance between our personal energy and that of the universe. Science is now affirming what philosophers and sages have been telling us for centuries. We live in a participatory universe. What we do, and how we think, feel, and believe all have an energetic reality. This energetic reality not only impacts us but also others and the planet itself.

ExcerptedChakras and Feng Shui: Inner and Outer Balance

If you have not yet become aware of the Global Coherence Initiative, here is a brief video talking about the background of the project, as well as the goal of using the interaction of personal and global energy to promote a better world for us all.

Excerpted from Chapter 9, 12 Keys For Life and Self Mastery

Akin to gratitude is appreciation, a word often used in the HeartMath materials to speak about the feeling that generates positive shifts in physiology.

 To paraphrase their definition, appreciation is an active emotional state characterized by a perception and recognition of something for which you feel grateful. Appreciation, gratitude and unconditional love are the emotional states that have been shown to produce coherence within our energy fields. (Coherence is defined as that state where two or more systems are in sync, thereby operating more smoothly and effectively.)

In research studies when subjects produce high rates of coherence in the heart, they also exhibit increased heart-brain synchronization, increased immunity, improved physiological function, decreased stress, and better emotional management.

Individuals capable of sustaining high levels of coherence by holding feelings of love, gratitude and appreciation through intention showed profound changes in their DNA. High states of coherence produced an unwinding and lengthening of DNA strands, while fear, anxiety, frustration and stress caused DNA to tighten, become shorter and switch off many of its codes.

Members in a control group who could not produce high levels of coherence showed no changes in their DNA.

The bottom line is that our habitual states of mind affect our lives on any levels and the heart is a key player in regulating these effects.

Our radio show topic for the month of March will be the upcoming changes associated with the year 2012 and how we can all be prepared and move with the changes that this enormous transition in our world is requiring.

We will be discussing:

3/1/10 Laying the Groundwork f0r 2012 (Recording available)

 3/8/10 2012: Changes in Personal Direction

3/15/10 2012: New Models for Relationships

3/22/10 2012: Shifting Paradigms for Health

3/29/10 2012: When Spirit Hits the Sidewalk!

Of course everyone has heard about the predicted end of the world in Dec of 2012 but this is not what is happening. Closer inspection of the prophesies about this time in history  shows  that what is actually happening is that what is ending is some very long cycles and the beginning of new ones.

Indigenous people were in touch with much larger expanse of time than we in the modern world are accustomed to.  The great cycles that are now winding down are referred to as Great World Ages. We have been through 4 of these before and we are finishing up a 5^th and entering a 6^th. At this point in the ending of these cycles it is typical to have catastrophic conditions on many fronts—weather, politics, economic etc.

Great civilizations collapsed under the weight of times like these but it was not the conditions themselves that caused the collapse—it was the response of the powers that be, the people and their inability to shift how they approached life and the important issues of the day that brought them down.

If you study history/evolution what can be seen is that when there was a willingness to cooperate and work together to solve problems and let go of old unsustainable ways then the civilizations survived and rebuilt on new foundations. If competitiveness prevailed then everyone lost—there was collapse.

It is interesting to observe that the earth’s history includes quantum jumps when crisis conditions were present. E.G. single cell life about to die out—poof—photosynthesis saves the day. In 13.7 billion years this point has presented itself many times and there has always been a quantum leap rather than a slow steady progression from one step to another.

Through evolution Nature provides us with a model of a dynamic process of change that always involves cooperation and increasing complexity.

Excerpted from Laying the Groundwork for 2012

To hear the complete recording for this show go to: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/living-energy-works

March 1, 2010

What is 2012 about? Change. Lots of it. It is already happening actually and will continue on past the touted date of 12/21/12. So what does it mean for humanity? What does it mean for you? How will you be challenged? How can you rise to the challenges? As we move toward 2012 it is helpful to understand the great transition that is underway and know what is required to rise to these challenges.

Join Peg Donahue, Karen Kallie and Tony Pace for this lively discussion.

Click here to listen live or download the recording:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/living-energy-works

To Call-in to the show: (347) 843-4148

Whenever we are wishing for something to be different from what it is, we are energetically holding it in our lives.

In our culture the word surrender is loaded with negative connotations, such as giving up, wimping out, being weak, unable to cut it. However, surrender in the context that we are using it is a deep feeling of letting go of struggle and conflict: it is about accepting what is in the moment, not fighting it – accepting the reality even as we seek to see what can be done to change or move beyond it.

 Surrender helps to bring your heart into coherence through the inner peace and calm it generates. To truly surrender we need to let go of wanting, yearning, wishing, needing and directing. When we are in these states, our focus is on what we feel we don’t have. We are in a vibration of lack or scarcity. Sometimes we become stuck and even paralyzed by these feelings.

Since our energy reflects our inner state, it is stuck, paralyzed, not moving, so it holds us in place rather than moving freely so it can be channeled in a stronger, more positive direction.

 When our focus is on what is missing from our lives, we create more of what we feel we don’t have. We create more of what is missing. Developing an attitude of acceptance – acceptance of the way things ARE – enables you to move beyond patterns of resistance and bring peace to your heart. Acceptance does not mean that something or someone is right or wrong. Acceptance is acknowledging things just the way they are now. It’s just allowing them to be, without judgment. Judgments tear at our energy and do us much more harm than the person, place or thing that we are judging.

Our true power is in Being … not in mere intellectual thought. This is an important key concept for creating. We have said before that conceptual knowledge is not enough to turn desire into reality; intellectual understanding is only the first step to conscious creation. The most powerful tools and techniques for the materialization of our thoughts are those that move us into a state of BEING that matches what we desire to create.

In Chapter 8 of 12 Keys we explore methods that help you to do just that: take energy from the realm of thought and transform it – through feeling – into the world of manifestation.

Using these methods and developing the qualities discussed will help you enhance your creative power and expand your self mastery. When we are in harmony with the universe, creation flows as a natural result. The mind “laser focuses” as we master the challenge of energetically bringing our heart and mind into alignment and harmony with the higher frequencies of creative power.

Coherence of our energy is an important factor in health, well-being and conscious creation. The topics covered in this session are significant, as they promote coherence and whole body integration … a peaceful blending of body, mind and spirit.

 The Impact of Thought and Emotion

Thoughts, emotions and feelings of all types are a major part of our human experience. They (along with free will and judgment) differentiate us from animals and other life forms.

As humans, we have a wide range of emotions. We are meant to feel. If we are to be healthy, fully express our authentic nature and bring the best of our selves to the world, then we must know how to let emotions move fluidly and easily through our systems and not repress them or get stuck in them!

 Knowing how to work positively with all our emotions builds our energy and helps us move more rapidly and simply toward the lives we desire. We hold memory all throughout our body-mind … no experience escapes our notice. Our life experience is imprinted through our energy and nervous system into our biochemistry and into the cells and organs of our body.

Thoughts and feelings affect the energy throughout all our systems, but perhaps most important is how they connect deeply in the heart and help shape our experience of the world. Our thoughts and feelings are two primary ways we manage our energy, but they don’t necessarily always work in unison. We are very capable of thinking one thing and feeling another. We can “know” something in our mind and experience it a totally different way in our heart and body.

 Cellular memory is imprinted more through how we feel about something than through how we think about it or how we rationalize it. As a result, we have the feeling police deep inside: the body knows your truth! This is why it is so critical to clear the patterns and beliefs of the past – not because we are bad or have sinned and need to set our records straight, but because through our lack of knowledge and awareness, we have created obstacles that block our health, well being and happiness.

Next : Understanding Surrender and Acceptance

Join us on Monday, Feb.22, 2010 as we continue our series on care for the caregiver. In this show we will be discussing the difference between care and over care, how the heart plays a role in your stress management as well as in the quality of our care giving, and how you can move gracefully within the complexity of the caregiver role and stay centered, peaceful and healthy.

To join us by phone, call: Phone Number: (347) 843-4148 or join us on the web: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/living-energy-works or download the recording after the show.

Heart feelings of genuine care, love, gratitude, appreciation and compassion create coherence in the heart and have a profound effect on the body.

 Heart Coherence helps to:

1. Shift heart rhythms toward smooth, ordered patterns
2. Stimulate healthy neural, hormonal, biochemical,and energetic flow to organs
3. Improve brain function
4. Reduce sympathetic nervous system activity
5. Decrease blood pressure
6. Release stress hormones
7. Diminish fight/flight response
8. Increase parasympathetic nervous system activity and decreases heart rate
9. Improve body system efficiency
10. Boost DHEA production (anti-aging!)
11. Enhance IGA (immune response) proportionately with core heart feelings

Heart Coherence helps you experience well-being right down to the cellular level! We can LEARN to trigger all these effects at will.

Excerpted from Chapter 7, 12 Keys for Life and Self Mastery

 Using tools that clear, balance and strengthen your personal energy will help ensure that your energetic requests are ones that you want to show up in your life.

 In spite of having a great deal of knowledge regarding the topic of conscious creation, many people still have difficulty making the process work for them. This can lead to discouragement or to abandonment of the process altogether.

One reason for the difficulties in learning how to consciously create is that navigating the inner landscape and the world of energy requires different attitudes, approaches, and tools than does navigating the exterior world. Another is that it generally takes time to learn and integrate new ways of being. It is possible to have huge shifts in no time at all, but most of us will probably need some degree of persistence, patience and perseverance as we adopt new attitudes, methods and world views. It took time to form the patterns you now have, so it may take time to shift into new patterns and frequencies and sustain them. Soon enough the new patterns and frequencies will become Self reinforcing, especially if you adopt a light playful attitude.

 The specific approaches we cover in Session 5 of 12 Keys to Life and Self Mastery help you to move beyond some of the common pitfalls to co-creating in your life.

 You will learn how to:

• Effectively affirm and support your truest desires
• Identify the hidden dynamics that block your desires
• Set intentions that universal energy can readily respond to
• Discern between willingness and willpower; shift to ease in creation