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.

Shift now, avoid the rush!

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

Our Living Energy radio show focus for February is Self Care for the Caregiver.  February is a wonderful month to remind each of us to love ourselves and to take care of ourselves, particularly if you care for others. Monday we will be talking about The Care Giver Network. Some of the topics we will be covering are: the various types of networks necessary for the care giver, matching the type of network with the stage of your “care giving journey”, the role that energy work can play in your self care and where to find a variety of networks to meet your needs. We hope you will join us:

on the phone–(347) 843-4148

on the webcast: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/living-energy-works

 or listen to the recording of the show at your convenience.

Excerpted from Ch. 4 of 12 Keys for Life and Self Mastery

We form patterns in our early environments that become our automatic reactions and repeated responses to situations and events throughout our lives. We all have beliefs about the key areas of life: safety, survival, relationships, money, self image, power, entitlement, love, self expression and spirituality. If we are to be truly free to create lives that are the unique manifestation of our individual BEING, then it is essential to identify our real values and release what interferes with openly embracing our own strong, passionately alive consciousness.

Information regarding our internal state is always coming to us in several ways – our physical, emotional and mental faculties are always giving clues about our energy and inner being. In addition, our energy system can offer a great deal of useful data if we take the time to learn how to comprehend it.

We can also stay aware of how the various aspects of the mind communicate with us and blend that into our energetic awareness. The conscious mind is aware of concepts and ideas; the subconscious speaks through feelings or lack of them – the body clearly tells us what is happening in our subconscious mind if we know how to listen. Higher awareness tends to speak through imagery, subtle sensing, or an unmistakable kind of knowing when you sincerely request to know the truth of a matter.

The human energy and chakra system are the vehicles through which we develop and encode our life experience into our cellular memory, so they provide us with a very useful, simple and organized way to look at our values and beliefs as well as with a means to understand how beliefs affect the organization of our energies.

Notice what dominant theme(s) repeatedly comes up for you in your life. Herein lies a clue as to a core belief that is strongly affecting the organization of the people, places, and circumstances of your life. Through collapsing that belief and its attendant mental and emotional features you can be free from the inside out, have more energy and be more open to creating more of what you do want in your life .

12 Keys provides a comprehensive guide to uncovering and releasing troublesome beliefs and opening to higher energies that support, nourish and sustain you in the conscious creation of your life.

Caring: An Energy Crisis? is the topic for our radio show Mon., Feb 8, 2010.

Caring for others often means that you put their needs before your own. You may think that you don’t have time to care for yourself as you care for others. The reality is that you don’t have time not to, since a lack of self care will always lead to a depletion of inner resources. On this show we will discuss techniques you can use to build an inner core of energy so that you can have the core strength and resilience to enable you to be more easily present to life and to others.

This will be our first show on Blog Talk Radio and we would love to have you join us on the phone or on the web.

To join us by phone, call:  (347) 843-4148

To join us on the web: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/—choose on the On Air option and click the Living Energy link.

 
Take a moment, move out of your mind and into the peace of beauty.
  

 “Being a friend to your SELF is no mere metaphor or purely sentimental idea. It is the basis of all relationships, because it is a fundamental recognition of soul.”

Thomas Moore

1. Listen to how you speak to your self

Let go of self bashing, become aware of the voices in your head—the overt and the subtle ones. Commit to shifting to kinder gentler thoughts. Stop self abuse!

 2. Make time for real self care (VS self indulgence).

Begin by discerning what is self indulgent and what is truly caring for yourself. What do you need in terms of basic care? How can you begin to make time for these basic needs to build a strong foundation so you can expand in freedom and expression of your best self?

3. Listen more deeply to your true voice and your real needs

How can you give yourself time and space to listen deeply and acquaint yourself with the real you?

 4. Be compassionate with yourself, you are a work in progress

You are continually learning, growing and developing as a human being whether you are conscious of it or not. Become more conscious and aware can smooth your journey. You can only be where you are at any given moment in time—mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.  Start from where you are and be tolerant and patient with your learning curve. Actively work at embracing the feeling of ease with yourself rather than having  it remain  an “idle” thought.

5. Make time for enlivening your soul

What brings you alive? What nourishes you at a deep level? Can you commit to providing time and space to find out and then allowing that to come into your life?