As someone who has spent years working in the arena of healing and empowerment through self-awareness, it has always been my belief that in order to achieve one's emotional goals and relationship successes, there must be a presence of heart and by that I mean L O V E.
The human heart being the size of two adult fists is affected by the emotional body and our ability to relate to the external world. According to HeartMath, the heart is in a constant two way dialogue with the brain. Our emotions are what changes the signals the brain sends to the heart and the heart then responds. It is widely known that chronic anger for example, places us at a much greater risk of heart attack than someone who has the ability to regulate their emotions and communicate openly and rightly. Anger has a toxic effect on the heart whether you display intense rage or quietly fume, either way, you are placing yourself at a much greater risk based on your inability to cope.
When your nervous system is one that has emotional regulation meaning, it operates in the parasympathetic state and has a majority presence of positivity such as contentment and joy, our heart maintains coherent heart rhythms as the 'love' hormone known as oxytocin is manufactured while having the power to regulate our emotional responses. This information alone should be enough to make us want to change our ways and jump the fence to living in an elevated state of being.
A traumatic event or multiple negative situations are what creates the absence of emotional safety causing the body to adapt by triggering the 'fight or flight' response. The response will kick in like a gas pedal on a car going from 0 -100 causing a person to either fight or flee anytime there is perceived threat. This being the reason we've developed unhealthy programming like shutting down and avoiding confrontation or getting revved up ready to battle it out and drive our point across, it all stems from our past experiences.
Using the power of one's own heart as a way of living is something that can be learned by everyone: as long as you have a heart beating within the walls of your chest, you are one hundred percent able to achieve peace within, create healthier connections and outcomes. Taking a heart-centred approach to life allows you to be present in the moment and have a higher level of awareness where there is kindness, appreciation, forgiveness, no judgement and a brighter outlook on life in general. It's important to mention that love and polarized states of emotions such as anger, fear, sadness, anxiety and resentment cannot co-exist just as a person cannot remain calm and enraged in the same moment. When the heart is closed it contracts into itself making it more difficult to breathe, to trust others and keeps us at bay while we feel disconnected from the world around us.
The adaptive way of living in one's heart is an attitude that's instrumental in healing illness, physical/emotional pain and eliminating the dense energies that hold us back from living our intended wholeness and experiencing deeper connections. According to Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, a Harvard trained science scholar, he states "positive attitudes of patients and caregivers, heart-felt loving intentions radiate a special 'LOVE frequency'" and he credits this 'good vibration' for impacting patients most positively and powerfully as the source of their miraculous recoveries.
As someone who also works with those who suffer from chronic illness, healing the emotional body while teaching how to live and maintain a heart-centred approach to life has created major shifts in my clients health both mentally and physically.
In the end, it's much easier to flow in the vibration of love where the body is calm, you are better equipped to handle challenges and you attract others of the same frequency rather than live in the heaviness of dense emotions where the body remains in a contractile state, there's absence of vulnerability and you're unable to experience deep connectivity.
"Love is what brings our hurts out of the shadows where we no longer need to hide and transmutes them to light where we are able to shine brightly for those who need to find their way home to themselves." -Tanya Walker
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