Continue to make decisions that are in alignment with your spirit but also in alignment with your physical body, for if your physical self is not kept in tiptop shape your spirit will have difficulty reaching you. When the needs of your physical self are overpowering, your spirit gets lost in the muck. Keep your whole self in good order, body and spirit, so that there is no lack in communication, activity level, or mental calmness. When in good alignment you will know it by the serenity of your whole body.
There comes a time when it is time, when you know that the big moment of change that you have been expecting arrives, when there is only one choice to make and you must make it. In such times, it is your inner heart centered knowing that will guide you properly and keep you safe and calm. Do not let the vicissitudes of life get you down but use the goodness of your heart to lift you up, for you know now that you can trust the truth of your heart.
Pause. Take time to consider what life is really presenting you with each new day. Rather than jumping to the usual conclusions take action that will further you along on your journey of change. When something unexpected is presented, rather than respond as expected in return, do what your heart expects instead. See what the outcome is when you take an unexpected turn in the direction of heart-centered decision making based on loving kindness and compassion. You might be unexpectedly surprised.
Happiness is but a human idea of achievement based on accomplishments in the world you live in, but true happiness comes from within, in knowing that you have found yourself, faced yourself, loved yourself and become grounded in yourself. Seek happiness within in the calmness of your kind and loving self. Accompanied by the power of your own spirit you can’t go wrong, and happiness will naturally flood you, love will fill you, and joy will be your natural state. And then will you finally be happy.
We live in a time that many have identified as one of quickening. The impact of such fevered evolutionary activity on the central nervous system (CNS) is quite palpable in the form of heightened anxiety and quickened escalation to panic. The heart beats to this intensity of activation.
Underneath the energetic impact of our times is our innate temperament. The genetics which inform the inborn settings of our CNS greatly impact our innate resilience to stress. Thus, an inheritance of ancestral trauma can program our CNS to approach life with constant vigilance. The heart beats to this intensity of activation.
In addition to inheritance is the impact of many experiences post-conception that are regulated by the subconscious mind. To assure survival and balance the subconscious might split off and store these unprocessed experiences in the body and shadow regions of the psyche. These splintered complexes form autonomous mini-psyches that occasionally are triggered and disrupt ego functioning. The heart beats to the intensity of their activation.
Whether the source of activation be engrained habit or triggered complex is immaterial, the result manifests physically in the tempo of the beating heart. The challenge is to reset the CNS in order to find calm.
Psychopharmocology approaches this task with chemicals that both enhance or block the influence of hormones and neurotransmitters, whereby exerting regulation upon the CNS and the beating of the heart. This might be viewed as a material intervention to influence the physical body and, secondarily, the mind or spirit, which finds peace in a calmed body.
Heart centered breathing brings consciousness directly to the heart and can reset its rhythm to homogenize with the pace of the breath. Focus upon the breath also screens out activating thoughts through mindful presence with the heart center. Yogic pranayama breathing, as a regular practice, develops greater conscious control over the CNS.
When we breathe with awareness the mind shuts off thinking. Conscious breathing is the mind exerting direct influence over the CNS. Psychotherapy offers another integrated mind body approach to CNS regulation through the processing of complexes and strengthening of control of the mind over itself.
Meditation and neurofeedback address CNS regulation at the most subtle dimension. In the stillness of inner focus one encounters the impact of complexes and habits, each vying for attention with stories and feelings, and notices their impact upon the heart. Release of attachment to these stories and feelings, while traveling deeper into the quiet dimensions of the soul, brings the CNS to utter calm. Sustained practice affords everyday life a modicum of detachment from the storm and stress of life in human form.
Finally, repetitive mantra, prayer or intention directly instructs the subconscious, the mind body center that automatically controls the CNS.
With sustained practice these programs can be altered through conscious effort. Of course, deep resetting of the CNS will take time and may require a combination of the practices outlined above.
And though the heart will always beat to the intensity of its activation, activation can be greatly transformed through mental practice. And mind you, all mental practice issues from the province of the soul.
