THE VOICE OF AN AWAKENING WORLD
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very precise genetic mutations that are responsible for the
neocortex (the largest part of the human brain), which gives
us empathy, sympathy, compassion, deep intuition, and
perhaps most important, an extraordinary potential to self-regulate our emotions, our bodies, and our healing in a way
that no other form of life can do.
For example, we have the ability to activate
and direct our powerful immune
systems. We have deep intuition,
direct access to our subconscious
for affirmations and healings
on demand. And we have had
that ability from the moment
we appeared on this earth. A
growing number of scientists
now say these abilities are
beyond what could have
happened through evolution
alone and that this appears to
be intentional.
I don’t know where this story
is going to lead, but it tells us that
evolution is not our story and it invites us
to awaken all of these extraordinary potentials
that we have so that we can become the best people and
create the best world possible. The world is changing, and
the old ways of thinking are no longer serving us. This gives
us a new and empowering way to think about ourselves. We
are much more than we’ve been led to believe.
We’ve all been taught that the brain is the master organ
in the human body, but studies now show the brain does
these things because of the signals it receives from the heart.
These two organs work in harmony as a single potent system
that allows us to do this self-regulation that no other form of
life can do.
In 1991 scientists discovered that every human has
approximately 40,000 specialized brain-like cells in our
hearts. They’re not in the cranial brain in our head. They
think, sense, and remember independently of the brain.
When we have deeply significant experiences, those
experiences are recorded in two different places: in the
heart and in the brain. We’re conditioned to heal difficult
experiences or trauma with the way we think. But how
many times do we address those experiences separately in
the heart?
The heart has a language that works very differently from
the language of the brain. It doesn’t necessarily respond
to words. The instructions that tell us how to manage the
emotions in our hearts were among the instructions that
were deleted from the biblical canon in the fourth century
during the Council of Nicaea. Forty-three books that were
removed from the canon were discovered in the mid-1940s
in the village of Nag Hammadi in Egypt, just after the Dead
Sea Scrolls were discovered in Qumran in Israel. Among
those was an ancient biblical book titled The Gospel of
Thomas in which Jesus shared with his students how to
manage the experiences of their heart in the language
of their time. It wasn’t science, but it was really
accurate. It was honored as an important
book, not just in the Christian traditions
but in other traditions as well. The
scientific discoveries we are seeing
today honor what we have sensed to
be true in our hearts, and it gives
us a place to begin when we are
looking for new ways to manage our
health and our bodies in a practical,
tangible way.
The techniques for connecting with
our hearts have been reduced to a few
very simple steps. First, simply move your
awareness from your mind into your heart.
One way is to gently touch your heart center in
whatever way is comfortable—a full palm over the heart or
even a single finger or the ring and the middle fingers gently
touching the heart’s center. Our awareness will always go to
the place where we feel that sensation.
At the same time, slow your breathing just a little bit
(maybe five seconds on the inhale, five seconds on the
exhale). Slowing your breathing sends a very powerful
signal to your body that you’re in a place that’s safe. That
allows a whole cascade of chemistry to change between the
heart and the brain, the first step in harmonizing them.
The third and final step actually connects the heart and
the brain in what is called coherence, which is an electrical
signal that can be measured. It’s 0.1 hertz and it’s based
on a positive, self-regenerating feeling, such as gratitude,
appreciation, or compassion. This is what sets up harmony
between the heart and the brain and opens the door to a
plethora of possibilities. It’s where science and spirituality
come full circle.
This article was adapted
from an October 2017
interview Gregg Braden
gave to Debra Moffitt on her
Unity Media Network show,
Divinely Inspired Living, airing
Tuesdays at 9 a.m. (CT) on
unitymedianetwork.org. P h o
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