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A Tour of Your Sacred Heart

Being in an expanded heart space is a spiritual experience. But there is also some science to help us understand how the spirit of the heart works. Researchers at the Institute of HeartMath (an organization in

Boulder Creek

,

California

, devoted to studying the heart) have found that when people focus on a state of appreciation and love, their heart rhythm quite literally expands and becomes more harmonious. To measure this, researchers use EKGs and computer analysis to graph the heart-rate variability of a person and map it as a sine wave. During a state of love and appreciation, the sine wave of a person’s heart rate rhythm may become twice as big as usual, and much more even and orderly.

Physiologically, what is occurring is that a person’s breath slows down and the heart synchronizes to the breathing. During the inhalation, the heart beats faster than usual. On the exhalation, the heart slows. "I’m not saying we can measure the frequencies of love," says HeartMath researcher Rollin McCraty. "But when we feel love, it causes real changes in our body that we can measure."

Researchers at

Harvard

Medical

School

found the same kind of expanded heart rhythm occurring in long-time meditators during meditation sessions. One of the Harvard researchers called it an "exuberant" rhythm. In their report in Psychosomatic Medicine, the Harvard researchers speculated that humans might have a special "resonant frequency" at which many different biological rhythms–such as the heart rate and the breath–become synchronized. We humans seem to reach this resonant frequency, which creates harmony in the body, when we feel peace, gratitude, love and appreciation.

As I became more attuned to my own heart, I found I could sense other people’s heart rhythms in my own heart. It turns out a person’s heartbeat can be measured by delicate electromagnetic sensors from as far as four feet away. So what I began to experience is actually quite natural. At first, it seemed to happen only when I was doing a hands-on healing. Now, connecting my heart to my client’s heart is the basis of my healings. As I work, I can literally feel my client’s heart unwind and expand and come to rest in my heart rhythm. I can’t force it. I just invite it. I allow. I accept the person’s heart right where it is. As soon as I do, his or her heart usually opens. It melts into mine. I think a lot of healers work this way, sometimes even when they don’t know it. There are even a few studies that show the client’s heart comes into synchronicity with the healer’s heart.

Once that union occurs, we’re together. I’m not really "doing" a healing anymore. We’re in the same psychic space. If I hold a healing state, a state of deep peace and harmony, a state of total unconditional acceptance and presence, a person will accept it–just like if you pluck a guitar string, the sound will resonate through the whole room. In that space of the heart, people’s pain, physical, emotional, mental or spiritual, can melt away.

Healing doesn’t come from forcing something to change. It actually comes from accepting and loving what is. Things melt in that radiant love, whether its physical pain or emotional, even anger and broken bones or hurting guts or poverty consciousness. If you ever want to help someone grow or change, love them. Love them as they are. Hold for others the same awe and appreciation you feel when you look at something beautiful, like a mountain or an ocean, for each of us is beautiful in a profound way. Truly, that kind of unconditional love is the ultimate magic. You can even help yourself to grow and change by holding that state of love for yourself as well.

Happy Valentine’s day,

This morning at work I was greetins my fellow colleagues wif the above words.. So wonderful seein smiles n happiness in each one of them…. Im not very good in writing and expressing myself, so wot I can offer are stories n quotes to express my mind…

I watched the story of the weeping camel today. The stories is all about reuniting mother camel who despised her newborn baby… From the movie, I learnt how fragile each one of us, n how we all are connected in every way, to support, help n learn from each other…..I learnt that without loving kindness the world would be in chaos n most likely many beings wont survive.. Also I learnt how pure love from the heart truly matters for our sense of well being n for others as well….
I have come so far away, from wot I used to be… I used to be a pessimistic n I used to hate myself, my existence… I used to shut myself out of ppl, believing that most ppl cant b trusted n unkind… I guess wot truly matters not the ppl, but me… when I shut myself out, I have closed my heart, therefore creates insecurity n constant doubt in ppl…. I learnt to be forgiving in anything n everything cos thers no point to hurt urself so badly with all those negative energy….

Im telling you this with hope that one day, you’ll discover wots truly matters is your heart. Allow your heart be filled wif love to all beings n Be Happy…

Hugs n Kisses to All on this Val’s day +)

With Metta, Mel

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