Nov 2012 Essential Wellness

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Love those who are wounded and with compassion let them go

BY JANE BRUSS

Build a new relationship with your heart and your life changes

BY CHRISTINE DAY

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Ho‘oponopono: Hawaiian ritual of forgiveness creates fulfillment

BY ULRICH E. DUPRÉE

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Synchronize your brain waves to your heart rhythms for optimal harmony of body-mind

BY ESTARYIA VENUS

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Find the rhythm of your own indigenous heart

BY JONATHAN MERRITT

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HE HEART chakra is profound in its simplicity. The Dalai Lama comments, “When I see beings of wicked nature oppressed by violent misdeeds and afflictions, I hold them dear as if a rare and precious treasure.” This means everyone, regardless.

In life, we hold someone’s hand for a while. It’s not easy to let go of their embrace and hand, because the heart meridian runs along our arms and resides in our palms. Yet, we can hold people in our hearts.

The process of letting go, then holding someone with compassion, strengthens our heart chakra, guiding us to know, feel, and connect with

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the joy of wellness and unconditional love. Tracing a discomfort or pain to its origin changes us alchemically, opening us to the inherent lesson and wisdom within the experience. The process is rewarding, as this anecdote reveals.

CORDING OF HEART STRINGS

“I’m hard headed and stubborn. I like to control everything,” he said. Not a mutually beneficial foundation for connecting, be it friend or lover.

But their heart strings, braided together through spirituality, dance, music, and mechanical aptitude, resonated so clearly, harmoniously that she trusted his machismo was simply bravado.

Their cohesion was inspiring. They focused on partner-

ship, sharing experiences, and transcending life’s paradoxes.

They enjoyed the simple, idiosyncratic, and coincidental things in life along with the minutiae of housekeeping. They lived a small, green footprint.

They glowed as they danced, surrounded by an aura noted even by strangers, leaving behind a huge heart print.

But his constant accusatory, distorted perceptions and rigid thinking allowed no middle ground for clarification, conversation, or critical thinking.

With everyone else he manipulated insidious, web-like ploys, fabricating a flawless façade of the thoughtful, kind gentleman, which they believed.

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LOVE UNRAVELLING

MENTAL ILLNESS WOUNDS One afternoon while return- THE HEART

ing from his family reunion, he impetuously began driving well over the speed limit. Both hands were off the wheel, his body aimed at her, arms flailing and grabbing her. He screamed hysterically, vehemently, “I told you to move in permanently!

You haven’t! I know when someone’s giving me the cold shoulder! You’re leaving me, moving far away from me, never coming back! We’re a unit, so good together. I told you never to make me angry! You did! Soon we’ll be in heaven together!” While brandishing the metal, his eyes became empty, crazed, his body virtually paralyzed.

Her pliable heart strings nearly stretched beyond capacity. How could the hands that caressed her gently that morning, that interlaced her fingers with a tender repose, do an impulsive about face, becoming lethal weapons intent on terrorizing, violating her?

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Tragically, a genetic-based neurophysiological dysfunction plus his childhood environment caused him to perpetually live in a psychotic world, the serious mental illness of Borderline Personality Disorder. His wounded child feared emotional abandonment.

Instead of an adult man experiencing an authentic, committed relationship, a boy’s self-loathing, self-absorbed, and shattered heart chakra lashed out in pain, victimizing the stable woman who provided joy, lightness, and wellness.

Although counterintuitive, he abusively pushed away the one he wanted. He feared that allowing himself to even somewhat trust in and receive her respect and unconditional love would definitely result in ridicule, usury, and abandonment. His instability and panic overcame him. The perceived abandoner had to be terminated before she considered leaving, intensifying his pain and suffering while adding to his se-

verely scarred heart and soul.

It’s paradoxical that the contributor to one’s base needs would be considered the harbinger and instigator of cruelty. However, afflicted, distressed, and living continually on edge due to his cognitive, emotional, interpersonal, behavioral, and self dysregulation, he perceived and conducted his life accordingly.

HEALING A WOUNDED HEART

Clearing her lambasted heart required severing connections with him, his family, and acquaintances. Immediately she visited their dance venues, certain he wouldn’t be there, knowing it would provoke a range of intense emotions from joy to bewilderment to loss. Profound emptiness and tears washed over her as she stood on the sidelines, alone.

Refreshing her lucent heart occurred gradually. Dancing only with trusted friends, selfreflection, acupuncture, and tai qi transformed profound

disappointment into peaceful abundance. With gratitude and humility she accepted reality, focusing on the depth of what they experienced, including the acts of violence perpetrated by his once gentle, trustworthy hands.

She understood they had signed on to journey together, knowing her unfaltering ability to share a depth of calm repose, mindful compassion, and unconditional love, and then to extract herself from his chaotic vortex.

She accepted that commitment and love could not cure his mental illness, yet on a spiritual level he benefited from all they shared.

The gifts of an open heart chakra are mindfulness and transcendence. When you experience beings shattered by misdeeds and afflictions, pray Namaste and then hold them with compassion in your heart.

Jane Bruss (stupa@visi.com), adjunct professor, author, speaker, and advocate, specializes in wholistic, sustainable living.

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Build a new relationship your heart and your life

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ITH THIS new dawning energy on our planet, we are being moved from a third dimensional planet to a fourth/fifth dimensional planet. Our ego mind is totally third dimensionally based and our hearts connect us fully into our fourth/fifth dimensional experience and alignment to Self.

It’s important to build a new relationship with your heart.

Your ego mind has been your guide, controlling your every action. The ego mind is incredibly limited; it is programmed to keep you in survival mode, meaning your motivation is through fear, lack, and struggle—totally connected to the illusion of third dimensional reality.

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BUILD A NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR HEART

As our third dimensional world is slowly being replaced by a fourth/fifth dimensional energy it’s possible for you to begin a new relationship with your heart through conscious choice. Your heart holds a unique divine frequency, as you develop this new relationship with your heart; this frequency of your Self can begin to transmit out into the Universe.

Through your heart, you will begin to align to the guidance of your Self. Your heart connection opens you into your natural flow, which connects you to the Universal Consciousness. You begin to anchor your place there.

You can trust your heart, because it’s directly connected to the Self. As you connect to your

heart, you begin to re-align to your self. The action of bringing your conscious awareness to your heart through conscious choice is taking back your power. Consciously choosing to awaken in that moment!

ACCESS ANOTHER DIMENSIONAL ASPECT OF YOURSELF

Aligning to the heart in the moment allows you to access another dimensional aspect of yourself. You are taken out of the third dimensional drama and into a fourth/fifth dimensional perspective of the situation. You witness the drama without being a part of the drama, and become more alive and more connected to the truth.

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When there is a difficult situation, stop and take a moment to hold your heart. Your heart needs a breath. Breathe deeply in through the mouth and softly release the breath out of your mouth. Let the heart open by releasing energy with this breath. You may even release a sigh or sound. This is called the Conscious Breath. Take a moment to be present with yourself. Breathe and feel.

You will experience a change in your feelings. You may feel calmer, less agitated. There may be a feeling that things will be all right.

You may even experience a simple solution to a problem at hand.

You have come here to experience joy, and the wonders that are here on this earth plane.

Your heart needs to come alive in order to have those experiences. We have come here to feel!

LIFE CHANGES AS YOU REBIRTH YOUR HEART

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of your heart, everything in your life changes. It’s as though you were swimming up stream against the current and suddenly you are free flowing down stream, effortlessly. This change is you moving into your natural flow of your Self through your sacred heart.

The more you are willing to align to your heart, the more clarity you will begin to receive.

Your heart gets stronger and stronger each time you connect to it. You can access understanding and answers to your questions through your connection to your heart.

To begin birthing your sacred heart, you must become aware of your physical heart.

Spend some time just holding your heart with the palm of your hand, and taking a breath.

Bring your consciousness to the feeling of pressure and warmth of the hand on your physical body. This action is powerful.

You are being with your heart.

We spend our lives thinking of what is to come, or what has happened in the past. We are

seldom in the present moment.

All we have and that is truly real is this moment. When we choose to consciously be in the moment through the heart, you can open past the illusion and into the clarity of the moment.

As you connect through the heart, you connect to an unlimited source of Universal knowledge and understanding. It is time for you to link into this aspect of yourself, and utilize the assistance that is here for you. Reach out through your heart and open to receive all that is here for you within the fourth/fifth dimensional realms. You are not alone!

Christine Day was born in Australia and had a spiritual awakening after being given a short time to live. She is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher, healer, and channel and now referred to as the Pleiadian Ambassador for the planet. She has also been initiated into the Shaman traditions by the Pleiadians and offers Pleiadian Shamanic Retreats.

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O‘OPONOPONO IS the Hawaiian ritual of forgiveness.

It proceeds from an understanding of the unity of everything in the world, which is true even though we feel ourselves to be separate. Because of this unity or oneness, nothing can happen in our own world without creating a resonance in the observer. It follows that we can only influence problems in the external world if we heal the corresponding inner resonance. To accomplish this, Ho‘oponopono relies on four magic sentences: “I am sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank you.”

In this little book Ulrich Emil Duprée describes Ho‘oponopono in a simple way that everyone can immediately transform into their own experience.

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FOUR MAGIC SENTENCES

Together we will apply the four magic sentences of the Ho‘oponopono in small exercises and examples to solve problems and conflicts. It is quite simple, so please take part in this. If something troubles you, if something sends prickles up your spine and you would like best to turn around and go away, and above all, if someone presses your buttons, always direct your thoughts to the following sentences: I am sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank you.

These four sentences work like a sort of mantra or magic formula; they are like a meditation. They operate through time and space, beyond cause and effect, and transmit directly to your Higher Self, your sub- conscious and your waking consciousness.

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After a short while you achieve inner peace, and change from disharmony to harmony.

You move yourself from separation to union while you say: I am sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank you.

task. I, or my forebears (through whom I am connected energetically, genetically, and by tradition as much as by history) have caused harm. Now, through the power of the spoken word, I am freed of this guilt.

WHAT DO THESE FOUR SENTENCES MEAN?

Please forgive me: Please

I am sorry: I apologize. I

perceive that I suffer, and that connects me to my feelings.

I no longer reject the problem, but recognize my learning

open my eyes. I love you and myself unconditionally with all our weaknesses and faults.

Thank you: Thank you, for I

understand that the miracle is already underway. I thank God and the angels for the transformation of my request. I give thanks, because what I have received and what will come to pass is what I have deserved through the law of cause and effect. I give thanks because, through the power of forgiveness, I am now freed from the energetic chains of the past.

I give thanks that I may recognize and join with the Source of all Being.

forgive me for having, through myself, or my forebears, consciously or unconsciously disturbed you and me in the course of our evolution. Please forgive me for having acted contrary to the divine laws of harmony and love. Please forgive me for having until now judged you (or the situation), and in the past disregarded our spiritual iden- Ulrich E. Duprée is a spiritual tity and connectedness. seeker, a teacher, and a leader of seminars. He has studied and I love you: I love you trained in yoga, philosophy, and and I love myself. I see metaphysics and he lives in a Hindu and respect the divine in monastery where he studies ancient you. I love and accept Hindu scriptures. the situation just as it For further information contact is. I love the problem www.earthdancerbooks.com or that has come to me to http://www.findhornpress.com Ho’oponopono: The Hawaiian forgiveness ritual as the key to your life’s fulfillment by Ulrich E. Dupree

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CIENCE HAS been discovering what the ancient spiritual traditions have always known: That there is an intricate connection between our mind and our heart.

This connection is a rhythmic pulse that animates the human body and all life. This electromagnetic pulse wave of energy that is animating the earth provides us with a foundational energy field of support for our human bio-system. This rhythmic current of energy is a steady wave that pulsates and provides us with energy that we can tap into, allowing our body, mind and heart to relax into a greater field of energy. As our biorhythms connect and come into harmony with this greater rhythm, our mind can let go, giving us peace, tranquility and

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greater connection in our heart.

As we surrender into this rhythmic pulse of energy that is available to us at all times, we can have a more visceral experience of living from our heart.

OUR HEARTS GENERATE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS

ness, emerge from the electromagnetic energy field of our heart in connection with the greater energy field of the Earth.

When our mind is connected with our heart, it’s as if decisions are made from an inner knowing. Since the heart is our source of truth, the key is to establish a rhythmic connection with our mind and heart. Making the heart-brain connection allows the power of our thoughts and mind to operate from its original design. As the mind lets go into the rhythmic pulse of the heart, the inner knowing and truth of the heart can begin to generate your thoughts. In order to feel a sense of calm and connection to the inner truth and direction of your heart, the brain and heart must unite into one rhythmic pulse wave.

Through careful observation, scientists have learned that the heart generates the body’s central electromagnetic field. Because our mind tends to exhibit the most control, it can sometimes seem like a spin cycle of thoughts that never let us ever really feel connected with our heart. Our thoughts play an important role in how we function and create our reality. If we want to live from our heart, and consciously create with our vibration and thoughts, then the mind needs to be connected with the heart, so our thoughts and our aware- Continued Page 28...

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TOOLS TO CONNECT IN YOUR HEART

We have simple tools to entrain the mind into a harmonious rhythmic pattern that allows us to make a deeper connection with our heart. Through the power of specific sound frequency patterns we can release stress and tension and bring our internal rhythmic pulse systems into harmonic balance. Through this harmonic balance, we feel a connection with the larger rhythmic pulse of the Earth and universe. The ancient method of healing the body, mind, and emotions through sound is reemerging on the planet in the fields of sound healing therapy, energy medicine, and vibrational healing.

SOUND HEALING CONNECTS HEART, MIND, AND EARTH

One of the ways sound enters the body is through the neural pathways in the brain.

The effect of specific healing sound wave patterns on the brain happens in seconds.

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The sound begins to reorganize brain waves into coherent harmonious patterns. As these coherent patterns are established the heart also begins to synchronize with these harmonious patterns and a rhythmic entrainment occurs between the pulsation of the brain waves and the pulsation of the heart.

This coherent reorganizing and connection of the brain wave patterns and heart rhythm can be termed synchronization.

Through the precise use of sound and rhythm, we can synchronize our brainwaves with our heart rhythm, as well as our respiratory system (our breath) and the cranial fluid in the spine—bringing the whole body into a state of harmonic coherence. When our body’s rhythmic pulse systems are in harmonic coherence, studies show that the stress hormone, cortisol, is released from the system. The body, mind and emotions come into a balanced and stabilized state so that instead of dealing with stress on a physi-

cal, mental and emotional level, the body can engage in healing and rejuvenation. In this coherent state we are able to think more clearly and feel a deep sense of peace, clarity, connection, and inner knowing. By synchronizing the four rhythmic pulse systems in the body, we synchronize and strengthen our connection with the universal energy that flows through all life.

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VERY PERSON is born with an indigenous heart, a heart that beats in the rhythm of the world. That heart pumps the life blood through the body. The blood carries the mineral wealth of the sea. This rhythm is life.

THRIVING WITH EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION

Every person is born with an indigenous heart that beats with the emotions of its experience in the world. Just as the sea rages in storms and rolls in fair breezes, so the heart rages and rolls with anger, fear, love, grief, sympathy, calmness and joy. Even though we often try to suppress that flow of emotions—just as we try to ignore

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the motion and emotion of the world around us, pretending that we are somehow separate from its aliveness—we cannot thrive without emotional expression. So, in the myth of our isolation from each other and the world, from our own experience, many hearts are broken.

This is not so often a catastrophe of failed love, which opens the heart in its cracking, but rather an inability to express the ecstatic experience of our lives in this realm.

Living as we are in a culture where happiness is the only permissible expression, we suppress the range of our experience until we become smiling zombies silently plodding through the motions of existence. So happiness, in this world of separateness, is very hard to find and, by its nature, fleeting and failing.

BE PRESENT WITH THE POETRY OF YOUR BEING

But the indigenous heart wants to sing in the harmony of the world, expressing the assonance and dissonance of being. The indigenous heart wants to be present, to blow in the wind and pour in the rain, to sprout from the soil and shine in the sun. We want to grow full and bear fruit, to fall and be embraced, to rest. If we can open our hearts by quieting our minds—our minds that are convinced of our isolation and ruled by fear—if we can hear again the voice of our indigenous heart, the world takes on a fullness and flow.

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In this flow where we recognize our unbreakable connection to the world around us, we see life unfolding in rich, though often difficult and uncomfortable beauty. So a baby is born into the world and coos and cries and sleeps, living entirely in the moment. So a child toddles into the ever-expanding presence of the world. So a teenager discovers his capacities and incapacities and finds his tribes of friends and enemies. So a young woman discovers the difficulties and joys of her ripening body.

So a man finds his purpose and place within his community and engages in his work. So a woman gives birth and cuddles her baby and feeds him. So we age and begin to understand what it is to be alive in the singing world. And if we’re lucky, we give that wisdom—which is the wisdom of our people— to the infant and young child through our stories and our songs. We put our hands on the shoulders of the adolescent and comfort him. We encourage 32 www.esswellness.com

who feed and heal and shelter us, from the land that holds us, from the wind that gives us breath, from the sunlight and rain that blesses us. This is why we gather around the fire to tell our stories and sing our songs.

These are the songs of the earth itself, given rhythm by the everchanging rhythms of our hearts.

It is still possible to find this rhythm, for the indigenous heart beats in us always. The secret, which is no secret at all, is to quiet down, to let go of fear, EMBRACE THE COLORFUL CYCLES OF LIFE to listen to our hearts which This is the cycle we are born belong to the world, to let our into, this rich and intricate emotions flow. world full of color and darkness, sound and silence, warmth This article was originally and cold, scents and odors, soft- published in Sacred Fire magness and hardness, hunger and azine. fullness—so many flavors. It is a world of flowing emotions, of reception and expression. We are Jonathan Merritt is contributcalled to experience the fullness ing editor of Sacred Fire magaof the world alive, of our bodies zine. He is a poet, an initiated alive in time and space. We be- Huichol shaman (marakame) long to this place and are insep- and a firekeeper in Portland, arable from the people around Oregon. He can be reached at us, from the plants and animals jmerritt@sacredfiremagazine.com

the young woman and guide the young man. We embrace the new mother in her worry and her joy. We recognize the mature adult. We do our work and sit joyfully with our friends.

So we engage in the slow dance towards our deaths. We look towards that doorway and find our ancestors and friends who have gone before us, calling to us, welcoming us to the land of the dead.

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