An interesting read............
"if you focus an attitude of gratitude through the heart, the brain quiets down"
(In Buddhist Meditation...
this is called ..Metta Practice)
Experiments at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory reveal human-machine interactions suggestive of a mind-over-matter, or psychokinetic (PK), influence. Subjects people who attempt to mentally control the machinery have less success, however, than those who make a heartfelt connection with the machinery as if it were a living being, and dialogue with it, asking it for the favor of its compliance. This finding is one of the ways that Paul Pearsall, Ph.D., in his book, The Heart's Code: Tapping the Wisdom and Power of our Heart Energy (Broadway Books) shares an important new perspective on the intelligent awareness of the heart.
We are familiar with the imaginative powers of the "right brain" versus the pedestrian thought patterns of the "left brain." Pearsall introduces us to the even more revolutionary contrast between the lonely, separatist consciousness of the brain versus the spiritual, humanitarian oneness awareness of the heart. He likens the heart to the sun and the brain to the earth. We once thought that the sun revolved around the earth, but the Copernican revolution reversed that view. A similar revolution is taking place concerning the relative importance of brain and heart.
It was Arizona University's Gary E. Schwartz, M.D. who pioneered the field of "energy cardiology." He found that while brain waves (EEG) are weak and localized around the head, heart waves (EKG) are the body's strongest electromagnetic signal. Whereas it has been previously thought that the brain controlled the heart, through the autonomic nervous system, Schwartz's work led to the discovery that through the circulatory system, which is more pervasive than the nervous system, the heart has even greater control over the brain than vice-versa. Researchers at the Heart-Math Institute like to point out, for example, that it is difficult to quiet the mind when the brain seems to keep pumping out thoughts. However, if you focus an attitude of gratitude through the heart, the brain quiets down. Try it and you'll see. The heart can control the brain when the brain can't control itself.
A finding of energy cardiology is that cells store info-energy as cellular memory. The heart regulates the use of the energy in these memories. Heart transplant recipients, for example, often have memories and personality tendencies belonging to their heart donors.
Pearsall suggests that energy cardiology provides a new basis for the mind-body connection. The heart may provide the link between subtle energy and physical effects. For example, as already mentioned, PK effects are greater when there is a heart connection. Similarly, when spiritual healing is approached as a mechanical exercise, the effect is not as strong as when there is a heart connection between healer and patient. Research at the Heart-Math Institute shows that the EKGs of the two parties involved become in synchrony, and the patient begins to resonate with the healer's info-energy. A similar effect had been shown in the past with brain waves, but now it appears that the underlying cause of the brain wave synchronization is the resonance of the heart connection.
Another tenet of energy cardiology is the spiritual dimension. The heart is associated with love and our connections with others. While the brain is satisfied being a hermit, the heart is a herd animal and profits from being able to resonate with other hearts. Pearsall makes a case that for a healthy heart it is more important who you eat with than what you eat. He even suggests that the heart may be the seat of telepathy, because heart waves have a non-local (aka "psychic") omnipresent existence perceptible by hearts everywhere, making "heart connections" a psychic reality.
My own research combining spiritual development work with psychic training has born out this conjecture. In our "Intuitive Heart" training, we find that when people make heart connections with one another, there is an intuitive, empathic understanding between the two. This intuitive empathy can be easily demonstrated via a simple form of giving a "psychic reading." One form of psychic reading involves heartfelt cellular memories described by Pearsall. Cayce suggested that the best advice we can give another is to speak from our own experience. In an Intuitive Heart reading, one person holds a question or concern secretly in the heart. The other person, acting as the helper, makes a heart connection with the seeker, and prays that a personal memory will come forward into the helper's mind that will prove helpful to the seeker. The helper then tells this memory, and explores the lesson suggested by this experience. People usually find that the memory and its lesson prove to be very relevant for the seeker. Pearsall would say that the seeker's question created info-energy that stimulated a counter-balancing memory dormant within the cells of the helper.
Great minds may think alike, but as Pearsall's book shows and personal experience will verify, when hearts are joined, love releases an even greater intelligent awareness.
Heres lookin at you.....
dude......Alfred
I was just going to suggest Pearsall's book, but see that you already beat me to it. I met Paul at a conference here in Honolulu (he lives on the "big Island" of Hawaii), and he told an electrifying story. I may have related it before, and if so, bear with me.
Shortly after "The Heart's Code" was released, he was appearing on the Oprah Winfrey show, and was going to appear on stage with a young boy -- I believe he was around four or five years old -- who had received a heart transplant. Unbeknownst to the boy, the mother of the donor child was in the audience. Her son had died in an accident, making his heart available for donation. She had been invited to the Oprah show, and was going to be introduced later on during the live show.
To make the young boy more comfortable, Oprah and Paul led the boy out onto the stage before the live show began, and they were showing him the cameras, and let him wave to the audience. As he walked down to the edge of the stage, he got all excited and pointed straight at the mother of the heart donor. "There's my mother," he said, even though he had never met her, and had no idea she would be there.
After the taping, he was meeting backstage with his "mother," and asked her how "Spot" (I don't remember the dog's name) was doing, and described the dog, asked about siblings and friends ... he had a fairly complete memory, carried in the transplanted heart, of the life of the young boy who had donated the heart to him. |
