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by C. Allie Knowlton, MSW, LCSW, DCSW
An important question is being raised during this transition time on our planet. Is the concept of living from the heart realistic enough to base our life upon? On a personal level, we may begin our day with the intention to greet our families, pets, the earth and others with whom we interface with warmth and openness. Yet within a short time, the news bringing the cares of the world into our home, a grouchy child or partner or with other innumerable sources of stress pressing in upon us, we find ourselves beginning to shut down. This shutdown also includes the shutting down of our heart vibration for ourselves and others. We easily revert to our standard and well practiced protection systems. What impetus do we need to persevere in changing these old patterns?
Fortunately, with our more advanced technologies, the persistently questioning left brain has some credible information to work with. It is well documented that the two geostationary operational environmental satellites (GOES) orbiting the earth have consistently documented a rise in global magnetism that has changed the way scientists view the earth and who we are. It is now also well documented that the human heart generates the strongest magnetic field in the body, nearly 4,000 times stronger than that of the brain. By our present technology this can be measured at a distance of five to eight feet from the physical heart. However, as any of the healing professions that incorporate absentee or remote healing can attest, that range can be extended to miles and even across continents based solely upon results.
Gregg Braden is among those who have long been proponents that this heart magnetic field responds to the quality of emotion that we create in our day to day living. Scientific studies have conclusive evidence that positive emotions increase the physical balance of hormones and heart rhythms, mental clarity and productivity. “Studies show that negative emotions can influence as many as 1,400 biochemical changes in the body that include hormonal imbalance, heart-rhythm chaos, mental ‘fogginess’, and poor performance.” (Fractal Time The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age)
Scientists have also determined that there is a definable relationship between this magnetic field of the earth and the human heart. Braden writes, “Certain layers of Earth’s atmosphere, along with the earth itself, generate what is now being called a ‘symphony’ of frequencies (between .01 and 300 hertz), some of which overlap with the same ones created by the heart in its communication with the brain. .....Implication: If we can learn the language of the heart -- the same one that Earth’s protective magnetic shield recognizes and responds to -- then we can participate in the effects that the field has upon all life.”
This scientific data corresponds with what our Spirit Teachers have been telling us for many years: “As you focus on the healing of yourself, the healing will spread 1,000 fold and more out into the world around you.” It is evident that this is so. In our healing practice we witness entire family systems change when one person makes the conscious choice to change old patterns, often generational patterns that no longer work. New life is breathed into relationships that felt limiting and frustrating. A portion of our practice is concentrated around supporting people to experience the connection between their brain and their heart. It was initially surprising that as people were encouraged to dialogue with their heart to address an old ineffective but persistent pattern, the brain had no idea that the heart was on board with an intelligence all its own and could be a useful ally!
In our practice, also, I am constantly humbled by the amazing systems we come up with as children to protect the heart in order to keep it open and accessible. Some of our strongest critics within are the also our strongest protectors, not willing to allow the most grievous of abuses by others to shut our heart down. These same inner critics /protectors when listened to in an atmosphere where the heart can feel safe enough, give permission for the heart to guide and allow personal transformation.
What is this language of the heart? For me the electromagnetic field of the heart which extends beyond the human body, is a reminder in a very physical way, that the body is also home of the soul. The soul’s range is not measurable yet by scientific methods, but no one doubts that when the transition from this body is complete, the life force is no longer present in the body. In my current perception, the heart is the receptor of the soul’s wisdom. It is a direct connection with the Divine, the Creative Source, All That Is. The perception that the Source of All Creative Energy lives within each one of us and can be accessed through our heart, offers a bridge to my brain that we can, indeed, participate in affecting shifts in our health, choices of actions, and outcome of the transition our earth is experiencing.
In our healing practice we are fortunate to witness the transformation that can occur when a person has the opportunity to interact with their heart wisdom. Often this happens when a soul essence has been returned to them from the spirit world where they have been reconnected to the power of their own Larger Soul Self. They have experienced their soul as more than a specific age or even specific body, but a Larger Self with wisdom gathered from a wide variety of experiences on the earth and other than the earth. This returned wisdom engages the heart, the heart engages the mind/body and viola, healing and renewal is possible! All that is required is the willingness to engage and participate in the wide variety of resources available in our times for this purpose.
We are now in an era where global healing is mandatory to guarantee that we and our planet will survive. The technology is already here and proven successful. As more and more of us choose to listen to the wisdom of our hearts, shifts will evolve in how we relate with ourselves, one another, with all the species and our planet.
- Allie
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C. Allie Knowlton, MSW, LCSW, DCSW is a psychotherapist, shamanic teacher and healer in practice with her partner Evelyn C. Rysdyk. Included in the book Traveling Between the Worlds, Allie and Evelyn are among the world’s most influential writers and teachers of shamanism.
Allie brings a lifetime of connection to Spirit to her work with individuals and groups. Originally trained as a minister, she presents eco-spiritually focused training programs--which include advanced shamanism and shamanic healing -- across the USA and Canada. In addition, as a founding member of True North, a unique, integrated medical center in Falmouth, Maine --she collaborates with physicians, nurses, a psychiatrist, a naturopath and several other complementary healthcare practitioners to provide a new model of health care that includes Spirit.
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