The root of your pain has nothing to do with what you think

Thoughts, emotions and secrets

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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
— Albert Einstein

Most of you reading this have probably been on a healing journey for as long as can be remembered.

Healing can be tough.

It’s not the easiest thing to do. We’re biased for survival, and doing something that brings us closer to pain is uncomfortable.

But healing is freeing.

It helps us understand ourselves at a deeper level, and it also makes our load lighter, and our lives more enjoyable.

Most of the methods taught by different teachers and spiritual teachings are great for healing — especially to trigger the healing process — but ultimately, we have to rely on our built-in mechanisms, and learn to do the work by ourselves. Nature perfectly equipped us for this matter.

We’re accustomed to using our brain in everything we do. We look at the world through the brain, and we try to live with our brain. Too much brain in relationships is unfortunately a problem, and the endless conflicts in our world is proof of that.

Ancient teachings and esoteric symbolism pointed out that our universe, us included, is polarized. This means we have the Moon, and the Sun. Emotions and logic. Art and science. Man and woman. The brain and the heart.

Our gender doesn’t matter. We’re all composed of both, the masculine and the feminine aspects of creation. And being conditioned to mostly rely on logic; the brain, we’ve somehow lost touch with our intuitive nature, the heart.

Science used to believe that the heart’s main role was to simply pump blood in the body. But there’s growing evidence that blood flows by itself, and that the heart simply gives a boost to that natural motion. This observation has been made by Rudolf Steiner.

In 1932, Bremer of Harvard filmed the blood in the very early embryo circulating in self-propelled mode in spiraling streams before the heart was functioning. Amazingly, he was so impressed with the spiraling nature of the blood flow pattern that he failed to realize that the phenomena before him had demolished the pressure propulsion principle. Earlier in 1920, Steiner, of the Goetheanum in Switzerland had pointed out in lectures to medical doctors that the heart was not a pump forcing inert blood to move with pressure but that the blood was propelled with its own biological momentum, as can be seen in the embryo, and boosts itself with “induced” momenta from the heart. He also stated that the pressure does not cause the blood to circulate but is caused by interrupting the circulation. Experimental corroboration of Steiner’s concepts in the embryo and adult is herein presented. Source

What is the heart’s role then? Why did life give us a heart?

Dr. J. Andrew Armour discovered that the heart has a “little brain,” composed of around forty thousand sensory neurites (neurons). And Dr. Paul Pearsall observed that patients who received heart transplants inherited patterns/habits from their donors.

What this means is that, the heart also thinks, stores information and plays a big role in our how we process our experiences.

And while we’ve been accustomed to mainly using our brain for most of our lives, the truth is that, we were handicapping ourselves by doing so. We have a heart for a reason. We were meant to function both with our brain, and our heart.

And when we do so, we reawaken the communication between our brain and our heart. A state of being that Gregg Braden calls “heart-brain coherence.” And here are the steps to activate heart-brain coherence right now.

The three steps taught by Gregg Braden:

1. Put two fingers on the middle of your chest to establish a connection with your heart, physically, and not from your mind
2. Breathe deeply. Five seconds inhale, five seconds exhale. Breathing slowly relaxes you and signals to your brain that you feel safe, which makes you more opened to the experience
3. Feel either of those four states: Appreciation, Care, Compassion, Gratitude. For someone, or something.

Keep focusing on the experience for a few minutes. Observe your body becoming calmer, more harmonious, and more open.

When we’re in a heart-brain coherent state, our immune system becomes stronger, we heal faster, and we think better. The HeartMath Institute has published many observations/studies on the subject that are available for free.

Coming back to the subject of healing; most of the stuff that makes us addicted, compulsive, angry, revengeful, hurt, and so on — are completely opposed to what we think the problem is.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

Most of our unhealthy patterns come from unprocessed experiences, stored in the deepest parts of our being. At the time of the experience, we were probably innocent or unaware of the bigger picture, and not being able to deal with the problem — we’ve pushed it deep into the subconscious.

It may have helped us in continuing our lives, but the baggage is there, and it holds us by the throat. Our lives are loops. We revolve around our hurts. Because somehow, we know that eventually, we must deal with it.

Unfortunately, accessing the subconscious isn’t easy for most people. While there are techniques and meditations to achieve this purpose, a better and healthier way exists. And this is where the heart-brain coherence comes back in.

When our brain and heart communicate in a harmonious way, we have an easier access to our subconscious; and by really being intentional about whatever pattern we’re trying to heal, we can access those deeper corners of ourselves, and understand what the source of the problem truly is.

Healing isn’t easy. But it shouldn’t be impossible. We’re here to love each other. And we have enough time to understand how to do that by healing our hurts, taking responsibility for our actions, and assisting the Earth in Her transition to a more harmonious manifestation.

We’re equipped with all the tools we need. Right in ourselves. By merging science and spirituality, we become unstoppable. And that’s the point; merging back the feminine and masculine polarities, so that something else gets born. Something, we’ve all been expecting for too long.

As a final note.

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