Month: May 2020

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Pivot 89: I am running an organised clinic

I loved the Heart Decides game – it really changed the way I went about the segments of the day that I started with a #HeartCheckin and letting the Heart decide. Ty.

Results of the #HeartDecides game yesterday (a Sunday):

Decision 1 – 10.37am What next?
Heart said I want to start moving the body and H. Pottering
Results I got in sync well with G – we both launched the day
Decision 2 – 11.27am What next?
Heart said Get clean and fresh! 
Results Showered, & then cleaned / hoovered / laundered…
Decision 3 – 2.05pm It’s lunchtime. What ‘attitude’ shall I bring with me?
Heart said Rest & Relax
Results Ate more mindfully; then had a recharging nap
Decision 4 – 3.32pm Walk time. What ‘attitude’ shall I bring with me?
Heart said Peaceful
Results I swear I’ve woken up more unwound this Mon morn

I learnt, you need to stay with the Heart until the thought arising gives you a palpable sense of relief – you know you’ve got the answer when you get a little hiccup of relief.

Let’s do our morning meditation practice as a #HeartDecides exercise. 

Ok. Sure. Shall I set a question? Ok…

What are the potential outcomes of today/this week, if I remain in a heart-centred attitude/space?

***Med16minTimerUjayaBreathing***

A clear answer arose…

<3: Helping people attain improved psychological wellbeing. 

Honestly… That makes my heart sing.

Bingo. 

This massive, elongated, scientifically-ill-defined lockdown is causing many people to seek improved psychological wellbeing, either because they have been affected by the pandemic directly; or because they are suffering the consequences of the fear of being affected; or they are spun out by the actual impact of lockdown (loss of employment/income, remote working with/without children, isolation…).

‘Improved psychological wellbeing’ is possible for all at this time, such are the circumstances – ripe for awakening a new concern for, or commitment to, self-care. Even if people are self-caring ‘simply’ to boost their immune system, they are downloading a new way of being which will never completely vanish in the future. The person who starts exercise for the first time, or who gives up smoking, or begins to volunteer out of loneliness… This may seem to arise out of fear or ‘ill’ circumstances, but it is nonetheless about the awakening of self-love.

And so… we are learning social prescribing for ourselves on mass! It’s AMAZING!

Indeed. And social prescribing arises from the human’s innate need to be connected to self and other. Self-social-prescribing is excellent news. Somehow, people had become semi-dependent on medication and medics for psychological wellbeing, at times. A shift is occurring here. 

So, what I sensed around potential outcomes, was I guess, something about people learning to self-prescribe wellbeing interventions – for their own improved psychological wellbeing.

Boom. 

I just had the impulse to email myself those lines above, and in my inbox I found an email from an online training provider I’m subscribed to, and I looked at it properly, and finally noticed that it’s courses offer certification and even accreditation with industries (like the CMA) – like this one – a diploma in CBT.

What do you think?

We (yes, we) think that if you dedicated yourself, you could achieve that dream of being both {a mediator and a therapist}, all at once. 

That’s been a dream of mine??

Of course! To support people who are in conflict and also in psychological distress, to find their way through to psychological wellbeing, whether or not they are able to find resolution with the person they are in conflict with. In other words, to help people learn, as you did, that they can be independently well and healthy of mind and heart, no matter what others are giving or withholding. This is truly freedom. 

Man… Ok!! Well, shall I ponder on this?

You must! 

Thank you, I will then. And for today?

An organised clinic. 

Haha!

Hoho. 

Oh like, really?

Your work with the Florence Nightingale archetype last week was not for nothing. Get organised so the people may attend. 

Oh, like the website shop idea too?

Whatever an organised clinic looks like to you. 

Ok. I see the play here. I was always a bit jealous of the staff at the GP’s surgery when I was a kid – doctors, nurses, reception staff. They were operating in such an organised, efficient and compassionate environment… It’s playing with this…

Ty. Heavens, I seem to feel relief… It’s like… no more jazzhanding or efforting. Just have a clean and safe ‘environment’ (albeit online, from my home) for people to come to in their moment of vulnerability. Clean and fresh… And this speaks to the heart-based helper in me, who so wants to connect usefully at this time, and participate in this beautiful mid-pandemic wave of:

People learning to self-prescribe
wellbeing interventions – for their own
 improved psychological wellbeing.

I don’t need to be a doctor, I need to host a space in which people discover they truly can be their own brilliant doctor for enhancing their own psychological wellbeing.

My Heart feels uplifted.

Then you know you’ve got the right notion in mind. <3

I am running an organised clinic

 

PS. I joined a free 7 day mindfulness at work course

 

 

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Pivot 88: Let the Heart decide #HeartDecides

I loved playing #LuckyBecause. It focussed my attention on the appreciable so effectively – and thus lifted my spirits hugely. I wrote down what I noted with ‘hand on heart’ appreciation across the day – 8am-6pm. Here you go: 

Hand on heart, I am #Lucky Because…

  1. I can do qigong on the patio
  2. I have this garden here
  3. I have all I could want to fall in love income and material well-being
  4. I work for myself and I have no boss
  5. I have an amazing partner
  6. I can choose what to do
  7. I have astonishing tech. Truly.
  8. I became a mother!!
  9. I have two daughters and they are my life’s greatest blessings
  10. Es tranquilo aqui
  11. We have choices
  12. It’s the weekend and I can have treats
  13. I can have Diet Coke at 9 am!
  14. It’s Saturday – a whole weekend to enjoy
  15. I have a routine so I have fewer decisions and less uncertainty in my days
  16. I managed to trigger TRE in my post she gong meditation in the extended Lee Holden class (Bumpy ride… But the qigong prepped my body and Lee held the meditative space) – thank you!
  17. Now I know I can trigger TRE whenever I want – just do a full qigong class and stay for the meditation session – on my mat – on the patio
  18. I can access TRE, maybe the best way to reboot the ANS! (All autistic people should be taught these amazing tools.)
  19. I may sleep better tonight too!
  20. TRE and chicken is a beautiful antidote to lockdown stress
  21. I have a dear friend, Deborah, who teaches me TRE and breath work, and I get to see her on Friday zoom breath work classes.
  22. Now I get coffee number two and toast because it’s Saturday – after 18 minutes in the sunshine
  23. I’m getting lighter – in weight, frequency, mood, work cares, old stuff. Yes!
  24. I’ve got this reframing game called #LuckyBecause. It’s Powerful!
  25. I did some great research on the ANS in autism today. I can glimpse an autism tool kit of the future:
      1. Diet: GFCF etc
      2. Autism-friendly environment: sensory design, routines, clothes, expectations
      3. Love and ‘joining’: including maybe therapy for parents and caregivers so they can be present in a parasympathetic state and give Heart Love. We need Heart Love as autistic people. (Back the F off with your ABA)
      4. ANS/HRV-balancing practices and biofeedback tech: TRE, HeartMath Inner Balance, Sensate, breathwork, qigong…
  26. I can just go out for a walk in the woods now – in nature and stress-free
  27. I have a sister I can call now and chew the cud – what good fortune
  28. I went on a beautiful walk in nature
  29. I bought my first ever selfie stick (it’s a tripod for zoom calls but it also does selfies – watch out world!)
  30. My copy of Upstream by Dan Heath arrived
  31. We’ve got leftover Indian food yummy
  32. I used all my letters in scrabble (50 points) and got a 74 point word.
  33. My car’s battery went flat from lack of being driven (#lockdownlife) – so G kindly went to Halfords for jump leads – but it was closed to in-person (non-online/collection) customers and – what good luck! – a guy waiting in the car park just gave him some out of his boot saying “we have to help each other”. Beautiful. (Powerful side note: G had posted on FB a couple of days earlier, a gif of one tortoise helping another tortoise turn over, with the words, ‘Sometimes we help each other.’) 
  34. G and I had divided the shopping list but he did all the shopping because my car battery was flat – that was a treat for me as the shops are still such intense places
  35. I have the luxury of time – and tech!

And for perspective on #LuckyBecause, and on how safe and well I am fortunate enough to be at the moment, see this list of current pandemic circumstances – anonymous and doing the rounds on Facebook: 

So that I never forget (I want it to pop up as a ‘memory’ in years to come and idea borrowed from other people’s pages)

-Today is Friday 15th May 2020 ?
-The week after VE Day ??????
-2 months and 9 days since the Pandemic was declared.
-Day 54 of lockdown in the UK (lockdown was declared on Mon 23rd March 2020)

Some of the unprecedented events that have occurred as a direct result of the Corona Virus…..?

  • On 11th March 2020 the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) was declared a Pandemic, by the World Health Organisation (WHO).?
  • On Friday 20th March all UK schools were closed. ?Remote learning is now in place and parents are home-schooling their children ?. All GCSE and A Level exams have been cancelled. 
  • On the evening of 23rd of March 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson implemented a national lockdown ?
  • The Excel London is now known as NHS Nightingale and has been turned into a hospital for up to 4,000 patients, most of whom will be on ventilators. It was opened by Prince Charles (virtually, rather than in person) at 11am on 3rd April. There are also several similar venues being built and used in cities across the country (including Bristol).?
  • On 5th April The Queen addressed the nation at 8pm ? (only the 5th time she has done this, outside of her annual Christmas message).
  • Also on the 5th April, Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital, after 10 days of self-isolating with the Corona Virus ?
  • On the 6th April Boris was admitted to intensive care with deteriorating symptoms. Fortunately he came out of intensive care on 9th April ?
  • Many Community support groups have been established, to support the vulnerable, elderly, immunocompromised and people in enforced isolation due to exposure ????
  • Petrol ⛽️ prices are extremely low and the national average is £1.02 per litre
  • Gatherings are banned, you cannot socialise with anyone outside of your home. Not even your own family members ?
  • Social-distancing measures have been implemented ☹️
  • There is now tape on the floor at supermarkets ❌ and other essential stores to help distance shoppers ? (2 metres) from each other.
  • There is a limit on the number of people allowed inside stores at any one time, including staff, this is causing queues outside of the store doors and in car parks?
  • Non-essential stores and businesses have been forced to close. All non essential travel is banned. People ?‍??‍? are told to work from home if they are able to?
  • Parks ? trails, entire towns and cities ? are closed or restricted to locals only
  • Sports ⚽️ ? ? seasons are cancelled, as well as The Grand National and Wimbledon .
  • The Olympics have been postponed until July 2021.??⚫??
  • Concerts, ? tours ? and festivals, ?? (including Glastonbury) and other entertainment events ? are cancelled ?
  • Weddings, ???? family celebrations ? birthdays, christenings, anniversary’s and holiday gatherings, such as Mother’s Day and Easter, ?‍?‍?‍? are cancelled ?. Funerals continue to ⚰ go ahead. Only very close family are permitted to attend (if they are well & not isolating). Social distancing applies even at funerals.
  • Churches ⛪️ are closed and the Pope delivers the Palm Sunday mass to an empty Basilica, in the Vatican City?
  • Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and all other TV networks are on in every home, daily ?
  • People are glued to the News and to Social Media.
  • Children’s outdoor play parks are closed ?
  • Most flights are grounded, ✈️cruise ships ?are docked, holidays are cancelled ?and only essential travel is permitted. A few rescue flights are operating.
  • There is a huge shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), masks, ? gowns ? and gloves ? for our front-line essential health workers.
  • There is a shortage of ventilators for the critically ill, ? in many parts of the world.
  • On the news, we see refrigerated trucks for the dead, outside hospitals in the USA ?? Italy ?? Spain ?? and China ?? etc and we see the mass digging of graves.
  • Panic buying ? set in and we have restrictions on toilet paper ? disinfectants, paper towels, basic foods (like pasta, rice and bread),? as well as hand sanitiser.? Flour is hard to find, because the packaging comes from China ?? and many borders are closed ?
  • Manufacturers, ? distilleries and many other businesses, ? switch their production lines to help make visors, masks ? hand sanitiser ? and PPE ?
  • The Police are given the power to impose fines for breaking lockdown rules and to disperse groups ??‍♀️
  • Stadiums ? and recreational facilities overseas are opened up for the overflow of Covid-19 ? patients.
  • In some countries, Public Park ? areas are being turned into caravan parks for stranded tourists to self isolate ?
  • There are daily Press conferences from the Prime Minister?‍♂️ and other government ? officials. We are given daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths ⚰️ are over 30,000
  • There are Government ? incentives to stay at home. Self-employed can apply for grants and employees are being furloughed (many are being laid off).
  • Barely anyone is on the road or the street ?
  • People are wearing masks ? and gloves when they go outside ?
  • Essential service workers are terrified to go to work ?? ??‍⚕️ ??
  • Medical field workers ??‍⚕️ are afraid to go home to their families ?‍?‍?
  • Every Thursday evening at 8pm we all stand outside our front doors and clap the NHS and Carers, to show our gratitude for what they are doing.???????????
  • Many people have rainbows visible ? in the windows of their homes, as a way of spreading hope.

 

So today, dear voice of my heart? 

Today, we return you to the practice of checking in with your heart – for decision-making. This game is called #HeartDecides. So, for any decision you have to make, you tune in to the heart space, and you let the Heart decide. 

Be your decision about what to have for breakfast; whether to wash your hair or not; whether to join a course you’re interested in; where to go for your walk; what to do next in terms of housework; how to use your rest time; whom to call next; what to wear. Get in to the habit of consulting the Heart’s intelligence. And also noting when it is that you are making a decision…

I love it. What a great game. Thank you for being so endlessly playful with me. I appreciate it. 

Truly, it is a pleasure. 

Let the Heart decide #HeartDecides

 

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Pivot 87: Hand on heart, I’m lucky because…

Yesterday’s research on PubMed – on the relationship between autism, heart rate variability (HRV), the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and mood/sleep/wellbeing – just blew me away. There is no much good stuff for me to work with here! AND WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS RESEARCH IN THE AUTISM COMMUNITY? (Or at least my Twitter bubble of it.)

Anyway, let me tell you about my Heart CheckIns:

Segment 1 8:07 Time for qigong, shower and breakfast
Heart said “Time is precious; use it reverently”
Outcomes I really absorbed the moments – no rush or hustle
Segment 2 10:12 Morning work
Heart said “You can do it! You can clear the decks/ the old! Really soften.”
Outcomes Man alive, I got to Zero Inbox for 1st time in 3 months
Segment 3 3pm Afternoon work
Heart said “Lace it with LOVE.”
Outcomes I did! Prepped 6 client docs with love (vs angst/worry)
Segment 4 12 midnight: Late (Sat) bedtime and sleep
Heart said “Keep spotlighting the positive / wanted. Say ‘I’m so lucky bcs.'”
Outcomes Fell asleep cherishing a client’s referring to my ‘shining positivity.’

“Thank you as always for your shining positivity.”
Claire (commissions my training for her org.) – ty Claire

The Heart’s intelligence really is immaculate, and it takes me into much more creative and visionary places than my Head, which is significantly more prosaic. My Head looks at the next pile of stuff to be done, and says, “Look. We need to do that!” My Heart seems to have a MUCH broader perspective.

I know that when I stopped and did a Heart CheckIn, I was purposely slowing down my brain’s reactivity, and getting in to a more coherent HRV state. I can’t wait for the HeartMath HRV monitor to arrive. With biofeedback, I’m going to master my HRV and give blessed respite to my poor benighted ANS! This week I’ve had an average of under 6 hours sleep – waking with cortisol overload at 5am-ish each morning. My body, my ANS, needs a break.

This Lockdown, which has everyone on the high alert, even if just due to uncertainty, or under/over-stimulation, is messing with all our sleep patterns. I am glad for the opportunity I’ve had in this time to do this research on the ANS. Maybe we’re all noticing how hopped up we are…

“Tranquilo. Es muy tranquilo aqui…”

Ha! Yes. That’s what they used to say on the Atlantic island we lived on… and secretly, in my pumped-up, northern European young-ego-haze (I was late twenties),  I used to think something along the lines of  ‘Hee hee, I don’t think that’s something to brag about!‘ And it took me all the five years we were there to understand the lesson of the immense power of tranquility. Five years. My god… What a …

…’waste’? No. Not at all. ‘Blessing’. Without the intensive immersion in that beautiful land, you might never in your life have glimpsed the meaning of tranquility. You could have rolled on all your life without this insight. And you wouldn’t be where you are now – in your beautiful tranquil cottage,  with your love, doing the work you do – without this learning. 

I hear you. Thank you… So, while I wait for the biofeedback machines (Inner Balance, and Sensate too in June), please can you teach me more about tapping into the Heart’s intelligence, to inform my days and my decisions? How do I absorb this ‘heart-based living’ learning in to who and what I am?

[Just decided to share It’s Radical Love…!]

THIS is it. Share what you know. Hard-won lessons. Lessons heard-won. Don’t pocket them for yourself and shimmy on as if you were born knowing. Share what you know, those hard-won lessons. 

Thank you. This week has been immense. For the first time, I shared this blog with my precious girls and my beloved AP. It’s been such a relief to come out of hiding, and lovelier responses I couldn’t have asked for. AS (DD2 & Lockdown Buddy along with G) coached me in ‘authenticity’ so that I might be brave enough to share this with L & A. I’m blown away by her wisdom. And then, once you do share yourself authentically, the long-held concerns about being seen ‘as one actually is’… just melt away. Amazing…

Ok, tell me more. How shall we play today?

You want to play today? 

Yes! I do. <3 From the <3! Give us another Game. I loved #EnvisioningOutcomes and #HeartCheckIns. What next?

Better ask your Heart.

Heart?

<3: Let’s play, #LuckyBecause.

Awesome. Tell me how to play it.

<3: You basically have to think or say the phrase ‘Lucky Because‘ as many times as you can across the day. You can write your LB’s down too for further focus power if you like. Examples of {thinking} and “saying”: 

  • {I’m so lucky because I have this garden and can stroll about in it freely during this Lockdown.}
  • “That’s lucky because there are two more sausages left.”
  • {I’m lucky because I have this glass of water in my hand, and it’s clean, life-giving.}
  • “LV and I are lucky because we can meet up for a socially-distanced walk.”

But here’s the key: feel it as you think/say it – in me, in your heart. Use the glimpse of appreciation to access the renewing emotions and connect with me – physiologically. Hand on heart is good. With this practice we will learn to access our heart-mind connection at will. And that is lucky because…

We will be better equipped for heart-based living.

<3: Yes. 

I’m so grateful for this conversation, and for this Game. I remember how much emphasis Reality Transurfing put on listening to the Heart. It’s good to be learning this. Thank you. I’m lucky because we can all dialogue here.

Which is lucky because this interaction creates joy. 

Which is lucky because joy raises our frequency.

Which is lucky because by raising the frequency of the planet, humans will usher in a new world of heart-based living. And that truly is Radical Love. 

I don’t know if I say it in that ‘book’ but I learnt Radical Love from my daughters, you know that right?

We do. You do. Do they? 

I’m not sure. Maybe I should tell them… I’m lucky because today I’m seeing BOTH of my girls… though one from a distance.

Remember, the Heart speaks even across distance. 

I know that to be true. eg I spoke about someone (AR) this week – and brought him vividly (and fondly) to mind in recalling what he used to say to me (advice on moving house)… And he texted me that same day. For the first time in over a year – I know because he asked me about things in the neighbourhood I moved from 1+ year ago.

So, set your intention for your heart to speak. 

I’m lucky because I know I can do that. <3

This is a kind of ‘rampage of appreciation‘, this game. Right?

Absolutely. 

Awesome. Ty xx

Hand on heart, I’m lucky because…

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Radical Love: the main event

It’s Radical Love
By Arabella Tresilian
2016

  • Compiled from my diaries of 19 Sept – c28 Oct 2015
  • Written while undergoing treatment at home for mental ill-health
  • Keywords: Mental health recovery, autism, healing, quantum physics, radical love
DOWNLOAD: It’s Radical Love by Arabella Tresilian (2016)

 

Contents:

  1. Reinhabiting the Body (19sep15)
  2. Returning from the Ocean Deeps
  3. Q&A: to help people support their loved ones through deep depression
  4. Home Redecoration Following a House Burnout – a homeowner’s guide
  5. Skyline Walk II 20sep15 – Forgiveness
  6. Belief in the notion of ‘guilt’
  7. Loving Yourself to Egolessness
  8. From Me to We
  9. I am divinely assisted in my realisation of unity consciousness
  10. Non-tinkering: an end to striving
  11. A clean slate
  12. By Your Own Decree
  13. Thy Will Be Done
  14. What are the Mystery Schools?
  15. I am safe in this human world
  16. Being a Friend
  17. Wonder Land
  18. It’s Radical Love: Diary 26th Oct 2015 (it may be the actual start of the book here)
  19. It’s Radical Love Part 2: Diary 28oct15ff

 

DOWNLOAD: It’s Radical Love by Arabella Tresilian (2016)

 

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Radical Love 1: You’re late

Counsel Check in – 10th June 2013

 

You’re late. 

 

Sorry. Getting ready for tomorrow. 

 

It’s understandable. but it’s not the way we work. If you care to listen, listen. At 9pm. Each evening. That is how it will work. We’ll be there for you if you’ll be there for us. If you can focus enough to let us in. You’ve got to want it. Really want it. 

 

I do. 

 

Then nothing else must get in your way. We mean nothing. We don’t need much time, but we do need to know that you mind and lifestyle is bent to the task. 

 

What will we discuss?

 

Radical love. We will explain and describe it to you, very clearly and scientifically. These are new ideas, so clear your mind and body, so that you may be a clear channel. And for heaven’s sake, keep having fun, or it will all become a drag! We are complete and you may sleep. 

 

Thank you. xx

 

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Pivot 86: At each decision and shift, check in with the Heart (#HeartCheckin)

So this ‘Envisioning Outcomes’ technique of yours is genius. I tracked it across three segments yesterday – and it really transformed my day. Here are the outcomes:

SEGMENT 1 (9:10am) Getting dressed and ready for work
Heart Lock-In Memory Bank ‘Acting celebratory’ the day I did two great webinars
Outcomes Envisioned Butterfly spiralling out of a cocoon
Results ‘Heart Hunches’, flow, spontaneity, no constipation!
SEGMENT 2 (12 noon) Early afternoon – starting work
Heart Lock-In Memory Bank La Sagrada Familia (w Dad) – building never finished!
Outcomes Envisioned Clear the decks to reveal simplicity
Results Cleared old 19/20 papers & set up Asana for 20/21!
SEGMENT 3 (11pm) Going to sleep and sleeping
Heart Lock-In Memory Bank India: scales fell experience – miracles of sleep
Outcomes Envisioned I unwind and unwind (opp of butterfly spiralling)
Results Deep sleep – and woke feeling like I’d relaxed… <3

The drawn pictures were very important:

Study Time

HeartMath Experience: Chapter 9 – Global Coherence

 

From the video, my notes and quotes: Heart-based living gives us flow, creativity in the world. Mind and emotions in alignment affect our personal, social and global coherence..Compassionate latitude.. Connect to your heart’s guidance and intelligence – even for just a few minutes a day – to make better decisions and have better days. It’s like filling up a gas tank or a battery – and it carries over to the next days too. Do your HeartMath while in conversation with someone – to be present with them. The heart is an access point to increased wisdom and intuition on another dimension – it’s not a metaphor, science shows the heart intelligence is real. We want to connect at the heart level globally now. We want to tune in to our heart to navigate this wild adventure called life, with more harmony, kindness and compassion.

“There are multiple studies indicating that when we’re in a group and form emotional relationships, there’s an energetic field resonance among that group, and information can be shared between the group members on an unseen or subconscious level.” Rollin McCraty HeartMath Institute Director of Research

Apply what you have learned from the HeartMath Course:

  • Use the Quick Coherence® technique to prep before a potentially stressful meeting to maintain your composure and connect with your heart’s guidance. Use it after a stressful situation to reset and reconnect with your heart to better manage the effects of stress and build resilience.
  • Use Attitude Breathing™ to help shift your Inner Weather—your emotional state at any time. Practice Attitude Breathing to shift to more positive emotional states during the day.
  • Use the Freeze-Frame® technique to gain more intuitive clarity for making decisions, both big and small, or to access more creativity and insight at any time.
  • Create a daily practice with the Heart Lock-In technique. Do this daily for 5 minutes or more. Choose a time that’s convenient for you, such as first thing in the morning, which can help to set a more coherent tone for the day.

Also..

End of Study Time…

*****

This heart-based living…. I want this. I want this in my life… Show me how, please.

As you are learning, it’s very physiological, this heart-based living. It is good that, when you can, you are taking care of your body with qigong, walking, sunshine, good diet, early nights, a full routine and limited work hours.

The next step is to eliminate stress completely. And this is not about managing your surrounding conditions. Far from it. It’s about training your mind and body to work in ‘coherence’ with you. 

Like Wim Hof in his ice baths. Today I purchased the HeartMath Inner Balance device and  (hopefully – it’s a crowdfunder) ordered a Sensate device. I’m going to work with my vagus nerve, my ANS (autonomic nervous system) and my heart rate variability. It’s science, btw:

Crumbs, I looked up the relationship between ANS / HRV and autism on PubMed…

And then OMG, look at this…! Bingo!! I knew it! This is mind-blowing… How did I work this out at the same time the scientists are researching it?!

Reduced heart rate variability in adults with autism spectrum disorder (2019)

LAY SUMMARY: ASD is commonly associated with a range of physical and mental health comorbidities. Autonomic disruptions underlying reductions in heart rate variability (HRV) have been linked to a range of mental and physical health conditions. We assessed resting-state HRV in adults diagnosed with ASD in comparison to healthy individuals. Our results showed reduced heart rate variability in people diagnosed with ASD compared to adults without ASD. These findings implicate a role for autonomic activity as a potentially modifiable risk factor for ASD.

© 2019 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

KEYWORDS:

autonomic nervous system; biological marker; heart rate variability; mental health; parasympathetic nervous system; social development; sympathetic nervous system

Exploring Key Physiological System Profiles at Rest and the Association with Depressive Symptoms in Autism Spectrum Disorder (2020)

Muscatello RA1, Andujar J2,3, Taylor JL4,5, Corbett BA5,6,7.

Abstract

Depression is often associated with dysfunction in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and autonomic nervous system (ANS). Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may experience physiological dysregulation and psychological comorbidities; however, the extent to which the interactions between these systems predict internalizing symptoms in ASD has not been investigated. The study examined interactions with the HPA axis and ANS in 10-13-year-old children with ASD (n = 41) and typical development (TD; n = 46). The interrelated systems uniquely contributed to depressive symptoms in ASD above and beyond any system in isolation. A reciprocal, parasympathetic-dominant ANS was related to fewer affective symptoms in ASD. Findings highlight the importance of examining arousal across multiple systems to more precisely identify profiles associated with maladaptive psychiatric outcomes in ASD.

KEYWORDS:

Autism; Autonomic nervous system; Depression; Heart rate variability; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis

 

Excellent research. As you master your ANS and your HRV, you will be able to bring coherence to any situation, leaning in with the delicacy of your autism, with ‘inner balance’ added at the physiological level. This will give you two important gifts: 

  1. Easier access to your Heart’s intelligence – 100 times wiser than your head
  2. Increased ability to support others in to their coherence too – great for your work

This is such beautiful work. Thank you. I loved the Envisioning Outcomes segment intending as a way of getting guidance from my Heart and acting from there… Can I do this for bigger segments too?

Naturally, however today we would say this… Go smaller instead of bigger. At each decision and shift, check in with Heart. See what happens. 

Ok… Will do. Thank you. Starting now. Heart?

<3: Get out and do qigong. Follow the routine. 🙂 

Ok. See ya!

At each decision and shift, check in with the Heart (#HeartCheckin)

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Pivot 85: I am envisioning outcomes

The ACTING ATTITUDES practice was/is amazing. You said in the last Dialogue, Learn to pivot your emotional state. And that is exactly what this practice does. We can switch from depleting states to renewing states. It takes energy to generate the momentum, but the results are amazing.

Here’s my record of practising for a couple of days – with meteorological references to the HeartMath ‘Inner Weather Report’ concept:

From depleting state: the default ATTITUDE  To renewing state: the ACTED replacement ATTITUDE Applied to / Results
Nervous (Cloudy) Refreshed! (Sunny) Day kickstarted
Distracted (Cloudy) Reverential (Calm) Present for deep qigong
Procrastinating (Cloudy) Practical (Sunny) Got dressed/tidied – spit spot
Dreading (Cloudy) Competent (Calm) Prepped webinar for tmrw
Distracted (Cloudy) Methodical (Calm) Made great Sunday lunch
Terrified (Stormy) Super Confident (Sunny) Aced a webinar for 150 ppl
Afraid (Cloudy) Connected to God (Calm) Aced a webinar for 150 ppl
Frazzled (Stormy) Relieved (Calm) Positive post-webinar state
Avoidant (Cloudy) Competent (Calm) Chaired a webinar for 12 ppl
Maxed out (Cloudy) Celebratory (Sunny) Imprint good feelings on work
Glum / Stressed (Cloudy) Light-Hearted (Sunny) Chilled out about day ahead

It takes energy and focus, and playfulness, but honestly, I think this practice has real promise for me. It overrides the default state. That is so good.

Study Time

The HeartMath Experience: CHAPTER 7: ACCESS MORE INTUITION

Freeze-Frame Quick Steps: 1. Acknowledge 2. Heart-focused breathing 3. Activate a positive or renewing feeling 4. Ask 5. Observe and act

The HeartMath Experience: CHAPTER 8: SOCIAL COHERENCE

Social Coherence

“We need to pin our hearts to each other. We need to approach situations with everyone’s collective interest in mind. Not just our own or an individual, not just our own group or even a nation. We are a collective consciousness and we need to start acting like it.” Sierra Turner HeartMath Education Team

Oh my word – this ‘social coherence’ work is my Work! It’s about harmony and cohesion between individuals in any collective – family, work etc. Energetic/ electromagnetic field is created – we share information – we share a purpose – we broadcast to each other from our heart – we function in the collective interest with collective consciousness and coherent communication – developing ease – supporting each others wellbeing – creating a collective heart field. … This is what I loved about theatre… <3 A group of people being in perfect sync… in space and time… in an aligned energetic state…

This is a v basic overview:

(https://youtu.be/F1EesqUtKyE)

The video asks: “What are you feeding the field today?” Nice.

Such an interesting concept ‘social coherence’ – some people are getting really socially coherent with their households during lockdown, or finding social coherence online… Many people seem to be finding this to be a kind of reboot… Look at this article:

https://scoop.upworthy.com/has-the-pandemic-had-unexpected-positive-side-effects-20-people-seem-to-think-so

Here’s the technique for the Social Coherence chapter – The Heart Lock In:

  1. Focus your attention on the area of the heart. Imagine your breath is flowing in and out through your heart or chest area, and breathe a little slower and deeper than usual, in an even rhythm.
  2. Activate and sustain a regenerative feeling, such as appreciation, care or compassion.
  3. Radiate that renewing feeling to yourself and others.
      1. Try to radiate that feeling outward into the environment that you’re in right now, then out to the community that you’re in; or perhaps radiate your heart energy to a person, someone you care about, someone you know needs more heart in their life.
      2. Expand and radiate the feeling to the world, to humanity itself or to an area on the planet in need of more of your heart’s compassion.
      3. If your mind wanders, just gently bring your attention back to the heart and try to stay with the feeling. As you practice this, eventually, the heart energy you are radiating will lock-in to a flow toward your highest intention.

Or in sum:

Heart Lock In – Quick Steps:

  1. Heart-Focused breathing
  2. Activate and sustain
  3. Radiate

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Ok, so I think there’s something for me to work on in Step 2 of the full practice above:

Activate and sustain a regenerative feeling, such as appreciation, care or compassion.

The way you do that, they say, is by thinking of a person or memory that you associate with good feeling thoughts, and generating your sense of that good feeling in the heart.

Maybe I could create a ‘Memory Bank’ to use for Heart Lock-In or for generating a state of coherence – a real/visualised rolodex of memories of when my heart sang. In fact, that could be part of my evening ’10 Things at 10pm’ review of the best things of the day… To draw them! Or create a photo album on my phone….

What do you think?

We think you are doing excellent work! 

Remember, your VR is not so much a ‘virtual reality’ as a Vibrational Reality. And you are learning to select, deflect from and protect your vibrational field, within the larger vibrational field. That is a powerful ability, dear friend of our hearts! 

I have to say, quietly… I know about the shit storm out there.

We know you know, and we are proud that you are not sending yourself off down rabbit holes. 

Your collective work is to hold the vibration of light (ie high frequency) whenever you can. We are looking at a collective consciousness shift. And your attention sets your frequency field at any moment. The more that people are diverting their attention to the things that bring them appreciation, care or compassion the more they are helping to tip the balance of the collective consciousness. 

At a time when there are some pretty low-vibe shenanigans going on…

Maybe. Maybe not. That is not your ‘business’ at the moment – and we say that with soft intent. Your business is the business of holding good feeling thoughts.

To help raise the collective consciousness at this time? People are bringing so much love about. I hope that the love and rest and getting in harmony with households and self is outweighing the fear, distress, anguish and name-calling.

It is not necessary for you to worry about that. With such questions you contribute ‘resistance’ to the natural wellbeing that floods this physical plane. The natural state of the self and the cosmos is harmony. Can you flow with that harmony? Even if it means ‘pivoting your emotional state‘ from time to time. 

Sure. I guess I can… I’m liking these invigorating practices. What can I play today? How can I consistently add good vibrations to the field? How can I contribute well to social coherence today? I have uncertainty in my field of vision, and a sense of chaos. I’d LOVE to feel more harmonious about my work and life…

It’s about VISION. Whatever you envision, you create. 

Social coherence. Let me envision social coherence, harmony, love…

Peace, unity, love and light – PULL it in to the Earth plane!

Exactly so… Sow me how to practise this today…

Yesterday(s), you played ACTING ATTITUDES. Today we are playing ENVISION OUTCOMES. This is the practice of stopping before a next segment of your day, connecting with the Heart, and in alignment with your Heart, envisioning outcomes from that segment. Really make it a physiological experience too – feel the states you are envisioning, act them as you were doing – emit the vibrations… 

This is Segment Intending! As was the ‘Acting Attitudes’ game – I realised as practising it over the last couple of days. Here E&J talk about it on Spotify:

(https://open.spotify.com/track/4IVlFo4aMdsUTAtBBdOlvj)

Exactly so! These are all different Segment Intending games. Do you love them? 

I love them! So today is the Envisioning Outcomes game. Got it. Ty. Will play and note.

Remember: align with the Heart first. Give it at least a couple of moments. Try not to blink it. Your Heart has things to say to you. It’s highly intelligent. Slow down and hear it. 

Ok. Ty. Will do.

I am envisioning outcomes

 

PS. You envision the outcomes in the Vibrational Reality to bring them in to the Manifested Reality. 

Got it. 🙂 x

 

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Pivot 84: I am acting Attitudes

Study Time

HeartMath Experience – Chapter 5: The Emotional World

  • STORMY emotions (high energy / depleting): Emotions in the upper left quadrant are those that are draining and have a lot of energy associated with them. eg. anger, rage, hate
  • CLOUDY emotions (low energy / depleting): The lower left quadrant represents emotions that are less energized but often very depleting. eg. depression, worry, sadness
  • CALM emotions (low energy / renewing + regenerating): In the lower right quadrant are emotions that don’t necessarily have a lot of energy in them but are very renewing. eg. peace, tranquillity, care
  • SUNNY emotions ( high energy /renewing + regenerating): The upper right quadrant includes emotions that are regenerative and energized. eg. bliss, adventure, joy.

[I like this concept of an Inner Weather Report very much. Helpful. I’ll use this in my work.]

HeartMath Experience – Chapter 6: Attitudinal Breathing

TECHNIQUE #3 ATTITUDE BREATHING™ 1. Observe what you are feeling. 2. Identify a replacement attitude. 3. Practice heart-focused breathing. 4. Breathe in the new attitude or feeling. 5. Anchor and maintain.

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***Med: 12mins of coherent breathing (6/6) using Breath+ app***

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So after our last Dialogue a couple of days ago, I went to a 30min BreathWork session with the amazing Deborah. We practised – uncannily – ‘Coherent Breathing’ which involves equal-length inhales and exhales, of whatever length is comfortable for you. This is meant to reset the vagus nerve, among others benefits. I’ve practised it a bit since. I note the main apparent benefit for me so far is the reactivation and resetting of my breath muscles. As Deborah said, we tend to breathe twice as often as we need to – short, shallow breaths. Deep or sustained breaths take me right into my anxiety spots in my chest, but after time it does diminish – and with HeartMath’s Attitudinal Breathing, I could breathe in a wanted emotion (eg replace ‘nervousness about next week’  with ‘confidence that I will do a good job’). I noticed during the day yesterday,  I was indeed breathing more deeply.

As Bringers says, you do well to oxygenate! And hydrate! And get playful! Relax more. Breathe and drink life in!

Aha…
Oxygenate = breathe life in.
Hydrate = drink life in.

Yesterday, I was playful. G and I did an epic 3 hour walk from the house, down into the valley, along the river, to the aquaduct (beneath which, despite ‘lockdown’ a lot of people were congregating and swimming) and looping back up through the dappled woods to home. My game was this: I imagined I was a UX Tester for the Earth Simulation [UX = user experience] feeding messages back to the Simulator creators on what I liked about the Simulation, for their product development work:

“Hm, I like the smell of the woods – excellent feature. Yes, these massive trees give a sense of the majesty of nature – nicely done. I like this guy I’m walking with – he’s so hot – keep him. I love the mountain bike route the kids have created through the woods – that’s such a fun feature – I’d like to use it! I love the sun’s warmth – perfect temperature, especially with these shady spots too.”

Tell me what’s on your mind today…

As you settle into the poise of calm confidence, the doors of life open up to you. 

I am sincerely trying.

Listen to your Heart’s intuition, and obey it. 

Obey is a strong word.

We are underlining a point here, for you. As you obey your Heart’s intuition, so will you move from the left of the Inner Weather Report (depleting emotions) to right (renewing + regenerating). 

This  I like the sound of.

‘Choose your attitude’ – we like this technique you were learning about this morning from HeartMath! Select your ‘replacement attitude’ and then breathe it in, drink it in. Be very specific about this. Learn to pivot your emotional state. This is what is available to you in this time: for you to become the director of your emotional state, not the actor playing out the role of a tragic, hapless protagonist… 

Easy tiger!

Be the director! It takes energy and mental acuity to do it! That is why you need to oxygenate and hydrate and play… to generate the MOMENTUM for being the director, not merely the actor who’s been handed someone else’s script. Become the playwright of your feel-good movie, and then act in that movie. Define, determine, direct. As your dear friend Sarah wrote: envision – plan – execute. This all takes energy, and chutzpah, and momentum… But it must all be momentum building in what HeartMath calls the renewing emotional sphere (vs spiralling depletion through fear or stress). We are looking for stormy to become cloudy, to become calm, to become sunny. 

Yes..! Thank you! Yes, at HeartMath they talk about changing the baseline emotional state from stress/frustration to appreciation/calm.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsFBvvi3xOQ&feature=youtu.be)

I am committed to achieving this shift into underlying calm. I know it can be done because I watch G living that life. He has made an art of it, so quietly, so modestly, without fanfare. He really is the master bonsai-trimmer before my eyes.

Now it’s time to determine your state, as G does his. Use the Attitude Breathing technique of HeartMath.

Select your chosen renewing/regenerating Replacement Attitude and breathe it in to your heart, and then ACT it out, for at least ten minutes after which, go on about your day. And repeat the exercise, again and again, with the same or different Replacement Attitudes. Playfulness here says you state the selected acted Attitude aloud, as part of the game. 

“I am acting: Calm.”

You are an actor. Write your script – your feel-good script. Direct yourself. Act your attitude. 

And remember: this is just a Game. Play with it. 

Ok. I am acting: Happy to do this. 🙂

We know this feels like a step too far, but have trust. This is about efficiently rupturing old patterns of depleting heart states. So, get over the artifice concerns, and play along. This is a way to breathe and drink life in. Go for it. Gently. FEEL the renewing Replacement Attitudes uplifting and energising you. 

This is like the Tony Robbins work…

Exactly. You are embodying physical/emotional heart states of your choosing, so that you can have psychological agility. And walk on hot coals when so required and desired. As you did. 

I did. 🙂

It’s that level of mind psych. Go for it. As a gift to yourself. And to the others around you. 

Mind psych. Great term.

Ok. Let’s go. Let’s play this Game with Tony Robbins level Mind Psych. 🙂

First Attitude?

I am acting: Refreshed! 

Awesome! Go for it! 

I am acting Attitudes

PS. I can be a ‘Sims’ character in the Simulation. Now I am UX Testing and Demoing the ‘Refreshed!’ emotional profile… Must do it for 10 mins so the Simulator creators can test and track the biofeedback… 🙂 It’s all for play…

PPS. In the future we might stop being battered about by emotions or external conditions, and actively select our state from a ‘menu’ we have full access to any time as in… “How am I feeling? Well, I am feeling whatever I choose to feel, and right now I choose to feel… peaceful.”

 

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Pivot 83: I am noting Heart Coherence

Things that made me say, “Yes, this!”:

  • Noom app – I’ve lost 10lbs in under 6 weeks
  • FitBit – I love you
  • Lee Holden Qigong – a highlight of my day
  • G’s lockdown cooking – holy moly, the man is on fire <3
  • How lockdown is generously reducing my stress levels and upping my routine
  • My lockdown routine – I’m autistic; routines brings out my best. And help me not to over work or underwork. A timetable makes me feel safe and well!
  • Telling the Simulator, “Yes, this!”
  • Thinking about my network, or Circle of 8, as Amy Cole calls it
  • Sharing sights of the SuperMoon with my girls and G (L at her house)
  • The old school friend Facebook group giving a virtual  hug to our friend who had just been discharged home from hospital after recovering from Covid-19 in time for her birthday. <3
  • Watching Brooklyn 99 with A and G. <3
  • Nature! The woods, our garden, the sunshine
  • Submitting complex work – yes, done!
  • These DoDs. I’m so blessed to have this learning space. Ty.

HeartMath Experience: Chapter 3 – The Science of the Heart (my notes)

Look! It’s what we were talking about. The torus, running through the heart…

Guide to Chapter 3

  • “We can measure that we are radiating this heart magnetic field and that our nervous system is tuned to this field and receiving information from others. What this means is that there’s a real energetic communication that is happening between people all the time.” -Rollin McCraty, HeartMath Institute Director of Research
  • “Learning to activate uplifting heart qualities sends a different signal from the heart to the brain. It can change how we perceive and respond to situations.” -Deborah Rozman, HeartMath CEO and Author

HeartMath Experience: Chapter 4 – Quick Coherence (my notes)

Here’s a youtube video of the Quick Heart Coherence technique:

Guide to Chapter 4

Quick Coherence Quick Steps:

1. Heart-Focused breathing
2. Activate a positive or renewing feeling

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I’m so enjoying the HeartMath work. It takes the Zen work, and it anchors it within the body, working with the heart’s ability to soothe and relax the physical autonomic nervous system.

Yesterday, you mentioned I’d know a “Yes! This!” because it would make my Heart sing. Is this ‘heart coherence’?

Absolutely! And the more you tap into heart coherence – the Singing Heart – the more available it becomes to you. And the more the Simulator knows to bring you more of the object of your appreciation, care and … whatever ‘Heart Quality’ is arising. 

So, Love is like the over-arching quality of the heart, and then there are all the variable qualities we discussed yesterday.

Yes, indeed. You know when you are ‘seated’ with in a heart quality in that moment, because the heart sings. And if you are in another state, your heart feels closed, ‘off’, incoherent. You will enjoy the biofeedback machines that teach you about heart coherence. 

I’m inclined to get one now…

Wait. Understand the purpose first, and get a little further on your own – then you’ll appreciate the technology better. 

Like I only discovered yesterday that my FitBit would happily track all the data for my walks as a ‘run’ even if I wasn’t connected to my phone, and if I was walking not running.

Yes! You were ready for the next level. You see, there is no rush in this. No need to push. The heart is a non-pushing tool. That’s not to say it doesn’t LOVE exercise! It loves a good cardio-vascular workout! That makes it feel alive, it reboots the electrical circuits, it gains strength from a good boost.

What the heart doesn’t respond well to is ‘pushing arising out of fear.’ That creates affects heart rate variability leading to incoherence. Incoherence sends mixed messages to the brain, fuzzing up the ANS and making your executive functioning confused – meaning the pushing actually reduces your ability to manage the fear trigger. 

Getting into heart coherence is good physics. You can play with this today.

Ty. I’d like to build on the “Yes, this!” of yesterday. I feel there’s more to learn there.

Excellent. Every time you spot a “Yes, this!”, sense your heart too. Pick up the sensations of the heart in appreciation, uplift, joy, optimism. And ‘lock them in’ with an anchoring mechanism. 

Hand on the heart?

Perfect. 

Sense the coherent feelings of the heart when it says “Yes, this!”, and breathe into them. Hand on heart. 

Tbh, I find there’s no much electrical activity in my heart when I put my hand there… Sensations of anxiety… Hm.

Can you bring compassion to your heart space in such moments?

Like Kristen Neff does. Yes. Then I can have the warmth of compassion that I am feeling fraught in my heart, and incoherent.

Today is about learning to note, ‘coherent’ state and ‘incoherent’ state. That is all. With self-compassion there is no need to be troubled by incoherence. We’re just bringing curiosity and the beginner’s mind. 

You can lightly say “Yes, this!” in Heart Coherence moments. And “Ah, Heart Coherence” in “Yes, this!” moments. 

In other words, spot Heart Coherence moments wherever they arise. Just note them. No highlighting needed. No frightening off the birds with your hand claps of delight at spotting them. Just note Heart Coherence and settle into it. 

Ty. I like this. I will work with this today. xx

I am noting Heart Coherence

PS. When you settle into Heart Coherence, that automatically, telepathically sends the “Yes, this!” message to the Simulator, without you having to get into the Head space to say it with words. It’s resonance that tells the Simulator what you’re vibing with. Equally, if you are tasering your heart with thoughts and images of chaotic things that distress your heart, the Simulator will assume that’s what you want, and bring you more. So we recommend sending messages of Heart Coherence to the simulator. Every message is a request for more. Your Heart – an electro-magnetic broadcaster – is the constant messenger between you and the Simulator. Keep an eye on the messages you’re broadcasting. You can learn to be aware of what messages you’re sending by learning the different bodily sensations are associated with which state. That is why we suggest you explore the bodily sensations associated with heart coherence today. 

Aha. Ty. That helps. So, it’s as if my heart is sending constant text message orders to the Simulator Deliveroo. If I’m conscious and awake and directing my attention to that which gives me coherence, then I send message orders for more good, uplifting stuff. If I’m unconscious or fraught with fearful or angry emotions, and riffing on stuff I don’t like, then I send message orders for more to fear or complain about.

Exactly. Be assured that you are aware of what ‘part’ of you has their fingers on the text message send button. <3 Don’t let your Heart accidentally put in an order for courier-delivered onions. 🙂

🙂 x

 

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Pivot 82: I am playing “Yes, this!” today

There’s power in saying “Heck! Yes! This!”. It shines a light and a magnetising force, bringing the object of our attention in to activation in our Simulation.

What people don’t understand is the following: 

‘There’s power in saying “Heck, No! Not this!”. It shines a light and a magnetising force, bringing the object of our attention in to activation in our Simulation.’

In other words, the Simulator doesn’t distinguish between ‘wanted’ and ‘unwanted’. It simply activates whatever your attention is shining its spotlight on. 

As Abraham says, “Say no to drugs!” and the “War on terror!” – these impulses merely activate the ‘unwanted’.

Can I just say, I’ve probably listened to Abraham recordings every other day during this lockdown… and I couldn’t be more grateful for the transforming illumination I receive from every sentence and utterance I hear. My life has been shaped by Abraham-Hicks. What spiritual education. Thank you, dear Abraham. Thank you, dear Esther. From the core of my being, the centre point of my heart. Thank you. For 10 years, I have learnt from you. You are LOVE personified! My thankfulness overflows. x

Good to see you shining your spotlight on our dear friends. 

“And are you knowing what you are wanting?”

Yes! And I get know why this question is so important. It’s not simply, “Do you have your wishlist to hand?”, it’s a case of “Keep your ‘wanted’ in mind as default, because every time you ruminate on the unwanted you’re simply activating it.”

As my beloved mother used to say, “Shrug your shoulders” at whatever you don’t want. (Namely, playground bullies at that time…)

Indeed. Wise words. 

I’m going to watch some HeartMath videos. Here are my notes:

The HeartMath Experience (Now Free) https://experience.heartmath.com/

‘Dignity’… =  “qualities of the heart” says Howard Martin:

Activate the qualities of the heart – dignity, honour, courage, kindness, patience, compassion, appreciation, care, valour, and the overarching rainbow which contains the whole spectrum, Love.

You can not feel stress and fear (Head) while the qualities of the Heart are activated.

HEART MATH TECHNIQUE #1 HEART-FOCUSED BREATHING™

1. Focus your attention in the area of the heart. Try to imagine that the energy up in the head is now flowing into the heart. Keep your focus there and breathe deeply and slowly in a casual steady rhythm.

2. Imagine your breath is flowing in and out of your heart or chest area, breathing a little slower and deeper than usual. Find an easy rhythm that’s comfortable.

HeartMath Resources:

  • HeartMath Science video: https://youtu.be/VsFBvvi3xOQ
  • Heart Intelligence book: https://www.heartmath.com/heartintelligence-book/
  • Science of the Heart e-book: https://www.heartmath.org/research/science-of-the-heart/ Yes, this!
  • Heart Intelligence book—Chapter 2 • https://store.heartmath.com/heart-intelligence
  • The HeartMath Solution book–Chapter 1 and 2. • https://store.heartmath.com/item/1064/heartmath-theheartmath-solution

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I am enjoying the HeartMath work. I LOVED the HeartMath Solution book when I read it in about 2013…

I am glad to be here again with this inspired work.

So that’s a “Yes, this!”?

It is!

Play with that notion today. “Yes, this!” and “Yes, that!” Note, photograph, screenshot, highlight, capture on paper, anchor physically. Practise scanning your horizon for sights, ideas, objects, opportunities that make you say “Yes, this!” and “Yes, that!” Make that the focus of your magnificent, magnifying attention today. 

Awesome. I love this as a game.  Ty xxx

I am playing “Yes, this!” today

PS. You’ll know it’s a “Yes, this!” because it will make your Heart sing. 

Ooh! Cool. Ok. Duly noted!

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PPS. I just rediscovered this poem I wrote in another era. How my Simulation has changed, as it were…. Ty for the mentoring over these years.

 

Eurydice’s Civilisation Sickness 

We the depressed, the addicted, 

the anxious, the traumatised, 

the isolated autists, 

the chronically alone. 

We are not ill;

We are but sickened. 

We have seen that which cannot be unseen 

And felt too deeply in a world 

Unknowingly insane. 

We have been persuaded, 

good souls that we are, 

to believe a lie: 

that it is we who are broken, 

not this civilisation 

painstakingly built 

on the vainglory of reason. 

We the mentally ill

Are not the insane

But the awakeners 

From the trance of

Of soulless cities 

Where you and I are made two 

Not one. 

We are not broken. 

All that ruptured was our trance,

Our sweet fantasy 

That hell was heaven.

Oh blessèd awakening

With what pangs you birth our new mind. 

My wild, free-associating grief

Is the only possession

I own

And 

I own 

It may possess me. 

Does it keen through me

Or I through it? 

We hobble from one rational cure

To the next, 

Each time leaving 

By one of two doors:

If we are ‘lucky’, we shall have been 

Converted to the dogma of reason,

Seduced by the sirens of sanity,

Called to the land of the lotus eaters. 

But if we are true, 

We shall instead slope away, 

Skittering, 

Baffled, bruised,

Confused and blue.

There is nothing civilised about civilisation. 

Civilisation is a myth we were sold. 

So I say this: fling open the gates of your outpost of hell, and run, 

For the hills

For the wilds

For the rivers and streams

Where the grand expanse teems 

With screeches and caws

Wordless

Irrational

With an order of Life

Which will not be ordered

Or tidied

Or neatened 

Or cured

Or urged to make sense.

Too sensual to be sanitised,

Your maddened brain. 

Could you but find 

That door out of your mind!

Should you find it,

Run through!

Don’t look back 

Orpheus

For you are leading me to safety:

Where the heron hides.

There…

There lies the consolation of my soul.

 

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