Love in the time of heartbeats

Have you not experienced yourself in an embrace, breathing as one, heartbeat with heartbeat. There is that magical timeless state of being “at one” and “in love.” There is peace, quiet beautiful blissful peace.  We feel open and our consciousness is expanded to embrace the world. This is what love does. Countless love songs have immortalized this moment of total communion. When we are in love, the world is beautiful and we love everyone!

In the quantum science world that is slowly revealing secrets connected to the universe, to spirituality and to former mysteries of life, there is much to be said about the spiritual science of the heart. I have been reading up on the researches of the Institute of HeartMath that studies how powerful the electromagnetic field around our hearts can be. I found out some pretty interesting things: of all the organs of the human body, the heart has the most energy and emits the strongest electromagnetic field (5,000 times more than any organ). This electromagnetic field envelops the entire body extending out in all directions, and it can be measured up to several feet outside of the body. A research from the Institute of HeartMath shows that this emotional information is encoded in this energetic field. HeartMath researchers have also seen that as we consciously focus on feeling a positive emotion — such as care, appreciation, compassion or love — it has a beneficial effect on our own health and well-being, and can have a positive effect on those around us.

Every heartbeat creates and sends out an electrical charge, which is then transmitted to the brain. What I love about this information is how this heartbeat pulsations can be used as a powerful tool for daily living. When the heartbeats’ rhythm begins to synchronize with our brain waves, we tend to have deeper awareness and can breathe gentler. This synchronization brings us to a higher state. I see this in my own yoga practice beginning from breathing. When my breath goes deeper, I can begin to control the mind or brain waves, and the tensions of my body unwind, and my heart softens up.

Likewise, we can do it the other way by beginning with the heart: by bringing awareness into the state of the heart, then we breathe deeper into this awareness, our mind softens. We get into the heart, and get into the energy of love, and move deep into what life is all about.

Let’s put this practice into our relationships. When we are about to step into the drama of past hurts, about to fight with our husband-wife partners, about to go back into the endless cycles of arguments — let’s breathe deeply, very deeply into our bellies, then allow this rhythm of quiet breathing to ease the tensions of the mind’s judgments and storytelling, then bring our awareness into the heart space. Through this process, we would have brought in “coherence.” The HeartMath researchers state that this is the state of “0.10 hertz cycle where coherence is optimum” or in layman’s lingo, everything is synchronized and a chemistry of positive emotions and energy is released to our body. We become less aggressive, more peaceful and more cooperative. Even if there are present hurts and pains in the heart, this synchronized technique of bringing the triad together (heartbeat, breath flow and depth, mind waves) will slowly ease the negative emotions away.

Quantum physics states that all is energy, and that the body’s electromagnetic field is connected to that of the Earth’s. So whatever encoding we do with our own energy fields, we are likewise doing this for the Earth. This interconnectedness must begin at our own personal level where we are responsible for creating our positive emotions. Because each of us, every single person on this earth, affects the Earth’s field, then we all need to take responsibility for our own energies.

Our own personal synchronization of our energy is our internal work towards our own wholeness, our understanding and acceptance of ourselves, our self-love and self-care. It is about connecting to our energetic spiritual heart to hear its wisdom, and not allow the egoic mind to take control. The heart’s intuitive wisdom will allow us to shift and encode only positive energies outwardly. This will affect the social dimension of our lives, bringing our relationships with other people (our pets and animals, too!) into more openness, flow and creative exchange. When more and more of us are aware of doing this, we can collectively affect the global energetic field with our intentions and collaborations.

The month of the heart is not only for lovers. It is about understanding and experiencing the bigger loving energies that we need to expand into a world that badly needs healing. And the steps are so simple… moment by moment, let us drop awareness to our heart’s  center, breathe deeply, and quiet our mind. Now we are in flow. We are in love. We are truly living.