A Look Into The Study of Heartmath
When I began to study Heartmath it was clear to me that our core essence starts with our hearts. No one tells our hearts when to feel joy or when to feel sad, hurt or even when to cry or laugh. The heart just knows when to present or interject the right emotion for the right time. The heart has a mind of its own. It has the ability to embrace, to warn us when things don’t appear right and navigate us through this process called life. Our hearts contain something called discernment. Discernment speaks through the spirit and sends a quickening to help us navigate though the circumstances of life. Have you ever heard the saying, ‘Out of the heart the mouth speaks’? That can also be reversed to say that, ‘Out of the mouth the heart speaks’.
Everything you think, do and believe was first conceived in your heart. We cherish and hold on to those experiences with passion. When you were designed and created all things in you were created good. All good and perfect things come from above. Your heart was never meant to be flawed. We serve a God of perfection and excellence and you were made in his image.
Life Causes Us to Make Choices
We don’t always make the best choices. Life takes on circumstances most often, out of our control. So when we see the results of some of those choices, we begin to harden our hearts.
The term ‘hardening of your heart’ is a cliche. Your heart is an organ that pumps blood contained on the inside of your body. In reality your heart is not a hard object, but, when we hear the phrase ‘hardening of your heart’ we are referring to our spiritual heart mind or the heart-brain. Past hurts or pains can make the heart-brain take more precautions for future choices to insulate or protect from more pain, hurt or rejection. We tell ourselves, “I will never let that happen to me again.” We begin to assign these types of negative thought processes to ourselves. I equate it to laying bricks. Brick by brick, pain by pain, disappointment by disappointment– we begin to build.
Development of Our Wall of Protection
We build a brick wall around our heart-brain to protect ourselves. It is within the boundaries of this wall that we no longer rely on our heart-brain when life’s choices become harder for us. The sentiment is that it failed us in the past. It left us feeling vulnerable and unprotected. Because of that, we begin to lean on making choices without our heart and utilize a more logical thought process to solve our problems. Logic without intuition and discernment may be great, but it may also not be the best answer to every situation.
