Sanctuary for Heart Magic :Unwinding Spines & Unleashing Hearts utilizing Network Spinal Chiropractic in Boulder, Colorado: energy field

HEART MAGIC

Dying to the self

There is no doubt, the energy of the heart is magic. Those who have tasted, felt or touched their heart know its power, its bliss and its vastness. It is the most advanced intelligence, and I would even say technology or tool, that we have access to inside of this human experience. When we find our heart we realize that everything that our mind or body has created or tries to create, pales in comparison to what and how the heart creates. Resting into the heart reveals a way of being, seeing and relating that includes everything and everyone inside of it. Nothing is left out and everything is loved. With this knowingness everything is possible.

If the heart is so powerful how come more of us don’t access and use it? Well my friends that is a good question. Why don’t we? The easiest answer I can give is because it means death of our ego. This means death of thinking that our minds know best, death of what we think we want, death of our life lived for own pleasures and preferences. Death, death, death. My friends we don’t like death. In fact as a society we pretend that death doesn’t exist. If we do acknowledge its existence our perspective of it is grim, depressing and full of sadness. Something that is so obvious and undeniably evident and yet we deny it, try to postpone it, hold on for dear life, that is until we simply can’t anymore. If we learned to allow things to die, if we gave everything it’s rights back to it’s natural course, including our wants, desires, dreams, ideas, perspectives, and so on, we would more easily find our heart. We would naturally find ourselves open to whatever is and in the field of infinite possibilities rather than finite completion. We would instantly reconnect to the magic.

Why death you ask? It is death of the individualistic, of the egocentric, of the self-centric focus, of which none of us escape. We are born innocent, without a self and in connection with our essence. Then we develop an ego in order to survive our world. The more our personality and identity develops the more we forget our original self. It is the natural course of human development. Without our ego mind we would have a very hard time adapting to or being part of this world. But the journey doesn’t stop there. There is development of our being which is beyond the mind, it’s simply that we have to give the reigns over and let something else be in charge. From the perspective of our human identity this feels like death. To our soul however it feels like coming home. It is a birth, yet to our mind’s ideas about what life is or should be, it feels like misery. We can either involuntarily collapse into suffering and feel victimized by the happenings of life, or we can voluntarily die to our stories, ideas, hopes and dreams and open into a world of wonder beyond where our mind’s imaginations lie.

WORLD OF WONDER

Voluntary relinquishment

The voluntary choice to relinquish ourselves is what is called surrender. People like to think that surrender is easy and they use the term casually, but to truly surrender means that you will likely feel the pain of death. It means you are willingly opening into that pain which you’ve done your ultimate best to avoid acknowledging or feeling, and you are choosing to let die that which is ready to die.

So you’ve gone through the death portal, now what? Now you are open, available and you just are. Your heart is free. You are at peace. You’ve let the resentments, angers, insistences, pushes and pulls all go. You are simply available for exactly what is in front of you. You are no longer wishing that something else was. The longing for something different dies and you arrive into the present moment of what is here now. You feel humble and available. You don’t know any grand knowledge. You’ve just let the things go. They’re gone. Now life can move through you unimpeded. This is the beginning of the field of heart magic and the world of wonder and awe.

The more times you go through the death portal, the more you rest into this field. As you let things be as they are, more and more this field of wonder opens up to you. You might not be overtly aware of it at first. It may be more subtle and just beyond your ordinary resting awareness. You might notice an increase in synchronicities or being more telepathic, such as knowing when someone is going to call you or manifesting the best parking spot. You might feel less tense. Your breath might be easier and you feel less agitated or anxious in a general sense. Things seem to take a bit less effort and you feel less depleted. As you rest more and more into the field of the heart its presence is more obvious to you, and you begin to see and know the interconnectedness and inseparability of everything. More and more you see everything as one all pervasive, intelligent and sovereign love.

The field of heart magic is a collective or unified field. When you are rested in the heart, then other hearts will feel this and respond to it. They might not even know why they respond, they just do because all are connected at this level of the field. Even if people knowingly or unknowingly respond to it, they may still have doubts, insecurities, feel separate, and choose their mind’s ideas over this all loving love. Again giving up on our picture of life does not come easy. We typically need to experience some life disruption, pain or suffering to get us to even entertain surrender. If our life is too easy or comfortable there is nothing to push us into the next stage of development. We need some kind of catalyst. All of the catalyst you experience, the disruption, the pain, the suffering, the confusion is all to get you to your edge, to where you will willingly surrender, so that you can find your way into the heart. Next time you are experiencing some kind of distress, something that you don’t want to be feeling or experiencing, remember this is exactly what you need in order to help you open into the field of heart magic. Rather than turning away, face forward and move into whatever is presenting itself to you. Even if it doesn’t feel like it, it is a gift. Given to you by you, to help you remember your very nature, your most essential self, and your complete heart.

Dr. Amanda Love, Network Spinal Chiropractor, Boulder, Colorado

YOUR IMPACT ON THE FIELD

Tuning your awareness

We tend to think that the world inside of our heads lives only there. What we internally focus on or pay attention to in our minds, we think affects only ourselves, if even that. We don’t really realize the impact of our awareness on the field, space or environment all around. Often our experience is that our thoughts are simply random passing flickers and we really don’t get the power that we have in how and what we pay attention too. Due to this, many of us are not disciplined in utilizing the power of our minds and therefore we don’t feel that we are very powerful. The thing is that regardless if you are aware of the power of your mind or not, you still have one, and you are consciously or unconsciously using it to focus in certain ways. The way in which you focus is affecting you, the field you perceive around you, and arguably the expanse of the entire universe.

The field is the interconnected web of which you cannot not be a part of, even if you don’t want to be. Many might think of it as the empty space in between things, but it is much more than that. Even though you can’t see the field with your physical eyes, it is densely packed with energy and information. The energy and information that the field contains is made up of awareness or consciousness. What that means is that the source of energy and information that makes up the field is you, as you are awareness. You are the awareness that is aware of your body and of all the things you perceive in your environment. You are not the objects or forms, but rather the awareness of the objects and forms. Having this basic understanding of the field can help you see how you have direct impact on the field, as your awareness makes up the field.

Why is this important? It’s important for many reasons. One of those reasons is that in recognizing that you impact the field you can begin to be more conscious of that impact and even utilize it. The result of this is that you create an experience of life that is more in alignment with your desires and you feel more powerful in your ability to work with life. You perceive the happenings of life to be less random and become more intentional and participatory with manifestation. When I say manifestation I simply mean the physical, tangible world of experience. One of the reasons that physical manifestation sometimes seems to not match our inner state of preference or desire is because we lack coherence with the whole. Another reason is that we are not consciously aware of where we are manifesting from, meaning we are unconscious and undisciplined in the power of using our minds.

BECOMING MORE AWAKE

Bringing more magic to life

The more you realize your impact on the field, the more self-responsible you must become to your own state of being and how you use your focus. This is the process of becoming more awake. Being more awake doesn’t mean that you are more aware of spiritual concepts than your neighbors, family members or the average joe. Or that you attend more spiritual workshops, read more books, or do more ceremonies than other people. Rather being more awake means you are more accountable to your inner state and your impact on the field. It’s a bit more practical and a little less woo then some people might prefer. It’s not about someone or something saving you from your experience, but rather you bringing to your experience what you want it to be.

The waking up process can be perceived as perhaps less magical and require more work than we would like it too. After all being accountable to our state of being is not something we are really taught early on. Rather we learn that our state of being is dependent on our life looking, feeling or being a certain way. This is why we keep recreating the same experiences over and over and why it sometimes feels like nothing is changing and we aren’t growing, both individually or collectively. When we don’t deliberately choose our state of being and focus, then life just seems to be happening on it’s own, and in a way it is. We aren’t awake or conscious enough of ourselves to run the show, so the show just runs. If we want to watch a new program, or have a different experience of life, then we must get up and change the station. Getting up and changing the station is the equivalent to shifting what or how you use your focus.

Often as spiritual seekers we are attempting to bring some kind of levity, light, bliss, joy and ease into our experience and the world. Yet we often fail to see how we aren’t bringing that. We are caught in our feelings and sensations of heaviness, darkness, confusion and hard work, and genuinely don’t know why we aren’t experiencing butterflies and sunshine everyday. This isn’t about denying or spiritually bypassing what we are feeling, but rather feeling what we are feeling, accepting it, and then choosing what we truly desire. This is often hard to do. It requires energy. It requires changing our mind’s focus. It requires that we care about ourselves and our experience of life.

Your impact on the field is a real thing. How you show up, what you choose to focus on, and where you place your awareness will determine your experience. Beyond that it will also either enliven or drain the field, it will either add life or take life out it. You can move mountains if you learn to discipline your focus. You can do things that appear to be magic. You can bring actual magic into your everyday experience for yourself and others in a very real and practical way. You stop creating separation between your spiritually preferred reality and the ordinary reality that we seem to be living in. There is no difference. The forms of our ordinary reality will shift and change in response to the information they receive from the field, from you, from your awareness. Learning to discipline your attention and focus might possibly be the most important thing you can do for yourself and others.

Dr. Amanda Love, Chiropractor, Network Spinal Analysis & Somato-Respiratory Integration, Boulder, Colorado