language of the heart – Chiropractic Alchemy of Boulder

LANGUAGE OF THE HEART

Opening the heart

Each of our hearts speaks a language. The essence of that language is love, which gets shared and expressed in different ways. Some hearts speak through vibration using words, tones or other sounds either written or spoken. Some hearts express through art, movement and touch, and still others through just still being. The heart does not need words, but it might use words to express itself. It does not need to draw, mold, move or touch, but it might do so in order to share itself with others. While the language of the heart can be interpreted by placing words, labels, definitions and meanings upon it, it is beyond all ideas and concepts. The language of the heart tends to evoke feeling in us. A felt sense that touches us in some way or brings with it a sense of connection, depth and beyondness.

In order to both express and receive the language of the heart your heart must be open. You might wonder what it means exactly to have an open heart. Simply put having an open heart means that you are without personal agenda, not attempting to protect your personal identity from others, but rather that you have a desire to share, express or serve others in some way through being yourself. It means not being guarded from potential threats or loses to your personal sense of self (i.e. ego mind). It means being available to and for life rather than closed off from it. An open heart listens rather than insists. It shares without force or manipulation. It feels whatever is present without judgment or story of any kind. It’s inclusive and discerning. It cares about the essence of you and others. It can be strong and even passionately ferrous at times, while rooted in being of service to love. It doesn’t tolerate b.s. and yet loves all nonetheless. It recognizes or knows that while life includes you it’s not about you.

The language of the heart also has a different vibrational quality than what our thoughts, emotions or physical body have. If you think of it in terms of wavelength, our physical bodies have the longest wavelength. This is why they appear more solid, gross or dense. Our emotions have a slightly shorter wavelength than our physical bodies, but a longer wavelength than our thoughts. This is why you often have to slow yourself down in order to recognize what you are feeling and also why when you do feel something you move at a slower pace than if you are thinking. Thoughts have a shorter wavelength than our emotions or our physical body. This is why if you spend a lot of time thinking you might feel ungrounded or find yourself in a fast pace. The frequency of the heart or soul body is an even shorter wavelength. It is the subtlest of the bodies described here. Just like you can change the channel of the radio and tune into a different frequency, you can change the tone/tension in your nervous system and tune into these different frequencies of you. No frequency/body is better than the other. The key is to have them all energized and accessible to you. Network entrainments help you shift the tonal patterns of your nervous system so that you can do this very thing.

HEART VIBRATIONS

Clearing the channels

The language and frequencies of the heart open us into a more multidimensional nature of reality. While the mind tends to keep us in a linear, logical and 3D view of life, the heart breaks and bends all of those supposed rules. This is why attempting to interpret or put meanings onto the expressions of the heart never really works. We can do it, but really we just end up with a whole bunch of projections and the essence of the thing is covered up underneath all of our ideas and meanings about it. Yet this is what the human mind likes to do. It flattens the heart frequency out to its frequency so that the world seems safe, ordinary and consistent. It’s boring, yet it’s what we tend to do so that we can make “sense” of it all, so that our minds feel like they understand something and can accept it. While this isn’t bad it does postpone or dampen our access to our heart. Even though the language of the heart’s expressions are varied and infinite their core message is the same. Unification and oneness is the beat of their drum. Knowing this can ease the mind’s endless search for meaning. All meanings will eventually cease to be relevant in this realization.

When we are ready and available the language of our heart simply expresses through us. It’s not something we have to figure out how to do. Your mind will really dislike that, yet it’s the way it is. You can’t figure out your heart. I mean you can try, but good luck. Now there may be skill sets you need to learn or worldly knowledge that you need to acquire in order to give form to your heart’s frequency, but the form is not the essence of your heart. Rather only the means to share it. Don’t get too lost in perfecting forms and rather focus on the heart frequency that you are. If more people did this we would have a lot less boring or mind numbing jobs that people are just trying to get through. It’s not about the thing you do, but who you be inside of what you do.

While you can’t figure out your heart, you can prepare for its arrival and clear out the vessel of you for its expression. Preparation for its arrival is doing the clean up work of all of your personal agendas. This means doing the inner and outer work of dismantling the need to protect your personal separate self, as if there really even is one. Remember this is what it takes to open the heart. When the heart is open, expression is natural. Just like when the bladder is open you naturally pee. There’s nothing to figure out, it’s mechanics. However if there is a bunch of stones in your bladder it makes it harder for the pee to come out. That’s the clean up work you need to do. Clear out the stones that interfere with you heart’s natural flow.

There is nothing too non-ordinary for the heart. In fact you can kind of think of the language of heart as non-ordinary. If you are still self-conscious about looking weird, not being accepted by others, being judged or failing, then you know where to begin your clean up work. When you are in your heart’s frequency you honestly don’t really care about that stuff anymore. It’s just a non issue. Your only intention is to be of service in the ways that your heart desires to express. Your mind frequently won’t know what any of it means or what will come of it, but again you care less and less about needing to know. You will find freedom in being you.

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

Your Heart is the Knower

The Mind is not the Knower

So often we move about our lives trying to figure out what things means, preparing and plotting our next action steps and attempting to find answers to all of our questions about this mysterious universe. We have a tendency to feel safer if we can make meaningful sense of things, find answers to our questions or have some type of clear direction that we can comfortably take. Being in uncertainty, the unknown or the ever present present moment tends to feel too unstable for us and we seek for solidity in our thoughts or the physical universe.

Why is it that we attempt to create safety through our minds perceived sense of knowing? The most direct answer is because we think that we are our thoughts. We are identified as our thoughts and believe that we are separate distinct entities disconnected from a larger knowingness. If we were connected to a larger knowingness of ourselves we would never for even one second attempt to use our minds to create certainty, stability and a sense of knowing. Due to the fact that being veiled from the larger truth of ourselves is part of this human experience and learning, we seek for some solid ground through our thoughts because that is what is most accessible to us.

Despite what you may think your mind is not the knower. Your mind is simply a thinker. It produces thoughts but does not know from where they come. The knower is larger than or beyond the level or your mind. If we step back and look at this from the perspective of levels of development we will see that development evolves from physical body (the survivor), to emotional body (the reactor), to mental body (the thinker) and then into soul (the heart). Many humans right now are waking up, if you will, to level of soul, but it is not the natural default for most. Rather mind and thoughts is the default and hence why we seem to perpetually come back to trying to figure things out as if we are separate object in a universe of separate objects that all act independent of each other and don’t share information or energy between them.

When the mind is in charge it tries very hard to do, to figure out, to know and to make happen. The mind also likes to make things difficult and complex where there isn’t difficulty or complexity. It is the great confuser. Yet the more confused we feel the more we try to think our way through it and end up in the vicious loop of which there is no way out. The only way to find our way through is make contact with that which knows. The gateway to the knower is through the heart. The language with which the heart speaks is not with thoughts but instead with the energy vibration of love. Leaning into this language is the clearer of all confusion and recognition of non-separateness.

Getting to Know the Knower

Language of Love

Why is it seem so hard to lean into the heart? Why do we look for something other than the language of love? First things first. Many of us have layers of protection around our heart-soul body making it difficult to even make contact with it. These layers exist due to pains that we experience in our lives. Most of us don’t consciously close ourselves off, it is simply the defensive nature of our nervous systems to protect us when we feel any type of pain, which is quite common on this human journey. When this protective response gets activated its puts us in our more primitive bodies which are the physical, emotional and mental bodies. Even though the mind is more complex in organization then the physical or emotional body it is still a more primitive body than that of the soul/heart body.

Many people live their entire life in a mostly protected, defended state and are very functional and contribute great things to the world. They have friends and families, successful careers or businesses and belong to communities. Most people have no idea that they are living in a state of protection, that is until life brings them a situation which seems outside of what they can handle. This is often loss in any of it forms. Loss of loved one, loss of a relationship, loss of purpose, loss of health, loss of function of some part of the body, loss of resources, etc. These experiences of loss are the biggest catalyst/activator that we have to evolve, wake up to more of ourselves and become undefended, and yet we tend to see them as catastrophic. Many people don’t see how these situations are pushing them into growth and they stay focused solely on the loss.

This brings me to language of the heart which is love and why we tend to not listen to it or see it as the knower. When the mind is running the show of our lives we want linear, logical and mentally sound answers. To the mind love seems too fluffy or like its not enough. We often feel like we need more than just love. We need hard, concrete, physical answers and quite frankly love doesn’t seem to be powerful enough for all of that. So we seek and search for an answer that we can make sense out of rather than directly experiencing the all knowingness that comes with love. We choose effort, fight and resistance over ease, grace and acceptance. Why make it easy when we can make it hard and treacherous instead.

The reason why most people have this perception of love as not quite powerful enough, or simply not enough, is because they have only experienced love for fleeting moments at a time. Their baseline experience has not been such where love has been the primary experience day in and out for years or decades at a time. In fact people rarely experience nothing but love all day long for even a single day at at time. That which we experience more often tends to speak louder and we tend to place more belief and value in it. Hence why our thoughts dominate and we tend to rely on them as that which knows best.

Our heart is the knower. Its doesn’t think, it knows. When we lean into the heart, doubt dissolves and clear seeing is revealed. There is no longer anything to figure out. We realize that love is not only enough, but it is the organizer of everything and essence of our very nature. Here is where the mysteries resolve themselves and the present moment comes alive as our direct experience. There are no problems in love, nothing to fix or solve, there is only the pure knowing of the perfection that is and the playing out of that in all the myriad of forms.

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

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