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

EFFORTLESS STREAM OF GIVING

Giving to life

Giving often feels like effort. In fact most of us feel like we are giving all day long and find ourselves completely drained by the days end. Giving can come with activity, busyness and action, and there is no doubt that activity without periods of rest can deplete our systems. Yet there is a giving to life that happens even before action or activity occurs. A state of being of giving that is prior to anything that we physically or mentally do. In fact I’d suffice to say that much of our tiredness and depletion comes not from the activities themselves, but rather from not being in a state of giving while we go about doing our activities. Again it’s not to deny that we need both periods of activity and rest, however the place from which we come from makes all the difference.

So how do we find this effortless stream of giving? The good news is that we don’t have to go anywhere to find it because it lives right inside of us. We only need to tap into it so to speak. You’ve probably tapped into it before, but you likely didn’t know exactly what you were touching. You might have related the experience of tapping into the effortless stream of giving as feeling defeat. In fact the feeling of defeat is an entry point into the effortless stream of giving. Yet most people get lost in their story about what is happening and keep trying to make their experience match their desire rather than feel defeat. They keep banging away at attempting to make the appearance different rather than admitting defeat to the appearance. Hence why they get so damn tired. Hence why we are all so damn tired.

When you stop trying to make the operations and happenings of life be different, there is no other choice but to let them be. When you let them be as they are and participate with them as such, you stop forcing anything. When forcing stops, so does resistance, tiredness and efforting. If you’re constantly fighting the stream you are going to be expending a lot more energy and it’s going to feel like a lot more work than if you just went with it. However going with the stream will at times feel like defeat and you must be willing to feel this defeat. The beautiful thing about this, if you really get this, is that when you accept defeat you naturally open into giving. You can’t not give to your experience when you are no longer fighting it. When you allow what is to be how and what it is, you become the stream of giving organically. There is nothing extra that you need to do. It’s simply how it is when you are with life rather than at odds with it. You may still not like your experience, but you won’t be as tired and the need to check yourself out of life so that you can rest and recover will be less. You will start to find and feel rest inside of your experience, and here is where you are actually present, maybe for the first time ever.

STOP WISHING INTENSITY AWAY

Opportunities for being present

Sometimes life has to kind of beat us up a little bit before we are willing to accept defeat, so that we ultimately learn to live presently in full participation with the unfolding of life. When we are experiencing this “beating up” of sorts we often label it under the disguise of the word “intensity.” You’ve probably heard someone or maybe even yourself say, “wow things are really intense right now.” It’s a very popular spiritual thing to say. I hear that phrase many times a week. When people say this often they are wanting that experience of intensity to go away,. They are internally waiting, though they might not know they are waiting, until appearances and circumstances change so that they can feel lighter, better or less intensity. The energy of this inner dynamic feels like wanting whatever is happening to just be over with already, because once it’s over you think you feel better. Once the intensity is gone then you think you will be able to relax.

This is a trap. It’s a trap because life is full of intensity and if you are waiting or trying to force the situations of intensity to go away, you will find yourself doing this until the day your body dies, and maybe even beyond, who knows. Besides for it being a trap, when you wish your intensities to go away you rob yourself of incredibly potent opportunities for learning, which I call catalyst. This catalyst, or these moments of extra intensity, bring the gift of breaking us down. Why do we need to be broken down you ask? Bluntly stated because most of us are living in arrogant, self-centered ways and seeing through limited perspectives that have nothing to do with what is actually occurring. Most of these perspectives harm us or others rather than being helpful, yet they can be very convincing that they are trying to help. These sneaky arrogant, self-centered ways along with their limited perspectives need to be dismantled so that we can stop acting in opposition to the unfolding of life and rather move with it.

The little bit tricky thing about all of this is that we typically greatly identify with these parts and perspectives that need to be dismantled, so we tend to not let them go out without a fight. Hence the way of effort, force, resistance, which eventually results in tiredness and depletion that we may then lead to sickness, illness or adrenal fatigue. This then brings us to the dire need for intensity in our lives, because often intensity is our only hope in dismantling these ways of being and limited perspectives once and for all. Stopping wishing your intensities away. See them rather as an opportunity to open into the effortless stream of giving.

Breaking isn’t bad. What’s breaking is energetic architecture that isn’t serving us living fully present. Those structures need to break. If they don’t we stay trapped and wonder why our experience of life doesn’t change for the better. Even though many of us try to not feel the break of anything, breaking is natural. The journey of growth is deconstruction and reconstruction. If you aren’t regularly destructing then you probably aren’t growing much either. Don’t try to always make things “good”, let things be “bad” or intense at times. Even celebrate intensity if you can because within it is immense opportunity for something great to be born.

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

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