Did you also know that the month of February has been declared as"American Heart Month" ? This declaration relates to keeping our hearts strong and healthy and free of disease but have you ever thought about the emotional health of your heart? It has been found that the electrical impulse of the heart is approximately 60 times greater than that of the brain and is the most powerful generator of the magnetic field in the body. Recent studies have shown that the electromagnetic field which radiates from the heart center is far greater in strength than that of the brain; In fact, more than five thousand times greater. Various experiments have found that one person's heart waves can travel up to a distance of 5-6 feet, affecting another person's brainwaves resulting in an energy exchange that can be both positive or negative. So with this knowledge, then it is safe to say that if the energy of your heart field can affect another person's brain, then it too can affect your own brain.
Emotions can run high and low and are usually broken down into two categories - "LOVE" and "FEAR". Love is a natural emotion that we are born with and is generated through the heart center. Fear on the other hand is an emotion we are taught and is generated from the mind or the ego. We have all heard the expressions: "follow your heart", "let your heart lead," "do what your heart tells you", etc. Upon having to make a decision, do you tend to use logic, or do you follow your heart? I must admit, I've been in situations where I've had to make a split decision (head or heart?) Some decisions are obvious and some are not so easy peasy.
In order to figure out which area you mostly draw energy from, just ask yourself a few questions. Are you a risk taker and trust that things will work out in your favor? Do you make decisions based on your feelings as opposed to logic? Do you feel other people's pain on a deep level which affects you for days ? Are you an animal lover or animal activist ? If you said yes to any of these questions, then most likely you have a heart center that is activated and open and this is the area where you are most likely to make a decision from.
Fear on the otherhand uses the ego mind when making decisions and usually likes to play it safe. As the ego is responsible for making us feel safe and secure, it also is responsible for rationalizing and making sense out of things. It never even gives us the opportunity to receive divine help from this vast and wonderful universe, allowing for blessings that may come our way. The ego does not depend on a higher power, but rather, relies on it's own merit to thrive out there in the world. For example, staying in a less than favorable job, marriage or friendship. The ego mind will rationalize that although these relationships are negative, abusive and traumatizing, it will convince you to stay with language such as this: "Although my boss is mean and nasty, in an economy such as this, I'm lucky to have a job". Or, "my husband pays no attention to me and is very condescending, but I'll put up with it because I am so afraid to be alone and can't pay the bills on my own". Well, you get the idea. The ego mind keeps us separate from love by using the emotion of fear; it often tells us that we are not good enough and because of this, we are always trying to prove our worth to others. The ego mind operates from a selfish and "ME" perspective; always trying to seek pleasure and instant gratification. It does not like to be inconvenienced and has no patience. As spiritual as one may be and may understand the difference between using the heart vs the mind, as long as we are humans living on earth, it will be a constant struggle to tame the ego mind and keep it at bay.
In order to figure out which area you mostly draw energy from, just ask yourself a few questions. Are you a risk taker and trust that things will work out in your favor? Do you make decisions based on your feelings as opposed to logic? Do you feel other people's pain on a deep level which affects you for days ? Are you an animal lover or animal activist ? If you said yes to any of these questions, then most likely you have a heart center that is activated and open and this is the area where you are most likely to make a decision from.
Fear on the otherhand uses the ego mind when making decisions and usually likes to play it safe. As the ego is responsible for making us feel safe and secure, it also is responsible for rationalizing and making sense out of things. It never even gives us the opportunity to receive divine help from this vast and wonderful universe, allowing for blessings that may come our way. The ego does not depend on a higher power, but rather, relies on it's own merit to thrive out there in the world. For example, staying in a less than favorable job, marriage or friendship. The ego mind will rationalize that although these relationships are negative, abusive and traumatizing, it will convince you to stay with language such as this: "Although my boss is mean and nasty, in an economy such as this, I'm lucky to have a job". Or, "my husband pays no attention to me and is very condescending, but I'll put up with it because I am so afraid to be alone and can't pay the bills on my own". Well, you get the idea. The ego mind keeps us separate from love by using the emotion of fear; it often tells us that we are not good enough and because of this, we are always trying to prove our worth to others. The ego mind operates from a selfish and "ME" perspective; always trying to seek pleasure and instant gratification. It does not like to be inconvenienced and has no patience. As spiritual as one may be and may understand the difference between using the heart vs the mind, as long as we are humans living on earth, it will be a constant struggle to tame the ego mind and keep it at bay.
On this Valentine Day weekend, the Spirit World has encouraged me to remind you that the most exhilarating of all human emotions is LOVE. It is the glue that connects us all and it is nature's incredible way of keeping the human species alive and reproducing. As previously mentioned above, allowing love to flow through your heart center can affect your brain. When a person has love in their life, the brain has shown to have more of the good hormones such as dopamine and serotonin. Scans of the human brain have also found that when a person falls in love, the frontal cortex which is the area that is responsible for criticizing and judging, shuts down. I guess this is where the phrase, "LOVE IS BLIND" comes from. These scans have also shown that when love flows, another part of the brain that shuts down is the part that controls negative emotions or fear. So the way I see it, we can give the ego mind the boot and rely on the emotion of love to feel safe and secure.
Allowing love to flow freely through your heart center begins with you. When you love yourself first, others will be drawn to this love and all of the barriers will disappear. Some people reading this may be wondering, "how do I let more love in"? If you were hurt in the past which led you to build walls around your heart, I urge you to think about how you are going to start the forgiveness process. Most people who hurt others or who lash out, are people who are hurting themselves. Although each situation is different, think about the person who hurt you. Was their hurtful actions drawn from their heart, or their ego mind ? You be the judge. As people may be hurting, the only way they know how to feel better is to transfer that hurt onto others. It does not excuse their behavior and it does not mean you need to allow them back into your life but as the saying goes - "To forgive is to set a prisoner free only to discover that the prisoner was you".
I hope you enjoyed my LOVE BLOG and I hope this gave you some food for thought. After all, as we all know, "love makes the world go around". From my heart to yours......I love you.....❤️
Namaste
Kim Russo
Psychic Medium / Intuitive Healer & Counselor
www.Kimthehappymedium.com
