I’m just sitting at my desk feeling a bit down. I really don’t know what the heck I’m doing! I have one voice in my head that keeps telling me that everything will be fine and that changing my career is the best thing for me…and then I have another voice that says, ‘are you freaking nuts – who do you think you are?’
No matter what, my journey has changed course and I either need to embrace it or struggle through it…yes, the choice is mine! I just wish I could convince the negative voice in my head that following my heart is the right decision.
Heck – I shouldn’t get so down on myself. I’ve been following my head and logical reasoning all my life. To just switch over to feeling what my heart tells me is quite a massive change. I really need to have some patience with myself – don’t I?
(I’m now smiling).
See…writing can help you to change your self-talk. Read my article that I wrote the other day entitled, Journaling – a way to influence your self-talk for the better
Anyway…yesterday I watched some videos within the HeartMath training materials. HeartMath is an organisation based out of California. As noted on the website, HeartMath was, “founded by Doc Childre in 1991 out of a deep care for people and the planet, and a desire to develop effective and scalable methods and technologies to help people self-regulate emotions and behaviours”
The site also explains that “The HeartMath mission is: to facilitate a fundamental shift in health, well-being and consciousness.”
When I heard about HeartMath at a talk I went to in London a couple weekends ago I had to find out more. I then met up with a representative in the UK – a very lovely woman that happens to live 5 miles away. (Coincidence or what?)
The organisation sells a device/software that you can plug into your computer and clip to your ear that monitors your heartbeat. In addition to monitoring your heartbeat the software provides training on how to get your heart to beat in the most optimal way possible.
At first I was blown away by it – there I was sitting at my computer watching my heart beat in a very jagged harsh way and soon after the beat changed to a nice smooth wave motion. The way that I was able to change my heart beat was to follow the practices offered through the software.
Not only did I change the way that my heart was beating but I felt immensely peaceful as a result!
I was so impressed that I have enlisted my hubby and father-in-law to partake in daily HeartMath training (it only takes 5 minutes a day). The literature explains that if you do the daily practices for a couple weeks you will feel better, look younger, have more energy, recover from difficult situations quicker and have overall improved health. Yes please – I’ll take some of that!
So…dad, hubby and I have all participated in the training for 2 days now. Yes – it’s early days.
Silly me – the whole reason for telling you all that is that when I was watching the HeartMath videos I learned that your heart actually has its own brain/nervous system. And that the heart sends signals to the brain just as much as the brain sends singles to the heart! This is all scientific stuff too – no airy fairy woowooo stuff here.
I found it fascinating to think that my heart is actually much more than an organ that pushes blood around my body! I think the video explained that your heart has 50 times more electromagnetivity than your brain…so every time it beats it sends out signals around your body and beyond. Also – you can feel your heart…just by focusing on it you can feel it…when you have heartache or when you feel lots of love. So…my whole objective to follow my heart is getting a wee bit easier! I’m not only learning how to feel it, at will, but I’m also learning on how to make it beat in a way that might make me look even younger than I already do (hehehehe).
It’s all so cool. I’ll keep you posted on my HeartMath progress.
Big smiles, X
