by Cathy Hazel Adams
In our transformational energy healing sessions, we always start by “dropping down” out of our heads and into the field of the heart. We do this because in order to be able to access the infinite possibilities that are open to us, we must leave our left brain’s busy, anxious and controlling linear thought process and go to a place of peace, relaxation and inner awareness – one in which we’re still present and aware in the physical, but also more open and accepting of inner information (a more right brain focus). I often explain the field of the heart in terms of the Christian Cross: the horizontal axis represents the physical realm, and the vertical axis represents the inner, spiritual realm. When you stand at the intersection, you stand in both areas and can see down all roads.
The field of the heart is our human point of access to the Unified Field, which is the Universal or Divine consciousness. This Universal Mind, or unified field, by definition holds within it ALL possible realities and experiences, and ALL individually aware points of consciousness (including you and me). It is the All. So when we open up our connection to the All, we’re aware of ourselves as individualized personalities, with our personal life situations and experiences, but we’re also aware of ourselves as something greater – as existing beyond and containing the lives that we know.
Being there puts us in a state of neutrality (the non-attachment of the Hindus and Buddhists). This is not a cold, uncaring, apathetic state, but is instead a warm, flexible, deeply loving and expansive place. In it we’re no longer pushed and pulled by the circumstances and emotions of the moment, but are instead deeply grounded in an inner serenity and peace. People throughout the ages have attained this state through meditation, but the good news is, a few quiet moments and a conscious desire to drop down to the field of the heart will get you there very quickly. Dr. Bartlett tells a story of running into some Buddhist monks in the elevator after they’d attended one of his seminars, and how they were laughing and saying: Here we’ve spent all this time meditating to attain this state when all we had to do was come to your seminar and learn to drop down to the field of the heart!
From this expanded, more serene perspective, we become less vulnerable to the traumas and dramas in our lives. We feel less stressed, less fearful; we start perceiving that we have available to us many other possible experiences and outcomes. And because we are identifying with the All, we feel more connected to others and the world, and can see them (and their actions) with less fear, anger and judgment, and more compassion, calm and insight. This does not mean we become blind, complacent, and acquiescent: We actually become more keenly aware, have more understanding of situations and motivations, and are smarter about how to handle them. As one of the scientists with the Heart Math Institute says in the documentary film I Am: When we get angry and fearful we get “stupid.” We are at our best when we operate from the field of the heart.
My own spiritual teacher, Seth (the Jane Roberts books), refers to this state as “psychological time,” and says it’s a great way to become calmer and less stressed because you’re aware of yourself outside of the space-time structure: you create psychological elbowroom, a “Spacious Present” – breathing space between and around the constraints of physical time. He says also that it’s the state to start from if you want to increase intuitive abilities or explore expanded states of consciousness.
How To Get There
First, start with the physiology: Relax. Loosen and drop your shoulders and arms, take a nice big breath in and out. Smile if you want to.
– Balloons and bricks: One of my favorite methods, Dr. Bartlett (creator of the Matrix Energetics® healing modality) taught this one at a seminar. Imagine helium balloons latching on to busy, negative, confusing thoughts and pulling them up and out of your head. Then imagine bricks latching onto the feelings and emotions in your solar plexus, and pulling them down and out through your feet and into the earth. You will feel a lovely, clear, open space in the middle. That’s You, in the Heart.
– Eyeballs on a slide: A Richard Bartlett suggestion. He imagines placing his eyeballs on a sliding board and letting them splash down into a pool of water in front of his chest.
– Little Hands Opening Shutters: Mine. I discovered this one before I even knew about Matrix Energetics®, and my clients love it. Simply imagine a set of closed window shutters over your chest, then imagine little arms and hands coming out of your armpits, and reaching around and opening them up wide.
– Where am I in relation to the field of the heart? Taught at Matrix Energetics® seminars, the question is its own answer, i.e., is self-fulfilling. I often add the words “of Creation” to the end of the question, because it helps unstick me from personal association with heart and love, and takes me right into the Source area of creation: the Loving Unified Field of All Consciousness.
– The simple request and intention: “I’d like to drop now into the field of the heart.” Then allow it to happen. You can’t make it happen, you agree to it – it’s a surrender.
Getting to and staying in the heart field, like most things, gets better with practice. If you keep doing it, the Heart will become your automatic “go-to” in every situation, and eventually, you’ll live there all day, every day.
Cathy Hazel Adams is a practitioner of quantum, multidimensional energetic transformation and healing, and a Matrix Energetics® Certified Practitioner. Find this and other articles, as well as her 4-hr “Download For Home Study,” Living From The Heart: The Key To Peace, Freedom & Creative Empowerment
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