Welcome to Awakening to Your Story the place to learn, get inspired and be supported with heart-centered solutions for your everyday life. I am Alicia Hartzell and today we are going to be adding to your Emotional Tool Library by looking at your brain, your heart and the 12 inches in between
Let’s call this, the Awakening To Your Story’s Emotional Tool – 12 Inches From Head to Heart.
We talk a lot about your emotional heart and your brain here at Awakening to Your Story. The 12-inch journey it takes to go from the brain to the heart is a really important one that can have a positive emotional and biological effect on how you experience life.
Because we are looking at this as an emotional tool I am going to walk you through each part in detail and give you step-by-step techniques for each.
Your Brain:
Your brain is a powerhouse and there are a number of Emotional Tools where we talk about the brain’s structure, thought patterns, inner narrator, and it’s super power of metacognition.
Emotional Tools Dealing With The Brain:
- Mindfulness & Mental Emotional Time Travel
- Positive Bias & Metacognition
- The Jellyfish Beach
- Your Inner Voice
All of these tools help you understand that you, as a whole being, are the writer director and main character of your story. This means that your brain, while it may seem to run the show, is designed to work for you, not to be your boss. Let me say that again… Your Brain Is Designed To Work For You Not To Be The Boss Of You!
To be the boss you have to take yourself off of autopilot and become an active participant and those 4 tools help you do just that.
Your Heart:
There are a couple Emotional Tools that help you understand some of the inner workings of your emotional heart and how to find heart coherence on a biological level.
Let’s take an even deeper look at the heart today. After all that is where the 12 inches will take us. When we think of our heart we think about it as a muscle that pumps blood through out the body. But did you know that it directs and aligns many systems in your body so that they can function in harmony with each other?
Your physical heart communicates with your brain and body neurologically with nerve impulses, biochemically with hormones and neurotransmitters, biophysically with pressure waves, and energetically with its electromagnetic field.
According to research studies at the Heart Math Institute your heart intelligence is an organized central intelligence that is a high-speed intuitive source of wisdom and clear perception. What does that mean? It means that your heartbeats are not just mechanical pumps moving blood, but rather an intelligent language that influences how you perceive and interact with the world around you. Let that sink in for a moment.
Did you know that the electromagnetic field generated by your heart can be measured many feet outside of your body in all directions? You might have even been able to feel it in other people. A person’s harmonious heart field might have made you feel at ease or more peaceful and calm when you were around them and in their heart field.
Your heart’s nerve impulses, hormone and neurotransmitters, pressure waves, and electromagnetic field are helping to determine how you feel in your body and about the world around you. Making sure your heart is in a state of coherence; where all of these heart factors are at neutral and balanced allows you to create a biological, physical and emotional stability for yourself. A balanced heart and a conscious mind create access in your innate intelligence and enhanced capabilities.
A great way to create a balanced and neutral heart is by activating the Mini Meditation Emotional Tool. Add the Mini Meditation tool to the 12 Inches Brain to Heart tool and you can shift any situation that feels like it is having a negative impact on your life into a more harmonious experience for yourself.
12 Inches From Brain to Heart:
Often when I am working with people their brain and heart are not on the same page. What they are thinking and saying doesn’t match up with how they feel or what they say they know to be true. Their brain and heart are misaligned and often this misalignment or incoherence creates a feeling of frustration. Walking that frustration12-inches to your heart can create internal alignment and harmony, which makes any situation feel better.
This might seem a bit abstract so let’s walk the 12 inches together with a broad example.
Example:
We are going to use the broad idea of worthiness and enoughness as our example. There have been so many times I have gotten into conversations with clients and friends where when all the details are boiled down, what we are talking about is worth, value and enoughness. It could be in regards to their dating life, job experiences, friendships, partnership, parenting, or even the over all feeling about their day-to-day life.
When asked they say, I know I am enough, worth it, a great catch, a good parent, a good friend, deserving of it, or deserving of better. I know I am… you fill in the blank. I am worthy of that thing… you fill in the blank.
When it’s brought up in conversation you say how much you know X, Y or Z but then the problem is you don’t feel it. It is one thing to know it but it is a completely different thing the feel it in every cell of your being and live your life according to that deep knowing.
You may say how much you know it in one breath and yet in another breath you talk about all of the ways you don’t feel it. Then you talk about all of the scenarios in your life where you validate and focus on the suffering. Highlighting where you feel less than, where people treat you poorly, where the dynamic plays out in negative ways that contradict this truth about yourself that you say you know.
This is the place of misalignment, incoherence, contrast or resistance.
Your brain says that positive thing (like I am enough) but your life and feelings just don’t match up. You can feel it; remember often this miss-matched alignment comes across as emotional frustration. That frustration is your indicator to get to work.
This is the perfect time to activate this emotional tool.
Steps To Go From Your Head to Your Heart:
- Notice the misalignment
- Get Neutral and balanced (Mini-Meditation Tool)
- Scan your heart intelligence. (Positive Cellular Memories Tool)
- Walk the negative to the heart.
- Filter the negative idea or thought your heart intelligence.
- Scan your next logical steps.
- Re-pattern thoughts and focus. (Jellyfish Beach Tool)
So let’s walk through these steps with our example.
Step 1- Notice Misalignment
You feel the frustration and notice the misalignment. Your heart rate is up your mind may be circling the negative feelings. This is your mental, emotional and biological queue to get your heart and mind to neutral and back in balance.
Step 2- Get Neutral
Activate your Mini Meditation – Stop for a moment and close your eyes. With your mind’s eye visualize your life and the situations that you are in as a movie playing out before you. Now take your dominant hand and place it on your heart and press firmly. Take a deep breath in and out and visualize everything in that movie stopping.
Your hand on your heart is the pause button to the movie of your life. There is no need to think about any of the details in the movie because it is all on pause, frozen right there in time. Take as much time as you need breathing deeply. Feel your heart rhythm finding it’s way back into coherence. All of your heart’s intelligent language is pumping through your body getting you back into balance.
Step 3- Scan Heart Intelligence
Now it is time to use that central intelligence and high-speed intuitive source of wisdom of the heart as we now scan from your heart field. Scan for moments where you felt good, where life felt full. We are scanning for Positive Cellular Memories. This is another great emotional tool. Scan for moments where there was joy moving through you. Scan for moments where your heart felt the thrill of being you. Let every cell of your being bask in those positive feelings as you are fortifying your heart coherence.
Step 4- Walk the Negative to The Heart
From this place of balance with your eyes still closed, your life still on pause, scan for the thought or main idea that originally knocked you off kilter. For the example lets use the broad idea of, “I deserve better than this.” Remember you are on pause so just find the thought don’t activate the feeling of the thought or the images associated with it.
With your hand still on your heart visualize pulling that thought down to the coherence of your heart field. Take another deep breath and just be there with the thought for a moment.
Step 5- Heart Intelligence Filter
Still on pause let that thought be translated by or filtered through your heart intelligence. I like to visualize the negative thought as dark and my heart field as light that washes over it and through it. The original idea, “I deserve better than this.”
Washed with your heart’s intelligence and light; “I am deserving. I am capable of having and experiencing more. I want to feel good. I am worth more than this.”
Notice that feeling of being fortified. Your coherence starts to nudge out any of the negative. “I want to feel free to be all of me. I am worthy of good and great things. My heart can hold all of those good things. I am worth it… I am worth feeling really good and having good things pour into my life. That is what every cell of me wants and knows I deserve. All of this is true… all of this is my truth and my reality.”
Step 6- Scan For Next Logical Steps
We are going to ask and then listen. While still basking in that harmonious energy, ask your heart how you can bring this knowing, and coherence into your life moving forward. What are your next logical steps that align with this truth and feeling? What are the thoughts or strings of thought that you need to carry into your life once you press play on this movie that is your life? Allow your mind to ask your heart for guidance. And then you listen.
Now you have created a deep and cellular ownership for what you know to be true. Your mind knows you are deserving and worthy and now you have the feeling to back it up. Along with the feeling you have some next logical steps to create heart-aligned movement forward.
Step 7- Re-Pattern Thoughts and Focus
Remember what you think is directly linked to how you feel and what shows up in your life. You will want to take the ideas and stings of thought that came from your heart intelligence and focus on them as much as possible. Repetition is key.
The tendency may be to follow the old pattern of thinking and you may fall back into a state of miss alignment, but this time you know better what your heart wants and knows to be true. You have brought into the forefront of your thinking this heart-centered approach so keep reaching for those aligned thoughts. Keep moving forward with those aligned next logical steps. You know the thoughts and ideas that will get you back to peace and in harmony within yourself, so keep choosing them.
If you need help re-patterning your mind to hold those thoughts you can use the Jellyfish Beach Emotional Tool.
Ok, I know this is a lot of information. Just take it slow and keep coming back to your heart. I am here if you have questions or need help along the way. Leave your comments, like and share this video and post, subscribe to my YouTube channel, and know that until next time I am holding a place of love for your inner alignment, harmony and heart coherence is undeniable.
