Heart Coherence & Sneaky Negativity
Heart connection and nervous system regulation are very closely linked. Are you surprised? When you are relaxed, calm, and present, it is easier to connect to the clear center of your heart. When you are connected to your heart, you are not in your worried brain. Your body is physically relaxed. You are not thinking about the worst-case scenario. You can make decisions without overthinking or without a lot of mental processing. You might even receive a “download” to go do something or walk somewhere, and you are met with serendipitous moments and miracles. Heart coherence is life with harmony.
If you have been following @withgoodcare for a while, most of the practices we share and speak about are helpful ways to connect to your heart center. These include mindful practices like yoga, meditation, nature walks, and journaling. As well as taking an honest look at your tendencies, taking responsibility for your part in relationships, creating boundaries, and cultivating daily rhythms and schedules that feel attainable. Heart connection is a daily practice and it allows you to show up to situations with more clarity rather than reactivity. We are human and we can slip into fear and negative emotions, but we have the power to connect to our heart and communicate, move, and create from this place.
Overcome Negativity
Being connected to deep presence & the power of our heart can feel unfamiliar. There may also be negative energies that seek to pull us back to the familiar and potentially small or fearful parts of ourselves. In listening to David Giyham, a leading speaker on the wisdom of Kabbalah, it was empowering to be reminded of some tendencies that you might think are natural or reasonable that are negative energy in disguise.
Number 1: Having competing or multiple desires. This is something that I have struggled with. You might find yourself with a clear vision or a clear goal in mind, but then you are flooded with all these other things you could do or accomplish. Sometimes, this could be great! But it is important to be mindful if all these other “possibilities” are a negative force restricting your heart's desire to come through since you are not as focused and driven to take action on the one clear desire.
Number 2: Time. Where are you allowing time to indicate when and at what pace you are allowed to receive a certain amount of love and abundance? You might think the distance between you and a certain desire - a love connection, career success, etc has to take a certain amount of time. When we are truly connected to our heart, we recognize that it is less about “waiting” for the external thing to come, it is about creating space or becoming the “vessel” for that thing to land in our lives. We have the power to create the space for our heart desires right now. I always laugh when I desire something like a new piece of clothing in my wardrobe, and it’s only after I create physical space in my closet that I receive the exact piece I was hoping for.
Number 3: Limiting Beliefs. This is a very personal one but in my opinion, one of the most potent. Especially since if we are unaware of our own beliefs, we don’t even know we are limited by them. An example could be you have the desire to be financially abundant, but you have a subconscious belief that financial success means unsuccessful personal relationships. You might desire to have a work-life balance but have a subconscious belief that the only way to achieve it is to work hard and compromise your physical health. Your subconscious beliefs are unique to you, what you may have witnessed in childhood or beyond.
Number 4: Being in the energy of taking versus giving. If you are anything like me, you might find yourself getting nervous in situations where you have to speak in front of a group of people or do something that you think is “outside your comfort zone.” A truth bomb landed in my lap, which is that we only feel nervous or anxious in this type of situation when we are seeking to “take” from the audience rather than “give.” What you might be seeing to “take” without knowing it is approval and validation. This energy shift doesn’t have to just relate to public speaking; it could also be in anything you pursue or create. Are you navigating your creations through the energy of giving or taking?
Happy heart-connecting & overcoming negativity. You got this! :) XO, Care
