My admiration of the physical heart caused me to wonder more about the energy and intelligent proper- ties of the inner heart. So one night I asked myself, “If all physical properties are made of frequencies, what kind of frequencies make up the nonphysical inner heart?” I
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focused on my heart center and I noticed I felt more bal- ance, peace, love and fulfillment. I realized these feelings were coming from the electrical energy system surround- ing the physical heart. Talk about a natural high! I wanted more of this.
I asked my heart computer how I could sustain those good feelings in my day-to-day life. I soon found out how. The very next week at work, my boss offered me a new managerial position and told me to think about it for a few days. At first I was excited, but as I considered all the responsibilities of managing a retail food store I be- gan to feel lots of insecurities about the job. My mind took every concern and mulled it over and over. “Would I do well enough? Would people accept me as manager? Would I still have enough time for my family?” As the thoughts raced through my head, I became even more insecure. I tried to forget the whole thing and distract myself with something else, but I was drained and no- ticed I was accumulating more tension and stress. I had a headache that wouldn’t quit. Could all that insecurity have done this to me? Despair set in. “What should I do?” my thoughts kept asking. I was stuck in a room in my mind with four walls and no door. My mind kept re- hashing the negatives versus the positives about the job, and wouldn’t quit.
Finally, after swallowing two aspirin, I remembered my heart and its higher intelligence for making efficient choices in life. Perhaps, if I really made an effort to re- lease my insecure feelings, I’d get a clear answer. I focused
energy on my inner heart computer, hoping to gain some wisdom and clarity. Then I started sending love. I loved the boss who offered me the job, the store clerks, my husband, my son and myself. I felt better and realized that people often go to the heart to find understanding and reassuring feelings of security when times are tough. It wasn’t any big deal. I remembered how I’d gone to my heart for comfort when my grandfather died. In those situations, other people’s words of comfort don’t seem enough to bail you out. The strength to accept and adapt usually has to come from deep inside. Now, by focusing on my real heart feelings, my answers became clear, buoy- ant and strong. I felt a serene knowingness that I should take the job. I felt secure about it.
As my understandings of the heart grew, I realized that society’s mushy, sentimental associations with the word “heart” are such a limitation. We don’t usually think to call on the heart day-to-day for strength or di- rection in the hustle and bustle of life. Why would we, when most of us tend to think of the heart as the flimsy, emotional part of us that often gets us into trouble? In these stress-producing times, most of us misperceive the heart, and miss out on its hidden power of guidance and wisdom.
My contact with the inner heart computer showed me that the heart is not just mushy, soft and emotional —not just something to think about on Valentine’s Day or when we’re falling in love. The heart has many fre-
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and quality of everyday life. We have words to describe these frequency textures, like care, love, forgiveness and compassion. In one riveting moment in the heart, it all became clear—these heart frequencies were keys for un- locking intuition and more intelligent understanding in my life. I understood why all the great teachers and founders of the world religions told their followers to love and care for each other. Love and care are access codes to the deeper heart wisdom, to your higher intelli- gence programs. Heart understanding is a major shift past ordinary thinking. It gives a wider understanding than is possible with just the analytical or deductive process of linear thinking. You draw more heart intelligence into your awareness as you relax the mind and listen to your inner heart feelings. This process can give you high-speed answers for your big and small choices in life. The heart is a fountain of wisdom and intuitive suggestions, yet so few people know how to use it.
Your heart intelligence offers programs vastly dif- ferent from the isolated mind programs most people live by. Ambition, judgmentalness, greed, hatred and envy are mind frequencies that have their roots in fear and insecurity. The mind runs programs of fear and insecu- rity when it is cut off from the heart. Without a heart connection, the mind is left on its own to build deduc- tive programs to run our lives. As a child, I had heard that love casts out fear. Now I understood why. We re- ally are creating our own lives as we go, by the thoughts and feelings we allow to operate in our system.
As I continued to practice focusing on the heart, I discovered which feelings activated the heart computer. My heart guidance would encourage me to try attitudes of patience, kindness, appreciation, humor and fun. Each time I followed through, and applied the inner wisdom, I noticed that stress would disappear and I’d feel on top of the world again!
It really is each human being’s choice of which thoughts or feelings we allow to run in our system and for how long. Sure, it doesn’t seem that way. But with practice, you can learn to adjust your thoughts and atti- tudes. That’s what self-help programs attempt to facilitate, but they’d work much better if the heart were included. Social programming and habit have trained most of us to live in the mind, caught up in frequencies of insecurity, worry, resentment and frustration, trying to figure a way out. Fear and insecurity are meant to be warning signals, alerting us to our need to take action to protect ourselves from harm—heart action! But, if we stay too long in these frequencies, we harm ourselves and di- lute our energy resources. Our minds keep repeating these energy-draining thought patterns, and our lives stay stuck on the same old stress merry-go-round.
By choosing to activate and sincerely feel heart fre- quencies, like love, care and compassion, you widen your receptivity to the higher intelligence that these heart fre- quencies draw to you. In feeling them, you create a deeper perception of yourself and others. This activates the en-
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Your heart and mind then work together in a creative joint venture.
Most people intuitively know this, but haven’t had the step-by-step technology or tools to learn to constantly live from the heart. The heart is what gives you self-em- powerment, resulting in self-security and self-esteem. Your heart intelligence is your real teacher—because it ulti- mately has to confirm or reject what any other teacher says.