Think With the Heart

[Bordmb]

I was watching "Spirit Science" a while back and came upon an episode that mentioned you could "think" with your heart. Being the curious little scamp that I am, I decided I would give it a try and I was very surprised with the results.
When I first tried it, I simply set more focus on my heart and something changed; it was as if my body already knew how to do this, even wanted to. This shift felt natural. A smile spread across my face and the feeling of ease and bliss filled me. I couldn't believe what I had stumbled upon!
I've been doing this more and more each day, and within just a few days, my friends had commented on a change in my demeanor. They said I seem more compassionate and peaceful, granted they think it's weird, but I feel great and I am infinitely more patient.

I know that some of you will probably think this is simply a placebo effect from watching the video, but if you're skeptical, why not try it out? Simply think using your heart, if you don't like it, or if you think it's pointless, go back to your old ways, but maybe, just maybe, you'll discover what I have and you too can share in this gift.

If anyone else has had this shift, please feel free to share how it makes you feel. Also, anyone that thinks I'm full of it, feel free to share that too. 

Good day, and happy travels.

[Mini stapler]

What does that mean, to think with the heart? How etc?

I do believe you that you feel different after doing what ever it is you did, I just don't really understand what that really means to be thinking with the heart...

[Xanth]

It's spiritual jargon for "being nice"... it means to do things "just because" it's the right thing to do and not because you'll get something from doing it.

It doesn't LITERALLY mean "think with your heart"... unless you mean the above, then yes. 

[NoY]

it does literally mean think with your heart
your heart has its own mind (not brain) although the heart does have its own grey matter
i have been doing it for 16 years and its awesome

:NoY:

[Bordmb]

NoY is much closer to what I am trying to convey than Xanth.

Let me try it this way. Do you know how speed readers can read so fast? They stop saying the words in their head which is typical to how most people think. Now, once you can picture thinking as more of a feeling, or intent, the same way NVC is accomplished, then you can shift your focus from your brain to your heart and achieve an altered view on the world.

Once you have this view, sure, you'll start doing nice things for little to no reason if you wish, but that's not all there is to it.

[NoY]

it makes it much easier to read and hear spirits also because your brain is not getting in the way
after time you can see with your heart also

i read once that god talks to you from the heart so i thought hey might as well move there then and i did

:NoY:

[Xanth]

NoY is much closer to what I am trying to convey than Xanth.

Let me try it this way. Do you know how speed readers can read so fast? They stop saying the words in their head which is typical to how most people think. Now, once you can picture thinking as more of a feeling, or intent, the same way NVC is accomplished, then you can shift your focus from your brain to your heart and achieve an altered view on the world.

Once you have this view, sure, you'll start doing nice things for little to no reason if you wish, but that's not all there is to it.

Not at all.  You don't realize it... but we're saying the same thing.  Most of the topics on this forum get many responses, and most of the time everyone is saying the same thing, just in their own way using their own understanding and their own terminology.  Metaphors folks... they're not to be taken literally.  It's about recognizing the metaphors someone is using in order to not only understand what they're trying to say, but so you can respond in a manner which they can understand them.

Anyway, of course that's not all there is to it.  It's the tip of the iceberg!  

We're talking the difference between what Tom Campbell calls knowing things at the "intellectual" level and knowing things at the "being" level.

It's the difference between finding a wallet full of $1000 and giving it back because someone saw you do it and you don't want to be called a thief... and returning the wallet simply because it's the right thing to do.  One decision is based on Fear... the other decision is based on Love.  One decision you think before doing... the other decision you do before thinking.

Once you've taken that lesson into your "being", and you have moved closer to becoming Love, you've increased your quality of consciousness to the point where things such as the stuff we discuss on this website start happen 'just because'.

[Little Bibble]

If you read Bruce Moens Afterlife Guidebook he has a chapter on utilising heart intelligence.

I practice heart exercises in a few ways.

1/ Move my awareness to the heart centre (by default it is usually behind the eyes. Another way to centre your awareness on the heart space is to listen to a shamanic drum beat (Something of Byron Metcalfs as he incorporates a 55bpm heart beat rhythm in his tracks. There are many on youtube). Regularly listening to these strengthens your connection to your physical heart and your heart centre.
2/Remembering a time you felt love (Recalling the feeling) and mentally placing that in your heart space is also good practice.
3/ You can get a few hemi-sync heart orientated cds that do these thing well 'The Shaman's Heart' and 'Opening to Love; which are both heart centred.
4/ A while back I was reading about ho'oponopono and how we create our own universe so any negativity in it is as a result of our own negativity and lack of love for self. I practice daily telling myself I love you and all the negativity in the world I have created is not necessary but it is my creation and if I love myself it is not needed. A while back I did a simple focus 10 exercise and just repeated that sentence to myself over and over and felt an incredible sense of euphoria afterwards. A little like time slowed down for me as I walked through the busy london commute streets.

So I think anything where you focus on your heart is a step in the right direction

[majour ka]

Nice post Bordbd. I know what you mean xanth by the jargon quote, but I believe the heart has an energy, mind and intelligence that we can use and be aware of.

Its a wonderful thing when we stumble upon something so gentle yet incredibly potent in its transformative potential and right under our noses as all are.

Ive often thought that we could apply love to every thought and deed and allow love to be the motivator of all actaion and thought then that would transform ourselves and our life experience. Imagine what would happen if evreybody on planet could thaink that way.

Thats the whole point of any of this stuff..peace  

[Xanth]

Nice post Bordbd. I know what you mean xanth by the jargon quote, but I believe the heart has an energy, mind and intelligence that we can use and be aware of.

Its a wonderful thing when we stumble upon something so gentle yet incredibly potent in its transformative potential and right under our noses as all are.

Ive often thought that we could apply love to every thought and deed and allow love to be the motivator of all actaion and thought then that would transform ourselves and our life experience. Imagine what would happen if evreybody on planet could thaink that way.

Thats the whole point of any of this stuff..peace  

I'll just say I completely, utterly, and wholeheartedly agree. 

[Bedeekin]

It's spiritual jargon for "being nice"... it means to do things "just because" it's the right thing to do and not because you'll get something from doing it.

It doesn't LITERALLY mean "think with your heart"... unless you mean the above, then yes. 

Actually... that isn't so. There are neurones in the heart.

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Heart,%20Mind%20and%20Spirit%20%20Mohamed%20Salem.pdf

and

http://subjected2subjectivity.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/thinking-heart.html

There are over 40,000 neurones in the heart. They are wired differently than the brain, but are there non-the-less

[Xanth]

Actually... that isn't so. There are neurones in the heart.

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Heart,%20Mind%20and%20Spirit%20%20Mohamed%20Salem.pdf

and

http://subjected2subjectivity.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/thinking-heart.html

There are over 40,000 neurones in the heart. They are wired differently than the brain, but are there non-the-less

That's pretty interesting stuff!  Thanks for linking them. 

If you really wanna get deep though... we don't think with anything, cause everything is virtual anyway!  ^_~  LoL

[Bedeekin]

True... but that is so deep it can become nihilistic and has the potential to cease discussion of anything... because 'everything is virtual'.

The virtual that we talk about is the most physical virtual we can get... to the point that we really only have one bar to set it to... that being physical reality. The lowest common denominator. Regardless of how VR our reality is... it is THE most consistent and persistent reality and therefor the most physical we are going to get. So in essence... although this reality is 'virtual' it is very physical to the point of being the only thing we can equate to being physical. We cant get any more physical.

Can I repeat the same idea more times?   

Synchronicity strikes by-the-way... I am reading Dr Bruce Lipton's book 'Spontaneous Evolution'... it's MBT for biology. Between my last post on this thread and this one... I have just read a chapter called 'The Sacred Heart and Coherence' I am going to transcribe what I have just read, cant find it on the internet...

"To paraphrase and old Connie Francis song, our heart does, indeed, have a mind of its own. In the 1970s, physiologists John and Beatrice Lacey of the Fels Research institute discovered that the heart possessed its own independent nervous system, which they referred to as "the brain of the heart." At least 40,000 neurons in the heart are used to communicate with consciousness related brain centres including the amygdala, the thalamus, and cerebral cortex. When first discovered, scientists assumed these cardiac neurons were used to simply process signals sent from the brain above.
      The Laceys' research revealed an entirely different scenario. Their studies showed that the heart does not automatically obey the brain's messages but that it actually interprets neural signals and bases a response on the individual's current emotional status. The Laceys concluded that the heart employs its own distinctive logic and that heartbeats are not merely the mechanical rhythms of life but, rather, represent an intelligent language"

[NoY]

am i invisible

like i say something its ignored or argued but somebody else says the same thing then its true?

[Bedeekin]

Are you referring to me?

Either way I don't see how. Sorry.

You did say something that I backed up with a bit more objective information with links to websites and a quote I took time to transcribe from a book I'm currently reading.

Is Professor Mohamed Omar Salem the somebody else or is Bruce Lipton PHD the somebody else?

But no.. evidently you aren't because I answered you even if it isn't me you have the gripe with. 

[Xanth]

It is what it is...

[Bordmb]

I love you, Bedeekin. 
Thanks for sharing that.

[Bedeekin]

Haha.. ditto!! No problem.

[majour ka]

I'll just say I completely, utterly, and wholeheartedly agree. 

hahaha !