Science & Heart Meditation

The heart may be the healing link that helps us re-establish a connection between mind and body. By encouraging love, we restore balance to this fundamental system of human health - and the wider world.

Science review: Recent scientific research by Dr Candace Pert, who has discovered a communication network in the body running through the immune system, seems to confirm the heart-mind link. She describes a bodywide memory system made up of neuropeptides and their receptors, supported by the heart and the thymus gland. These neuropeptides pervade the body in what Pert describes as a 'psychoimmunoendocrine' system (relating to body, mind and spirit). Understanding these ideas can bring about a paradigm shift in how we protect our health - by loving.

Meditation practice: performing heart coherence

Begin by sitting and, as you inhale visualize breathing into the heart area (not the heart organ, but the heart of yourself) and focus your attention there. Try doing this as you hold a crystal to your heart chakra. Imagine a feeling of love, and let it trigger warmth and peace in your chest area. This tells the emotional brain that everything is okay, and thus the nervous system becomes balanced. Relax as you inhale and exhale, for about 20 minutes. If your heart is still not coherent, watch it become so as you continue breathing. Do this technique daily until you get the hang of relaxing physically while remaining mentally alert.

May all be happy, healthy, & whole. 

Love & Wellness, 

Nicolasa

Note: Meditation Quote & Science Review from the Book of Tibetan Medicine by Ralph Quinlan Forde