In this age of Aquarius, we are worshippers of the brain. A lot of our society is based on scholastic achievement. Who has the best grades, the best test scores, the best and highest degrees and who is the smartest, brightest and most innovative in our communities? Who has the highest paying jobs and the biggest and nicest houses and other measures of success as defined by our modern day society? Jobs or careers in left-brain fields such as science, engineering or medicine are more valued than those in the more right-brain fields such as arts or creative fields. We believe that the brain is the most important organ in the body and when we are “brain dead”, we are considered dead.
Some of our biggest fears are being in a vegetative state with little to no brain function, growing old and demented and losing our intellectual capacities, or going “crazy” and losing our minds to severe mental health disorders such as Schizophrenia. People who have mental challenges or disorders are stigmatized, marginalized, mocked and/or looked down upon in our society. In contrast, we look up to those who are viewed as more intelligent or smart such as tech big wigs, scientists, those in positions of authority, and doctors and even those, such as politicians, who may use their brains for nefarious aims. We sometimes wrongly assume that those in positions of authority are more intelligent than us or that they were promoted or assigned to those positions based on hard work or merit. However, we have to remember that those with more narcissistic tendencies and therefore, have less capacity for empathy, seek out positions of power more readily than the average person in society. Because they are very gifted at being self-promoting and tend to have less fear and are generally better at risk-taking behaviors, those with more narcissistic qualities are more likely to be in positions of power. However, there is something to be said for nepotism, favoritism, being compromised, being easy to control and other less-than-ideal factors playing into the reasons behind why people are promoted to positions of power.
What most of us fail to realize is that the heart is far more powerful than the brain. According to the Institute of HeartMath in the United States, the heart has its own energy field which generates 60 times more electrical output than the brain. The heart also secretes hormones along with the pineal gland and pituitary glands in the brain to strengthen our sense of intuition, an inner knowing without necessarily having any evidence to support this knowing. Most people are socialized to override their intuition with over analysis of the brain. However, it usually doesn’t work out well to ignore your intuition in favor of analysis even when the intuition doesn’t make “sense” while the analysis does. Intuitive knowing, after all, is a more advanced state of awareness than thinking is. In other words, the heart is far more intelligent and wise than the brain when it comes to matters of perception. There is a saying that goes, “the brain thinks, the heart knows.”
Did you know that there are more nerves going from the heart to the brain than the other way around? Did you know that the heart secretes hormones that can cure many diseases, including cancer? According to a Dr. David Vesely, chief of endocrinology at James A Haley VA Hospital in Tampa and professor at the University of South Florida, heart hormones can kill up to 97% of all cancers in cell cultures within 2 hours. Abnormal heart rhythms can be triggered by negative or anxious emotional states. In contrast, one can reinstate more normal heart rhythms with deep abdominal breathing to stimulate a state of calm and by affirmations, meditations, visualizations or any other coping skills that refocuses the body and mind to think more positively and calmly. Equally important, we should limit our exposure to any television, media or activities that seek to instill fear or division.
At this time in history, we are more divided than ever. We are pressured to choose more and more ways to identify ourselves into more and more boxes regarding our sexuality, gender, race, beliefs and ideologies. We are given 2 sides to choose from whether that be Pro Life or Pro Choice, All Lives Matter or Black Lives Matter, Republican or Democrat. And those are just a few examples. All this does us is get us to fight with each other and keeps us all in a lower vibrational state. It keeps us divided and easier to manipulate by those in power that lack empathy or compassion and whose intellects may be guided by more sinister, narcissistic, sociopathic or psychopathic motives and agendas.
It is of utmost importance that we aim to embrace the power of our heart consciousness both individually and collectively. We must learn to love ourselves and others and be forgiving of ourselves and others. We must not censor dissenting voices no matter how much we disagree. We must allow for freedoms of beliefs and ideologies with mutual respect as long as no one is intending harm to others. David Icke, author of “Remember Who You Are”, writes, “There is a war within most people between their head and their heart, and the head normally wins. It is time to change that, and in doing so change the world from a prison to a paradise.”