Listening with the Heart
LISTENING WITH THE HEART
The heart is not just a pump to pump blood throughout the body. It is also an organ that receives and processes information from the world around you which many of the people of the world depend. When asked where within ourselves are we, in our Western culture most of us would point to our head, our brain. But the indigenous and ancient hunting-gathering cultures would point to their chest, to their heart. In living within our brain and not our heart we have lost much of what is so important in life, we miss hearing what other life, plants and animals, have to say to us and have to offer us. We need to practice moving our attention downward from our head to our chest, and listen from our heart.
The heart has within it neural structures not unlike that of the brain, and it has a direct connection to the brain in order to process what the heart perceives of the world, feelings and emotions that our sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch miss perceiving. Again to bring what the heart perceives we need to move our attention downwards to listening with our heart and it helps to close our eyes and shut down our other senses as when we are in an altered state of trance. This trance, whether ecstatic or hypnotic, opens a whole new world to us. Attending to our breath helps move this listening to our chest, but then by listening to the beat of our heart, listen to the beat of the drum or rattle, our listening is moved to our heart. This is why the Cuyamungue Method is so effective. Relearning listening from the heart opens the world to us, to what the animal spirits and the plant spirits have to say and what they provide for us. This is how the ancients learned what the plants have of offer. I have been using ecstatic trance to listen to the plants as my spirit guides. The plant world has so much to offer us for our health and for healing if we open ourselves to them, our plant ancestors.
The heart is not just a pump to pump blood throughout the body. It is also an organ that receives and processes information from the world around you which many of the people of the world depend. When asked where within ourselves are we, in our Western culture most of us would point to our head, our brain. But the indigenous and ancient hunting-gathering cultures would point to their chest, to their heart. In living within our brain and not our heart we have lost much of what is so important in life, we miss hearing what other life, plants and animals, have to say to us and have to offer us. We need to practice moving our attention downward from our head to our chest, and listen from our heart.
The heart has within it neural structures not unlike that of the brain, and it has a direct connection to the brain in order to process what the heart perceives of the world, feelings and emotions that our sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch miss perceiving. Again to bring what the heart perceives we need to move our attention downwards to listening with our heart and it helps to close our eyes and shut down our other senses as when we are in an altered state of trance. This trance, whether ecstatic or hypnotic, opens a whole new world to us. Attending to our breath helps move this listening to our chest, but then by listening to the beat of our heart, listen to the beat of the drum or rattle, our listening is moved to our heart. This is why the Cuyamungue Method is so effective. Relearning listening from the heart opens the world to us, to what the animal spirits and the plant spirits have to say and what they provide for us. This is how the ancients learned what the plants have of offer. I have been using ecstatic trance to listen to the plants as my spirit guides. The plant world has so much to offer us for our health and for healing if we open ourselves to them, our plant ancestors.
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