From: ♥Angel Love♥

Subject: Common Sense: Follow Your Heart To The Right Answer

Common Sense: Follow Your Heart To The Right Answer
By Pete Koerner

We commonly refer to sense, senses, or sensation, in the context of sight, hearing, touch, etc. We also use the word sense in reference to intelligence or logic. The fact is that the ears, eyes, nose, skin, and mouth/tongue, are not senses - they are "antennae," or receptors, that pick up specific types of energy or vibration. Sensing is a function of the brain and nervous system - the perception and processing of the information detected by the so-called "sense organs." Sense, in other words, is "what you have in your head.
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You can sense your environment in many ways. You can use your physical senses - the part of your brain that receives and processes information sent back from the "sense-organ-antennae/receptors" - and you can use other senses to pick-up on people's moods, or impending danger, and other future possibilities that aren't immediately available to your physical senses. We've all picked-up the telephone, for instance, and the person we were going to call was already on the line trying to call us. Unfortunately, it isn't always easy to make practical use out of those things we pick-up through our more "subtle" sensory abilities.


Those sensations we get that tell us to not get on a particular airplane, or not to get in the car with someone, or when something bad is about to happen, or when someone's mood has shifted, are often called "extra-sensory" perceptions because they cannot be perceived through the physical senses. Everyone has these abilities; though most do not have ready, easy access to them, or reliable command, or control, over them - and most people simply don't practice with the determination we, as babies, practiced seeing and speaking and walking, for instance. Thus, people remain largely uninformed and frightened by some of their most natural and most powerful abilities - and unable to control or utilize them.


The bottom line is that not everyone has perfect eyesight, or hearing; physical senses are not common to everyone. But our "extra-sensory" abilities are not attached to the highly-variable physical state of the human body; they are functions of mind - and we all have access to that. Likewise, we all have access to the wisdom of the heart - that heartfelt "sense" that we are doing the "right" thing, or of what the right thing is. This information is available to everyone who chooses to access and use it; the subtle hint from our heart - and not the perception and thinking in the brain - is what is commonly referred to as "Common Sense.
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The next time you say, "Darn! I knew I should have...," or "I knew it!" just ask yourself what part of you "knew" what was right, and what part of you "did" differently - and why these parts aren't communicating with each other better. And when you hear sayings like, "Think long, think wrong," or "Go with your FIRST instinct (or answer)," you can see how they are all referring to the same source of information - valuable information that is only available to our common sense. This information isn't subject to the perceptions and judgments we store in our brains (all of which can lie to us...) so it is much more reliable and accurate than information from our physical senses - even though it takes more faith to follow guidance that isn't immediately and physically identifiable with our five-senses. Believe it or not, the heart is smarter than the brain. It's up to you to learn how to listen to the wisdom of the heart and respond.


When someone tells you that, "You aren't using the good sense God gave you," or that, "You aren't using Common Sense," they are simply reminding you that you have more resources available to you than you are using at the time. Many call common sense, the "wisdom of the heart." Oftentimes, when we "use our heads," we are relying on prejudices and fear-based programming that doesn't allow us to consider certain possibilities that might be available to us if we were to use our heart rather than our head.


The heart has been shown to be a "thinking" organ - just like the brain. The brain is an electrical processor that controls our nervous system (and the rest of the body via nerve signals); and the heart also generates electrical signals and distributes information, oxygen, and nutrients, throughout the body - including to the brain. When we process thoughts, some people seem to "hear" the thoughts in their heads, while others may be more visual or kinesthetic, etc. But when we truly KNOW something, we know it in our hearts - deep in the center of our being. Think of all the references throughout history to "believing with all of your heart," or, "As you believe in your heart..." Trust yourself; and trust your heart to always know what to do.


The next time you have a question, or an important decision to make, try this: Relax; Close your eyes (do this part only if it is safe and practical to do so); Take a deeper-than-normal breath in through your nose and release it; Place your hand on your heart and take another deep breath while allowing the clutter, chaos, worry, or fear, in your mind to be blown away as you release your breath; and the Ask your question and calmly and quietly listen for the first answer. It may take a couple minutes to calm your nerves or emotions; but that is time well spent. People who pay big dollars for important decisions do not leave them to people who are in the habit of making emotionally-charged, snap-judgments. If the right answer is only a few breaths away from the wrong answer, take a few breaths. Remember, "Be still and know..." If you use your common sense, you'll never go wrong.

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Love Heals

Love is the key to all healing.

Nothing heals better - emotionally - biochemically - physically and mentally than love - or experiencing the frequency of romantic love - as all is frequency.  It is like a drug that heals, but one must watch out for the side effects, such as obsession.  If you have never felt this love, your soul may seek to heal the issues which will allow you to attrcat this experience.

Some people are happier and healthier giving love - while others need to be loved to remain healthy.  Love should be in balance as that is the key word in all healing.

Love affects most species

 as they seek to create peace and balance in their experience here.
The ultimate healing from love comes with union/reunion of self.

Love....we search, hunger, pray for this too-often elusive emotion. When we experience it, we revel in the bliss love elicits and bask in the warmth that blankets us with caring, gratitude, comfort, and a sense of all-around well being. Little have we known that this wonderful feeling we call love does, indeed, create well-being. In fact, feeling love sets forth a complex series of events within our bodies that generally bring about better health.

A distinction must be made between "falling in love" and "being in love" or feeling love in general. Simply defined, falling in love is part of the initial stage of a relationship, in which we feel strong passionate feelings of attraction, both emotional and physical, to another person. If we are fortunate, this stage leads to being in love, a deeper devotion and affection, which may develop and deepen over time. Feeling love is much like being in love. However, we can feel love for someone who is not a romantic partner; in fact, we more often feel love without being "in love." We frequently extend the more general kind of love to relatives, friends, even pets.

 Numerous studies prove that love does, indeed, improve our health. These                  studies look at love not only in the context of male-female primary                  relationships, such as marriage, but also in the context of a person's general                  social support and connection to others. In other words, these studies                  examine both relationships where participants are "in love" and those in which                  we feel love for someone.

Dean Ornish, M.D., has served as a pioneer in this work. In his book, Love and                  Survival, the Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy  he reports on many such studies. For example, he helped conduct a                  study at Yale that involved 119 men and 40 women undergoing coronary                  angiography. Those who felt the most loved and supported had substantially                  less blockages in their heart arteries than the other subjects. In a related                  study, researchers looked at almost 10 thousand married men with no prior                  history of angina. These men had high levels of risk factors, such as elevated                  cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, and electrocardiogram                  abnormalities. Those who felt their wives did not show them love experienced                  almost twice as much angina as the first group, who felt their wives did show them love.           

      While feeling loved appears to benefit our heart's health, giving love seems to                  do the same for our aging process. The results of a study of more than 700                  elderly adults showed that the effects of aging were influenced more by what                  the participants contributed to their social support network than what they                  received from it. In other words, the more love and support they gave, the                  more they benefited.                 

Social ties with friends, family, workers, and community that involve love and                  intimacy of any type also may help protect against infectious diseases. In a                  study of 276 healthy volunteers ranging in age from 18 to 55, all participants                  received nasal drops containing rhinovirus, which causes the common cold.                  Researchers assessed subjects on 12 types of relationships, including                  relationship with spouse, parents, parents-in-law, children and other close                  family members, neighbors, friends, co-workers schoolmates, and member of                  various groups. They scored a point for each type of relationship if they spoke                  to a person in that category at least once every two weeks. While almost all                  of the people exposed to the cold virus were infected, not everyone                  developed the signs and symptoms of a cold. The participants who reported                  only one to three types of relationships had more than four times the risk of                  developing a cold than those reporting six or more types of relationships.             

    "When you feel loved, nurtured, cared for, supported, and intimate, you are                  much more likely to be happier and healthier. You have a much lower risk of                  getting sick and, if you do, a much greater chance of surviving," Ornish                  concludes in his book.

Love is a positive high frequency emotion which can heal and help us overcome many obstacles and appear to heal.  To watch a person who is ill fall in love - is often like watching a miracle.  It is more about mind over matter.   When you are in love you feel infallible.  You walk fly. You would never create an illness or allow anything detrimental into your energies as you want to remain on that high forever.

Love refers to the emotional body - more specifically the heart chakra - the soul - which we are here to heal!  If we heal the heart we create the balance we seek and thus are able to release from the emotional bondage we experience in 3D - the physical realms. Our soul separates from its polar opposite when we come into physical form.  It spends its lifetimes seeking love and trying the heal the pain of that separation - until soul reunions is achieved.   This emotional concept of love is connecting with twin flame separation.

Romantic love can help us heal - but is it a quick fix - rarely permanent.  As we know - the adrenaline high of falling in love does not last forever.  I have seen depressed people who have fallen in love - function perfectly - until the high is over - which can last days.. weeks...or months...up to 3 years.  After that - the depressed person goes back to their emotional problems as the high feeling of love subsides.  Sometimes the depression that follows is deeper than before. Professional help should be sought at this time. 

The best love for healing - is balanced love with compassion, acceptance, and understanding.  It is a spiritual and emotional high which can be romantic - but is more powerful as it lasts.

Chemistry....

Falling in love produces certain chemical reactions as well as hormonal effects in the body that create an emotional high unmatched by any other means of healing.  Love is in the mind and is fueled by chemicals and chemistry.  There is something in chocolate that affects the chemistry of the brain in the same way - hence we often substitute chocolate for love - or give chocolates when in love.  The candy kiss - is chocolate. 

When two people are attracted to each other, a virtual explosion of adrenaline-like nuerochemicals gush forth. Fireworks explode and we see stars. PEA or phenylethylamine is a chemical that speeds up the flow of information between nerve cells. Also, involved in chemistry are dopamine and norepinephrine, chemical cousins of amphetamines. Dopamine makes us feel good and norepinephrine stimulates the production of adrenaline. It makes our heart race! These three chemicals combine to give us infatuation or chemistry. It is why new lovers feel euphoric and energized, and float on air. It is also why new lovers can make love for hours and talk all night for weeks on end. This is the chemistry or the love sparks we all seek.

Singles search for love armed with a list of qualities desired in a mate/lover, such as honesty, fidelity, loyalty, sense of humor, intelligence, warmth, etc. Yet when that person appears they say, they are really nice, but nothing clicked, just no chemistry.  We always seek the chemistry high.

Unfortunately, we hear that click when we recognize our original parent/child situation. That's when our brain really gets those phenylethylamines and other chemicals moving.

Some people become veritable 'love junkies.' They need chemistry or this chemical excitement to feel happy about and intoxicated by life. Once this initial rush of chemicals wanes their relationship crumbles. They're soon off again, detectives seeking a quick fix to their forlorn feelings: another chemical high from infatuation.These love junkies also have one other problem. The body builds up a tolerance to these chemicals. Then it takes more and more chemistry to bring that special feeling of love. They crave the intoxication of chemistry and infatuation.

Many adults go through life in a series of six-month to three-year relationships that keep them high. If these love junkies stay married, they are likely to seek affairs to fuel their chemical highs.

                Studies conducted at the Institute for HeartMath in Boulder Creek,                  California, confirm the health-improving and life-affirming effects of love on the                  human body. By studying the heart's rhythms, researchers there have                  discovered that when we feel love, or any positive emotion such as                  compassion, caring, or gratitude, the heart sends messages to the brain and                  secretes hormones that positively affect our health.               

   "Our heart rate changes with every heartbeat," Rollin McCraty, director of                  research at the Institute of HeartMath, explains. "It creates patterns we call                  heart rhythms." Researchers see the difference in heart rhythms easily when                  study participants wear portable recorders that allow researchers to monitor                  their heart rhythms as they go about their day. These rhythms provide "a                  window" into the inner workings of the communication system between the                  heart and the brain.               

   McCraty believes the heart actually monitors the blood stream for hormones                  and translates the hormonal information into neurological information, which                  cascades up into the higher brain centers, like the cortex.                

  "When we get stressed out or mad or worried, the bottom line is that the                  heart's rhythmic beating pattern becomes very incoherent, and that has the                  effect of inhibiting the brain's cortex," McCraty explains. "When we feel                  emotions like love and appreciation the heart switches into a very rhythmic,                  coherent, beating pattern that facilitates cortical function." These coherent                  heart rhythms, he says, cause an "inner synchronization" of the systems in                  our body, which then affects how we think, function, and fight off disease.                  

Not only does the heart communicate with the brain via the nervous system,                  its rhythms affect the functioning of the nervous system itself. The autonomic                  nervous system is divided into two branches, one that speeds things up and                  another that slows things down. "When we are in a non-loving state, when we                  are angry at someone, the two halves of the nervous system get out of sync                  with one another. It's like they're fighting each other: one tries to speed the                  heart up as the other tries to slow it down. This is what creates this very                  erratic heart rhythm.               

    "When we are in a loving state, our hearts go into coherent heart rhythms,"                  says McCraty. "This is because the two halves of the nervous system are in                  sync and operating much more efficiently together. That allows the body to                  go through its natural regenerative process," he explains.                 

  "If we feel love and compassion, that boosts our immune system."                

   The effect of which McCraty speaks showed up in a study documented by Doc                  Childre, architect of the HeartMath program. When subjects of the experiment                  felt angry for one five-minute period, their cortisol levels increased. Cortisol,                  known as the stress hormone, suppresses the immune system. Thus, these                  subjects experienced suppressed secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA), an                  antibody, for up to six hours after feeling angry for only five minutes.                  Secretory IgA serves as the human body's first line of defense against disease.                  Thus, lower than normal levels of IgA, leave us more susceptible to colds, flu                  and respiratory disease. When the subjects of this study felt love and                  appreciation for just one five-minute period, their secretory Iga rose                  significantly. While the rise in IgA spikes after feeling love for five minutes and                  then drops off, it then begins a slow rise that continues for many hours                  afterward.                 

  A few years ago researchers at the Institute of HeartMath used their tools to                  teach 30 people how to feel love in a conscious manner. One month later,                  they measured the study subjects' levels of both cortisol and DHEA, known as                  the anti-aging hormone. They found that the cortisol levels for the whole                  group had decreased 23 percent while the group's DHEA levels increased 100                  percent across the board.              

    "The measurement of those two hormones is considered by many, including                  myself, to be a very good measure of stress and aging" says McCraty. "If they                  are out of balance, such as high cortisol, low DHEA, that basically is rapid                  aging. Learning to love or to love more consciously, more of the time, brings                  those hormones into balance. This is a very direct pathway to see how love                  affects health."                

  Cardiologist Bruce Wilson, chairman of the Medical Education Committee at                  Columbia Hospital in Milwaukee, WI, found that many of his patients suffer not                  from the five identifiable risk factors for heart disease, which are family history,                  cholesterol elevation, smoking, diabetes, hypertension, but from the effects of                  a stressful life. In his work as both a doctor and a HeartMath trainer, Wilson                  reports that he has seen people shift their heart rhythms from anger or stress                  to love and benefit from the physiology.              

    Another body of work sheds light on the health benefits of love by looking at                  the makeup of emotions. Candace Pert, Ph.D., research professor at                  Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and author of                  Molecules of Emotion, Why You Feel the Way You Do (Scribner, 1997),                  reports that endorphins, which are associated with the feeling of bliss, help us                  "bond" with other people. 

In other words, they help us form loving                  relationships. Endorphins are "natural endogenous morphine-like substances                  that we produce in our brain, sex organs, gut, immune system, and heart,"                  says Pert. "Certainly the data would suggest that endorphins are involved"                  when we feel love. Endorphins are known not only to create a positive,                  bliss-like feeling -- which we definitely associate with love -- but also to                  stimulate the special immune system cells, called Natural Killer cells, which fight                  cancer. In addition, they improve digestion and elimination.                

  While the fact that love improves our health may be good news for people in                  an intimate primary relationship, it may appear just the opposite for those who                  are not. However, to reap the benefits of love you need not have a lover or                  spouse. The love you feel can be for a co-worker, a parent, a child, or a                  sibling. In fact, it can even be for your dog, cat, fish, or plants. "Somebody                  could be flooded with love for their pet or their God and get just as much of a                  boost...as someone who just started going out with someone new,"                  comments Pert. There are numerous studies illustrating the fact that people                  live healthier lives and heal better after a major illness or surgery if they own a                  pet. In particular, many such studies have shown that the elderly fare better if                  they own pets.                 

  For those who still feel doubt about the power of love to improve their lives,                  yet one more hope exists. Wilson suggests that people can apply HeartMath                  techniques to the deep gratitude or appreciation you feel toward a movie, a                  concerto, or another activity or event that fosters in you positive                  feelings."One step in this technique has to do with focusing very hard on one                  moment of sincere appreciation," Wilson explains. He conjures up a sunset in                  Cancun, though your own chosen focus may be closer to home. "You call up                  one of your many images, think of that special moment, center yourself in                  your heart, and access this physiology. Then these changes in physiology                  totally change how you are interacting with your environment. They change                  your internal physiology. They change the balance in your autonomic nervous                  system. Literally," he concludes.                   

One question still remains unanswered: Is falling in love better for our health                  than being in love or feeling love? While McCraty feels that truly falling in love                  can boost health, he notes that dating and the insecurity that can go with                  looking for new relationships can involve a fair amount of stress. Pert agrees:                  "We could speculate that in the beginning stages of love there is more of an                  excitement factor, which would produce some of the classical                  neurotransmitters, like norepinephrine and dopamine, which are involved with                  excitement," she explains."If you are actually flooded with norepinephrine,                  [viruses have a hard time getting in." But Pert urges us to "celebrate old love                  as well." She adds, "Maybe as [love] becomes richer and deeper and                  different...then additional chemicals come into play." In any case, we can all be                  reassured that the more we love and are loved, the healthier we become.