Did you know that it is possible to measure how high (or low) something (information, a person,...) vibrates? For this, however, you need a special tool, a tool though that you have already integrated into your body system: your heart – or to be more precise, your heart chakra. Your heart chakra is (also) a highly sensitive measuring device!
The word 'chakra' comes from Sanskrit and means 'wheel'. It refers to funnel-shaped, rotating energy centers in our subtle bodies. The information on the total number of chakras that humans have varies greatly – old Indian and Tibetan texts mention 72,000 to 350,000 such energy centers. This means that there is hardly an area of the body where there is not a chakra. However, we will only deal with the 7 main chakras.
They are connected to the main energy channel in the spine. The 1st chakra opens downwards, the 7th upwards, and chakras 2 to 5 each have an opening to the front and back - but we will only concentrate on the front chakra of these.
The extensive function of the chakras and their strong influence on the entire body system has already been written about in detail in many books, and you can also find sufficient information on this on the Internet.
As you have already learned, first focus your attention on your heart, not the physical heart, which is located a little to the left of the center of the body in the chest area, but on the front Heart Chakra (see graphics above), which is located at heart level in the middle of the chest in the subtle bodies.
Your attention is usually largely in thinking and physically in the area behind and above the eyes in the head (in the frontal lobe of the brain), which you can perceive better when you close your eyes.
From there, lead it down through the throat to the heart center. Make sure that you lead all of your attention from behind the eyes down to the heart until you have the feeling that you are now perceiving and feeling everything with the heart center.
As a help, you can also place your hands on your heart, as this will automatically direct a certain amount of your attention there.
As you are now in your Heart Chakra with your attention, just think of the information whose vibration you want to measure and feel how the Heart Chakra reacts. If you still can't feel anything, you can optionally say the formula: 'With my Heart Chakra, I am going into resonance to ... (insert the information you want to check here)', while you feel what is happening in your Heart Chakra.
Note: This formula and this exercise were given to us by Maryam from puramaryam.de.
Depending on what kind of information it is, how free your Heart Chakra is, and how well you can focus your attention, you will then feel more or less subtle changes there. High vibrations (love, truth,...) always feel free, open, and generally good, and low vibrations always cause the Heart Chakra to contract more or less strongly.
Essentially important to truly perceive the vibration itself, is that you are able to let go of preconceived notions about the information/topic in the mind and simply observe what changes can be perceived in the Heart Chakra.
In the beginning, it might be easier for you to use the optional technique, but the more practiced you become, the more you will eventually be able to simply feel towards something with your Heart Chakra to sense its vibration. All chakras actually have this ability, but the Heart Chakra is best suited for measuring vibrations.
You will be amazed (and often surprised) by the information your heart gives you. It should also be mentioned that there is not only, for example, the absolute truth or the absolutely positive on the one hand and the absolute lie or the absolutely negative on the other hand, but often many levels in between.
Now practice a little to learn this skill. While your attention is in your Heart Chakra, think, for example, first:
Now you have just gotten a first hint from your own experience about who or what you really are!
Practice
with different examples that come to mind
now.
Tip: You can even use this technique when shopping, for example, by feeling the vibration of the food with your Heart Chakra.
Since our Heart Chakras can be very limited in their function due to various blockages, if you don't feel any difference at all, you can first cleanse/heal/free up your Heart Chakra, as described under 2.1.3. The Emotional Body.
The entire healing and self-knowledge process is also about us breaking free from the filtered perception of our-selves and the world through our conditioned mind and bringing our attention more and more into our hearts.
In other words: feel everything within yourself and around you more with your heart center, without mentally naming it, without having a preconceived opinion about it, without rejecting it (judging it), or clinging to it (wanting to keep it in your reality) – simply perceive it as it is.
What Does Science Say About it?
Many of the changes in bodily function that occur during the coherence state (=a scientifically measurable state characterized by increased order and harmony in our minds, emotions, and bodies) revolve around changes in the heart’s pattern of activity. While the heart is certainly a remarkable pump, interestingly, it is only relatively recently in the course of human history – around the past three centuries or so – that the heart’s function has been defined (by Western scientific thought) as only that of pumping blood.
Science has only begun to understand the effects of the electromagnetic fields produced by the heart, but there is evidence that the information contained in the heart’s powerful field may play a vital synchronizing role in the human body – and that it may affect others around us as well. Research has also shown that the heart is a key component of the emotional system.
Scientists now understand that the heart not only responds to emotion but that the signals generated by its rhythmic activity actually play a major part in determining the quality of our emotional experience from moment to moment. As described next, these heart signals also profoundly impact perception and cognitive function by virtue of the heart’s extensive communication network with the brain.
Finally, rigorous electrophysiological studies conducted at the HeartMath Institute have even indicated that the heart appears to play a key role in intuition. Although there is much yet to be understood, it appears that the age-old associations of the heart with thought, feeling, and insight may indeed have a basis in science.
Most of us have been taught in school that the heart is constantly responding to “orders” sent by the brain in the form of neural signals. However, it is not as commonly known that the heart actually sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends to the heart! Moreover, these heart signals have a significant effect on brain function, influencing emotional processing as well as higher cognitive faculties such as attention, perception, memory, and problem-solving. In other words, not only does the heart respond to the brain, but the brain continuously responds to the heart.
The effect of heart activity on brain function has been extensively researched over the past 40 years. Earlier research mainly examined the effects of heart activity occurring on a very short time scale – over several consecutive heartbeats at maximum. Scientists at the HeartMath Institute have extended this body of scientific research by looking at how larger-scale patterns of heart activity affect the brain’s functioning.
HeartMath research has demonstrated that different patterns of heart activity (which accompany different emotional states) have distinct effects on cognitive and emotional function. During stress and negative emotions, when the heart rhythm pattern is erratic and disordered, the corresponding pattern of neural signals traveling from the heart to the brain inhibits higher cognitive functions. This limits our ability to think clearly, remember, learn, reason, and make effective decisions. (This helps explain why we may often act impulsively and unwisely when we’re under stress.) The heart’s input to the brain during stressful or negative emotions also has a profound effect on the brain’s emotional processes – actually serving to reinforce the emotional experience of stress.
In contrast, the more ordered and stable pattern of the heart’s input to the brain during positive emotional states has the opposite effect – it facilitates cognitive function and reinforces positive feelings and emotional stability. This means that learning to generate increased heart rhythm coherence by sustaining positive emotions not only benefits the entire body but also profoundly affects how we perceive, think, feel, and perform.
Original video: YouTube
