The Heart of Healing

Study: Emotions and Heart Disease

Researchers from John Hopkins University in Baltimore have discovered sudden emotional stress can result in severe but reversible heart muscle weakness that mimics a classic heart attack.

It’s called “stress cardiomyopathy”

Ref: The New England Journal of Medicine, 2005;352:539-548

Emotions and Heart Disease

Often misdiagnosed as a massive heart

attack.

Caused by a surge in adrenalin and other

stress hormones that temporarily ―stun‖ the

heart.

Symptoms are similar to a typical heart attack

including chest pain, fluid in the lungs, shortness of breath, and heart failure.

Emotions and Heart Disease

Scientists have found a new link between

emotions and disease — people who are

angry, hostile and depressed have higher

levels of a protein in their blood that has

been associated with heart disease.

Edward Suarez of Duke University - 121

healthy men and women took personality

tests that assessed their levels of anger,

hostility and depression, and then tested

their blood for a substance called C-

reactive protein (CRP).

Emotions and Heart Disease in Women

People who have high levels of CRP are more prone to heart attacks and stroke.

CRP is produced by the liver in response to inflammation in the body.

Higher levels of inflammation are thought to increase the risk for a variety of health problems, including

heart disease

Results: The study subjects who scored high on the tests for anger, hostility and depression had CRP levels two to three times higher than those who scored low

Ref: Suarez et al., Journal Psychosomatic Medicine,Sept, 2004

Why are so many of us so INFLAMED?

Repressed feelings and emotions, held back words and thoughts, experiencing loss and abandonment, rejection and hurt, grief, etc.

Body Symbology – what are our bodies trying to tell us?

Not just heart disease – but why all the breast cancer, arthritis, fibromyalgia, diabetes, obesity = all inflammatory diseases

Fear and Heart Disease in Women

Women with phobic anxieties, such as

the fear of crowded places, heights or

going outside are at higher risk for fatal

heart disease than women with fewer or

no anxieties

Ref. Circulation: Feb 1, 2005

Journal of the American Heart Association

Anger and Exhaustion

“People who reported being highly prone to anger and also scored high for vital exhaustion were 69 percent more likely to have a heart attack or a sudden cardiac death than their counterparts who reported being less prone to anger and scored low for vital exhaustion."

Ref: Janice Williams, Ph.D., M.P.H., an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control

Presented at t he American Heart Association's Asia

Pacific Scientific Forum, April 24, 2004

Depressed postmenopausal women

Four-year government study of 93,676 women across the United States.

Found depressed women have a 50 percent greater risk of developing or dying from heart disease than those not depressed

Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller of the Albert

Einstein College of Medicine, Feb, 2005

How to control your thoughts

The interaction of the nervous system,

immune system and endocrine system =

Psychoneuroimmunology

Mind-Body Medicine

Smiling versus Frowning

Fake it til you Make it!

SMILE FACTS:

It is 2.5 times easier to smile than to frown.

It takes 43 muscles to frown, but only 17 muscles to smile.

Smiling stimulates our nervous system to produce "cerebral morphine". This hormone gives us a pleasant feeling and has an anesthetic effect.

Use Positive Affirmations

I’m Alert, I’m Alive, I Feel Great!

Let Go of the Past, Reach to the Future

The Body Believes Every Word You Tell It

Basic Energetic Principles

Where Thought, Feelings, Emotions and Sensations Go…….Energy Follows………

(If you learn to stop your thoughts - you stop sensations – therefore reducing pain and suffering –learn discernment, to ―discriminate‖ and ―eliminate‖ – save yourself and others from the suffering)

Form Follows Thought – if you are angry, the body will appear angry (hyper-tense, hardening of

the arteries, heart attack) – if you are loving

you will look light and stay young in spirit

Definitions of Coherence

Clarity of thought and emotional balanceThe quality of being orderly, consistent,andintelligible (e.g. a coherent argument)

Synchronization between multiple systemsA constructive waveform produced by two or more waves that are phase-or frequency-locked (e.g. lasers)

Ordered patterning within one systemAn ordered or constructive distribution of power content within a single waveform; autocoherence (e.g. sine wave)

Entrainment

In physiology, the term is used to describe a state in which two or more of the body's oscillatory systems, such as respiration and heart rhythm patterns, become synchronous and operate at the same frequency

The degree of order and stability in the waveform that reflects the rhythmic activity of any given physiological system over a specified period of time

Map of ConsciousnessPower Versus Force – by David Hawkins, M.D.

Life View

Despising – miserable -humiliation

Vindictive –destructive - blame

Condemning - hopeless - apathy

Disdainful – regret - despondency

Punitive – frightening - anxiety

Vengeful – anger - aggression

Inspiring – hopeful - optimism

Merciful – accepting - forgiveness

Wise – meaningful -understanding

Loving – reverence – revelation

Oneness – joy – serenity

All-being – peace - illumination

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Energy System of the Heart

Heart Chakra is located beneath the breastbone – the thymus is the master gland of the immune system and is located in this area.

The heart chakra is developed between the ages of 6-8 yrs old and deals with feelings of unconditional love, forgiveness and compassion and the opposite feelings such as anger, grief, envy, jealousy, bitterness and resentment

―I hate you – I love you‖

Healing State

Positive Emotional States and the Heart

Love, care, appreciation and compassion the heart produces coherent or smooth rhythms that enhance communication between the heart and brain.

Positive heart qualities produce harmonious rhythms that are considered to be indicators of cardiovascular efficiency and nervous system balance. They've also been shown to produce beneficial effects that include enhanced immunity and hormonal balance.

Energy Medicine

The more control you have over your subtle energy system and emotions – the greater the protection from others who are negative, manipulative, destructive, angry, hostile or violent.

We use terms to describe energy – cling-ons, entity, energy cyst, energy armor,

Energy stagnation

“Lighten-up, wiped-out”