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11月16日 Balance Between Heart Energy and TechnologyBalance Between Heart Energy and Technology We pause the story here for a moment to cover an important connection between technology and heart energy. As we have said before, technology is a reflection of the vibrational state of the race it serves. Therefore, it is the heart energy that must balance the technology in any race of beings. If the technology goes too far past the heart energy, it causes an imbalance. As the heart energy rises it will pull the technology up to match it. That is the reason you, in your times, have had such huge technological advances in the past 50 years. It has been incredible for us to watch. It is because your heart energy has evolved to support technology and to cause it to rise. In the days of Atlantis the technological energy actually preceded the heart energy and the heart energy was lagging in an effort to catch up. Tyberonn's dream and destiny were to find ways to bring those into balance. So he tried to connect with the Earth to ! ground it and to put this heart energy and to collect it from everyone through the Earth. This made him very in touch with the Earth energies, while his work as the chief technician to the main crystal power grids of Atlantis gave him the perfect opportunity to blend that heart energy onto the power grid itself. This was Amor's vision of the emerald city where the heart energy came through the green crystals to find its way on to the largest power grids ever created.
7月1日 关于“心”的概念的认识及其启示关于“心”的概念的认识及其启示
心是中国传统文化中的一个重要概念，对其进行深入的探讨，不仅有助于理解中医学理论体系建立的过程，而且对中医学的发展也将有所启迪。 http://www.xiaoduweb.com/Html/Dir0/20/25/79.htm Neurocardiology: organisation of the cardiac nervous system3. Neurocardiology: organisation of the cardiac nervous system
Cardiac sympathetic neurons are concentrated on the inferior edge (right side) of the rat stellate ganglion. They are immunoreactive for both NPY (green) and calbindin (red) and so appear orange in the above image. Image © CR Anderson 4. Neurocardiology: role of the intrinsic cardiac nervous system in control of the heartIn this project we are interested in whether the intrinsic components of the cardiac nervous system of the rat and guinea pig can bring about changes in cardiac performance in the absence of any input from extrinsic nerves. The approach is to record cardiac parameters in an anaesthetised animal and neurally isolate the heart by cutting the vagi and blocking sympathetic cardiac transmission with propranolol. We then look to see the result of challenging the cardiovascular system and whether blocking the effects of intrinsic cardiac neurons with atropine alters the response.
Neurons in the rat nucleus ambiguous labelled after a pericardial injection of cholera toxin subunit B (green) and counterstained for immunoreactivity to CGRP (red). Image © I Grkovic http://www.anatomy.unimelb.edu.au/researchlabs/anderson/currentprojects.html 這一生都是你的機會(心-腦系統)作者:Alex Rovira
人類內在力量方面的科學研究日新月異，不但很有趣，並且常讓人嘖嘖稱奇。例如最近剛發表的神經醫學新發現，就相當驚人。
我們都知道，人類的智力散布在全身，換個方式來想的話，每個人表現出來的樣子，等於呈現了腦子裡慣用的基本思維。神經醫學家庫柏（Robert K. Cooper）在其傑出著作《另外的九十％》中提到：「我們大多會有這麼一個經驗，它不會由大腦直接去思考，而是先進入了腸子和心臟的神經網絡。」 看清楚喔！腸子和心臟也有神經細胞，其作用和腦部的神經細胞是非常類似的！ 如今大家都已經相當熟知「第二個腦」（腸子）和「第三個腦」（心臟）。 這個領域的專家們，特別是哥倫比亞大學的葛松教授（Michael D. Gershon），他指出，腸子部位有大約有十億個神經細胞，這個數目遠超過脊椎。更有趣的是，在整個範圍當中，即使和腦部也是相連的，卻可以獨立運作，學習、記憶，並且影響我們的感覺和行為。 們這一生中，許多經驗來自於「腸子的感覺」：從覺得很癢到胃部絞痛都是。但事實上，絕大多數的人都沒學過如何和這種感覺打交道，我們的感覺中樞只有在第二個腦活動非常激烈時才有反應。 至於「第三個腦」則是心臟……，心臟也有腦袋呢！真是天大的好消息啊！它由四萬個神經細胞組成了一個完整的神經傳達網絡。心臟的腦袋和我們頭顱裡的腦部是一樣大的。 而心臟部位的電磁波之強，則居於全身之冠，整整比腦部大了五千倍！可接收距離長達三公尺。它和腸子部位的腦一樣，也是獨立運作，能夠學習、記憶，並自有一套生命的準則。 此外，有趣的是，它潛藏著一些無法用科學的方式展現出來的能力。預感、異常強烈的直覺，這些都是在心臟產生的。 現今的西方傳統醫學已經證實，幾千年前的東方醫學也早已發現：心跳的速度可以改變腦部的思維。就某種程度而言，心臟比腦部更像我們生命中的主角。 許多已深入探討過「第三個腦」的作者們認為，天分、直覺、領導力都是在此產生的：這個腦對生命的態度更開放，它能不斷地更新人生重要的思維和直覺。 或許人類在未來將會在心臟發現更多未知的新能力，類似我們現今所謂的「情感智慧的基礎」：自我的情感直覺、樂觀的態度、靈感、喜悅、自信……，所有這一類的「活動分子」，都能讓我們的世界變得更豐富、更滿足。 總之，無論東西方的醫學專家都一致認為，心臟的功能就像個人雷達一樣，它能掃描我們的內在和外在，幫忙尋找人生的新契機和新選擇……。但若想讓它發揮作用的話，我們必須時時刻刻觀照內心，懂得觀察，特別要學會傾聽以及了解內心的想法。 談到這裡，我必須提一件事（雖然很多人恐怕很難理解）。若要成為一個好老闆，必須具備一顆「有智慧」的心。人類本來就是情緒的動物，你我都是。那些格外「堅強」的人，不是有顆支離破碎的心，就是已經把心給別人用了。 慈母心．孩兒的一生(心-腦系統)
6月26日 心能量開發法:The Heartmath Solution
杜克．齊德瑞（Doc Childre） http://www.readingtimes.com.tw/books/book_basic.asp?pclassid=BE&id=BE0060 The Science Behind the Freeze-FramerThe heart is a primary generator of rhythmic patterns in the human body, and possesses a far more extensive communication system with the brain than do other major organs. In addition, the heart plays a particularly important role in the generation of emotion. With every beat, the heart transmits complex patterns of neurological, hormonal, pressure, and electromagnetic information to the brain and throughout the body. As a critical nodal point in many interacting systems - physiological, cognitive and emotional - the heart is uniquely positioned as a powerful entry point into the communication network that connects body, mind, emotions and spirit.
During states of psychophysiological coherence, our inner systems function with a higher degree of synchronization, efficiency and harmony which correlates with improved emotional stability, quality of emotional experience, health, and cognitive performance. HeartMath studies conducted across diverse populations have associated increased psychophysiological coherence with reduced anxiety and depression, decreased physical symptoms of stress, enhanced immunity, reduced cortisol and increased DHEA.2-6 IHM has collaborated with Stanford University and other institutions in studies which have shown that heart centered techniques and psychophysiological coherence facilitate the body's healing processes and improve physical health outcomes. For example, improvements in clinical status have been demonstrated in individuals with hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure, asthma and AIDS.7-11 The Freeze-Framer, developed by Doc Childre, is a unique heart rhythm coherence training system. It objectively monitors your heart rhythms and confirms when you are in the coherence mode. It helps you learn to self-generate coherence and track your progress. With practice you learn how to shift into coherence at will, even in difficult situations which previously would have drained your emotional vitality and buoyancy. You will readily see and experience changes in your heart rhythm patterns as you practice emotional regulation techniques. Your heart rhythms generally become less irregular, and sine wave-like as you send more heart-felt love and appreciation through your system. How is the Freeze-Framer different from heart rate monitors? How does this differ from deep breathing? How are emotions connected to the heart? The analysis of HRV, or heart rhythms, is recognized as a powerful, non-invasive measure that reflects heart-brain interactions and autonomic nervous system dynamics, which are particularly sensitive to changes in emotional state.14, 15 IHM research showing how emotions are reflected in the patterns of our heart rhythms has led to a new model of emotion. This model includes the heart, brain, nervous and hormonal systems as fundamental components of a dynamic, interactive network that underlies emotional experience.1, 2 IHM has provided scientific evidence that the heart is truly part of the emotional system, which most people intuitively have known all along. Indeed, most religious and spiritual traditions, regardless of cultural context, have emphasized the value of experiencing and expressing "qualities of the heart" - feelings such as love, care, gratitude, appreciation, compassion, tolerance, forgiveness--all of which can increase heart rhythm coherence. Who uses the Freeze-Framer? What are some of the benefits I could expect?
This translates into a variety of additional personal and professional benefits:
Heart and brain:The Unfolding of Intelligencefrom JOURNAL OF FAMILY LIFE magazine, Vol. 5 #1 1999 For nearly half a century, Joseph Chilton Pearce (who prefers to be known simply as Joe), has been probing the mysteries of the human mind. Author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Magical Child Matures, Bond of Power and Evolution's End, one of his overriding passions remains the study of what he calls the "unfolding" of intelligence in children. He is a self-avowed iconoclast, unafraid to speak out against the myriad ways in which contemporary American culture fails to nurture the intellectual, emotional and spiritual needs and yearnings of our young people. Part scholar, part scientist, part mystic, part itinerant teacher, Joe keeps in close touch with the most brilliant men and women in each field of inure relevant to his guest. He creates a unique synthesis of their work and translates the results into a common language-such a valuable contribution in these days of increasing scientific specialization. Then Joe travels the world wide to share his painstakingly gathered wisdom - freely if necessary - with anyone he feels can make a difference. We were fortunate enough to catch him by phone at his home in central Virginia. Chris: Modern neuroscience has been making some startling discoveries about the human heart. Can you tell us a bit about them in layman's terms? Joe: The idea that we can think with our hearts is no longer just a metaphor, but is, in fact, a very real phenomenon. We now know this because the combined research of two or three fields is proving that the heart is the major center of intelligence in human beings. Molecular biologists have discovered that the heart is the body's most important endocrine gland. In response to our experience of the world, it produces and releases a major hormone, ANF - which stands for Atriol Neuriatic Factor - that profoundly effects every operation in the limbic structure, or what we refer to as the "emotional brain." This includes the hippocampal area where memory and learning take place, and also the control centers for the entire hormonal system. And neurocardiologist have found that 60 to 65% of the cells of the heart are actually neural cells, not muscle cells as was previously believed. They are identical to the neural cells in the brain, operating through the same connecting links called ganglia, with the same axonal anddendritic connections that take place in the brain, as well as through the very same kinds of neurotransmitters found in the brain. Quite literally, in other words, there is a "brain" in the heart, whose ganglia are linked to every major organ in the body, to the entire muscle spindle system that uniquely enables humans to express their emotions. About half of the heart's neural cells are involved in translating information sent to it from all over the body so that it can keep the body working as one harmonious whole. And the other half make up a very large, unmediated neural connection with the emotional brain in our head and carry on a twenty-four-hour-a-day dialogue between the heart and the brain that we are not even aware of. Kim: How does that work? Joe: The heart responds to messages sent to it from the emotional brain, which has been busy monitoring the interior environment of dynamic states such as the emotions and the auto-immune system, guiding behavior, and contributing to our sense of personal identity. The emotional brain makes a qualitative evaluation of our experience of this world and sends that information instant-by-instant down to the heart. In return, the heart exhorts the brain to make the appropriate response. Of course all of this is on the non-verbal level. In other words, the responses that the heart makes effect the entire human system. Meanwhile, biophysicists have discovered that the heart is also a very powerful electromagnetic generator. It creates an electromagnetic field that encompasses the body and extends out anywhere from eight to twelve feet away from it. It is so powerful that you can take an electrocardiogram reading from as far as three feet away from the body. The field the heart produces is holographic, meaning that you can read it from any point on the body and from any point within the field. No matter how microscopic the sample is, you can receive the information of the entire field. The intriguing thing is how profoundly this electromagnetic field effects the brain. All indications are that it furnishes the whole radio wave spectrum from which the brain draws its material to create our internal experience of the world. Perhaps most importantly, we now know that the radio spectrum of the heart is profoundly affected by our emotional response to our world. Our emotional response changes the heart's electromagnetic spectrum, which is what the brain feeds on. Ultimately, everything in our lives hinges on our emotional response to specific events. Chris: How does this emerging knowledge apply to children and their healthy development? Joe: Children's emotional experience, how they feel about themselves and the world around them, has a tremendous impact on their growth and development. It's the foundation on which all learning, memory, health and well-being are based. When that emotional structure is not stable and positive for a child, no other developmental process within them will function fully. Further development will only be compensatory to any deficiencies. So, the first and foremost thing that must occur, if you want intelligent, successful and healthy children, is that they must have a positive emotional experience. There is forty or fifty years worth of research from places like Harvard University, the University of Arizona's medical school with people like Schwartz and Russick, and HeartMath out in California to back this statement up. It all begins with children feeling unconditionally wanted, accepted and loved. This is the key to the entire operation. You can have everything else: a high standard of living, the most expensive school system, the finest teachers in the world; but if the children are lacking that initial experience of being unconditionally loved by at least one person, and if they do not feel safe and secure in their learning environment, then nothing is going to happen very positively. This cannot be overstated. Chris: There would seem to be a lot of implications here for the way we educate our children. Joe: The crux of the issue of education is that there are only two types of learning; one is true learning and the other is conditioning. Conditioning is a fear-filled response by the older, or what we call the "hind," or "reptilian" brain. This is the reflexive, survival, maintenance brain that responds as if threatened. A form of learning does take place here, but it's conditioned learning and is intimately associated with the emotional states of hostility, anger and anxiety. If you want true learning, learning that involves the higher frontal lobes - the intellectual, creative brain-then again, the emotional environment must be positive and supportive. This is because at the first sign of anxiety the brain shifts its functions from the high, prefrontal lobes to the old defenses of the reptilian brain. Kim: It looks like you can make a case that our development is based, perhaps, more on nurture than on nature. Joe: The new research around this issue is quite intriguing. In England, researchers have come up with the hypothesis that the environment profoundly changes the genetic structuring within us, that it is the biggest influence of all on our DNA. There are studies now that show that our genes are not at all locked into unchanging programs as previously thought, but in fact are profoundly affected by our environment, particularly our emotional environment. In the May issue of Science, there was an article that discussed how the mother's emotional state during pregnancy determined the direction that evolution would take place within her developing fetus. Her state of well-being determines whether fetal brain development concentrates on the frontal loves or the ancient reptilian brain involved in survival. This is probably the most explosive information to come along in quite a while. And this makes perfect sense because the heat is the first organ to form in the fetus, within ten days after conception, and it has to be because it furnishes the electromagnetic spectrum upon which DNA itself depends for its instructions. Kim: Are you saying that even after conception our genetic make-up continues to change? Joe: Absolutely. And after birth as well, where you continue to see a shift of emphasis between the reptilian brain and the emotional and cognitive brains. Not only do you have these shifts occurring during the first eleven years of life, you also have this huge redundancy of stuff in the brain. Around the age of eleven or twelve the brain undergoes a fine tuning and begins to decide what it can get rid of. The brain begins to shed the excess neural connections in either the ancient survival brain or in the new intellectual brain. What is removed depends upon children's life situations at that time. The question of whether they feel safe and loved, or whether they feel like they must protect themselves against a hostile world has a profound effect on the intelligence of the child. Kim: Okay, so what about kids who were raised in negative households and who haven't had that unconditional love? What can we do to reverse this process and empower them to grow up to be whole persons? Joe: well, to me, the whole thing again boils down to the heart. The kids you're speaking of have been deprived of adequate heart-brain nurturing. They have been operating in an environment of deep deprivation and the only thing you can do is to somehow or other provide them with a nurturing environment where they feel safe and loved and wanted. I know it sounds too simplistic, but really that's the whole story. These young people need audio-vocal communication, nurturing, play, body movement, eye contact, sweet sounds and close heat contact on a physical level. Look at Marianna Caplin's new book that just came out called Untouched. It's a brilliant, incredibly well-documented work that ranks right up there with Ashley Montique's classic book on touch written thirty years ago. It deals with the touch-starved American child who has never received enough emotional or physical nurturing. We must understand here that the emotional and physical are essentially the same. So many American teenagers today have been deprived of touch and love from the very beginning of their lives. Chris: What happens to them as a result? Joe: They try to make up for that lack with all kinds of culturally provided substitutes that don't satisfy their needs. For the past fifteen years Ann Morrison in New York State has been working with hard-core teenage criminals in maximum security prisons, young people between the ages of fifteen and twenty who are considered by society to be unredeemable. She laments a how the public doesn't understand ho easily salvageable they are. Through storytelling, play acting and a whole series of activities like that, Ann just wins over these largely uneducated and illiterate teens. All of a sudden they're reading, they're writing their on poetry and they're expressing themselves in a variety of ways. She started out by following her on heart's instincts. With great love, she sent in and began quietly telling her stories, even though they had the TVs going and they are doing all of the usual child, noisy, rambunctious things that teenagers do. And she as able to reach them because she as offering something that they had never had - a mother figure, a compassionate woman friend. As Margaret Mead said, "Art is the language that is the language of the heart, that is the language of the emotional structure." Chris: Didn't you once say that imaginative children are never violent? Joe: Well, in Sweden there is a group of doctors who claim this to be true. Their studies show that children ho have an abundant capacity for creating inner-world images are never violent. Plus whenever they're faced with violence, they are able to imagine and implement alternative solutions. That's what Ann Morrison is giving those young people, the opportunity to re-fashion their internal worlds, to establish the heart/emotional brain connection that was never allowed to develop during their childhood's. Chris: I think I've also heard you say that television is the arch-enemy of imagination. Exactly what is television doing to our children? Joe: Television literally prevents neural growth in the developing brains of children. When young children watch too much, it suppresses the capacity of their brains to create an internal image of some thing, or some one, or some event not presented to the sensory system by the environment, which is the essence of what we call "imagination." Researchers used to think that it was only the content of the programming that was negatively affecting children. Now we have ample evidence that the technology of the device is very harmful in and of itself. In other words, the simple act of watching television has profoundly negative effects on the physiology of human beings. Chris: How so? Joe: It's a long story, dating all the way back to the early 1960's when it was discovered that kids' minds go catatonic in front to the "tube." This has to do with the way that the brain reacts to radiant light, which is the light source of television and computer monitors, and reflected light, which is what brings us the rest of our visual experience. This is too complicated to go all the way into here, so let me just say that the brain tends to close down in response to radiant light sources. We've all seen how hypnotized children get when they watch television for any length of time. My biggest concern has to do with the way the television industry countered this effect by introducing what are known as "startle effects" into children's programming. A startle effect is anything that triggers the brain into thinking that there might be an emergency out there and alerts it to pay special attention to the source of the disturbance. Television accomplishes this with sudden and dramatic changes of intensity of light or sound and a rapid shifting of camera angles. Eventually, however, the brain starts habituating itself to the situation, realizing that these are just false alarms, and it starts to tune out again. As a result, every ten years or so the television industry has had to up the ante by making the startles bigger and bigger, until finally what we have are periodic bursts of violent imagery in children's cartoons and so on, to the point now where there are an average of sixteen bits of violence every half-hour. Here the nature of the program content does matter. While the higher brain, or neocortex, knows that the images on TV aren't real, the lower, or the "reptilian" brain does not. This means that when a child views violence on television, the reptilian brain sends a series of alarm messages up to the emotional brain, which in turn immediately contacts the heart. The moment the heart receives any indication of negativity or danger, it drops out of its usual harmonic mode into an incoherent one, triggering the release of the single most potent hormone in the human body, known as cortisol. Cortisol instantly wakes up the brain and causes it to produce trillions of neural links in order to ready the individual to face the emergency. Then, as soon as the heart gets the message that the coast is clear, another hormone is released to dissolve all of the new neural pathways that weren't used to make a quick, adaptive reaction to the perceived threat. The trouble with current-day children's television programming is that there's never any letdown, and the brain of the average American child, who has watched 5000 to 6000 hours by the age of five of six, is suffering a great deal of confusion as a result. The massive over-stimulus from TV is causing the brain to maladapt in ways previously thought impossible. It is literally breaking down on all levels off neural development. Kim: can you give us any specific examples? Joe: I'll give you a couple. The German Psychological Institute has conducted a twenty-year study of 4000 children per year, children who have watched the average 5000 to 6000 hours of television by the age of six. Researchers found that twenty years ago young people could distinguish between 360 different shadings of a single color category like red or blue. Today it's down to about 130. That's over a 2/3 loss of their ability to detect shadings of color. Now, this is strictly a neuro-cognitive breakdown. The most serious change they uncovered was a breakdown of the brain's ability to cross index its whole kinesthetic/sensory system. That is, more and more children's sensory systems are acting as isolated components in the brain and less and less as coordinated whole gestalts. When they placed the young test subject in a natural environment that had no high-density stimuli, such as come from television, they grew very anxiety-ridden, bored and tended toward violence. The final disturbing finding of the German study is that there has been over the same twenty-year period, a 20% reduction in the children's awareness of their natural environment. This fits right in with Marcia Mikulac's studies in the 80s on evolution, where she discovered a 20 to 285% reduction in American children's ability to bring in environmental sensory signal as opposed to that of children from pre-literate, non-technological societies. So, the German studies back up what we've already known about the desensitization of children who are exposed to the inappropriate stimuli from sources such as television, rock music and computers. Chris: Jerry Mander pointed out in his book on television that when television was first introduced it was advertised as this wonderful, democratic technology that would make everybody's life better and serve as an educational tool available free of charge to all. And the American culture of the fifties bought this fantasy lock, stock and barrel. So how about computers in the 90s? Joe: Well, computers fall into essentially the same category. Here's one example that demonstrates how they can have the same debilitating effects on the mind that television has. Researchers took a single page from a fourth grade level textbook that had explanatory writing and a couple of diagrams or pictures on it and asked three groups of people to review the information. Group A was given the piece of paper itself to study. Group B was shown a movie of the page, and group C viewed it on a television screen - which is exactly the same as a computer monitor. Twenty minutes later they tested them on their comprehension and retention of the material. Group A, who held a paper copy in their hands, averaged a retention level of 85%. Those who saw it on the movie screen had a retention level of between 25 to 30%, and those who studied it on the TV monitor had a retention and comprehension level between 3 and 5%. When they mixed the groups up and tested them again with different pages from the book, in every case the retention and comprehension was identical. This again has to do with how the brain is constructed and the way it responds to radiant light rather than reflected light as a source of information. And it should make us pause to consider, but it won't. Chris: Why? Joe: I attended a computer conference at the University of California at Berkeley during which twenty-one of us from all over the world spent four days discussing the computers-in-education issue. At that very time the State of California had a 500-million-dollar bill pending for a pilot project of K-12 computerized education. They asked me to come and speak to any legislators who would listen and give them a report on what we had discovered during those four days at Berkeley. The woman engineering this, who at the time was head of the Republican strategy department, was fired for asking me to come and speak. It just goes to show you how much money and power is involved. Kim: But, so many occupations these days involve computers. How do we teach young people what they need to know about computers without relying on them too much? Joe: At that four-day symposium at Berkeley we concluded that everything hinges on age appropriateness. One professor from MIT made the passionate plea that we must encourage children to develop the ability to think first, and then give them the computer. After that the sky's the limit. But if you introduce the computer before the child's thought processes are worked out, then you have disaster in the making. This is because, as Piaget pointed out, the first twelve years of life are spent putting into place the structures of knowledge that enable young people to grasp abstract, metaphoric, symbolic types of information. The capacity for abstract thinking developed as a result of the natural concrete processes that have been going on for millions of years. The danger here is that the computer, which operates by the same artificial, cathode-ray-tube technology as the television, will interrupt that development. Chris: TV and computers aside, I get the sense from a lot of young people I know that they feel something is missing from their lives. Have you noticed this in your travels? Joe: I've often talked about three important characteristics of all teenagers. The first is a feeling they have of great expectation that something tremendous is supposed to happen in their lives around the age of fifteen or sixteen. The second is the feeling that some greatness exists within them. The third is a longing that is so intense it can never be assuaged. And so at this point teenagers begin looking for models of who they can be, someone to help them define and put that deep longing into perspective. And what do they get? They get MTV, they get rock stars, they get all of the rest of the trash in movies and on television. Kim: This is the stage of life when many other cultures encourage spiritual growth through things like coming-of-age and rights-of-passage rituals. Do you think the absence of these in our culture is one of our downfalls? Joe: Certainly, but the things you're speaking of are vehemently blocked by our society because they're not economically viable. They can't be given a dollar value. Young people looking for something of meaning and substance out there have a terrible time finding what they're seeking because they are locked into our cultural system. Look into Ralph Nader and Linda Coco's new book on the corporate exploitation of children. It's a bomb shell. For instance, when Ralph Nader approached Bob Pittman, who invented MTV, and asked him if he realized the profound influence they were having on fourteen year olds, the guy leaned back and said, "Ralph, we don't influence fourteen-year-olds, we own them." Today there are actually entrepreneurs in the marketplace selling programs to corporations detailing how to exploit the child mind! In other words, we are totally set up right now as a consumer society, and changing that fact would literally threaten our economy. I don't think you can change this reality on any large-scale basis. You can only try to work around the edges and hope to reach one individual at a time. No one's going to change the overall system. All we can do is appeal to parents who have ears to hear and who are willing to take the risk of getting their children out of this madness and protect them against it. Chris: What advice would you give to individual parents of teenagers about how they can help them to pursue their deepest desires? Joe: Well, first of all a great many teenagers have no idea what their desires are because they haven't been given the opportunity to find out. So, we can start by helping them to identify their desires. Next, we can start being more proactive rather than reactionary. Most of the crises that are occurring in our young people today are arbitrary, that is they're created by the culture itself. Instead of spending millions of dollars trying to fix what's wrong with teens we should invest in educating people to be good parents, to love and nurture their babies and young children so they don't have huge problems later on. The first four years of life are the most important. In Sweden, new mothers are given three years of maternity leave. It used to be one, and now they've upped it to three so that mothers can stay home with their children. And they're giving fathers a one-year leave of absence with full pay so that both mother and father can be with their child for the first critical year. So when you ask what can we do with our teenagers, I say we can begin by preventing the damage right from the very beginning. Kim: So you think there's hope for us? Joe: There are some extraordinary things happening right now, in little pockets all over the world, examples of true coherency in a massively incoherent system. And when this global economy nightmare we've unleashed finally self-destructs - as I think it has to -these small pockets of coherent intelligence will then manifest themselves and provide the impetus and the wisdom for the changes necessary to create a world in which children can reach their full potential. I am very optimistic about this. 
Heart and Brain: How are your Heart and Brain connected to God?By Virginia Essene Amazing recent evidence indicates that the heart begins to beat in the unborn fetus even before the brain is formed so it appears that the heart truly holds primary status as the initiator of human life. Even so, scientists have yet to discover what causes the human heart to automatically begin this essential “auto-rhythmic” beating function that grants us physical existence. Although previously unknown, neuroscientists have now discovered that there are over 40,000 nerve cells (neurons) in the heart alone, indicating that the heart has its own independent nervous system sometimes called “the brain in the heart.” In addition, the heart has an electromagnetic energy field 5,000 times greater than that of the brain and this field can be measured with magnetometers up to 10 feet beyond the physical body. This provides support for the spiritual teachings that indicate we humans have energy fields that constantly intermingle with each other, enabling healing (or negative) thoughts to be extended and exchanged. Since the heart’s energy field is greater than that of the brain’s, we presume that feelings and information sent from the heart to the brain can have a profound effect on the brain’s functions, introducing heightened intuitive clarity and increased feelings of well being. Gratefully, this welcomed state of balance or coherence between the heart and the brain eliminates stress and permits the personal condition we have called creativity as well as peace of mind! Because this powerful coherence starts in each individual’s heart rhythms, the heart may be considered the conduit or vessel through which soulfulness, higher consciousness, or spiritual energies enter the human being at birth. This scientifically identified condition of heart coherence supports the teachings of many world religions that state the human heart is the seat of the soul. Spiritual teachings also suggest that it is humanity’s task to join together their individual coherent heart energies into one unified peaceful heart, one spiritually inspired healing intention. To begin appreciating more about the brain’s role in supporting the heart energy intentions of love, imagine you are standing in a laboratory where scientists are showing you pictures of a human brain flashing on and off with speeding neuron impulses lighting up its many regions and innumerable activities. As you actually observe those uncountable neural light activities in the various brain areas are you wondering how this human brain was designed to function? Can you imagine that this brain cooperates with the heart in providing a light link with your Creator? How do you feel as you watch this mysterious light activity in the brain? Is any part of you wanting to deny and disbelieve what you are seeing? Or do you feel a growing curiosity to know more about this brain and how it really works? Do you feel willing to explore the idea that both the heart and the brain were actually created so humans could always know “their Maker?” Would you want your loving heart and fantastic brain to be healthy and connected with your Creator during physical life for essential spiritual guidance and support? Fortunately, among the many scientific and technical discoveries recently made, there are several which have helped us identify the major purpose of the brain as a spiritual receptor of light, of God energy. Newly developing medical fields such as neurobiology, neurochemistry, and neuropsychology are using technical “imaging” equipment such as PET (positive emission tomography) and SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) to identify various regions of the brain, their activities, and especially those frontal parts of the brain which must develop “God capacity.” And must immediately develop that spiritual capacity during the first critical months and years of childhood growth! At last science can join spiritual teachings in proving that humans have the capacity through coherent hearts and proper brain development to attain the mystical expression of feeling love, of knowing God. What is absolutely vital to remember is that the soul’s energy connection with physical life is not fully formed at birth and is not fully accessible during the first few years thereafter. When a baby is born, its brain has just about 50% of the neurological connections it must have as an adult, and this rapid growth must occur in the next several years. This spiritual capacity must be developed by the constant infusion of light (heart love) from the mother and family if the brain’s normal physical growth is to be attained. Should this essential “growth fuel” be missing during its early months and years, the infant’s brain development will likely be curtailed by lack of this essential light, or love energy, causing a variety of serious repercussions. Scientific reports are announcing that if the frontal lobes of a person’s brain are not properly developed by light and love at a young age then the resulting lack of light will probably cause a dysfunctional brain with a variety of possible physical, emotional and behaviour al problems. This apparently occurs because the brain contains both more primitive regions from earlier evolutionary development and more modern additions in the frontal lobes and cortex regions designed to operate on light. Indeed it is this lack of light that causes disruptions and imbalances in one or many regions of brain area activity. In recent years, newly created PET and SPECT brain scan equipment have helped those enlightened doctors dedicated to healing the brain assist individuals with epilepsy, Attention Deficit Disorder, injuries, innumerable emotional conditions and much more. Their work also discourages alcohol and drug abuse in teens and adults by showing images of their negative effects on the brain. It is also believed that an increased amount of stress, from the chaotic nature of modern living, creates a toxic brain hormone called cortisol. It is deduced that if high cortisol levels are maintained in the brain over an extended period, certain critical brain areas can become totally devoid of neural activity. When neural activity falters, the brain’s light activity darkens in the frontal lobes and there is a decreased ability by the person to control aggression and regulate negative thoughts and feelings. It is vital to grasp that the purpose of learning this information about the heart and human brain’s needs for light & love is not to focus on blaming mothers and families whose children are exhibiting negative behaviour and suffering from a lack of connection to their higher consciousness. Rather it is to finally understand that both the heart and the brain require light & love to attain spiritual connection to God. This is critically true during a human’s infancy phase of physical growth – but also throughout its adult years thereafter. Then, with this knowledge that we human beings were created to live with the constant fuel of light/love during physical life in both our hearts and our brains, we must educate ourselves and do everything in our power to fulfill our heart’s and brains’ ability to function properly. Health will be seen in a different way once scans of the brain’s interior condition and functioning reveal any damaged or unbalanced areas, and new approaches for rehabilitation can be applied. The long-standing question about whether heredity or environment is the most essential ingredient in human behaviour can be better understood through use of recent discoveries about the heart as well as new tomography scans and available brain imaging information not known in earlier decades. Now is the time to profoundly understand what causes the human species to maintain heartfelt ethical attitudes and positive emotional behaviours and to discern what vital role both play in humanity’s spiritual development. We need to know the pattern from which we human beings were created, our present evolutionary status, and how we can best express that pattern in physical life. This may be the designated moment when we can be empowered to improve our loving behaviour toward all people, but especially babies and children. Many creative hearts and minds are needed to discover how we can correct our present negative personal and societal problems and develop a brighter future in which every person gains expression of the spiritual nature that is the human hallmark. In the meantime, those of us with relationships to babies and children can read broadly about the heart and brain connection, discuss ways of parenting and teaching based on love and on what PET and SPECT photographs reveal about the brain’s incredible design. We can agree to implement deliberate changes for the good of all. Parents, day care individuals and centers, educators of public and private schools, home teachers, and every adult who relates to a child, represent an important link in the sharing of 21st century information about the heart and brain in human life. We will also be drawn to explore the ways adults who have not had a light enriched heart and brain experience, themselves, can recover from various neural and electrical imbalances and even the stress-induced cortisol damage they may have endured. Surely this is the exciting threshold of a new era in natural healing, at the least, and an enormous spiritual expansion of human consciousness as we birth new generations of heart centered and brain-healthy children with telepathic and other unusual abilities. Yes, this is an incredibly hopeful time! For we already have tools such as meditation and prayer, music and sound, nature and her innumerable health-giving products from the earth, and the current positive scientific and technical equipment to assist us. Our challenge now is not merely to stay informed about these many developments that can aid us, but to use them! And to implement them both individually and in our local and global community relationships. Peace is the prize. The challenge is whether we will accept our responsibility and earn this heart-sought prize both for ourselves and for our children. As names like the Indigo children, the Crystal children, the children of Oz, etc., suggest, our human evolution is being upgraded by wise and loving souls returning to earth. While heart and brain exploration continues to enrich our understanding of ourselves as creations of God’s design, perhaps we will finally understand how identical we humans really are in our basic essence and then begin applying our extraordinary hearts and brains to accept each other as one family.
Association for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health. http://www.birthpsychology.com/ has many books, videos and teaching materials explaining how the baby’s brain forms in its early years in response to the quality of interaction with the mother and other caregivers. The Biology of Transcendence. Joseph Chilton Pearce, Park Street Press, 2002. (also other titles such as Crack in the Cosmic Egg and The Magical Child) Brain Respiration. Dr. Ilchi Lee, Hamptons Road Pub., 2001(?). (peacemaker has 17 books including Healing Society; online Brain Respiration class, www.Healingplaza.com EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Trauma. Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. and Margaret Silk Forrest, Basic Books, 1997. The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. Antonio Damasio, Harcourt, 1999. The First Three Years of Life. Nina R. Lief and others, Southmark Publ., 1997. (Early Childhood Development Center – N.Y. University - College of Medicine.) Healing the Hardware of the Soul. Daniel Amen, M.D., Free Press, 2002. … also Healing ADD, the Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of Attention Deficit Disorders, Putnam, 2001. …also Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger and Impulsiveness, Random House, 1998. *** see www.amenclinic.com for an online video introduction ….. also www.brainplace.com The Healing Mind: The Vital Links Between Brain & Behaviour , Immunity and Disease. Paul Martin, Ph.D., St. Martin’s Press, 1997. The HeartMath Solution. Doc Childre, Howard Martin, et al, Harper, S.F., CA, 1999. How to Know God: The Soul’s Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries. Deepak Chopra, M.D., Random House, 2000. (& many other titles about spiritual topics.) Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel. Candace B. Pert, Ph.D. Scribner, 1997. Pioneering research on how chemicals inside our body link mind/body. The Power of Light. Joel Achenbach & photographer Joe McNally, National Geographic Magazine, October, 2001, pages 7-29. The Soul of the Child: Nurturing the Divine Identity of Our Children. Michael Gurian, Atria Books, 2002. (& other titles.) A Symphony in the Brain: The Evolution of the New Brainwave Biofeedback. Jim Robbins, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. What’s Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life. Lise Eliot, Ph.D., Bantam Books, 1999. Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science & the Biology of Belief. Andrew Newberg, M.D., Eugene D’Aquili, M.D., and Vince Rause, Ballentine Publishing Co., 2001. James答覆台灣綱友Neosho的問題Hello~ 我對於〝信念系統與neo-sciences（新科學）〞這個主題有興趣，我已經讀過了1~4室的哲學和辭彙表。 我在這裡用到的術語〝neo-sciences〞說的是關於〝把科學和心靈連結起來〞，並且期待neo-sciences可以被正式承認，更有甚者，可以解決目前科學界（present-science-reality）的瓶頸。 Dear Neosho, 謝謝你的真誠的探究。你的問題可以被完全地理解和領會。 是的，科學，到某種程度，是人類的探索者們之信念系統的一種out-picturing（向外的描述）。我說的探索者們指的是科學家們。因為科學是一種學術的制度，所以它常會鑽入學術文化的洞穴裡，這使得它較不具彈性和有機（less flexible and organic）。作為一種制度，科學也會去保護它的歷史上的立場或基礎。 Neoscience，如你所提到的，將會比較是對於‘心-腦 系統’以及此系統在其中運作的‘量子世界’的一種有關各種學問的、整合的、研究方法。原因在於，這‘心-腦 系統’要為我們的世界之〝實相的製造（reality-making）〞負責。任何沒有聚焦於這個核心之上的科學，都並非真正的在處理實相的製造，而是在處理實相的向外描述（reality out-picturing）。 換句話說，有（研究）起因與作用的科學（there is the science of the cause and science of the effect）。Neoscience將會聚焦於‘起因的科學’，而我說的並非是宇宙的誕生（如，大爆炸），而是，創造了3-D的世界以及在其中的主要信念系統的那些‘起因力量’（causal forces）。Neoscience將會揭露那些‘起因力量’，而在如此做的同時，徹底改革了族類的信念系統。 有一些勢力團體會希望neoscience不要冒出頭來，因為這些勢力團體不要秘傳（或難理解）的知識變成公開（或可理解）的，並且可為大眾所得。他們害怕這知識會起革命的作用－－政治上，社會上，精神上等等的。然而，這知識是無法遏制的。它將會見到天日，而它將會起它的作用。這只是時間快慢的問題。 這全都和‘次元性的轉變’（dimensional shifts）以及‘一個族類的上升歷程如何被引導到它自然的成就（how a species’ ascension career is guided to its natural fruition）’有關。Neosciense就是會幫助人類去發現和應用那，已經為人類準備好了的，在一個〝更高的〞、微妙的、次元裡等待著的，知識。 我會建議你去研究‘心-腦 系統’以及在其中的‘量子世界’。the Institute of HeartMath是一個開始的好地方。你可以在網路上找到它們。它們有一個網站。我相信如果你去研究這個正在浮現的領域，你將會獲得一種方向感。 再次的謝謝你。 深深的敬意 James -------------------------------------------------------------- |
在心臟相關領域首屈一指的研究機構──心能開發協會，其研究證明了情緒智商的作用僅佔人體潛能一小部分。我們的心臟並不只是自動的血管循環系統，同時也是整個身體的控制台，對我們的體能和心智都有極富變化性的影響。在心能開發激勵法裡，我們不僅發現這個器官所發揮的重大影響力；而且經由科學的驗證，提供簡化學習的技巧和練習，能改變我們的心律以對抗壓力，讓我們的身心恢復平衡。
Doc Childre and the research team at the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) have shown that techniques which combine intentional heart focus with the generation of sustained positive feelings lead to a beneficial mode of physiological function they have termed psychophysiological coherence. Correlates of psychophysiological coherence include a sine wave-like pattern in the heart rhythms, increased heart-brain synchronization (alpha rhythms become more synchronized to the heart) and entrainment between the heart's rhythmic patterns, respiration, blood pressure rhythms and other physiological systems. Although psychophysiological coherence is a natural state that can occur spontaneously while people are feeling genuine positive emotions and during sleep, sustained periods are generally rare.|
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