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In the book, The Revealing Word, Charles Fillmore says: “The heart, however, is but the visible expression of the invisible center of consciousness. It is the center from which the divine substance is poured forth.”

The Divine substance that pours forth is the Wisdom of the Heart. The Wisdom of the heart surpasses all understanding. You can have several PhDs, be a Rhodes scholar with an IQ of 140 and all that knowledge that you have accumulated could not begin to equal the Wisdom and understanding of the Heart.

Your brain is a tool to interpret all the signals that it is receiving from its internal and external environment. The brain uses your experiences, beliefs, emotions, and perceptions to interpret these signals. Often, those experiences no longer apply to you, the beliefs you have may be limiting and the perceptions are from your ego. And yet, you are allowing your brain to tell you how you should feel and what you should do about any situation, circumstance, or person.

Your brain is a tool, just like a hammer. Can a hammer tell you how to build a house? Then, why would you let your brain tell you how to build your life? Your heart on the other hand has a deep inner knowing that comes from Divine Mind; a knowingness that does not require thought, consultation, or examination. It only requires that you be open and receptive to it and surrendering to Truth. When you combine the clarity of your Spiritual intuition with the wisdom of the heart. You are then able to discern what is the highest and best for you in any situation.

We know from scientific research that your heart is an electromagnetic organ that is made up of primarily neural cells that store memory and knowledge, that significantly affects how we view the world.

The energy field of your heart extends outside your physical body and is many times more powerful than the brain. An example of how this energy shows up in your life, is when you meet someone for the first time and immediately experience a connection or dissonance with them.

The ego attaches itself to sense consciousness, it builds an image of man that is not of Truth, but rather based in fear, uncertainty and unfulfilled expectations. When you don’t want to put yourself out there for fear of being let down and you think your heart has been hurt in the past, what was really being hurt was the ego; the false narrative, limiting beliefs, and unreasonable expectations of the ego; the ego that is based on the illusion of you being separate and apart from all there is. What is hurt is the ego which needs you to believe the illusion to survive; the ego that makes you feel like your heart needs to be protected.

Your heart doesn’t need to be protected. Your heart is here to protect you. You see with the spiritual intuition and the inner knowing of the heart, you can discern between truth and illusion, jealousy and love, your ego and your authentic self. Your heart senses any unusual shifts in the universal divine flow of life before your brain can.

Science has been able to measure the collective feeling of sadness and loss felt by the world when there are tragic and catastrophic events of loss of life. Your heart can feel these events even if they happen halfway across the globe before you ever hear about it on the news. Conversely, scientists have also been able to measure the collective feelings of joy, happiness, and excitement at events like a royal wedding, or saving lives after challenging events.

Your heart has a wisdom that does not need to be justified, thought about, or questioned. It has an intelligence based on the inner knowing that comes directly from Divine mind. And once you learn to get rid of the mind chatter and external distractions and tap into the Wisdom of the heart. And Trust that wisdom you will find that your heart has been the one protecting you all this time. IT reminds me of the quote from Rumi, “Your heart knows the way, run in that direction.”

Take time to meditate. It will help you reduce the distractions of the outer world and the mind chatter of the brain. It will also allow you to get to know the voice of your heart. One you do that, being open and receptive to giving and receiving love will become natural. trusting the guidance and wisdom of your heart will become easy. And life will be all the more beautiful.

Today’s affirmation:

“I Trust in the Wisdom and Guidance of My Heart.”

~Rev. Drea

To see a video of this Daily Dose of Truth, click here.

Earlier this week, my Uncle made his transition. His name was Lionel Augustus Pitts, but he was affectionately known as Uncle Bian. And since this is the month of wisdom, I thought I would speak with you about the Wisdom of Grieving.

In New Thought, our view on death varies from the traditional view of death. We believe that life is eternal. We believe that there is a physical death that occurs. When the soul, the individuated expression of Spirit, no longer has use for the physical body. It will shed the body and move on, whether it is to another body, another plane of existence or back to the Divine source of life. We call it life after life. Every soul has a unique energy signature. And that energy signature will always exist. This is not only the belief of New Thought and many other religious and Spiritual traditions. 

This is a scientific fact. Science has proven that everything is pure energy including man. The law of conservation of energy states, that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but only changed from one form into another or transferred from one object to another.

In the past, four years, I have had 4 uncles and one brother transition, beyond other friends and family members. This perspective or view of death has brought a measure of comfort to me as family and friends have transitioned. So, the question is. If we believe that life is eternal, and the soul of a person never dies, why do we grieve? Or better yet what is the purpose of grieving?

We grieve because we are mourning the loss of the physical representation of the soul. When the frequency and vibration of the soul becomes focused and concentrated, it manifests physically as a body. The purpose or process of grieving helps us to make sense of this loss mentally, emotionally and physically.

Mentally, when you experience the loss of a friend or family member, your brain will sense that an energetic shift has occurred in your environment. Remember the focused and concentrated energy that was that physical representation of that person has now dissipated back into the universal divine source of energy. In trying to deal with this shift in energy, the brain will produce a flood of neurochemicals and hormones. This flood can cause a disruption in the normal flow of hormones which can result in symptoms, such as disturbed sleep, loss of appetite, fatigue, and anxiety.

When those symptoms converge, your brain function takes a hit. After all, if you’re overwhelmed, it stands to reason that you won’t absorb your environment the same way you would when you are content.

Emotionally, every relationship that we have is a mirror. A mirror designed to show us the perceptions that we have of ourselves, and the perspective we have on life. These mirrors are often tied to our emotions such as fear, guilt, anxiety, self- worth. When we lose those mirrors not by choice but by death, we sometimes lose perspective and in turn lose the ability for self-examination and introspection. And until we can re-establish another mirror or realize that we no longer need that mirror, life can be very unsettling.   

Physically, every person has their own energy signature. Remember the body temple is a concentration of focused energy, frequency, and vibration. Every relationship that we have creates a co-mingling of energy signatures. Whether we deem those energy signatures to be good or bad, beneficial or non-beneficial, we have become accustomed to them or even comforted by them. When that body dies and the energy signature is disbursed back into the Universal Divine Energy. Your body is affected often moving into what is known as fight-or-flight mode because that which you have been accustomed to or that energy signature that has comforted you is no longer there. Your body’s, sympathetic nervous system will begin to produce stress hormones. Prolonged exposure these stress hormones can cause harmful physical symptoms such as headaches, lowered immunity, insomnia, digestive problems, aches, pains etc. that can lead to long term dis-eases if not dealt with.

These mental, emotional and physical symptoms of loss are the reason we need to employ the wisdom of grieving. There are generally five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. There is no correct order or time frame for each stage of grief, neither is it necessary that you will go through any or all stages. But being open to experiencing them will help you better deal with and move through the mental, emotional and physical symptoms that you may experience after the loss of a loved-one.

Employing the wisdom of the grieving process means acknowledging your pain. Suppressing your pain and not acknowledging the hurt can cause your brain to misinterpret what is going on in your environment and send the wrong signals and instruction to your body about what to do to return to balance. This only prolongs the grief and can create unexpected mental dis-eases. Trust that your brain can and will function best when it has access to truth what is going on.

Accept that many different and unexpected emotions can and will be triggered as you move through the grieving process. Recognizing that you’ve lost, must re-establish or finally give up the mirror provided by that relationship will help you to move through the grieving process with less conflict with others and more importantly less conflict with yourself.

Finally, you must move. Sometimes, we get stuck in this uncomfortable frequency and vibration created by the loss of a loved- one. Exercising is a way to shift your frequency and vibration until you can find a new balance in the universal divine flow of life. Exercising also helps to kick in the parasympathetic nervous system that helps bring your body back to homeostasis and balance after it has been flooded with all the stress hormones. Remember, we are all made up of energy and energy is not meant to be stagnant. Whether its yoga, walking, gardening, or swimming, continue to move, and you will find yourself back in the Universal Divine Flow of Life.

This Daily Dose is dedicated to uncle Bernard, Uncle George, Uncle Ned, Uncle Bian, my brother Mark and all my other family members and friends who have shared this world with me as beautiful, unique individual expression of Spirit. I love you all.

Today’s Affirmation:

“I Embrace the Wisdom of Grieving as a way to Acknowledge, Honor and Strengthen my Alignment with Spirit.”

~ Rev. Drea

To see a video of this Daily Dose of Truth, click here.

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