"The Third Freedom: Heart"
Essence of Emotion
Poets, mystics, philosophers, and scientists have long pondered the mysteries of the heart. Religious thought claims the heart as the center of spiritual love. Christianity associates divine love with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Hindus revere Shiva’s sacred heart, Buddhists extol the heart as the site of compassion, and Sufis see the heart as the seat of God. The ancient Egyptians believed that the heart was home not only to emotions but also to thought, personality, moral awareness, and the soul. Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the heart, not the brain, was the seat of mental processes.
We now know that the heart does indeed have a mind of its own. Simple experiments on frogs in high school laboratories demonstrate that the heart, composed of involuntary cardiac muscle, is autogenic or self-excitatory—signals for initiating contraction need not come from the brain but can also originate in the heart muscle itself.
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"Transforming Your Relationship – Mind Freedom"
Part 8 of 8
When you turn the keys of Mind Freedom, you unlock the potential for a truly satisfying union. By paying positive attention to your relationship, focusing on the qualities you want it to exhibit and seeing your part in its evolution, you can break free from limited societal models and forge a bond that is your own creation, uniquely and satisfyingly yours.
Use your Mind Freedom to help transform some of the common relationship fallacies that you are subtly and overtly bombarded with everyday.
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Developing Perspective and Celebrating Differences – Mind Freedom
Part 7 of 8
Invite your witness consciousness to explore what you’d like to heal through your relationship practice. Stand back when you are involved in some activity and watch yourself as if you were a character in a movie. What are you doing right now? Why and how are you doing it? Pay attention to the motivations and patterns behind your actions. For instance, the next time you find yourself in a heated discussion with your mate, call on your observer to take a close look at what’s really going on. Are you steaming ahead into a quarrel because the issue itself is really important to you? Or are you pushing your point because you really want to be in control, and not just in this situation but in most?
Soon you will be able to recognize your own thought habits such as “Oh, right now I’m in my worrying mode,” “Mmm, here is my loving state,” “Yikes, I’m taking a wanting-to-be-right stance,” “Aha, this is my conciliation manner.” You will no longer be on automatic pilot, operating from sleepy old patterns, but will awake to choices and to the freedom choice brings. By engaging your witness consciousness, you expand your capacity to eliminate your damaging behaviors and to amplify your constructive ones.
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The Discipline of Conscious Attention – Mind Freedom
Part 6 of 8
Loose your imagination to create a vision of the kind of relationship you want. As you construct your vision, identify and focus on qualities of your relationship rather than characteristics of your partner. For instance, “I want a relationship that is full of laughter, honesty, and sensuality” rather than “I want a partner who is funny, truthful, and sexy,” or “I want a relationship that is financially strong” rather than “I want a rich spouse.” Qualities of a relationship are much larger and more encompassing than either partner’s individual traits. Your partner does not make it happen for you—you are both responsible for creating a well-balanced union.
Focus not on characteristics of partners
but on qualities of a relationship.
Whenever you think about your relationship, concentrate on your vision. Choosing your vision, thinking only about what you do want, does not mean deceiving yourself about the state of your life. Be completely honest about what is going on in your life right now. If your actual relationship is unlike your vision, if you have relationship difficulties, as almost everyone does, compare them against your relationship vision and say to yourself, “I choose to have my relationship vision.” Follow these steps:
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"Mind Freedom in Relationship: Conscious Attention to What Matters"
Mind Freedom -Part 4 of 8
The world is demanding and constantly changing. People tend to ignore one of their most important anchors for intellectual sanity, emotional security, and spiritual wisdom—their primary relationship with a mate. A committed, lifelong relationship with another human being is a simple, obvious, and profound source of happiness, but relationships ring in low on many couples’ list of priorities. Although people might say their relationship is very important, their actual behavior contradicts them. Individuals become preoccupied with worldly matters (careers, material goods, social position) and begin to take their partners for granted. When attention goes elsewhere, the relationship anchor cuts loose and the relationship drifts out to sea.
This situation does not just happen to you. You are not the helpless victim of a world characterized by the popular, albeit misinformed, saying “Life is hard and then you die.” In fact, you are a co-creator of your situation and you can just as easily create something different and new using the power of Mind Freedom.
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Essence of Mind Freedom – Mind Freedom
Part 3 of 8
Mind Freedom The essence of mind is consciousness. The freedom of mind is attention and intention. The responsibility of mind is choice.
Witness Consciousness: The Power of Self-Awareness
Retraining your mind to become once again your servant rather than your master requires you to develop self-awareness. Whether positive or negative, your mind approaches life in its own particular and unique way. You might be the only person in the whole world who does what you do exactly the way you do it. If you pay careful attention and attempt to be an objective observer, your “witness consciousness” or “observer consciousness” can identify exactly how your mind operates. Being aware of what you do inside your head enables you to name it. Then, “the truth shall set you free” because naming empowers you. When you name what you are doing, you gain emotional distance from it and so can choose to stop or to continue. This is freedom.
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