I am a fan of Gregg Braden. Here he talks about how our hearts have memories, they even remember trauma. They're not just a pumping machines keeping us alive, they have feelings too.
So it makes me wonder whether a lot of Afib episodes when they come back are due to memory of past trauma. It remembers that you had it there and then, it remembers what you ate, it remembers that last time you were this sad you also had it and so on.
Maybe Afib is something self inflicted?
Sounds crazy but talk to your heart if you have an Afib episode, ask it, what can I do to help you calm down? What would you like from me? How can I make you feel better?
Thanks and very interesting. If you're a fan of Gregg Braden, check out Dr. John Sarno. While famous for writing about back pain, his "brain first" theory applies to many conditions, including afib. Pretty heavy stuff. I couldn't make it though his book.
We had a member on this forum many years ago who said that when her AF took off, she would gently stroke the area where her heart is and talk soothingly to it and it calmed her AF.
That was me and that was from HeartMath who have been researching heart intelligence for over 25 years now with amazing results and are now applying mass healing through heart coherence to earth projects and actually monitoring the affects. Way back they also did a very interesting experiment in hospital with AFers. I can’t remember the details and it’s not on the site as it’s now at least 20 years old but the results were as effective as meds. Unfortunately it didn’t work long term but in the first few years of my AF journey the biofeedback allowed me to manage my AF much more calmly and did stop some episodes - as we all know - nothing seems to work all of the time.
I've just watched the two videos and would recommend everyone doing the same. Fascinating stuff. I wonder if the cells in our heart and brain could be connected to our life force, that leaves our body when we die.
When I was a child I heard a story about the wife of a friend of ours - they lost their only son and she grieved terribly. One day she was found sitting under a tree, dead, and the doctor’s opinion was that she died of a broken heart. That made a deep impression on me and I have since found out this is a genuine diagnosis as a traumatic event can damage your heart, it’s called Takotsubo syndrome. I can believe it because grief can cause physical pain in the heart area, thinking of Jeanjeannie’s comment about feeling as if her heart is bleeding. I shall watch it later.
that’s really interesting I lost my eldest Son 16 years ago and it was like a physical empty feeling pain in my chest. After having an ablation last august I had that same painful empty chest feeling again. I even tried to explain it to friends that it was that same feeling I had after loosing Tom
In traditional Judeo-Christian thought and teaching, the physical heart and physical brain are intimately connected. Perhaps inseparably so.
Someone mentioned Dr Sarno. His book helped me a lot and by the time I finished it (took 3 or 4 days) 3 months of severe back pain was reduced about 50 percent.
Thank you Tony for sharing the videos and for raising this important view of the heart. It makes total sense to me. Since having Afib I've been practicing a qigong sequence specifically for the heart which involves placing both hands over the heart between each exercise and sending loving energy and compassion to the heart. I discovered when I first started the practice that hand on heart was almost too tender and deep a feeling to bear. It felt like my heart was breaking, or a deep sadness, but without any obvious connection to an event. To start with I put it down to loss - the loss of my previously healthy body. But now I know it's simply my heart's own need to be loved, to be accepted, to be heard and to recieve my healing thoughts. Thank you our hearts!
A quick response to the videos, I hadn't watched them prior to my previous post. That kind of charismatic speaking and the quasi religious ideas are really not my thing, but I do know there's a powerful brain-heart link and we all find our own route there!
I tend to agree that the style of presentation is very off putting but dig a bit deeper and it’s all there. This is what I call popularising and sensationalising and I can see why. Many people like Bruce Lipton were persecuted out of academia and had to make a living whilst not compromising what they understood as speaking their truth.
And the interesting thing is that this old wisdom we know from ancient practices such as Tai Chi, Qichong, Chinese and Indian medicine and practices have been using exactly the same principles for thousands of years.
I agree completely. I have been practicing with a Karuk Indian Medicine man with Indian culture and medicine for the past 3 or 4 years. It is incredible to me that I have learned what it feels like to go from my head to my heart which I have never experienced before. I feel it when I’m drumming or praying in sweat lodge. I truly believe that the Indians have the most well rounded and balanced view of life and us fitting into it if anything I have ever heard.
Absolutely - I belonged to a Shamanic Practice Group based on N American native people and it was so enlightening - their rituals and practices regarding give away and journeying and drumming was just a beautiful experience.
I have studied many practices and worked with someone who did 5 PhDs studying healing practices and the conclusion was that no matter the modality, one of the most important factors was belief system and the reparative relationship. Not all so called healers really wish you well so you need to develop a really sensitive radar and my radar system is my body and how I feel in someone’s energy field. I’ve had recommendations from friends about people who told me how good this or that person was and walked into their presence and turned around and walked straight back out again! One needs to be discriminating.
I'm so heartened (pun not intended!) to hear of many on this forum who have accepted this connection. I have also followed Gregg Braden for many years as well as Bruce Lipton and Dr Joe Dispenza.
My mother's AF began after her only grandson took his own life in 2018. GP couldn't diagnose because she would only get it intermittently and no testing could replicate it. By 2020 her brother (my uncle) died of mesothelioma and 2 weeks later my father died of cancer. At the end of 2020 my aunt was found in her bed after passing through the night, shortly followed by my sisters husband who died in a nursing home. By the end of 2021 my mother's AF took off! And after tripping and hitting her head an episode occured whilst in the GP office. They caught it and rushed her to hospital. Since then we have been battling the AF and the small brain haemorraghes that followed the fall.
I will always say that my mother is suffering from a broken heart - quite literally. There are only 3 of us left now... me, my sister and mum. My husband holds down the fort at our house while I help care for mum at her home.
Healing the heart and connecting to a force greater than our own isn't religious in my opinion. It is actually quite scientific if you follow the three Dr's I mentioned ... and many others who have studied the electromagnetic energy and chemical responses to the heart/brain relationship.
Love Bruce Lipton’s work - he was one of the first people I ever read - was it the Science of your Cells? Blew my mind. I then went to several of his lectures which were even more amazing. Joe Dispenza I couldn’t relate to.
My own stuff I believe originated from WW11 as although born after the war, all my family were in the midst and I grew up hearing horrific stories which I believe left me with trauma - before I even started my own life experience full of trauma. I believe also in emotional cell memory ie: you can also hold unheated emotional trauma from your parents and grandparents - that is particularly why Bruce Lipton interested me so much.
Broken Heart Syndrone is a medically acknowledged phenomena. So many other people to read on this subject but one of the most interesting healing techniques to explore and which I continue to have ongoing treatments is sacro cranial therapy from which I have experienced the most amazing visionary healing.
I hadn’t come across Gregg Braden but now on my radar! Thank for the post.
Biology of Belief my favourite of Bruce Lipton atm. 💕
Gregg Braden and Bruce Lipton recently toured together on a Holy tour to the holy land of Palestine. I'm not so much into the religious aspect, more of the spiritual & scientific in general. I am glad to see my post triggered off peoples reflections. I think it is important between all the discussions of what blood thinners and what beta blockers and what food we should and shouldn't be eating that we reflect on the spiritual and mental side of our well being. The fact that people are on this forum is because they are concerned and living in fear and fear as we all know is our biggest enemy. Have a lovely weekend everyone.
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