Deep Harmony
Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.
We are wired for happiness:
Research shows that we have the capacity for great wisdom, creativity and insight. We are naturally wired for it. Our brains, however, are also wired to protect us. And since survival is the brain’s top priority we have a tendency to look out for danger and whatever else could be a threat to our survival. This goes for our physical survival and the survival of our ego or social self.
This tendency to focus on threats makes us hyper vigilant and can set off a competitive and aggressive side to us that ends up limiting our creativity, decision making and shutting down empathy. When we act as though we are the most important person on the planet, our relationships suffer, our health suffers and our children learn that life is competitive, instead of collaborative.
However, because our brain’s are also wired to connect with and bond with others, which brings us pleasure and happiness, we can consciously choose to make a switch. We can focus on the good things in people and in life, we can cultivate positive emotions and we can make connection and cooperation our new focus. In doing so we can turn on our compassion gene.
Mindfulness studies show that repeated practice leads to improved concentration and sustained attention, empathy and compassion, self-reflection and self-regulation, enhanced memory and learning, plus improved mood which are are central to creativity and higher consciousness.
“Rewire your brain for higher consciousness by paying attention love, compassion and joy.”
Practicing the compassion meditation helps you turn on the your compassion gene by giving the brain new data to process – feelings of love, connectedness and harmony are also survival enhancing signals the brain will recognize, because social connection is good for us. When we meditate on compassion and send out the loving kindness energy to others we open up and strengthen brain connections that enhance our wellbeing and quality of life.
