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INNER 911: The Power of Your Heart to Handle Emergencies HeartStart to Your Week, Monday, February 18 Free Conference Call
"Have you signed the card yet?" one of our mutual friends asked.
"That's weird," I thought, as I brushed the tears away. Then it hit. The reason my eyes were watering. A searing pain cut accross my throat as if I was being stabbed in the neck with a knife. In an instant I felt my air passage closing off, my throat swelling, my breathing occluded, my ability to swallow suffocating. "Oh God! Is this how people die? Am I allergic to one of the appetizers? What's happening?!" Panic.
At the birthday party there was a nurse present, who took my pulse and examined my throat, determining right away that it was not anaphylaxis (where your throat closes off in an allergic reaction). She was able to assess that I was, in fact, choking. She tried the Heimlich maneuver, pushing on my abdomen and encouraging me to cough, to try to expel the unknown invader. More searing pain. No progress. Desperation. Fear.
Once it became clear that I would not die immediately of suffocation- I could get some air through to my lungs (albeit a painful process), I realized right away that I needed to consult with the GPS in my heart for guidance. Through the pulse of blood, hormonal communications, electrical fields, and pressure waves, the heart has immediate communication access with every other part of the body. The brain in the heart, with its unique intelligence, is the ultimate disaster control center- when we know how to listen to its emergency response. However, when we panic in emergencies, or others around us do, we create static to the signals from the heart and can lose sense of what to do. Often in emergency situations, there is nowhere to go but the heart, and people automatically key into its life saving messages. When we do panic, having tools and knowing that you can access your own inner 911 can not only be tremendously comforting- it can save your life. While my friends and I spoke about taking me to the ER, I started breathing into my heart and calming my terrified body down. I could hear my heart giving me very clear directives. First it said, "Ask everyone to leave the room, so you can hear me without distractions. You need to lay down." I managed through raspy voice and handsignals to tell everyone intuitively I felt I needed to lie down for a moment, and to go on with their party and I would be ok. I just needed a minute before we would leave for the ER. I was afraid to lie down, for fear of losing my breath or dying, but I followed my heart in spite of the fear. Somehow, releasing the pull of gravity on my throat, brought the pain down from a 20 out of 10 to a 10 out of 10. With the pain reduced, I could better hear my heart. "Do not go to the Emergency Room," it guided. "They will put an endoscope down your throat and it will cause more damage to the trachea. You also may not have time to get there. Do a Heart Lock-In (a tool that we teach in the Beginner HeartMath Webinar) and send healing to your throat. Appreciate all the things you have healed from in the past. Go to neutral (another tool we teach in the Beginner HeartMath Webinar) on all the emotion around this- the fear that you have done permament damage to yourself, the feeling that you are a nuisance to everyone at the party- every stressful emotion you find, neutralize that through me and harness the energy within it to recover by the time you walk out the door. You can do it." Part of the challenge laying there was the unknown. I still did not know if there was an object there, or something had just injured me. I had to keep breathing through my heart, making peace with what was happening. After a half an hour of neutralizing the stress and sending healing through the heart, as if I was a puppet being moved by a puppeteer, I felt the strength and the guidance to lift my hand up to my throat and manually move the object that was piercing down my trachea. It was completely intuitive, and counter to what I would have thought to do as I would not have wanted to continue to injure the rest of the throat. Within seconds, I could breathe without pain. While it took my throat a day or two to recover, I am so grateful to the power and guidance of my heart in this situation. I sincerely feel that it saved my life. There was another time that my heart bailed me out in a direct emergency: There was the sound of breaking glass, but I did not hear it. My boyfriend at the time looked over at me, concerned, and said, "Are you ok?" "Of course!" I replied, not sure what he was referring to. We looked down and there was blood suddenly everywhere. "Oh," I said, already going into shock. "Would you get me a bandaid?" "No! I will take you to the hospital though!" "Huh?" I said, confused. Suddenly, a wave of dizziness washed over me. I had stepped on a drinking glass, and was losing so much blood that I started to pass out. I remember thinking, "I had better stay conscious," and immediately starting practicing Quick Coherence (another tool we teach in the Beginner Webinar). Within seconds of applying the Quick Coherence tool, the bleeding stopped. Again, my heart spoke to me lucidly, as if through a walkie talkie, telling me to raise my leg up to my hips like a yoga pose, what hospital to go to, what street it was on, what to do each step (or in this case hop!) of the way. Again, my heart allowed me to respond to an emergency with clarity, poise, presence, patience- and previous practice to be able to access the heart's intelligence was the key. "Be prepared," is the Boyscout motto. Life can send lot's of things our way that we cannot anticipate or prepare for, but having a direct communication with the part of you that has an intelligence to navigate situations for the highest best outcome for the whole- your heart- is a way to be prepared for anything life can dish out. Tune into to tonight's HeartStart call to learn more!
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Fyera! Beginner HeartMath Workshop People who are either looking to get the edge in their performance, struggling with all different types of stressors, or have loved ones who are, can benefit from the Fyera! Beginner HeartMath Workshop. In the Beginner HeartMath Workshop taught at Fyera! you will Sign Up Now! Learn a proven way to neutralize stress, on the spot, engaging with life (no yoga mats, special diets, expensive vacation cruises, herbs or vitamins, twisting yourself into a pretzel or locking yourself in a meditation hall needed).
Plug energy drains and learn to recharge energy anywhere anytime. People who are either looking to get the edge in their performance, struggling with all different types of stressors, or have loved ones who are, can benefit from the Fyera! Beginner HeartMath Workshop including those with:
Whether you or someone you love has a health concern they want answers for, or is seeking relief from anxiety and depression, this workshop is a place where you can hear the how-to of how to start- with the power of the heart. To register for a Fyera! Class:
Fyera is offering a year long HeartMastery Program.
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I shook my head no as she handed it to me with a pen. As I began to write a birthday greeting, suddenly I could not see the paper in front of me through the tears.
