Practice experiencing your feelings directly and completely by observing them as they move through your mind and body and then letting them go.
Marci ShimoffHeartMath found that five minutes of feeling love and care can strengthen your immune system for up to six hours, whereas five minutes of feeling angry can weaken and suppress the immune system for six hours. Love releases very powerful, beneficial chemicals into the body.
Marci ShimoffThe first doorway (or chakra) is what I call in the book, the Doorway of Safety. This doorway relates to feeling safe in life and being present in the here and now. It's only when we are really grounded and safe that we're able to relax and open up our hearts.
Marci ShimoffThe second doorway has to do with vitality. It's about feeling alive, vital, and feeling the life-force flow through us. This doorway is also known as the creativity center and it houses a great sense of aliveness in it.
Marci ShimoffItโs impossible to monitor every thought we have. Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day. Can you imagine how exhausted youโd feel trying to control all sixty thousand of those thoughts? Fortunately thereโs an easier way and itโs our feelings. Our feelings let us know what weโre thinking.
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