A friend, years ago, told me I have a tendency to use ten words where three will do, and I plead guilty: I like words and their nuances. And some of the information I work with seems very esoteric (taking a lot of words to explain…), but has extremely practical, real world ramifications (not so many words). And because it’s too important to be left unsaid, it’s those practical connections I want to address at the moment. So I will cut-to-the-chase, because these concepts put into practice help boost immunity.
Suffice it to say, that over the past twenty five years or so, working with energy (i.e personal energy fields, not your electric bill), both professionally and through personal practice, I found myself operating in that sweet spot where science and spirituality connect on the continuum of energy.
What I found in that area where science meets spiritual practice can be summarized:
1. Everything exists as packets of energy, each vibrating at its signature frequency, which can be demonstrated as a sine wave. Humans are a collection of energy-packets in a skin-suit, operating within a field of energy called a biofield (scientific term) or aura (metaphysical term).
It's both measurable and changeable.
2. Because we vibrate, we are transmitters—sending out our unique vibrational signal, a signal that impacts everyone around us. Remember how things vibrate when the bass on your stereo is too loud? Same concept, but more subtle,
3. Like any other transmitter, the signal we broadcast determines the signal with which we will resonate, i.e. a radio-signal tuned to Heavy Metal, will not receive Beethoven, just as a signal tuned to hate and fear will not resonate with love and gratitude.
4. Like a radio operator, we get to manage our operational frequency and tune it to what we want to receive (experience) and what we generate (manifest). We do this via intention, thoughts, and emotions. Now, take a leap with me while we connect ends of the continuum and talk about emotions as frequencies: high-frequencies = love, gratitude, compassion; low-frequencies = fear, judgement, anger.
Learning how to manage our energy/frequency/emotions is the single most powerful tool we possess. The power to do this is within every one of us. We are deciders, more than doers.
Learning how to manage our energy/frequency/emotions is the single most powerful tool we possess. The power to do this is within every one of us. We are deciders, more than doers.
What does this have to do with COVID 19?
It turns out, it has much to do with boosting immunity, both individual and collective.
Amid the chaos surrounding the virus, and the compassionate and necessary actions of physical-distancing, self-isolation, and hand washing as ways to safeguard ourselves, families and communities, it’s vitally important to ALSO know that:
We EACH carry an effective arsenal of immunity
building capabilities within ourselves.
That capability rests in knowing HOW we control our frequencies—our emotions—which directly influence immunity. What follows is a partial list of practices anyone can do, to build immunity and support each other, now and always.
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In 2008, the Dalai Lama and a group of biomedical scientists came together for a conference on Longevity and Tibetan Medicine. Among other things, was the discovery that the practice of gratitude lengthens telomeres, and therefore supports immunity.
So gratitude is the first on my list of daily practices.
1. Gratitude: in addition to lengthening telomeres, reduces stress and cortisol levels, increases IgA (immunoglobulin antibodies) stimulates “feel-good” neurotransmitters and a sense of well being.
a. Keep a gratitude journal.
b. Sit with gratitude for ten-minutes a few times per day. Or for a visual/auditory presentation go here.
2. If experiencing fear, shift to gratitude, love, compassion for ANY event in your life. Trying to talk yourself out of fear is like putting-lipstick-on-a-pig, so shift to a memory, event or relationship that stimulates gratitude.
3. If you can, meditate. Any method that works for you is effective and as little as fifteen minutes a day can stimulate creativity, calm the amygdala, and reduce reactivity in emotional responses. For information on how meditation changes the brain, check this out.
4. Strengthen and take responsibility for your personal biofield by creating your own high-frequency bubble of good-in, good-out. For Star-Trek fans, think of this as your own personal deflector shield. (*A short exercise is provided at the end of this blog.)
And NO, I'm NOT suggesting that this replace physical-distancing.
5. Be responsible for the energy/attitude/intention you bring to interactions. Experiments show that when two people are placed in a room, even in the absence of behavioral interaction, their brain waves will synchronize and the person with the most coherent brain wave pattern has the greatest influence. Coherency is supported by meditation and emotion.
In other words, you change another person/situatin merely by your presence.
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7. Pause and consider the larger metaphysical implications of the current crisis on society, environment, and systems that may no longer serve us. Further, what are the implications at a personal level, and what are you meant to learn as an individual consciousness at this point in your own evolution? One of many avenues to explore if you’re so inclined is Matt Kahn's post.
8. Put yourself on an energy-diet. Literally, choose your energetic intake: monitor and manage your exposure to toxic “news,” fear-mongering, and any media (including t.v, movies and articles) that focus on victimization, whatever the method. Prolonged fear and anger reduce immunity. This is not to say you can’t be informed, but choose discernment rather than reactivity and judgement.
9. Finally, use the opportunity of staying-at-home in ways that support you, not to just pass-the-time. What are the things you’ve been saying you “don’t have time for?” Evaluate the things that have fallen away; what served you and what didn’t? How can you use this time to build relationships (with yourself or others)” “Go deep,” as one of my sons would say, and discover the wilderness within. You might be surprised by what you find, and what you’ll heal.
In short, in the context of so much external uncertainty and change, we can be our own best allies because of our phenomenal innate resources for managing our thoughts, energy, emotions, immunity, and brain chemistry. Sometimes helping in a crisis boils down to being the person in your circle who can stay grounded and centered and hold space for others going through rough times.
Your own energy is a powerful source for others and can offer solace simply through your presence.
Be the light that guides the way.
*Bio-field Exercise:
Remember, your biofield is a fact and exists with or without your awareness. This exercise is a method to consciously strengthen that field for your health and well-being.
1. Take several deep belly-breaths to relax and set the intention for this exercise.
2. Visualize yourself inside a balloon or an expandable egg shape.
3. My recommendation for breath: imagine taking in breath/energy from the core of the earth, bringing it up through the sole of the feet (chakras there…), bring it up through the body and out through the crown of the head. Move energy up to 2-3 feet about your head (clean source energy), then bring it back down thrown the crown to your heart and exhale through the heart to fill the balloon).
6. With each inhale, imagine taking in white light or the pure energy of love, joy or gratitude. Let it fill your physical body from your toes to your scalp.
7. With each exhale; blow into your balloon filling with this pure, clean energy.
8. Continue breathing comfortable, slow breaths until your balloon is expanded to just beyond your fingertips with your arms extended perpendicular to your body, and about a foot above your head and below your feet.
9. The membrane to this balloon or egg is semi-permeable allowing your breath, light and energy, but only that of your choosing. GOOD IN – GOOD OUT!
10. If you become light headed during this process, return to normal breathing, and continue to visualize your energy balloon or egg.
11. You can see the light inside your balloon as golden or white light, both of which are associated with the highest frequencies of energy (love, joy, gratitude).
Note: Once you’re comfortable with this technique, you can do it in an instant, anywhere or any time, simply through intending it.
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