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"The
next frontier of human advancement-
personally and collectively-is the emotional frontier. Your
task-and the task of humanity-is to learn how to intelligently
resolve feelings for your own and other’s benefit, in
order to enrich your experience of life and create a better
future."
Doc Childre
Founder, Institute of HeartMath
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Greetings from the Institute of HeartMath,
The
Power of Neutral™—A tool to refocus your emotions
An important first step in transforming emotional stress is
cleaning up strong, negative emotions and judgments as they
come up. As soon as you start to feel your energy going sideways,
you can use Neutral to refocus within yourself and go back to
the heart. This will clear your emotions as you go and start
building your empowerment to clear even more.
Once your emotions become disturbed, your mind will tend to
jump in with judgments toward yourself or others. The mind,
like a computer, starts a process of analyzing why, calculating
next steps, and bringing up memories of what happened when you
felt like that before. The Power of Neutral tool helps you put
this mental momentum on pause so you can neutralize your reactions
and thoughts. The Power of Neutral allows the guidance of your
heart, your heart intelligence, to come in and stop the energy
drain.
Judging yourself or others causes energy to back up in your
system and feels bad. It doesn’t bring helpful solutions.
It only makes us feel disappointed in ourselves, which drains
more energy. We can stop this in its tracks by using The Power
of Neutral.
Practicing The Power of Neutral helps bring your mind, emotions
and physiology to a state of neutral. Think of neutral as a
"time-out zone" where you can step back, neutralize your emotions
and see more options with objective clarity.
The Power of Neutral Tool:
- Take a time-out. Breathe slow and deeply. Imagine the
air entering and leaving through your heart area in the
center of your chest.
- Try to disengage from your stressful thoughts and feelings
as you continue breathing.
- Continue until you have chilled out and neutralized the
emotional charge.
Use Step 1 as soon as you feel your emotions starting
to amp up. First, take a time out by choosing to step back from
your emotions. The heart breathing in Step 1 will help you draw
the energy out of your head, where negative thoughts and feelings
get amplified. Breathe slowly and deeply in a casual way as
you pretend the breath is going in and out through your heart
area
In Step 2, disengage
from your stressful thoughts and feelings as you continue to
breathe. Just having the intent to disengage can help you release
a lot of the emotional energy.
In Step 3, you continue
the process until you have chilled out and neutralized the emotional
charge. This doesn't mean irritability, anxiety, or other stressful
feelings will have totally evaporated. It merely means the charged
energy has been taken out and you have stopped accumulating
stress. Even if you can't totally neutralize a reaction in the
moment, simply making the effort to shift into neutral will
stop the accumulation of anxiety or stress about it. It will
give you a chance to regroup your energies and refocus.
One of the things that can help you get to neutral is asking
yourself, "Do I really want to keep draining energy and stressing
about the situation or how bad I feel?" For example, right before
a situation that normally makes you anxious or stressed, you
may start negatively projecting the idea you will blow it or
be judged by others. This is the perfect time to use The Power
of Neutral. Otherwise, your emotional reaction will kick in
and drain you. And even if you don't get completely calm, going
to Neutral still reduces a lot of stress and helps you refocus.
As you build your ability to use this tool, you will acquire
a new type of emotional energy maintenance. This translates
into more energy to do the things you really want to do.
Heartfully,
Brian Kabaker
P.S. The above has been adapted from the
TestEdge
Interactive CD for grades 9-12 and above, and Transforming
Depression by Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman; New Harbinger
Publications. (Publication of this book is slated for this fall.)
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