Slow Your Heart, Intelligence vs. Intuition (Part 2) and Matthew Arnold
July 14, 2024
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{Body}
Slowing your heart rate on-command
Generally speaking, having a low resting heart rate (between 40 and 80 BPM) is considered healthy as it indicates viscous blood, a lack of muscular tension in the body, and an efficient cardiovascular system.
Beyond consistent exercise and right eating, controlling the heart rate has long been considered unattainable — after all, it is simply too important of a physiological feature for the fallible human mind to have direct access to.
Or so we thought.
Studies now abound on meditation and yoga practitioners who exhibit remarkable command over their heart, accelerating and decelerating it at will.
All of us have this latent capability, though it takes time and correct application to train.
{Mind}
Intuition vs. intelligence
This is part 2 of 3. Click to read Part 1.
Humans (typically) rely on their limited sense faculties of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling to problem-solve.
How far away is the pack of hyenas? Is that politician telling me the truth? Does this breakfast sandwich have mayo on it?
Without senses, humans would be unable to create guesses about the complex world around them and would certainly go extinct as a result.
And yet a question still arises: how is it possible that a species who evolved to see less than 1% of the world survive? Said differently, how are you not already dead because of your extremely limited range of perception?
Part of the answer rests in your sixth sense — your sense of intuition. This is the ability to know something without having seen, heard, smelled, tasted or felt any information about it beforehand.
Intuition is not as woo-woo as it first seems. To start, your system actually does have ways to absorb information happening beyond its eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin receptors.
For instance, it is now scientifically demonstrated that your skin cells easily detect invisible, ultraviolet rays from the sun. And that nano pieces of magnetite in your brain respond to magnetic fields, helping you subconsciously orient to North and South. And that your heart can actually distinguish and synchronize with the intangible frequencies being emitted from other nearby hearts.
But that’s only the tip of the iceberg. In a few decades, humanity will discover that it is far more attuned to the unseen world than it imagines.
As just a few examples known by yogis: you have very subtle energetic structures in your brain that allow you to communicate telepathically, remote view scenes far away, and even “see” the future.
Intuition is the result of these many imperceivable channels crescendo’ing into a firm, felt sense of knowing about a particular situation without having any tangible “proof” of why you believe it.
It is easy to fool oneself about one’s intuition, of course, so for that it must be carefully trained. Stay tuned to next week when I discuss how you can go about doing that.
{Soul}
Truth, it’s believed, doesn’t care about your feelings much in the same way that a rock doesn’t understand English. Apparently truth is blind, mute, apathetic to your life situation, and transcendent to the human condition altogether.
Want proof? Just jump off of a skyscraper without a parachute. Then you’ll discover whether the truth of gravity cherishes your well-being or not.
The opposite belief is that truth cannot be divorced from your prosperity or euphoria. That it’s the most personal of qualities and exists as the very foundation of your joy.
Want proof? Ask anyone who is truly, unconditionally happy what their secret is. They’ll all tell you the exact same thing: "It came from getting to know the intimate truth within myself."
These two worldviews are in complete opposition to one another; you cannot have a little bit of both. Either the Universe infinitely cares about you, or it doesn’t at all. Either you intensely matter, or you absolutely don’t. Either truth is the basis of all joy, or it has wholly nothing to do with it.
Which one is true? That’s for you to find out in the quiet of your own heart. Personal questions require personal answers.
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