HBlissModern systems are quick to tell us that lasting change comes from external action. Setting goals, enacting daily habits on repeat, reducing friction, starting with the macro, and so on and so forth. Whilst these concepts have merit, they do not present the full story when it comes to establishing meaningful change for a better life experience.
What’s missing? Making sure we exist in a coherent and aligned state, physically and energetically.
I’m talking about the body and biofield. Our biofield being –
“a field of energy and information, both putative and subtle, that regulates the homeodynamic function of living organisms and may play a substantial role in understanding and guiding health processes.”[1]
This theorised operating system, alongside our nervous system, hormonal system, and overall physical expression, can determine whether the changes we wish to make will actually stick.
When our bodies exist in a state of incoherence, also described as dis-ease, we can experience emotional, hormonal, energetic, and physical imbalance. These states of imbalance can be caused by emotional dysregulation, lack of sleep, modern-world interference such as non-native EMFs, disconnection from natural rhythms, external stressors, chemical exposure, poor diet and quality of food, just to name a few. These states, both acute and chronic, can trigger the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight), releasing cortisol, and activating the HPA axis (the body’s longer-duration stress system) which works against the process of forming intention-driven change.
A 2009 Journal of Neuroscience study found that stress before learning an instrumental task rendered participants’ behaviour insensitive to change, demonstrating for the first time that stress promotes habitual behaviour at the expense of goal-directed performance in humans.[2] These findings clearly show that existing in an imbalanced state makes us more inclined to act out of old habits than new ways of being.
The HeartMath Institutes research, spanning over 30 years, on heart rate variability and heart-brain coherence, demonstrates a correlation between the heart’s electromagnetic field and the autonomic nervous system. HeartMath’s Research Director Rollin McCraty discusses the relevance of heart coherence and its essential role in stress management and sustainable behaviour change on numerous occasions, explaining that different patterns of heart activity (which accompany different emotional states) have distinct effects on cognitive and emotional function, the more incoherent states, such as overwhelm, fear and anxiety, limiting our ability to think clearly, remember, learn and make effective decisions.[3] The very functions required to form new habits and make lasting change.
In simple terms, the more we exist in a balanced, calm, healthy, coherent state, reducing stress, anxiety, fatigue, and overwhelm, both in our physical body and electromagnetic field, the more likely we are to make lasting intentional change stick.
Written by Nia Elise L Carver
Instagram: @niaeliselivesfree
https://www.abundanceforless.com.au
[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4654779/
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