KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER
The HEART LOCK-IN technique helps you discover that you have your own internal source of regeneration.
Quieting the mind and sustaining a solid connection with the heart— locking in to its power— adds buoyancy and regenerative energy to your entire system.
The more your core heart feelings come into play, the more you realize how much can be gained from a loving, openhearted perspective.
The practice of radiating core heart feelings such as love, care, and appreciation in HEART LOCK-INS has many beneficial effects. HEART LOCK-INS help you enter and maintain the entrainment state, which provides a foundation for healing in the body and in relationships.
Studies show that the HEART LOCK-IN technique produces an immuno-enhancing effect mediated by increased autonomic activity, and the immuno-enhancing effect is increased when subjects practice the technique while listening to the music Heart Zones.
HEART LOCK-INS help to increase coherence within all the body’s systems— spiritual, mental, emotional, electrical, and cellular. Coherence brings you into entrainment and alignment with your deeper, mature heart.
The HEART LOCK-IN technique is designed to help you amplify the power of your heart and the power of your love. As you cultivate the wonderful field of the heart within you, you regenerate your life— physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Your life begins to respond to a new energy. “It’s hard to describe,” one seminar participant said, “but the emotions I feel now seem to be richer, more textured. There’s a casual sense of peace. I’m more relaxed than I’ve been in years, but at the same time, I feel more acutely aware of my environment.” In the HEART LOCK-IN technique, you focus your energies in the area of your heart for five to fifteen minutes (or longer, if you like). It’s very similar to Step 2 of FREEZE-FRAME, except that here your focus is more gentle. As you sustain your attention in the heart for a longer period of time, you reap more benefits and create a more enduring connection with the heart. Quieting the mind and sustaining a solid connection with the heart— locking in to its power— adds buoyancy and regenerative energy to your entire system. As you lock in your coherent heart rhythms to sustain the entrainment state we talked about before, you begin to refine the energy that emanates from the heart, retraining and reprogramming your nervous system and reorganizing your cells, organs, and electrical system. With practice, entrainment becomes your natural state. Why not try it right now?
Practicing HEART LOCK-IN
Here’s how you do it:
1. Find a quiet place, close your eyes, and try to relax.
2. Shift your attention away from the mind or head and focus your attention in the heart area. Pretend that you’re breathing slowly through the heart for ten or fifteen seconds.
3. Remember the feeling of love or care you have for someone whom it’s easy for you to love. Alternatively, focus on a feeling of appreciation for someone or something positive in your life. Try to stay with that feeling for a time from five to fifteen minutes.
4. Gently send that feeling of love, care, or appreciation to yourself or others.
5. As head thoughts come in, bring your focus gently back to the area around the heart. If the energy feels too intense or feels blocked, try to feel a softness in the heart and relax.
6. After you’ve finished, if you can, write down any intuitive feelings or thoughts that are accompanied by a sense of inner knowingness or peace to help you remember to act on them.
Unlike FREEZE-FRAME, a HEART LOCK-IN isn’t about asking a specific question or looking for answers, as we noted earlier. Instead, you focus on finding core heart feelings such as sincere appreciation, true care, and compassion or love, and maintaining these states. Intuitive answers will often come anyway, however. You consult your heart in LOCK-INS, but you let answers find you instead of looking for them.
Sending out core heart feelings— radiating them throughout your body and cells or radiating them to other people or issues— helps you lock into the feeling state (and thus the coherence state) longer. With a little practice, you’ll be able to slow down the mind and find your way more quickly to your core heart feelings. It’s an “easy does it” process, not something you force or will yourself into.
Remember those holographic pictures, or stereograms, that were popular a few years ago? When you first looked at them, all you could see was a mass of colorful dots. Then, as you relaxed and shifted your vision slightly, a magnificent, detailed picture took shape among the dots. The key to getting the picture to emerge was to relax and not try too hard to see it. Likewise, one key to maximizing your HEART LOCK-IN experience is to relax and not try too hard.
Your ability to relax into a HEART LOCK-IN will allow you to find the appropriate feelings and break through into new experiences, insights, and perceptions. Your skill at achieving this goal will develop naturally in accordance with your sincere heart efforts.
But obviously you can’t reap the rewards without cultivating the practice. The first step is to make the time to do a HEART LOCK-IN every day. We’re talking about only five to fifteen minutes, remember. In return, you’ll build up your energy reserves, deepen intuition, and stay longer in an intuitive flow.
Intuition can manifest in very practical ways. Though elements of intuition are mysterious, HEART LOCK-IN isn’t an inherently mystical experience; both the process and the results are tangible, offering many commonsense advantages.
Childre, Doc; Martin, Howard; Beech, Donna (2011-02-15). The HeartMath Solution: The Institute of HeartMath's Revolutionary Program for Engaging the Power of the Heart's Intelligence (Kindle Locations 4382-4412). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
