Breaking through blocks related to love can provide the highest level of satisfaction and abundance.What I have noticed in my work with clients is rarely do individuals actually experience self-love the first time I read them. That means that there are blocks preventing their body from reading as if they love themselves. Sometime in an individual’s past, they have lost affinity with themselves. They stopped being present to love at a critical time. We all know the ‘straw that broke the camels back’ moment; a betrayal of a lover or a pronouncement of critical words from a parent can reach critical mass and break the feelings or truth of ‘self-love’. Sometimes this break with self-affinity could have even happened in a previous incarnation.Once you love, honor, respect and cherish yourself, you can love, honor, cherish and respect all others.
- Love centers of the body. The main center of love is the Heart.
- Love in balance is the pancreas, which represents the sweetness.
- The fourth chakra often referred to as the heart chakra provides energetic fuel for love.
- The mammalian or emotional brain including the amygdala provides the emotional landscape to feel the emotions related to love.
You may think about the brain as one solid unit. There are actually five very special and unique brains in our head. Each of these brains has a specific function or task. When these five brains work well together, we are really, really awesome. These brains are the
- Reptilian or instinctual brain
- The mammalian or emotional brain
- The neo cortex which is the brain of higher reason and includes the right creative brain
- and the left or logical brain
- And finally the magical brain or angelic brain, located in the forehead region and provides for us the ability to conceptual and create beyond logic and reason
Heart
It delights me to share with you that we have a sixth brain, filled with neurons of which many decisions flow. I am speaking of the heart brain. There is actually a branch of medicine that now researches and studies this brain, called neuro-cardiology. It’s a relatively new science and has been around only about 20 years.
The heart, in addition to being one of the centers of intelligence (or love wisdom), also serve to provides hormonal activity. The hormone that prevents muscular cramping called atria natri-uretic peptide or ANP is sourced from the heart.
*Note- just like the heart, there are a number of organs that have endocrine/hormonal function. These are not sex hormones but rather hormones that assist in digestion and vascular regulation like blood pressure, building blood cells and creating many wonderful digestive enzymes. They include the stomach, liver, kidneys and intestines.
I am in awe of the magnificence of the multitasking qualities of the organs and glands. We live in a miraculous temple…this wondrous place we call our human body.
Pancreas
The pancreas is next in line and is also associated as the love gland. Sugar imbalances are often linked with an imbalance in the love life, so a disease of the emotional body/pancreas would be diabetes or hypoglycemia.
The pancreas is regulating the distribution and balances of sugars in the body through a hormone. From the illustrations in the anatomy books, the pancreas looks a bit like a lumpy bumpy hot dog.
Can you guess what hormone regulates an over abundance of sugar?
Answer: insulin.
The pancreas is uniquely related to both the love and power chakras, fourth and third. A sugar imbalance may result in a person fainting away or in difficult cases the person will completely short circuit and experience an insulin seizure.
These ideas of a healthy brain, heart and pancreas functioning to support a healthy self-love and love for others may be unique and novel to you. Think about how interconnected every aspect of your life is to every other part. Sometimes the key to freedom and full self-expression is to take a new approach to healing.
When I was living in India with Guruji Keshavadas of the Vishwa Shanti Ashram, he reminded me there are more than 100 ways of viewing a challenge, each of them valid. When it comes to love, if you feel stuck, think of a taking a new and fresh approach to healing.
I have prepared beautiful deep healing meditations to go more deeply into healing the love aspects of your physical body.