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COHERENCE TRAINING
Live Your Life Through Heart Intelligence: Coherence Training can benefit those that have attention difficulty, test or performance anxiety, social anxiety, struggles with food (anorexia, bulimia, compulsive eating) and other stress related problems. COMBINED WITH BRAIN BALANCING Coherence Training becomes an even more powerful tool to change your life!
Coherence is defined as the act of sticking or holding together. Coherence is further defined as logical and consistent. Coherence Training is a skill development program that assists us in developing a coherent relationship internally and externally. That is to say Coherence Training helps us synchronize our brain (thoughts), heart (feelings), and actions. This helps us insure that we are able to act in a fashion that is intentional and consistent with our morals and values.
Living in our modern, sped up, technologically advanced world creates a lot of incoherent experiences for us. The media driven culture is so assaultive and persistent that we are overwhelmed and we lose our ability to stay conscious and maintain a coherent relationship with our world.
There are many ways in which we live incoherently with our environment. We find ourselves struggling to make daily decisions about virtually anything. We are confused about what foods to eat, how to parent, what clothes to wear, how we are supposed to act in a relationship, etc, etc, etc. And when it comes to making bigger decisions about what career to follow, what major to declare, et al, we become frozen in fear. And perhaps an even sadder truth, those people that seem to make decisions with relative ease may not be making their own choices at all. The choice may be coming from cultural or familial sources and not reflect what would be a logical and consistent choice for that individual.
The inability to live coherently with our environment results in incoherence in our internal lives, causing emotional, physical, social, and spiritual problems. When our brain, heart, and actions are out of synch we struggle and we become vulnerable to illnesses. Think about every struggle you have and you can trace the struggle to an illogical and inconsistent relationship. When our very existence becomes illogical and inconsistent most of the time (as we now experience with our relationship to our environment) we begin to lose consciousness about our lives. We begin to operate in sub-conscious ways as we are conditioned to ignore the incongruence between who we are and how we act. We are no longer conscious actors in our lives, but sub-conscious reactors. We lose the ability to live intentionally.
If we are going to live our lives with intention, if we are going to act in congruence with our morals, our values, and our unique individual traits, then we must find ways to live coherently. Many of us use culturally driven remedies to our culturally driven incoherent lives. We self medicate through alcohol, drugs, food, excessive exercise, over working, etc. Or we utilize prescription medications to alleviate the struggle brought on by incoherence. These "remedies" may provide some temporary relief, however they all have the potential of creating more confusion and incoherence in our lives.
Coherence Training teaches us how to increase and utilize Heart Intelligence to overcome our conditioning and therefore our reactive unintentional responses. Our body is an information processing system. The brain and heart operate in a communication loop and the heart sends out essential information to all body systems. When the information shared by the brain is logical and consistent than the heart will send information to the rest of the body that is logical and consistent, enabling us to act with intention.
Let me illustrate this using an experience of my own. I have a real problem with door to door salespeople. It is unclear to me, if this problem is because I don't know how to say "no" or because my wife has threatened me with divorce if I buy another gross of magazines from a 20 year old male posing as a 12 year old junior high school student. What is clear is my reaction is one of panic when the doorbell rings and I peek outside to see a stranger waiting to slay me with his pitch. The word "slay" is the operative word. My heart experiences the salesperson as if a lion has appeared at my cave door waiting to rip me apart. My heart has a survival response to such experiences; run for the hills. The heart cannot differentiate between a lion and a salesperson, unless it is given information that helps it make that differentiation. And that is the responsbility of the brain and the heart working together. However, when the doorbell rings, it is my primitive hind brain, coupled with my reactice heart that co-create the experience that leads to a reaction that suggests, "danger is lurking outside my door." Before I know it, my heart is racing and my body is speedily descending the stairs to the basement where I can hide out until the danger passes. EVEN THOUGH MY MIND IS GOING, "What the heck are you doing?"
The experience of the heart in this case is incoherent. It lacks logic and consistency that I would panic and run for the basement to avoid a salesperson. The information processing between brain and heart has failed to include essential information that would give me an optional response. If I could slow the process down, engage my forebrain, the part of the brain that offers intellect, I can send more accurate information to my heart about the situation. My heart can then send accurate information to the rest of my body and back to the brain that would instruct my action. I could then, with intention, choose to walk downstairs and avoid the confrontation, or open the door and with the clear awareness of my needs and wants declare, "I am not interested, please have a nice day." Even if I choose the same go down to the basement response there is a huge difference in the process. I don't have the racing heart, the stress hormones cursing through my body, and the reactivity. Instead I have a calm experience of making an intentional decision and acting on it.
The process of increasing and using heart intelligence may seem like an easy one. Just simply ask your brain to stop and send an accurate message to your heart and voila! However, we are so conditioned and so reactive that we fail most of the time to do this. Developing the capacity to be consistently logical and to use our heart intelligence coupled with our brain to create intentional action requires practice.
Our Coherence Training Program incorporates many different means to re-invigorating our intuitive self and through the use of technology developed by HeartMath of California we are able to measure each person's progress toward living coherently.
Contact us for more information on Coherence Training and increasing and utilizing your Heart Intelligence. Or you may contact us at any time. lec@lecnetwork.com
Ed
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