“Real Life – the real life of joy we are meant to be living – begins when we restore a sense of reverence to our daily affairs. Today, search for the Sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
Over two years of collective experience of a global pandemic has created another pandemic of grief, trauma and emptiness. In other words, we are experiencing a collective dark night of the soul. We are given the opportunity to renew our sense of meaning and purpose at a whole new level of understanding of what it means to be a human being.
We are evolving. And the chaos and challenge we are collectively experiencing is an important part of the process of evolving to the next stage of defining a human being.
Reverence is an essential part of this process as we find ways to remember the sacred in our daily lives.
Reverence means:
- a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration.
- a gesture indicative of deep respect.
- to regard or treat with reverence; venerate:
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/reverence
Come Back to Your Heart
In our fast-paced modern society, we place more emphasis on the brain than the brain is actually designed to handle. The part of you that has more capacity than the brain is your heart.
One of the most important conditions for bringing more reverence into your life is to create heart – brain coherence. What this means is that your heart and your brain work at the same frequency. This coherence also stimulates your nervous system to create harmony in your autonomic nervous system.
An article from Alleviant Health Centers lists 12 benefits of heart – brain coherence:
- Feeling whole
- Feeling unity with yourself and the world
- Deep inner peace
- Decreased stress
- Increased energy and vitality
- Enhanced creativity
- Emotional intelligence and mastery
- Greater resilience
- Solid mental health
- Improved physical health
- Deeper emotional connection with yourself and others
- Improved quality of life overall
Click here to read the whole article:
https://alleviant.com/12-benefits-of-brain-heart-coherence/
Over the past few months, I have been sharing many ways to help people to create coherence between their heart and brain. Here are a few of them for you to explore:
- Here is a simple way to create heart – brain coherence with breath and gentle humming. This is a recent meditation I offered on The Enlightened World Network: https://youtu.be/E4t-ZWIf9rc
- Nourishing the Heart: This is a soundtrack I created that allows you to relax, encourages you to let go of anything that does not serve you, connect deeply with the heart and nourish your entire being with super sound: https://soundwellness.com/nourish-the-heart/
- A recent broadcast I did on The Wellness Universe Lounge, Turning Grief into Joy, will also support you to create coherence between your heart and brain with two sound baths. Here is the link to the broadcast: https://wellnessuniverse.learnitlive.com/Class/Turning-Grief-into-Joy/20705
- Here is a link to a video on our YouTube channel of a Sound Bath with some of my crystal singing bowls: https://youtu.be/NstejSpezW8
- Sound is one of the most powerful ways to reconnect to your spiritual self, especially the sound of your own voice. Your spirit or soul thrives on harmony and always motivates you in one way or another, through illness or angst, to return to this state of harmony.
- To help you create heart / brain coherence, here is a link for my new meditation and sound experience on our YouTube channel, Journey to the Sacred Heart: https://youtu.be/Dz0HKw031Dc
Now that you have created coherence between your heart and your brain, how does the opportunity for reverence show up in everyday life?
Here are a few from my daily life:
Honour the wasps.
We have an extremely popular birdbath in our backyard. It is full of bird bathing for much of the day. Because they can splash most of the water out by the end of the day, I usually fill it up with fresh water every morning. By the time I have finished filling the birdbath, I can already hear a couple of chirps as the birds spread the word.
Before I fill it up, though, I usually check for wasps in the birdbath in the morning. This time of year, they can get very sleepy and thirsty. The weather is dry with little water around and the wasps are preparing for our cold winter. It takes little time to wait while they finish drinking water before I add more water to the birdbath.
Honour the trees.
We have a couple of apple trees in our backyard that provide us and many of our neighbours with apples for their families. These trees usually need some trimming in the early spring. When Ed is ready to cut a branch, I will place my hand on the branch to be removed and ask the tree if it gives us permission to remove it. If I receive a ‘yes’ in my heart, I will ask the tree to remove its life force energy from that branch and distribute it to the rest of the tree. When It has done that, Ed cuts the branch.
Honour the human.
The next time you look deep into another human being’s eyes, honour the spirit that lives there. Eyes are indeed windows to the soul, as the saying goes. We can connect with that soul/spirit through the eyes in profound ways.
Thank the salad.
When I make my salad for lunch, it is an opportunity to use reverence and gratitude to thank every ingredient I add to my salad. I often do this by bringing my awareness into my heart and send a beam of light and gratitude into my salad and each ingredient. This also ‘tunes’ my salad to be in resonance with my frequencies to best nourish my body and being.
Reverence for the sound.
I have been working with sound for most of my life. It’s power to support wellbeing and help to stimulate the natural healing ability of the body fills me with awe every time I bring it into my daily life, whether it is how I feel after my mantra practice, how ‘Incredi-bowl’ dissolves away muscle tension, how my voice helps me to release pent up emotional energy and so, so many other ways.
I can go on and on with this list. I hope it gives you an idea of how you might bring moments of reverence into your day to nourish your heart and bring more meaning to your day.
“By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.” – Albert Schweitzer
In Health and Harmony,
