JD LeJeune

From The HeartMath Institute

Timely: As I am faced with situations in my life today I find that my mind can (and will) eagerly take a problem and run with it through every scenario until it finds one it can latch on to. It will play that scenario over and over again incessantly. For once, I specifically looked at the situation from my heart and man is it ever wise! Everything is good!

“The brain gives the heart its sight. The heart gives the brain its vision.” - Kall

From The HeartMath Institute

“Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.” - Chuang Tzu

From The HeartMath Institute

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart … Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” - Carl Jung

Anchor Your Insights in Four Steps for Sustained Positive Change

From The HeartMath Institute

“Take the power of your heart intent and have courage to put your insights into action. Then watch how things improve.” — Doc Childre

Many of us have already had good insights about what we need to do to change repeating patterns that result in stress, damaged relationships or other unwanted outcomes.

We feel the need for change and we’re motivated, but when that tricky situation arises, we go through the same mechanical responses. Or we may try acting on an insight for a bit and then slip back. Whether the problem is in our standard reactions to others or in our personal health and work habits, things keep going the way they have been, but you can change them through Anchoring™.

You actually can “anchor” a good insight you’ve had so you can increase your ability to act on it, rather than allow it to fade away. Here are the four steps for anchoring an insight:

Step 1. Appreciate the insight. Appreciate this new perspective, intelligence or common sense that you now can bring to bear on a situation or issue.

Step 2. Appreciate any positive feelings associated with the insight. Appreciation of these feelings, perhaps hope and peace, gives the insight more significance in your feeling world, making it easier to recall.

Step 3. Write down the insight and revisit it daily, with appreciation. This helps you continue investing it with feeling and keeps hope for inspiration and change alive.

Step 4. Go for it. Go beyond “I know I should” and make the change – because you see the intelligence of it. To add to your power to quickly shift your attitude and course of action, read Attitude Replacements on page 6 of our Spring ‘07 newsletter.

You can increase your momentum for change by looking for opportunities to act on your insight, and asking your heart to prompt you to do so when those situations arise. View these situations as opportunities to solidify your new way of responding.

If you slip back into old habits, appreciate yourself for noticing that you did, because that’s a more efficient use of your energy than feeling bad. Then make genuine attempts to recall and appreciate the original insight and renew your efforts.

Every time you act on your insight, appreciate that you have done so and anchor the reference point.

Research shows that generating positive emotions can help you reinforce your success. The more you act on your insight, the more your intelligence will reveal how to handle a situation more skillfully.

Heartfully, Brian Kabaker

From The HeartMath Institute

“Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” - Stephen Covey