The Path of Heart Part 1

By Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls                                       

In alignment with my guides and teachers I wish to teach about the interrelationship between body and mind.

The physical body is our "housing" to experience this reality in the physical plane. It is a bio-electro-magnetic unit brilliantly built to recognize and respond to a vast variety of energy signals and frequencies that affect us from both physical and non physical energy sources. The electrical system of the body can quickly respond to and accommodate even one's emotional desires and be controlled by the free will of the person housed within it.

The body is able to run automatically for the most part but sometimes we are confronted with experiences or energy inputs that subject the body to danger, over stimulation, depletion and the body will respond to these things in an effort to find balance once again. This automatic response is to allow the body to sustain the life force and keep us alive.  Some of these responses are simple signs of hunger, thirst and rest. This automatic response is present in all humans from the beginning of time.

But some humans come to a point where they recognize that there is more to this "housing" than just those basic signals. They start to feel emotional energies pointing to a larger concept of the purpose of being human. Perhaps they feel they awaken to the idea of a mission to accomplish or their purpose in being here.  These more subtle energy impulses provide guidance and give signals regarding positive versus negative energies and experiences. These have been called "gut feelings". We tend to forget that the body is a more complex house than just one of blood and bones. We forget about the huge interplay of electricity and magnetism between each living cell and all the others. We forget that this huge network of electricity and magnetic interplay creates an electro magnetic field of energy around the entire physical body.

Your electromagnetic field interacts with other electromagnetic forces it comes into contact with from outside sources, from other people, from nature, from space and from many other non physical energy fields, in both positive and negative ways. Those persons who are aware of this energy field that constantly surrounds them and is in constant flux as it interacts with energies around them also realize that there are unlimited sources of energy around them to constantly improve their own energy field which in turn improves the physical body as well as the emotional body, the mental body and the spiritual body.

We feel the "gut feelings" telling us that there is more to this existence than mere survival on the physical plane. That "gut feeling" is the intrinsic knowing we each have of our mission here on earth, what we are meant to accomplish here. When we ignore the "gut feeing" we are unbalanced and we begin to feel the anxieties and stresses of this world. We may not notice that we are ignoring our purpose and our "gut feelings' at first.  But this resistance we are choosing does cause imbalance in the energy field of our bodies and a general unhappiness becomes the result of this electromagnetic imbalance in the energy field surrounding us. The physical body then malfunctions and we find we have physical illness manifesting in our lives.

Those who understand the simple cause and effect process of the energy body upon the physical body know to be aware of their "gut feelings" and use those feelings to direct their lives to where they are meant to go. The path one takes in life always starts with a free will choice. The heart or gut is the compass to show us the direction in which to walk. Its like a bio feedback utility and we can depend on what we are really feeling about something to determine if it is good for us or bad for us personally. We do know what we are here for, it is just not always available in an obviously conscious manner. Yet it is etched indelibly upon our hearts.

Whenever we experience illness we have not paid enough attention to our heart center, to our "gut feeling". By ignoring this inner bio feedback we have allowed the stressors of not following our heart to act upon us long enough to affect our physical bodies and produce an imbalance within the body, often within many different energy centers of the body, within organs and cells, and have thrown the body out of its automatic normal self regulation.

To avoid allowing the stress to build up it is good to be aware of what is causing us any stress and to look at the free will choice we made that brought that stress feeling into our energy system. Perhaps we need to re-evaluate that choice or stop resisting an opportunity for growth. Our heart center knows what we need for growth. Often in that growth comes additional responsibility for ourselves and for others. Resistance to our life path is futile and that resistance often is evidenced in physical imbalance and resulting illness. Taking our cues from our gut feelings and making our free will choices based on these heart center knowings is a wonderful way to live in our own power and freedom of personal choice and following our hearts.

I write this today because I want to offer you the awareness of the connection between your physical health or lack thereof and those stressors that occur when you do not follow your heart to accomplish your mission in this life. The idea of following your heart has been denounced as a waste of time, a folly by those who wish us to follow their agendas, work for their ego centered achievements, devote our time and effort to their cause instead of to our own mission. Do not ever consider your mission less important than anyone else's. Know instead that we each have a mission and that mission is planted firmly in our hearts and never lessens or goes away. It is always there calling to us and the more we ignore it or deny it the more stress we are causing in our energy bodies that has to leak out somewhere, and that somewhere is our physical bodies.

Every single person who has come to me for Shamanic counseling and who has decided to listen to their heart guidance has been healed of their physical imbalance. Isn’t that amazing? I am saying that I have proof that what the guides have said here is true and does work. That is why I am sharing it with you. It is a truth taught through time down through the ages, known to every shaman in every country and culture. It is a Shamanic truth and I am happy to share it with you or work with you if you choose to find your balance.

For a further explanation of the workings of the body and mind please visit www.shamanelder.com/thepathofheart2.html