“Why am I so afraid to be me?” is a perfect question for our time, I think.
I found it in Dr. Zach Bush‘s introduction to a webinar on the heart, which focuses on education on the vascular system and heart health.
“Why am I so afraid to be me?” could also read “What keeps me from truly engaging with myself?” or “Why don’t I listen to my heart?”
Physically the heart and the lungs work together, interdependently and whatever affects the heart affects the breath as well, and vice versa. But they also work together in terms of how we are in the world. Actually, we are in a state of constant connection, and yet we seem to miss that connection and yearn to experience it. To me, it’s heartwarming and inspiring to hear a medical doctor speak about this in a fully holistic and embodied way:
“The heart is an astounding mixing chamber of intelligence.
Its primary function goes beyond pumping blood. In fact, the heart muscle doesn’t have the capacity to pump blood through our vast system of vessels and capillaries.
Within its 4 chambers lies a turbulent vortex machine designed to mix the air, virome, bacteria and everything else we inhale. This exchange of electrical information flows through our bloodstream, just like water flowing down a river, becoming more lively at every twist and turn.
For the amount of intelligence the heart enables, it’s no surprise how much of our emotional processing happens there. Yet too often, our emotions manifest as imbalance, our loss of self identity becomes acute, and heart disease occurs. Collectively, we are suffering from a massive global heartbreak.
In last week’s powerful and personal webinar, I debated out loud: Why am I so afraid to be me? Why do so many of us feel this way?
Not feeling seen, not feeling heard, not feeling loved, and not knowing how to love ourselves has led to the greatest propensity for heart disease and vulnerability to viruses and genetic engineering interventions that target our vascular systems.
It’s easy to feel as if courage and peace are far out of reach, but they’re at our fingertips. By shifting our energetic, emotional, and spiritual awareness of who we are, we can resolve our chronic fight or flight state and move toward courage and acceptance.
Humanity has such potential for life and health, but we can only reach it by letting go of fear — whether that’s fear of the nature that allowed life to occur, or fear of being in our own skin.
By being curious and opening ourselves up to this possibility, we can put an end to the deep levels of heartbreak and dysfunction within our population. We can fall back in love with ourselves, opening our hearts to see that there is so much love, so much beauty, and so much intelligence flowing within us and between us all.”