Are you noticing? Noticing the energy you bring to any and every situation.
✨We often forgot (or have been programmed to forgot) that we have the power to change our energy at any time.
✨We often forgot the incredible power we do have simply in remembering we have choice.
Without intentionally choosing, we leave the door wide open for our subconscious programming to run the show.
Programming that often drains us of our power and the outcomes we are seeking.
Programming that often drains us of our power and the outcomes we are seeking.
The result: a sense of anxiety and overwhelm that we often repeat on the road to burnout.
In coaching clients using my Courageous Leadership Platform, there is a movement into
Empowered Leadership.
Empowered Leadership is about becoming more before doing more.
And, becoming more requires the courage to lead with the heart.
Leading with the heart requires consciously choosing the energy that matches our desired outcome and then becoming that energy.
This is our true, life giving power.
To become that energy requires feeling it. This is where heart intelligence becomes so important.
If you’ve been following me you know the importance of heart intelligence.
According to an article in Psychology Today, the heart beats before the brain forms.
When the brain is dead, the heart continues to beat so long as it has oxygen.
In fact, the heart has 40,000 neurons and the ability to process, learn, and remember. It also has its own emotions.
In fact, the heart has 40,000 neurons and the ability to process, learn, and remember. It also has its own emotions.
According to Heartmath Institute, the heart is the most powerful source of electromagnetic energy in the human body, producing the largest rhythmic electromagnetic field of any of the body’s organs.
The heart’s electrical field is about 60 times greater in amplitude than the electrical activity generated by the brain.
The magnetic field produced by the heart is more than 100 times greater in strength than the field generated by the brain and can be detected up to 3 feet away from the body, in all directions, using SQUID-based magnetometers.
The Heartmath Institute has been leading research related to heart-brain coherence.
According to Research Director Dr. Rollin McCraty, “Coherence is the state when the heart, mind, and emotions are in energetic alignment and cooperation. It is a state that builds resilience.”
When the parasympathetic and the sympathetic system are out of sync from emotions such as anger, anxiety, or frustration, this produces an erratic rhythm or incoherent state. The brain receives this input which affects whether higher cognitive functions can be accessed to self-regulate.
Noticing is key to leading powerfully and it begins by powerfully regulating our own chemistry.
