ONE SPIRIT COMMUNITY

By Morgan Langan

Many People are experiencing some form of increased “pressure” these days; in the form of financial struggles, relationship challenges or health issues. Any form comprises only a small percentage of “all that is” about your life. It is helpful to live life from the perspective that you are one part of a collective. We do not want things to remain the same! Thus we must be better prepared to adapt to even greater changes. We are evolving as a species, one individual at a time! New discoveries are proving scientifically what the great sages and saints of our history have been saying for thousands of years: We Are ONE!

In our human form we tend to focus on what we can see. It seems as if we are separate from each other. Yet many of us have had momentary glimpses of another reality in which we are all interconnected through One Spirit. It cloaks us in abundance, beauty and divine love. This view of life feels more real to us. It also feels good because it evokes love, compassion and awe. Studies have shown that the greater our feeling of connectedness, the less stressed we are. Positive emotions help us meet life’s challenges with grace. They account for the increased health and vitality among elderly people who have pets, or a circle of good friends, and are the reason that happily married couples live longer than singles. Yet because our interconnection defies our senses, positive emotional experiences are short-lived for most of us. They are unpredictable and wiped out in an instant when an event passes by that is not to our liking.

Just as our sense of connection evokes positive emotions our, sense of separation brings negative ones. They bump us out of our present moment of awareness, which is the only place that Oneness can be found. The more separate we feel the more depressed, angry and stressed we become. We feel as if we are in competition for limited resources. We know that stress taxes the immune system, making us prone to cancer, heart attacks and other life threatening illnesses. In short, we die sooner.

As adults, our natural tendency leans closer to negative emotional experiences than to our positive ones. Even when we know that we are Spirit at our very core, we function in a constant state of forgetfulness, thinking that our physical form is all there is. This is why we need a daily practice… to remember. In this remembering we can hold the Oneness, even though unseen, in a balance with the visible world.

It stands to reason that the more that we can stabilize positive emotions, the healthier, happier and more compassionate we will be. We will live longer and become better leaders. But how can we evoke and stabilize these emotions?

Scientists have been studying the biology of stress for years. We know that it triggers the Fight or Flight Response; regulated through the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and the hormone adrenaline.

What most of us don’t know is that our body also responds when we reach out to connect to others and to the natural world. In addition to the biology of stress there is the biology of love and compassion, and it also under the control of the ANS.

Research at the Institute of Heart Math has shown that we can bring on the Compassion Response by simply slowing our breathing. It is strengthened even further if we consciously generate feelings of love and appreciation, and imagine breathing directly through the heart area. We can strengthen this response many-fold by being in the presence of others who are stepping into their full potential SELF. By expressing from the Compassion Response, our hearts and minds synchronize as SELF.

It is in this experience that we become entrained in One Spirit and cloaked in the abundance, beauty and divine love of our inter-connection. This is the magic and the grace of One Spirit Weekend. We hope you join us to learn to embody your role as an awakening leader during this shift.

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