Workshops with Jill and Joe

The following is an excerpt from Jill’s book “The Radiant Heart” which explains the energetic Heart Field that is the core of the workshops. You will read in this excerpt that the book is divided into four parts. These four parts correspond to the foundational workshops in the Heart Workshop Series. Parts One and Two correspond to the entry level Heart Workshop which explores the personal and transpersonal aspects of the Heart Field. Part Three corresponds to the Inner Heart Workshop which delves into the cellular memories and genetic and multi-generational patterns held in the body. Part Four is all about the use of the Heart Breath. It introduces this simple breath exercise which activates the Heart Field and is the cornerstone of all the Heart work in every workshop of the Heart Workshop Series.

Please read on …..

The Heart Field

The Heart Field is an energetic field which emanates from the center of the physical human heart. It interacts with and informs the physical form as well as the entire human energetic system. The energy most easily seen clairvoyantly is the electromagnetic donut shape that surrounds the entire body, which appears strongly around the body for about 20 feet in all directions. Beyond that, the Heart Field extends as a gigantic and magnificent field, a field of splendour, full of glowing multi coloured light. If it were visible to the naked eye, it would look much like the aurora borealis or polar lights. It has the same polychromic appearance and the same graceful movement and fluidity. Interestingly, the aurora borealis is created by geomagnetic forces which cause electrical activity at the earth’s poles. It, like the Heart Field, is electromagnetic and can extend for hundreds of miles across the sky.

The focal point of this immense Heart Field is the physical human heart. That point of convergence is the command center of an intelligence that has not even begun to be appreciated.

Neurocardiology, a new field of medicine which examines the neural functions of the heart, has recently found that the heart is not just an immensely strong muscle. Some estimates claim that 60 to 65% of heart cells are neurons or nerve cells. The neurotransmitters of the heart appear to be very similar to those of the brain. These heart neural cells seem to cluster in the same way that similar cells group in the neural pathways of the brain.

However, my psychic observations of the heart’s neurology have shown me that there are some very important differences between the functioning of the heart’s “brain” and the head’s brain. The heart’s brain is non cognitive. In other words, the information processed by the heart’s neurology is non linear. It is not a sequencing, linear system like that of the cranial brain. It is holistic and capable of handling and processing huge amounts of information simultaneously. It does not appear to “multi task” in the way the cranial brain does—which is not really simultaneous tasking but skilful juggling of a number of serial tasks over a period of time—but actually achieves what the linear function of the cranial brain does not—true multi tasking or, as I call it, holistic tasking. This is a neurological ability to deal with many functions and processes at the same time; an ability we normally associate with the unconscious mind.

This ability appears to arise from the holistic nature of the Heart Field. By holistic, I mean that every part of the Heart Field has all the information held in any other part. Therefore, all the parts work together simultaneously rather than in sequential patterns. It appears that the heart reflects itself infinitely within the Heart Field. Although different parts of the Heart Field have different functions (which we will explore in further detail), each part is still in full, constant communication with the whole.

In addition to its ability to multi task, the heart’s neurology, because it is non linear, does not divide or analyse. Rather, it absorbs and considers, weighs and balances, but without judgment. Here, the difference between the heart’s neurological functioning and that of the brain is most distinct. The mind is a comparison instrument—it must always say yes or no, black or white, good or bad. It is the ultimate judge. The heart’s intelligence does not function in this way. It allows everything; it includes everything. It does not reject and it does not attach. Instead of judgment, it creates a sense of discernment. It is not about achieving and sustaining any particular emotional state. It is not just about finding “the answer.” It seems indefinable and unknowable. Yet, at the same time, it is strong and clear—everyone has followed their heart sometime and found it to be unexpectedly well informed. It is aware of computations and permutations that cannot be known by ordinary thought processes alone.

Further, the heart’s intelligence is informed by a neurology that is not time based. To rest in the heart is to rest in the present moment. It is to be solely in this breath. Very rich. Very intimate. Only the heart does this. Thought only exists in time. By its nature, thought is limited to the time based sequence of past, present and future. It does not rest in the present moment. It does not rest—period. That’s not its function. Its function is to analyse, solve, report and record. Collate, correlate, co-ordinate. Decide. Choose. Move. These are remarkable functions and distinguish human beings from all other life on earth. However, these brain functions are only a small fraction of the true neurological abilities of each human being.

As a child, I was puzzled by the prevailing assumption around me that the thinking processes were the prime source of information. It was obvious to me that the lion’s share of information was processed through the heart and then instantly shared with the brain. I observed a constant feedback loop between the heart and the brain. They appeared very user friendly with one another. This is the true neurology of the human system—an open heart-brain channel.

Just stop for a moment. Breathe into your chest deeply just once. Let the mind and body relax. You may realise that you often take these breaths. In these moments the heart and the brain are in active communication. There is a breath’s length of complete relaxation and ease and a huge amount of information is exchanged. Then, life takes off again.

So, it is very clear to me that the heart’s neurology constantly receives bio-chemical information which allows it to respond appropriately, keeping the body functioning as a harmonious whole. The heart has a profound intelligence which ceaselessly monitors the dynamic states of the physical body—balancing, restoring and renewing.

However, the information that the heart processes is vast, far beyond that needed for the running of the complexities of the human physical system. In addition to its ability to process bio-chemical information, it is also able to use photo-chemical information. By photo-chemical, I am referring to the heart’s ability to interpret information carried in the electromagnetic spectrum of light. There is vast information folded in the electromagnetic energy itself. The Heart Field seems to act like a huge magnet, attracting and gathering this encoded light information and transmitting that light information to the physical heart. The heart’s unique neurology can translate this photo information and use it appropriately. This means that the heart can receive information from outside the physical system, photo-chemically (encoded in light), as well as within the physical system, bio-chemically. All information received by the heart, whether through biochemistry or photo-chemistry, is translated neurologically by the heart and used in a constant feedback system, vigilantly creating and recreating order.

The heart always seeks balance. The essential nature of heart energy is to create and maintain order. It is to ceaselessly address any lack or excess in the human system. It is to tirelessly translate information received from within the biological system and from outside it for the benefit and well being of the human energy system.

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Inner Heart Workshop

In the entry level Heart Workshop, you spent time strengthening the natural pathways of the Heart Field, heightening your awareness of it, and deepening the complex informational pathways of the external or Macro (personal and transpersonal) Heart Field.

Now you are to ready dive inward. The Inner Heart Workshop is specifically designed to work with the Micro Field of the Heart - once your system is sufficiently “warmed up”. The Heart Field includes everything; in this workshop you will discover that the ‘inner’ universe of the body is as boundless as the ‘outer’ one. (Of course, it is a unified whole; there isn’t a separate Macro or Micro Heart Field – these terms are used only for ease of reference, conceptual sharing and to guide our exploration together).

The Micro Field of the Heart pervades the inner systems of the human body – both on a cellular and intracellular level. It is fully aware and constantly exchanging the complex information at these levels.

On the cellular level, the body holds its memories of this lifetime – all the traumas both physical and psycho-emotional. The Micro Heart Field is informed fully of these traumas and, in a unified group field, can allow the release of these past challenges that may still be trapped in the body’s tissues. This includes new traumas, but, much more importantly, old and unconscious ones.

On the intracellular level, the body holds its multi-generational patterns, those that we carry from our ancestors. The Micro Heart Field’s intelligence can ‘read’ even at this electron microscopic level! The Micro Heart Field actually projects this information (from inside the cell where it is held) into the area surrounding the person’s body. This projection looks a little like the digital rain in the movie The Matrix. This projected information is the interface between the environment and the pattern itself, where change is possible. In a group Heart Field, working with Jill who can see the projected information, this possibility is hugely enhanced. Patterns held for generations that no longer serve but stubbornly hold on are given a chance to release. The beauty of this release is that it halts the multi-generational “hand down” of that pattern!! Good news for the next generation!

The group Heart Field is what allows these immense possibilities in the Inner Heart Workshop. It is very unlikely that these releases could occur without the power of the shared field.
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Heart Bath Workshop

The Heart Bath as a workshop is based on a phenomenon that Jill observed during Heart Links (in person or at a distance) with any group that has done a lot of Heart work. While everyone’s heart centres always connect like a beautiful linked light display, there is something even more visceral that has begun to occur between Heart Workshop veterans.

There is the usual linking through the light of the heart centres, and then there is a much more intricate and fuller connection that follows. Instead of the familiar linear connection between heart centres, very fine, intricate webbing begins to form between all the veterans. It is very beautiful and delicate, but unexpectedly strong, like a stunningly elaborate geometric spider web. This webbing continues to become richer and richer and more complex until it appears to `fill in’. There is a dissolving of the linear webbing into a shared field of light. This light is super-saturated with information received from the Macro field of the Heart (exterior) and with information from the Micro field of the Heart (cellular). What eventually is created is a kind of ‘Heart Bath’, a womb-like structure, in which all the participants appear to gently float, much like being suspended in amniotic fluid, if amniotic fluid was `liquid light’.

Like amniotic fluid, the `Heart Bath’ is highly nourishing and protective. It nourishes and protects because it is full of energetic information which restores, balances, replaces, regenerates and strengthens the entire energy system, both physical and non physical. At the physical level, it especially strengthens the immune and endocrine systems. At the psychological and emotional level, it deepens the sense of connectedness and safety, confidence and self esteem. At the spiritual level, because the `Heart Bath’ is created by a merging of Heart fields, it is also a unified field of consciousness among the participants. This enhances the sense of unification with each other, the rest of humanity, the cosmos, and the Source/All that is/Nothing/Everything. This experience will be unique for each person – it may simply be remarkably revitalizing and relaxing, it might be a sense of formless boundlessness, it might be an intense sense of connection with all living beings. However it is experienced, it will be yours alone.

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Heart Light Workshop

If we follow the analogy that the Heart Bath is akin to being bathed in the nourishment of the womb, soaking up a source energy like ancestral or generative ch’i – then Heart Light is the process of being born through a series of contraction like energetic movements. It is analogous to becoming air breathing after being water breathing. The entire human energy system is transformed and ‘reset’ during Heart Light, in the same way that we begin to breathe after physical birth. There is a new “oxygen” (prana) that brings life and vitality to the whole energy system and is like nourishing (or rong) ch’i. Rong ch’i is the energy, in the Traditional Chinese Medical model, that nourishes the bones and tissues during development and adulthood. As a result of the changes which occur during Heart Light, the source energy which has restored the system during Heart Bath can be utilized by the adult energy system to bring greater longevity, functionality and vitality. As the Heart is the great balancer in all systems of energy, ancient and modern, Heart Light re-establishes the yin/yang balance (speaking in ancient terms) or the dynamic biochemical balances which ensure better levels of health and well being (speaking in modern language).
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Breakthrough Workshop

Breakthrough is a natural result of the energetic movement created by the Inner Heart Workshop. In Inner Heart, we work with the interface created by the projection of blueprint patterns onto the “screen” of the Heart Field around the physical body. This energetic projection allows these patterns to interact with the environment. If the environment is supportive of change, as is the case while in the group Heart Field, then the deeply entrenched patterns of genetic and multi generational material may transform. This movement in Inner Heart is preparation for the rapid and transformative perceptual shifts that can occur during the Breakthrough workshop.

Remember, a pattern’s strength only need be 51% in order to be the dominant perception that we experience. Patterns need not totally disappear for life changing perceptual shifts to occur – all that is needed is an environment stable and strong enough to allow a perceptual shift that is more dominant (even a little) than an old one.
Breakthrough occurs in a group Heart Field of immense care, safety and nourishment. The changes occur through Heart Intelligence with no down side – there can’t be any changes which your system isn’t fully prepared for. The Heart naturally seeks order, healthy development and balance. However, these changes cannot be undone, so this workshop is not for those who only like the IDEA of transformation but don’t really want to experience its life changing reality!