Monday, November 07, 2005
"If you had 20 minutes to take the center stage on the Oprah show and share an important message, idea or story with the world, what would you talk about?”
Gregg LeVoy, the author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life (see www.gregglevoy.com) posted that question to an audience of a workshop I organized at The Manor Retreat and Conference Center years ago.
Frequently, I ask that question of my classes and coaching clients. It’s fascinating to me that no one has ever answered in quite the same way. The pearls of wisdom that come straight up from our hearts and hint at the purpose of our lives are original and unique.
Your heart sings its own song! Cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor Ary Goldberger studies heart rate variability. He has discovered that healthy hearts produce beats that are highly variable and diverse.
Just for fun, a colleague once plotted recordings of hearts on a musical score. The results intrigued Goldberger’s son and musician, Zach Davids, who, in collaboration with his father eventually produced a CD of heartbeat recordings entitled “HeartSongs.” The CD is quite beautiful: each heartsong is a composition with a distinct personality! For more details, see: http://focus.hms.harvard.edu/2002/March8_2002/cardiology.html.
Goldberger’s research strongly suggests that when your heartbeat becomes less variable, that’s a problem. Your heart may be losing its natural ability to be responsive and adaptive to what your body is experiencing.
Goldberger says “there is a remarkable consonance of the natural world outside, which is fractal, nonlinear, and nonstationary, and what goes on inside our bodies.”
I translate that to mean we are built for resilience, adaptibility and creativity. Our responses to life are meant to be diverse! We are meant to sing our original song. When we don’t, our hearts suffer, literally and figuratively.
I feel grateful for the original contribution I make to the human symphony. I feel grateful for the beauty of the human symphony and your contribution to it! Are you doing something today to share your music?
Posted by Linda Sandel Pettit on 11/07 at 04:24 PM in |
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