What moves your heart?

And how do we hold space for this exploration when we run into pain or loss?

Find out in this episode where Amanda Lux dissects this question through a poem, and a teaching on polarity, paradox and the human energy system.

Episode Summary

What moves your heart might be a deeper inquiry than you'd think...

Explore how polarity, paradox, the human energy system, conscious dreams can help heal the heart energetically and spiritually.

Join Amanda Lux as she dives into this inquiry through:

• A poem inspired by a conscious dream journey to a pyramid on the moon
• A metaphor between the earths electromagnetic field, the human energy system and our heart
• An energy balancing exploration based on the positive, negative and neutral poles of our energy field

Discover how holding space for your deepest pain can lead to the most blissful states of ecstasy leading to unconditional love and self-acceptance.

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How do you locate?

What moves your heart?

You will not find it in the open spaces you think you crave or

the in-between moments where all is plain and unperturbed?

No.

These do not move your heart the way loss does.

Welcome to episode two of a lone travelers guide to the divine.

My name is Amanda Lux, and I'm your host.

I'm a polarity educator and dream teacher and the creator of the

elevation hive, school of energy medicine, and community membership for

empathic healers, seekers and dreams.

In today's episode, we're exploring what moves the heart and how this can be

understood in relation to the positive and negative poles of our energy system,

I will be dissecting this concept.

If you will, through a poem that I wrote the other night called what

moves your heart, which I was prompted to write by one of my guides, who

I met in a pyramid on the moon.

And no, there's not a pyramid on the actual moon.

And I didn't go there in my body, not in this reality, but.

It was a dream and dreams can take you anywhere.

So there you have it.

So in a moment, I will be sharing this poem, followed by a brief

description of how I came to this prompt from the pyramid on the moon.

And then we will be exploring the polarity principles of the positive and negative

poles, which are essential to embrace.

If we are to truly feel into this question of what moves our heart.

Because the heart is a muscle, right?

But energetically, it's also a portal to our deepest emotions where our

most expansive blissful states and our deepest hurts reside side by side, I

will be explaining in polarity terms, how tuning into this paradox allows us

to be fully present to our humanness and how it can even lead us to truly loving

ourselves and others unconditionally.

How do you locate?

What moves your heart?

You will not find it in the open spaces.

you think you crave or the in between moments where all is plain

and unperturbed, no, these do not move your heart the way loss does.

What truly moves.

You can only be found in what disturbs your everydayness, what touches the

hollow parts you hide below the surface.

It is not echoing through the saccharin sounds of uproarious.

Laughter.

Or in the banter of your placation, it won't be found above ground where

things are smooth as untouched, sand, that which moves you reaches

down into the ravaged depths of your hearts, crevasses, where the Wells

of your longings, dwell alongside all you haven't dared to grieve yet.

It is never in plain sight where sunny afternoons full of languid satisfaction

reside, because what moves you cannot rise from the ashes of things.

Unburned just as hope cannot console you until you've almost given in

when you feel truly seen despite your hiding, when you feel truly met.

Despite unfathomable differences.

When you feel utterly held in the abyss of your aloneness, when you locate, what

restores you, what tenderly cradles your brokenness, revealing all the ways you

have wished to be illumined when you are overtaken by the sheer beauty of

what could only come from your deepest wounding that.my heart, is how you know

that you have found what truly moves.

So when we contemplate this question, Or when I contemplated this question from

the moon the other night, what it means to be moved to the core of my being, to be

transported out of the ordinary and into the depths of my heart secret chambers.

I did not think about pain or suffering as the gateway to get there.

And so just as I promised, I'm going to give you a little backstory

about how I came to this question.

And what happened is I was teaching an online class that

I offer every month on zoom.

And it's called be your own guide to the divine.

And in this class, we gather with a question or an intention for our lives.

And then we go on a conscious stream journey to bring this inquiry to our

guides and our allies who then give us the answers we seek, or in my

case, the question that will lead us to the answers we seek in the form

of some kind of creative inspiration.

And then we create together on zoom live.

And as we're creating, we're kind of exploring and digesting this resource

through the creative process itself.

And from doing some kind of creative process, we are able to gain different

kinds of insight, different levels of insight than our conscious

logical mind is able to access.

And because your creativity, just like your imagination is the tool that allows

you to perceive things intuitively.

It's really through our imagination that we get insight and it's through

our creativity that we're able to open that up, that right side of the brain.

That's really vast that asks these questions that surprise us

with answers are only our higher selves can access because we're in

that expansive imaginative zone.

Where we're pulling in new thoughts and new ideas and new

ways of approaching old problems.

And so for me in this journey, I ended up on the moon.

I wasn't expecting to go to the moon, but that's where I went and

I saw this giant pyramid and I went inside and it was all empty.

And I've been there before.

I've been to this pyramid.

And at any rate, there was a guide of mine sitting there, all alone in the dark.

And I sat down in my imagination.

I sat down in my dream body in front of this guide and I

was like, so, Hey, what's up?

What's up?

What am I doing here?

Why am I here anyway, because I was expecting to receive

an image for a painting.

Normally I paint my dreams and that's, I'm a painter and I love painting.

And oftentimes, whatever question I'm seeking.

In this format, I usually get some.

Animal guide.

And then I painted it and we talk and I learned from it as I'm

painting, or I process the energy of whatever it's bringing and or

whatever my question is for my life through the process of painting.

But this time I didn't get a painting, I didn't get an image.

I was just sitting in this empty pyramid across from my

guide and without communicating.

Verbally, I understood that he was offering me a different assignment.

And what he asked me to do was to just contemplate this question

through writing through a poem.

And specifically I understood that the instruction involved

creating this episode from this.

So the question that he asked me was what moves your heart?

And I, I didn't know.

I sat there just staring blankly and into this dark space,

wondering what moves my heart.

I don't know.

And he says, well, go write about it and find out.

And so that's what I did.

And this was the poem that came out of that.

And again, it really surprised me.

It wasn't what I was expecting, where it took me.

And I wanted to share that story of how I came to this, because

I think it's really magical.

that we can find new ways of receiving information like that.

And.

It's not something I would have thought of on my own or thought to contemplate.

And of course there was greater meaning for my life.

And , because of the nature of this podcast, this wasn't a question

that was being offered just to me.

This was a question that was meant to resonate with you specifically, you

who are listening to this right now.

And for whatever reason, this was the medicine that I was being prompted to

offer for your reflection to try on this dream as your own, and to sit with

this question and to maybe contemplate.

How to relate to your own heart in this way, how to sort of rectify these

opposite ideas of accepting our blocks.

The path itself to our, to our greatest, knowing that they're not in the way

of it, that they're actually the way.

so you may be wondering how, how does this concept.

Of our heart and the emotional qualities that exist there.

How does that relate to polarity and what is the positive and negative pole?

And so I wanted to tie that into.

Just taking a look at the heart itself to begin with and recognizing that

the heart itself has a muscle which opens and closes with each heartbeat.

And in the most literal interpretation, you could say that it is this

very mechanism of expansion and contraction that moves the heart.

Right?

And it's through this opening and closing it through the healing and the breaking

and the re healing and the re-breaking.

Of our heart, that we feel alive, that we are alive.

And this metaphor also relates totally to the polarity principles of the positive

and negative pole, which are the two opposite charges in our energy system.

And so your energies comprised of an electromagnetic field that can

be measured scientifically by the electromagnetic force or charge,

which emanates from the heart itself.

And this is the same electromagnetic field that surrounds the planet.

It's just like that.

And as you know, the planet has a positive and a negative.

And north and a south.

And you could say that at the center of the earth, there's a powerful magnetic

storm in the very core of the planet.

And that's what generates this charge.

And it creates this electromagnetic field.

It's not unlike the heart of the earth.

That's pulsing.

So we are like these miniature planets with this measurable electromagnetic

field, with a positive and a negative charge and north and south pole.

But the most important thing in polarity energy balancing

is actually the neutral pole.

It's actually.

Three poles.

We have a positive, negative, and a neutral poll, which is essential

in anything electrically related.

Right.

You've got to have a neutral poll as well.

And the neutral poll is really the key when it comes to

balancing, our energy system.

Because our emotions, , hold a charge, they might hold a positive charge.

If it's a really great feeling or it might hold a negative charge, if it's

a really challenged feeling, right.

Or a hard feeling.

So that's one way to look at it.

And in a polarity session, most of our imbalances show up like a strong charge

in the field, which could be in either the positive or the negative pole.

And when we are palpating or feeling into a client's energy system, you could

just imagine for a moment that say the imbalance was in the positive pole at

the top of the body, and this could show up like they're having a headache or

their overwhelming thoughts or heaviness.

And when we encounter this energy, we don't necessarily want to go.

Get right in it.

We don't want to go stand there or place our hands on that person's

head, or we're just going to end up amplifying the energy because we

also carry a charge in our own body.

And so.

By accentuating their charge with our charge.

It's going to be agitating, potentially activating for their nervous system.

And so almost always as a general rule, we want to go to the opposite

pole of the body in order to open the energy and give it somewhere to go.

And we don't have to work hard when we get there.

It's not like we're.

You know, need to use a lot of pressure to release that physical pressure.

This we're talking about energy here, but it's very palpable and it's a very

potent thing when you're aware of it.

And you're tuned in and you're listening because you can.

Go and just stand there or maybe make the gentlest contact with their feet.

And suddenly things will start to clear.

It will start to regulate.

The energy will start to cycle in a new way that feels more balanced.

There'll be a release.

So there's no digging or pushing or doing or coercing.

We're just being in a very neutral way with their energy.

And through this resonance, the energy energy starts to regulate.

So if you look at this metaphorically, if we want to treat our heart the

way we would treat a client in a session, Just the way we would sit at

a client's feet with a neutral presence in order to balance the positive

pole . For instance, , we can do that.

We can sit with our own feelings with our own challenges, our own painful truths

with this same kind of gentle presence.

Not tormenting ourselves or getting all retraumatized by diving into

the abyss of pain that we've been ignoring or numbing from.

But by simply acknowledging and being with it in the most subtle way, that's enough

to open the pathway and we want to just go ever so gently treating our heart space.

Like it's a sacred temple knowing.

That it's this pulsation itself that keeps us alive.

It's the opening and closing of our energy, as well as the physical

muscle that allows us to be moved.

And we're not meant to dwell in one place or the other and one pole or the

other in only the joy or only the pain.

Because even though it's true that they.

Exist on opposite sides of the same pole.

As in this dualistic perspective, they actually exist on a continuum.

It's not necessarily just a linear journey.

And if you even look at the polls on the planet, if you go far enough

east, eventually you're west.

If you go far enough, North eventually south.

And this is a principle of polarity that's been written in the hermetic

and alchemical texts of old it's.

It's one of the most profoundly fundamental concepts to grasp in order

to rectify these opposites that exist within us, because it's only when we

can actually hold space for these.

Emotions within us to coexist that , we can actually.

accept and grow.

And from this place we can actually tune in and really, truly

love ourselves unconditionally.

So when we think of opening the heart or tuning in and really feeling into

what moves your heart, the mind usually wants to go either to the positive.

To the places where we feel affinity and expansive love and

connection and adoration, or to the negative pole the suffering.

And we might feel sometimes when we touch into our heart, just some sadness.

Or heaviness.

And we might think that we have to do something about that.

Like, oh no, I have a block and I need to change that.

I need to open my heart up.

Right.

We all think we need to open our heart, but I just wanted to share that.

I don't think.

That we need to always just go open the heart.

Those blocks exist for a reason too.

And that's all part of the compensation of our ability to move through and digest our

experiences and the energy of our lives.

And we're not just here to ascend into some pure state of equanimity

that we're here to be with.

What is.

But that's not always so easy to do.

It's hard sometimes to be with ourselves, but you know, if we don't, if we tune

out and we disconnect from our deepest emotions or from our negative pole, we

can't just selectively disconnect.

Cause we will then lose access to both the positive and the negative

we can't tune in and not feel our deepest hurts to some extent.

And it's through that, that we find our most expansive states of ecstasy.

There's no other way out, but through.

And I just wanted to bring this episode to a close, with a quote by Brene Brown

who really eloquently, sums up this whole concept that we've been talking about in

her Ted talk, the power of vulnerability.

Brene says "we cannot selectively numb the hard feelings and

expect to feel only the good one.

So when we numb those, we, we numb joy and gratitude.

We numb happiness, and then we are miserable and we're looking for purpose

and meaning, and then we feel vulnerable.

So we have to have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin, and

it becomes this dangerous cycle"..

So thank you, Brene for that, because don't, we all just need a banana,

not muffin every now and again.

And wouldn't it be better if we could just not numb out

instead of always going there.

Right.

Just rather than always going for the beer and the muffin.

Could we maybe try to just sit with ourselves in a little bit of neutrality.

How can we find neutrality and not avoid, or really bypass the challenges

that are here to offer us these growth opportunities that help us to grow

beyond our perceived limitations, to learn, to be present with the

full range of our human experience.

And if we can do that, I really think then, you know, that's how we know

that we are fully alive in the moment.

That's how

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