Heart Exercise: Atomic to Cosmic

by Jack Coleman

Overview

Heart Exercise spiritually pushes our limitations to see grand philosophies applied to everyday living. Nothing is off limits. Connecting atomic and cosmic scales of life is a very strenuous yet liberating exercise. Everything is in relation to everything else, but how do we see and feel these relationships? From experience, the heart and our core essence is the place that can handle such vast intensities of spiritual energy. Sinking into the heart allows us to embody these energies as we live them within our relationships. A more harmonistic approach to our conflicts and differences is the result, and we can experience difference while being in harmony.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504967921
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	01/08/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	166
File size:	934 KB

Read an Excerpt

Heart Exercise

Atomic to Cosmic

---

By Jack Coleman

AuthorHouse

Copyright © 2016 Jack Coleman
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-5049-6791-4

---

CHAPTER 1

Our Belief

Our belief organizes many things in our lives, but what is belief and how deep can it run?

Most of the time, we have a skewed perception of what we actually live and believe. I would play sports, racquetball in particular, with such positive and fulfilling emotions. Every time I hit the ball, I thought my swing was smooth, my footwork was efficient, and my shots were strategic. When I video recorded myself, it was not as smooth, efficient, or strategic as I imagined. I could not believe my eyes. I actually thought I was better than how I actually was. I could not handle the reality of my own ability due to my own insecurities.

Other people may go the opposite direction with their perspective by believing they are worse than their actual ability. I have also lived that perspective with racquetball later on in the journey. We tell ourselves we are not as good as the actual result, probably stemming from the insecurity of worthiness. We do not feel worthy enough to be considered skillful, so we bring ourselves down to not make ourselves feel that way. This is perfectly fine and understandable. We all do something to take us out of the reality within and "without" us. The point of all this is the dichotomy of what we believe in that moment and what actually happens.

We may like the idea of losing weight, but we might not really want to lose weight. If we wanted to lose weight, then we would. The belief to lose weight might not be as strong as we would like to think. It is like saying, "I enjoy the idea of eating healthy, but I just can't get myself to believe in it and do it."

So, what is the difference? Where does one belief come from compared to another? If we want the harshest reality of our beliefs, then we need to look at everything happening in our lives right now. These are all the things we believe no matter how much we tell ourselves otherwise in our heads. That is what we believe is possible. The ideas of possibilities are usually considered philosophy until they are put into practice and made into a reality. We all have ideas we like to live by, but how often do we live what we preach?

Speaking from our minds can create less of a heart connection, because we only listen to the communication from our heads. Our brain consciousness (known as the Third Eye) seems to put a lot of energy into our imagination, creating alternate realities such that it gets hard to come down from that stimulating high. We might not realize how much work it would take to manifest it in physical space and time.

Living these extreme philosophies can be a little bit daunting in our 3D world, but not when it is in our brains. We can daydream them all day long until we come back to reality and have to live them. In order for these philosophies to come into a more profound being, feeling and believing them in our hearts is what needs to be done.

How many of us promote intellectual consciousness? It is the ability to explain. But, is this the end all and be all? Yes, we cannot have conversations about physics with dogs because they surely would not intellectually understand it. They do not understand English. Though, does this mean dogs are not conscious of physics and communication? Absolutely not, they have their own language and recognition of human emotions.

They understand basic emotions emanating from our faces such as smiles and frowns. And, in terms of understanding physics, dogs do. Throw a ball and watch that dog take off sprinting, jumping, and catching that ball in midair. The dog understands physics from an experiential perspective that seems challenging for even humans to perform. But, can a dog explain these things? Is intellectual consciousness the point in evolving ourselves; to be capable of simply explaining life? That is surely an aspect to life, which science contributes, but another aspect to it is living that kind of consciousness. A scientist can explain how a dog caught that ball, but when placed in the same position, could the scientist catch that ball? This is the difference between explaining it and being able to feel it; the athlete and commentator.

It is like reading the nutritional label of foods and seeing what to eat and what not to eat. How deep does our understanding really travel when we believe words on paper? Could we have felt the difference if the food was healthy or unhealthy for our bodies if that label was not there to tell us? The same could be said with the academia, government, and religion. They all create laws through professors, judiciaries, and gods telling us what to believe and how life should be.

We can read words and follow them on the brain level. We repeat the key words of these ideologies without really understanding them from our depths. Is this how we understand the difference between brain and heart wisdom?

Do we really "need" these texts in order to know what is right and wrong? What one person believes is right might not be what another person believes is right. That is what makes life so dynamic. All we really have is our belief of what should be done. Do we need to follow these texts to really "know" we should not intentionally do harm to someone? Yes, it does make the journey easier for a community to see eye-to-eye on morality, but if we do not feel it in our hearts, then we will always need a reminder from where we got the information; thus, being dependent on that source. Once we have felt this wisdom for ourselves in our hearts, we do not need a reminder. It is sunken in so deep, we feel it in our core, and we live it. The tree is weakest at its branches and strongest at its core.

CHAPTER 2

Intention

Have you ever told yourself to wake up at the crack of dawn (which you rarely enjoy doing), and you actually woke up just minutes before? What was that; a coincidence? I believe it was intention. When we intend on waking up later than the crack of dawn, of course, we will sleep through the alarm clock until the time we intended on waking up.

But, how often does that happen; nearly every Monday through Friday with the aid of external influences to wake us up when someone else intended for us? We did not want to get up that early for the person that wanted us to get up at that time, and we certainly did not want to do it for ourselves. So, a third party externality is needed to help us out.

If we intend on doing something, then we do it. When the intention to wake up is strong and focused, it seems more likely to happen.

We may not understand our deeper and shallower intentions. Some intentions only go skin deep, which means they do not have as much pull into fruition. Our deeper intentions have more pull but are harder to change once they are set. Though most of the time, these deeper intentions are ones we do not see. They do not come and go like the shallower ones do. They just are.

To show how our world works around these intentions, I will use a few examples in life showing particular intentions unknown to me at the time. They just were. In these examples, I want to point out my intention along with the outcome.

I took a licensing exam with the intention of possibly failing. What happened after the exam? I failed it. I later realized my intention was what manifested even before taking the exam. The reason why I failed was because I focused more on the repercussions of failing the exam; restrictions to retake the exam, times of future availability, and what it would take to commute to it. Most of my focus was on the contingencies of the exam.

Another exam I took, I believed I had no option to retake the test because of finances, timing, and commuting. I knew I did not want to deal with those repercussions, so my intention was to pass the test on the first try. I passed the test, all because my intention was not to fail in the first place.

I have also set the intention to not eat certain foods unsuitable for my body. Let's say I read an article talking about how harmful a food is to the human body, but I continue to desire the flavor. So, I set the intention this food is no longer good for my stomach and intestines, but my mouth did not quite get the same message.

Setting this intention creates for a disastrous experience, because my stomach and intestines felt the intentional adjustment that this food no longer serves a healthy purpose, but my mouth received a different message. I ended up eating the food for my mouth and not for my stomach. What happened? I had initial enjoyment followed subsequent bowel issues by setting two conflicting intentions to two different parts of my body for that one particular food.

There are many other intentions in life that manifest in reality, and I would like to mention a few others I believe we generally go through. We might not see them as being our own creation. Though, we have unconsciously set the intention.

Another aspect of intention pertains to the type of relationship being established during the relationship. Let's say a police officer exercising his rights to excessively enforce the law in encounters a citizen exercising their rights to excessively resist the law. One is trying to protect the community's freedom by pushing the limits of his force, while the other is trying to protect their individual freedom by pushing the limits of his freedom. So, they meet because the citizen is walking around the town with a legally exposed firearm. He is not breaking the law since it is a registered weapon, and the constitution allows him to do so. But, the officer feels the excessive need to harass this person since he does not initially understand the citizen's intentions.

The officer feels threatened by excessive exposure of a legal weapon, and the citizen feels threatened by excessive force of the law. They are both using and conversely asking for excessive force in either direction simply because their intention is to show how powerful they both can be since they feel like the other is taking away their power.

This relationship is already starting off rocky by how they are going about their intentions. Some people might ask the police officer, "Why do you need to unreasonably enforce your law?" And, other people might ask the citizen, "Why do you need to unreasonably enforce your freedom?" If one is perceivably unreasonable, then the other must be equally unreasonable to balance it out.

Interestingly enough, both are using the same system to fight each other. It is like trying to buy money with money. At some point, the bubble has to burst. That is the kind of relationship they wish to establish in order to let the other know their feelings about the situation.

I personally do not refuse to show officers my license and registration just to prove it is our freedom to refuse. Does this mean I cannot talk to the officer about the issue, though? We all pick and choose our battles and how we go about them.

The point is to show how our intentions really set the stage to the experiences we go through. Being in touch with the other's perspective helps establish a more understanding relationship without building extreme controversy and misunderstanding.

Recently, I went through a phase of unemployment because of life changes. I was looking for jobs in a new field I had very little professional experience. Yet, I was sending out applications and resumes to organizations I found. After reading through their websites, there were some I really connected with and others were "just applications to fill out." What would you suppose was the outcome of who called me back and who did not? The few organizations I connected with were the ones who called me back within a couple days. The others never responded.

Why was that? That feeling of connectedness was the energy I sent out to that city. I was more willing to spend my time working for those organizations rather than the others. The people who felt it were the ones who called me back. I know this to be true because I actually moved again to another state and did the same thing. After connecting with a few organizations, they were the ones who called me back!

It comes down to the energy we are sending out to the Universe to hear. What if someone did not get any calls within a week or two of sending out resumes and applications? Was that the threshold of hope, and anything beyond those two weeks was despairing? Feeling hopeless like we are not good enough to work for others can be the feeling that other hiring managers sense. They would not want to hire an unmotivated hopeless. They probably want a motivated hopeful, and this unhopeful signal continues broadcasting to every person listening. Then, it creates a longer period of unemployment and the dark ages until an internal change occurs. There has to be a different signal saying, "I'm hopeful, now. I feel worthy in what I can contribute to the world." We have to be willing to change our feelings within ourselves in order to change our relationships and our reality.

Have you ever heard of a guy or girl looking for a relationship, but they are having a hard time finding someone? Desperately looking for a partner created very little success. Though, once they engaged in a relationship, they seemed to have such an easy time meeting people. Why is that? The whole time, they were frustrated not being able to find a partner to be with. They questioned their value and worth for any prospect.

Something changed within them. They decided to talk to someone since they felt confident in who they were, and the relationship began. After being in the relationship, they could not seem to stop bumping into other people they previously dreamed they had met a few weeks before. What a conundrum, right? The conundrum pertains to intentions. Their original intention was, "I'm not good enough for anyone because I haven't met anyone." Other people sense this intention, with or without being conscious of it, and choose not to engage. "I don't want to be with someone who is that broken," could be the feeling; thus, people keep their distance.

Once this person felt whole and established a relationship, the feeling of worthiness was lifted. The intention changed to, "I feel whole, and I now have something to share!" More people started feeling this intention and wanted to engage.

In setting an unconscious intention, we simply feel like it is the only option. Looking back at my tests, I was not consciously setting those intentions to fail or not fail. It was the only intention I could see at the time, so there was less of a perceivable choice.

During the moment, it was hard for me to see outside of the intention I was setting, mainly because I had such tunnel vision of that intention, "There's no way I could possibly pass this test." I truly set that intention because I felt the goal was impossible, so the exam was impossible.

How do we go about consciously setting intentions? We all create intentions and feelings about life in every single moment. It is how life comes into being. Setting the intention (or creation) is different for each person.

From what I have been noticing, we all have our own particular "sigils" in order for us to feel like the intention has been officially set. Writing it on a piece of paper, sending an email, having an audible mantra, or quietly meditating on it seem to be common ways we feel like our intentions and goals were set. But, without using these preferred mediums, the intention does not quite feel "real," and it will not come into being. It just sits there in the Ether until we use the medium and ritual we feel actually means something.

From my experience, people told me to write down what I want to do in life, and it will happen. I tried it, but that did not give me the feeling of accountability. It was just a piece of paper with some ink on it. It holds no real energetic value to me. Although, vocally telling other people my intentions holds more value, and I feel accountable. That is one medium I find valuable in bringing something into being.

Another way for me to manifest intentions is by using technology. For some reason, I put more spiritual weight on electronics than paper because of its recyclability, and more things seem to manifest for me at the moment when it is done through technology. Sometimes, I want to mediate a frustration when someone said something personally offensive about life. They did not directly say it to me, but what they said offended me. I had to send them a message using the internet. Even though I did not get a direct response, it felt better and official (because, I got it off my chest and out of my head).

Setting that intention creates the bond with whatever we are trying to connect with; buying a house, joining a band, living with someone, and so on. Realizing our mediums in creating an intentional bond is crucial. Without the bond, there is very little holding the intention between us and what we are trying to connect with. In buying a house, people seem to hold dearly onto the spiritual bond of writing our names down on a piece of paper. When we sign our names, "it's official." There is no getting out of this bond, when in reality, it is just some scribbles with black dye on shaved wood. Yet, there can be so much power in those scribbles.

(Continues...)

---

Excerpted from Heart Exercise by Jack Coleman. Copyright © 2016 Jack Coleman. Excerpted by permission of AuthorHouse.
All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.

---

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface, vii,
Our Belief, 1,
Intention, 5,
The Ego We Hate to Admit, 19,
The Energy Between Us, 29,
Self-Medication, 39,
Manifesting Life, 64,
Each of Our Gods, 82,
Our "Bigger" Selves, 90,
Intuition, 103,
The Balance, 113,
Wisdom Within Us All, 128,
What are We Doing Here?, 140,
Summary, 152,
Gratitude, 153,