by Asatar Bair on January 9, 2012
Over the weekend, we celebrated the 60th birthday of Susanna Bair, co-founder of IAM Heart and leader of the Occupy Your Heart 2012 workshop series coming to 11 cities this year.
At the party, Susanna led a beautiful session of Heart Rhythm Meditation, centering on the phrase “I Love You.” It really took us all into the purity and power of love, that incredible feeling of becoming Love itself, as we breathed in “I Love,” and breathed out “You.” It really gave me a sense of doing what Gandhi meant when he said “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
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by Asatar Bair on October 27, 2011
Are you afraid of spiders? Elevators? Crowds? Failure? Being alone? Intimacy?
We’ve all got something we fear. How we cope with, run from, or face our fears defines us.
But what if there was a way to face the mother of all fears, to confront the really big one that would allow you to live in peace for the rest of your days… would you do it? Read more…
by Asatar Bair on October 3, 2011
How we hate to be stopped, to be blocked, to wait in traffic, to see a project stagnate, to suffer a setback…
We want things to flow.
Life is a stream that moves toward a certain destination, even though we may be only dimly aware of what that destination may be. We can decide which way the stream of our life flows, of course, and we decide, consciously or unconsciously, through our choices, particularly the commitments we make (and especially those we keep).
But sometimes the stream encounters a dam Read more…
by Asatar Bair on September 30, 2011
Taking a walk. Running to catch a plane. Going up a flight of stairs. Dancing.
These activities are energizing because they speed up our rhythm; the heart rate goes up, as does the breath rate. The metabolic rate goes up too, as more calories are burned to make up for the energetic demands on the body. The sympathetic nervous system gets activated, giving us different hormones.
When we stop, we slow down; perhaps we move into the parasympathetic nervous system, our hearts and breath slow, we relax.
Being still and energized is extremely unusual. But we can do it through Read more…
by Asatar Bair on September 19, 2011
Don’t go.
I can’t bear to leave
the warmth of your embrace.
Don’t go.
Don’t build a wall around your heart
and cast me out in exile.
I’ve been there before,
waiting to return to you,
out in the cold wasteland.
This time I won’t go –
My heart will be part of yours, forever!
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by Asatar Bair on September 6, 2011
I’m excited to share with you this video, in which some of the students in the IAM University of the Heart Class of 2012 share their experiences, including one student, who said, “This program helps you find the purpose of your life” Read more…
by Asatar Bair on August 31, 2011
Stand up.
Sit down.
Leap into space.
Kneel before me.
Stay strong.
Compromise.
Fall down to the center of the earth.
Rise up far above the mighty peak.
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by Asatar Bair on August 26, 2011
The ‘stress curve’ or ‘human performance curve’ posits a bell-shaped relationship between the amount of stress and your performance, so that for a while, more stress increases your performance; at a certain point, though, you hit a peak, and further increases in stress reduce your performance.
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by Asatar Bair on August 24, 2011
When you fly away
you fly to Me.
When you wander,
your aimless steps
lead to Me.
When you cry,
in your loneliness and longing,
it pierces My Heart,
for I long for you, too.
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by Asatar Bair on August 23, 2011
