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    9Feb, 2021
    Meditation helps reduce stress

    Since March 2020, we have provided online heart-focussed small group meditations (WeAddHeart) in collaboration with HeartMath, UK & Ireland. Meditation helps reduce stress and build resiliency.

    WeAddHeart is a rapidly growing international movement for people who feel the pull to connect with their own heart and the hearts of others, to live life more fully from the heart, and to create a more heart-based world.

    The small groups are coming together, online, across the world to collectively experience simple but powerful heart-focused meditation practices. These practices improve our personal health and happiness, help us to connect with the hearts of others, and to play our part in raising social and global consciousness with the aim of creating greater fairness, understanding, and peace between peoples and nations. We begin each session with a quick and informal greeting before we move on to practising simple heart-focused techniques, similar to meditations.

    The technique practise lasts around 40 minutes.

    Come join us in Asia (WeAddHeart – Malaysia/Singapore) or in the UK (WeAddHeart – Surbiton, UK) to experience it.

    1Aug, 2020
    Radiating Love & Care

    It is time for us all to radiate out love & care to everyone around us. As lockdown starts to ease in many countries, it is undeniable that many others are still struggling with face masks or finding it difficult to maintain social distancing. Doctors and nurses are overwhelmed and exhausted in some countries, and stress levels are still running high. Let us all come together to help lift the spirit by radiating love, care and compassion all around us.

    Research shows when people are really putting out love and compassionate care it benefits their own health and the health of others. In 23 published studies on distance healing, 57% showed statistically significant positive psychological and biological changes associated with improved health, including lowering blood pressure, reducing stress and anxiety, boosting the immune response, enhancing hormonal balance and promoting positive mood states.

    More and more people are waking up to the power of love and care as the solution to our personal and societal challenges. Wherever you go, radiate love and care to people and environments – be it home, workplace, stores, while in nature, etc. Doing this as often as you can for a week or more, strengthens your personal resilience and stability. It only takes a little practice to remember to radiate love and care, but it’s way worth the time spent.

    Now is the time for us to bring it to the street and practice more love and kindness in our interactions and reap the practical and proven benefits.

    Care Focus - Taking care of Yourself and Each Other

    1. Take a minute or two to breathe in the feeling of genuine appreciation for someone or something you care about. This helps to activate heart feelings, which increases the effectiveness of the Care Focus intention. 
    2. Feel your heart connecting with others across the planet who are sending love and care to help reduce the collective stress and raise the heart vibration of humanity.
    3. While radiating love and care, see people increasingly treating each other with more compassion, kindness and cooperation, and taking safety precautions for themselves and others.
    4. Now let’s send sincere appreciation, love and compassion to workers, caregivers, and all those helping others through this pandemic. Also send compassionate care and heart warmth to the thousands of people who have lost loved ones through these times.
    5. Let’s close by sending our compassionate care to people suffering from the pandemic and the many other societal and global challenges. Ask your heart to direct some of the energy from the Care Focus to any of the challenges or issues that you care about that are close to your heart.
    28Apr, 2020
    Overcoming Fear

    Reproduced from HeartMath Special Care Focus:
    For more information or if you need to speak to someone, please email health@quahassociates.com and I will call you back.

    As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic expands its footprint to over 100 countries, it is obvious that fear and anxiety, due to uncertainty, are robustly on the increase.

    The Care Focus below is to compassionately help transform the intensity of personal fear into a more grounded attitude and feeling of managed concern, which, unlike fear, connects us more deeply to our heart’s intuitive discernment. This provides clearer thinking, effective discernment, and much better choices through times of uncertainty and rapid changes.

    Many people have benefitted from this practice because they are simply tired of allowing fear to repress the power and strength of who they really are. We know that fear can serve the purpose of helping us take precautionary measures, yet sustained, highly amped fear can deteriorate our two most important purposes — maintaining health and clarity in our reasoning.

    Research has shown that balancing the energetic nature of our minds and emotions while practising compassionate care for others and ourselves enhances the immune system. However, excessive worry, anxiety or fear compromises the immune system and much more, making us increasingly susceptible to viruses and disease. Fear disempowers us, whereas the attitude of managed concern leaves us more in charge of our mental and emotional nature — and provides easier access to our intuitive guidance and highest choices. Fear disrupts this connection, especially when we need it the most, for grounded direction.

    As we watch the news reports, it’s effective to practice listening from the attitude of managed concern to reduce the fear effect. Be patient with yourself; any progress when dealing with fear is a lot of progress. The managed concern is a mental and emotional state that can leave us informed, without allowing us to be infected and debilitated by the emotional virus of fear’s momentum. The Care Focus practice below can help us become progressively more empowered and confident when we find ourselves challenged by fear and intense anxiety. Don’t give up. In the beginning, it can seem more challenging. Put your heart into it and you will see results. Self-compassion and patience quicken your progress in fear maintenance.

    Radiating compassionate care to yourself and others helps calm the ramped-up mental and emotional energy, which drives fear momentums beyond what seems manageable. We can change these behaviour imprints. We can use this virus as a practice opportunity to finally regain our power by reducing our fear to managed concern, which connects us with intelligent choices and actions.

    Managed concern is a health-conscious replacement for fear.

    Care Focus – Replacing Fear with Managed Concern (The tool is intentionally simple but effective)

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    Breathing at a relaxed pace, pretend you are breathing through your heart or chest area and imagine that you are calming your mind and emotions with each breath. (Calm emotions help to create a space that enables intuitive access to clearer discernment and choices when evaluating situations.)

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    As you breathe, visualize mental and emotional calm and poise streaming into your mind and into all your cells. Hold a conscious intention in your heart to change feelings of anxiety or fear into feelings of managed concern. Practice will increase your capacity to maintain care and compassion for humanity’s challenges without creating burnout in your own system. Remember, any progress is a lot of progress when reducing fear. Be patient.

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    Let’s close by radiating compassionate care and calm into the global energetic field to help reduce the fear and see people making smarter, less stressful choices from a perception and attitude of managed concern. This leaves people more in charge rather than pawns of fear and mental scatter. The Coronavirus is a perfect situation for this effective practice to transform the fears and anxiety that suppress much of our life force and power to create a better life.

    You can continue to practice this Special Care Focus, if convenient, for 5 minutes each day to help lift the energy field environment that surrounds you, your family and our planet.

    Thank you for your participation in this Special Care Focus.
    Doc Childre

    For more information or a call-back, please email me at health@quahassociates.com.

    1Feb, 2020
    We Add Heart
    WeAddHeart

    We Add Heart is a meetup group for people who feel the pull to connect with their own heart and the hearts of others, to live life more fully from the heart and to create a more heart-based world.

    By coming together our intention is to practise simple heart-focused techniques which will improve our personal health and happiness, help us to connect with the hearts of others and to play our part in raising social and global consciousness with the aim of creating greater fairness, understanding and peace between peoples and nations.

    What will happen during the We Add Heart group?

    We begin each session with a quick and informal “check in” so that people an share how they are feeling and get to know each other. We then move on to practising simple heart-focused techniques, similar to meditations.

    Specifically, we place our attention in our hearts, on our breath and on creating and sustaining positive and elevated heart-based feelings like care, appreciation, gratitude, and compassion. We will then spend time directing these feelings to ourselves, towards our fellow group members, towards a particular individual, group or situation and then out into the world.

    The techniques we practise create individual and group “coherence”. Coherence is a real, measurable state characterised by increased order and harmony in our physiological (bodily) and psychological (mental) processes. It is an optimal state for individual health and for building deeper connections with others.

    The technique practise last’s around 50 minutes. We then spend a little time reflecting on a different question and seeing if we can find a beneficial perspective. The question is different each month and is very simple. For example, it might be “Who or what do you need to forgive?” We then ask “What action could you take?” and see what the heart comes up with.

    For the final 15 minutes we hold a “Sharing Circle” within which anyone is free to share anything they wish, while the other group members sustain their coherence to listen deeply and stay connected with their hearts. We don’t provide any ideas or solutions, we just listen.

    Who created We Add Heart?

    We Add Heart is an expanding collaboration between organisations involved in heart-based living, personal development and raising consciousness. HeartMath® UK+IRL facilitates the running, administration and expansion of the community of group. We Add Heart group facilitators are people who share the vision of a more peaceful, fairer and happier world. They come from all walks of life and anyone can become a We Add Heart facilitator.

    If you would like to add more heart to your life, and We Add Heart resonates with you, then you can book your place in the UK at WeAddHeart – Surbiton, UK or for Asia at WeAddHeart – Malaysia/Singapore.