rable affect on the physical world. Studies by Glen Rein, Ph.D. and Rollin McCraty, Ph.D. have demonstrated that the energy fields generated by our human feelings can influence neurological and immunological functions at a cellular level. In their work, they determined that the strongest “energy generator” in our bodies is our heart. Furthermore, the energy the heart produces is directly correlated to what we are feeling. When we experience deep feelings of love, compassion or appreciation, we align our self with Divine creation. These divinely aligned feelings radiate coherent frequencies throughout the body which promote health and vitality. Conversely, when we experience feelings such as anger, anxiety, fear and rage, we directly effect the body in harmful and damaging ways. Tests in the laboratory have proven that a ten-minute expression of anger produces a six-hour decline in a test subject’s immune response. On the other hand, when a ten-minute period of compassion, love or gratitude is expressed, there is a measurable six-hour boost in the immune system.

Other experiments have shown that the molecular building block of our body--the DNA--is directly affected by our emotions. When stressed by angry/fearful/anxious emotions, our DNA twists tightly onto itself forming what we call a “DNA cramp.” The molecule takes a shape that is somewhat like a rope ladder twisted into a knot. This is important because the crossing of the DNA strand onto itself determines which genes are turned off or on. The tighter the “cramp,” means less of our potential is accessible. (It is useful to remember here that fear has a many faces. It can be disguised as judgment, doubt, depression, jealousy, insecurity or even guilt.)

The loss of function due to a “DNA cramp” is also played out in our brains. When stressed by “DNA cramping,” our body produces different hormones than during periods of inner harmony. These biochemicals, such as adrenaline and cortisol, flood our body. This has the effect of chemically denying us access to the upper, reasoning functions of our brain and increasing access to the lower, fight/flight/freeze mechanism. This limits our ability to respond to a situation from our fullest selves. Obviously, our body functions best when in a emotional/feeling state that is aligned with it's "original instructions."

Other research has shown that our feeling/heart energy radiates as a non-Hertzian quantum field. In lay terms, that means that our heart-based, feeling energies produce effects which are not limited by the constraints of either time or space. In addition, these feeling-generated energies affect not only the spaces inside our bodies, but the world around us as well. Amazingly, a person generating strong feeling energies can change the configuration of a sample of someone else’s DNA, as well as their own! Since DNA is the building block of life, our emotional energies also affect other beings!

Emotions and feelings are related but different. Emotions are pure information we receive from the physical world. They are simple in nature--mad, sad, glad, scared. Feelings however, are what happens when our mind responds to the input we have received through our emotions. Our mind, seeking to find order in the chaos of emotion, adds it’s own input in the form of thoughts which are shaded by previous experience. This blend of emotion plus mind produces feelings as a response to the situation. These feelings, blended at the heart, then cascade biochemical messages throughout the body, which sometime wreck havoc on our ourselves and other beings. Clearly, if we seek to create a world of healing which holds less chaos, there has got to be a better way! The point where we can alter our responses is the place where the emotion meets the mind. That is, the juncture where we can consciously choose to generate a different feeling energy.

Nerves in our hands send signals if a surface is too hot for us to touch. Our emotions serve us in a similar way, giving us clues about our environment. We must experience our emotions so we may understand what clues they are giving us about a situation. Once we receive their input, we can then consciously choose how we wish to respond to the situation--thereby developing mastery of our “inner technology.” Initially this may seem strange, but since our feelings have such a profound effect on both the inner and outer physical worlds, it certainly appears that we have a responsibility to develop mastery of them for the benefit of our own and the world’s health.

The mastery of our feelings is a crucial part of coming into harmony with Creation--the Divine--and therefore, a critical part of creating a new and beautiful model of life. Through this practice, we can learn our place as co-creators of this world and in so doing, we will change the course of our species and the planet. The occurrences we currently think of as miracles will become commonplace.

Developing a practice of gratitude can begin very simply. Take a moment out each day to remember a situation when you felt grateful. Recall the feelings that you felt at that time and let them fill you up again. Give yourself enough time to feel really full of gratitude. Now imagine that these feelings, which fill you up have nowhere else to go but to radiate out of your body with every one of your heartbeats. You remain full even as this vibration of gratitude is being broadcast from your body. As you experience this, add an intention that you wish to manifest. Don’t worry about details, but rather put out the feelings that you wish to experience. By this I mean don’t put our that you want something--a new partner, a new job, etc.--but rather how it will feel to be in your new relationship, or how it will feel to be working at your new job. Feel it already accomplished--already complete.

Research has determined that when we blend our intentions with feelings of gratitude or appreciation they are much more likely to manifest. Whereas feelings of fear or anger produce a disruption to creative manifestation. This has been proven by people such as by Masaru Emoto who’s work with water was featured in the movie, “What The Bleep Do We know?” and by Sandra Ingerman in her Medicine for the Earth work. While being observed by scientists, a small, harmonious group of people practicing feeling gratitude and holding strong intentions have “healed” covered beakers of water which had been intentionally polluted with ammonium hydroxide. This commonly found pollutant, which arises from from both human and animal waste, is a common contaminant of ground water. It causes problems in the environment in two ways. Firstly, it literally poisons the water making it too alkaline to drink. Secondly, it has the ability to make oil-based pollutants such as PCBs, gasoline and benzene water soluble which makes them more easily absorbed by plants, animals and human beings.

Through no other means but the power of feeling-based ceremonies, conducted in an atmosphere of reverence for the Earth, the polluted water changes from a poisonous pH level of 11.5 to one of a nearly drinkable pH of 9. This shift of over two points of pH is the equivalent of a thousand-fold change and was accomplished in less then two hours, while a “control” beaker remained unchanged. The impossibly swift change seen in these ceremonies is truly unexplainable by scientific means.

These same tools may be brought to bear on situations such as the wide-spread pain and anger that is being experienced around the world from the tsunami catastrophe. We as individuals CAN have an impact even beyond making donations to the Red Cross. Each of us, as creator beings can enter into a state of feeling gratitude and once in that feeling state send our prayers out into the world. We can do this at each meal, upon arising or at bedtime. There is a good deal of urgency in this matter, as Masaru Emoto believes that the field has been weakened by extreme natural disasters like the tsunami, especially as they happened on top of the terrorist violence the world has recently been experiencing. It is his belief that a wide-scale epidemic/pandemic could arise in this greatly weakened field. This makes sense since we know how immune systems are negatively impacted by fear. Furthermore, the presence of so much fear and anger energy, the waters have taken on this vibrational signature which is not conducive to healing.

So, our “feeling prayers” can change the places of stress on our Earth and our own bodies will benefit as an added bonus. As we intentionally enter into the feeling state of gratitude, we are changing the neural net of our brain so that we will be able to more easily attain this healing state of being. Furthermore, as we continue this practice, we change the cell receptors in our bodies creating greater and greater personal health and well-being. Clearly, this practice of gratitude prayer is a magnificent win-win for all beings!

Our outer world is a direct reflection of our inner world. Feelings coupled with clear intention shape the very physical essence of our reality. There is no longer any doubt that we are creator beings, however as we learn to be conscious--as well as compassionate--we take our next evolutionary leap as a species and make the shift toward a renewed and more beautiful world.

Evelyn Rysdyk