drjohnmayfield wrote @ July 21, 2009 at 12:01 am

SUMMERTIME

The heat has arrived in California and it feels like summer is here. Summer is the season of fire in the five elements. This is the time to focus on cherishing others, the essence of the fire element. The outpouring of love influences everything and everyone to achieve ripeness and maturity. It fills every living being with warmth and love.
This is also the season to focus on cherishing yourself, as you are now, not later when you get your life together. Part of bringing yourself into harmony with the spirit of the fire element is keep waking back up to the moment by bringing your attention back to what you love and by cherishing your splendid plans and dreams. Create the love you want by loving what you have.
Every moment that you are living in now, your heart serves as the emperor of your unique world. Your heart is your personal connection to the grace and intelligence of your spirit. It maintains that open line of communication and extends it outward to all of your cells. Every cell needs the warmth and guidance of your heart to come to fruition.
Since you manifest your own world into being by what you focus on, summer is the perfect time to reflect upon the function of your heart’s three imperial bodyguards. Your entire body’s health depends upon your heart focusing on what it cherishes.
Your small intestine digests about 95% of what you eat, but it is also responsible for digesting about the same percentage of what you think about and feel during the day. When your small intestine keeps its attention focused on what nourishes you, your heart develops insights into how to have more nourishing moments. A healthy small intestine lets all of the non-nurturing thoughts and feelings “pass on by”. No matter whether you are having a great day or a lousy day, half of what happens is nutritive and half is non-nutritive. It all comes down to perspective.
Your heart protector (pericardium) protects your heart by sending the heart’s love out to every cell, to all others and to you goals and plans. The more you focus your awareness upon what you love, the more opportunity your heart has to create lovely situations and relationships in your unique world. Harbor anger toward others and every one of your cells firmly believes that you are angry with them.
Your three-heater system (the third of your heart’s imperial bodyguards) operates like gates that open and close. In the healthy state this system is very clear about opening to what you love, and just as decisive when it comes to closing off to what you do not desire. When you wonder why anyone does anything dysfunctional, you run his or her dysfunctional logic through the matrix of you heart. Just wondering why can take your heart offline for hours or days. That is probably not what you intended.
These three protective systems keep your heart from becoming distracted, from being taken off-line. The loss of connection freaks all of your cells (your heart’s subjects) out. They feel abandoned, which causes all of your usual symptoms to act up. That is why the three imperial bodyguards are assigned to keep your heart focused on what it cherishes.
When your imperial bodyguards do their jobs, you feel profoundly loved and safe. Life is joyous and fun. When you are feeling safe and loved your immune system, digestive system and sexual system turn full on so they get all of the energy they need. Summertime, the time of the fire element, is the time to keep returning your focus to everything you love. Keep redirecting your focus back to your magnificent plans and dreams. Focus on what you admire. John Lennon was right, “All you need is love.”