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How to Heal the Heart of the World? | James Sundance | TEDxEDHECBusinessSchool


and the clock begins we’re in time
aren’t we are we in time yes we’re in
time where are you in time right here
right now aren’t we yes could you be
anywhere else your mind could put you
somewhere else couldn’t it but here we
are right here right now in a special
moment in time that will never happen
again like this in this space and time
and so the very first thing that we do
to bring our awareness to our hearts is
realized that our heart never leaves us
in the moment it’s always right here
right now it’s always in this moment
that we are operating and our brains
might hang on to things from the past
stories from our childhood and project
into the future and worry and also dream
but that we’re always right here right
now no matter what and our heart like a
good friend like a best friend is always
right here right now with us so now what
does that mean in terms of processing
emotions do you ever really process
emotions in the future is the emotions
of your childhood still locked up and
stored in the past yes this is the way
that the brain projects it in a linear
fashion right but the reality is because
you’re always existing have always
existed always will exist right here
right now it actually takes all of that
emotional energy that you’ve ever
experienced all those charges and it
actually follows you it just feels
buried but it’s here right here right
now so you don’t get to run from the
past the past
the impressions and the stories are
there in the mind as stories but the
emotions are actually right here right
now with you right now and so your
overall state of your energy in the
overall state of your being is actually
right here right now with maybe some
varied emotions trying to operate in
this reality the best you can and
overall at some stage you’ll have to
deal with it it will come out it will
bubble to the surface it will show up in
your everyday reality and when it does
we call these triggers how many of you
have ever been triggered before okay how
many of you have ever been triggered by
something so simple and so silly that
you feel embarrassed about it or you try
to tell the person look it’s not it’s
actually not that thing that I got
really upset about it’s actually not
that it just reminds me of something
that’s deeper inside me have you ever
experienced that yeah it’s because the
reality is those emotions are always
right there now we live in the age of
disruption that’s what this theme is
centered on and that’s why I’m wearing
no shoes it’s part of a cultural shift
right I don’t need shoes right now it’s
warm enough I like the carpet on my feet
so we’re talking about disrupting a
cultural age that has lived in the mind
for so long and built systems from the
mind that are not working that are
broken and it’s because we don’t have
enough heart infused in our systems
imagine your body operating without
heart you wouldn’t live very long would
you the number one thing you need in
order to survive right now and in this
room you would die if you didn’t have it
is oxygen now the oxygen is circulated
by the heart along with the blood so it
just shows you how vital this epicenter
of your being really is and the heart
also happens to have this energy center
there your heart chakra that also
processes the bulk of your energy if you
allow it you have to move your awareness
there now most people are living in the
mines and Here I am in a business school
and it’s interesting because my
background is in business being in my
head and my story actually begins about
five years ago the big shift into the
heart began with a breakup now how many
of you have ever experienced heartbreak
okay how many of you were still
experiencing some kind of heartbreak
okay right not easy right okay but the
heart doesn’t actually break I’ve heard
the best saying that it just breaks open
for you to experience more of it right
these deep connections form you start to
experience this love the love energy
starts to happen what you have to
realize is that you’re actually always
in the love field because it’s always
right here right now and though the
people in front of you may shift
sometimes you hope they don’t and that’s
fine you can hope and create and dream
and co-create and collaborate as best
you can
but when they do shift you’re broken
open and you get to experience the love
field for yourself with you at the
epicenter of the love field in abundance
love is abundant all the time and the
same emotions that you can experience of
being in love can be experienced solo if
you will allow yourself to experience
love all the time as long as your mind
doesn’t give you a reason not to be in
love your mind gives you reasons to be
in love well this person is attractive
and they’re beautiful and I love that
you have all these reasons to fall in
love right to fall in love to surrender
to the field because that person brings
out that feeling of love inside you the
love is inside you the love epicenter is
in your heart space and if we can tune
in to our heart field we can actually
start to give birth to all kinds of
creations from the space that’s where
the art comes from that’s where the
music comes from and I’m going to play
with you guys a bit as we go through
this because as I’ve been exploring this
heart space energy I’ve been doing a lot
of creation here and we have to
interrupt patterns of the brain in order
to shift the focus away from the
patterns that you expect a TED talk
suddenly becomes a song talk you didn’t
expect but now we continue and now we’re
in a different flow because it wasn’t
what you thought you know and now it’s
moving to a different direction a
redirection of energy and focus and flow
and now you know it’s so fast it’s
quicker than you know you can grow in
the moment you decide
you can shift and go on a ride how many
are ready to go or what’s holding you
back maybe your pride when we start to
take new shapes and new names suddenly
we can rearrange everything that we
thought was the same our identities are
not what we thought they were to be the
moment we decide to create a new reality
I am the definition of me I can design
create co-create anything that I choose
within the space of my domain which is
me and is my name so I have changed my
name from James Rick Stenson to James
Sundance to represent the dance with the
Stars that I know that I am when I am
not far from the reality of where we are
we can soar and we can fly as a world
together we don’t have to collide with
new systems and new ways new creative
energy can create a new reality for all
we don’t have to fall some have
predicted that this is how it’s to be
but I see a higher energy in you and in
me because we’re the same star systems
don’t you see so let’s take it in our
own hands and let’s make new demands of
ourselves a new expectation for our
reality it doesn’t have to be the
patterns that you already see you have
so where do we direct our focus in our
energy do we make it in capitalism and
the money that we want to have in our
hands and hold and are we so bold to say
that maybe there’s a better way when we
direct our energy and our intentions and
our focus it’s almost like magic hocus
pocus what we dream and what we try to
create we manifest and sometimes the
real reality behind it is all too late
the one that we really want to dream and
create from our hearts
I have heard many delay their dreams
because it’s not always what it seems
they feel that they need to hold down a
job in a position but that is your
decision and you always have the power
to say I want to see this reality open
up in a new way and so I’m here today to
say that this is our fate that we don’t
need to hesitate any further that by
setting the intention before this talk
that I was here to help heal the heart
of the world I knew that I wouldn’t do
this walk by myself I knew that I would
just start a spark inside you and maybe
make you bark a little bit and say that
I can confide in you and plant a seed
that will grow into something that will
be bigger than my dream if we can come
together as a world if we can start
redirecting our forces then we can
gallop like horses into a new sunset a
dance with a new bright star that again
is not very far the moment we decide we
can take that ride and we can go there
together my friends without our pride
because it is collaboration not
competition that is paving the new way
it is collaboration that will dwarf
capitalism as we can see that there is a
new ISM that is rising and it is in all
of us and it is this moment in France
that I did a little dance and ice paved
the way in my own way my own crazy way
to come here and say all the way from
the Costa Rican jungles barefoot on the
stage that there is a new culture that’s
forming and that at first before a
thousand it’s called a cults and then
after a thousand it’s called a culture
and the one that you’re in now doesn’t
always have to be the same and that if
you can remember this moment and let
your heart play a new game we can
co-create it together new systems
designed from the heart by the very
start and we’re starting to do this by
the way because once you believe that
you can and it’s no longer a fantasy and
you start to get the evidence
that it is coming about then you just
want to dance and shout that it’s
already happening and I am part of it
and I can get out of my mind and all of
that that used to stop me from being who
I really want to be you are the creators
of your own reality and we’re doing this
together and I if you need to create a
new name to play a new game then that’s
what you do but don’t stay the same if
it doesn’t feel like it belongs here
because this new reality is overcoming
fear and sometimes that means doing
things drastic but then it feels
fantastic because you’re really feeling
alive and that becomes your drive and
you can do at the moment you decide that
this is going to be my new way to live
so I share with you five years ago I had
a breakup massively opened my heart and
then I started to do something that my
nervous system didn’t want me to do the
nervous system is designed to avoid pain
but I was feeling all this pain and I
had been meditating for a long time and
I was in this high level of awareness
for me my perception is I was in this
high level awareness and I said no I’m
not gonna run from the pain this time
I’m gonna run towards it what are you
trying to tell me and so I really
started to feel into it I felt into it
in waves and I cried and in waves I felt
into it and I cried and in waves I felt
into it I cried and pretty soon I
couldn’t feel into it anymore it was
gone I mean essentially I just felt like
this burning in my heart space but I
didn’t feel the pain anymore and I kind
of liked it I liked the burning and I
started to use it as a pilot light to
burn through anything new that was
coming to my life that I was processing
I started to learn how to live with an
open heart and I wasn’t afraid of the
pain anymore I became a spiritual
warrior and in this journey I
encountered others that wanted to do it
that wanted to confront it that wanted
to process it but didn’t know how and I
held space for them and I actually
created a whole model around it which
I’ll take you guys through super quick
because we are in a time period that
does have boundaries so if everyone will
close your eyes real quick and put your
hands on your heart and really feel in
go beyond the concepts of this really
feel into your heart space
and I want you to imagine the world is a
maze this big maze with home in the
center and home is where you want to go
peace love bliss calmness centeredness
at your home space that’s where you want
to go that’s where you want to be that’s
what’s always calling us and now outside
of the maze is all this gray area it’s
the mind stuff it’s the identity the
story of me judgement how things should
be my stuff and all the things I’m
accumulating the addictions and how
they’re stimulating move out of that
gray area close your eyes go into your
heart and start moving through the
layers of emotions that you’re going to
experience and if you have to you can
listen to this again because I’m gonna
go very fast my friends so the first
layer that you encounter as you start
going into this maze drilling into the
center of your being you may encounter
anger there’s only one way through anger
and that is forgiveness whether it’s
forgiving another or forgiving yourself
anger is a strong emotion it can feel
very empowering but when you learn to
let go of that as an addiction and the
drive for why you want to create all
these things in your life you can move
past it and what is coming through now
might be sadness or even depression
because at the core of that is the pain
that started it all but there’s only one
way through sadness and depression and
that again is to feel through it ask for
more of it instead of fight it and lo
and behold by feeling you start healing
by feeling you become renewed and you
get to choose not from the emotions what
kind of life you want to live but from
the core of what you really feel from
your heart being informed even
depression when I deal with people that
have depression I say feel more
depressed and they smile at first almost
always and I say why are you smiling
you’re supposed to be depressed and they
say well I don’t know I said well
because you’ve been fighting it I said
stop fighting it just feel depressed let
your heart take you inside it wants to
teach you something let it take you
inside and cry and let go of all the
reasons why you won’t express because at
first it might be expressions of pain
and anguish but then it’s going to be
expressions of joy and how
unrestrained you are a work of art each
and every one of you and if you allow
yourself to start each day from your
heart and even when it’s hard go inside
and stay there and feel and be and come
from that place and when you make
decisions on what business you’re going
to do or what jobs you’re gonna do or
what systems you’re gonna create or
where you’re gonna live when you check
into your heart first and you say I
choose because my heart has informed me
this is what’s going to make me feel
most alive and happy then you’re
shifting us towards a better world and
we are healing the heart of the world
because you and I at the epicenter there
is a world of concept and then there is
us at the heart that are holding down a
field holding a field within ourself
holding a field within a room within a
community and that community expands and
it becomes the world and I want to read
you guys something in case there’s ever
any doubt in terms of how much you can
heal the world about a week ago I had
somebody at Quora Vida which is a
healing heart center in Costa Rica where
I live and we’re cultivating the space
okay of designing and creating a better
world the cultural DNA of the future and
we had somebody come by who had been by
a few times before and really enjoyed it
and she said her husband actually in
said we would like to come we just found
out she was diagnosed with that with
tumors in her body and her in in her
stomach and everything and you know
basically before she goes to the states
and gets surgeries and everything we
would like for her to come and just be
shed some love you know we would like
for that collective unity to come and
shed some love and I said great and when
she was there I remembered you don’t
know how much you can heal the world
unless you try and I said let’s do
something collectively we brought her
together and we sang for her and we
brought energy and intention to her
heart and he said very quickly I need to
tell you that the doctors are so amazed
as a week later at how much the tumor
has reduced in these last seven days the
powerful meditations and intentions of
such powerful
heart open human beings and since the
last sonogram it’s almost completely
gone they’re canceling the surgery and
are asking her to be monitored for the
next three to six weeks as a special
case study they’ve never seen anything
like this before and had to Rivera fie
the date of the last sonogram
because it’s so unbelievable I believe
that we can do the same thing
collectively with the heart of the world
and I look forward to co-creating that
new reality with all of you thank you [Applause]
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