1. What Is Heart-Based Perception?
In modern-day society, especially in the Western world, if you were to ask someone to point to the place in their body where their consciousness is located and their decisions are made, they would most likely point to their head.
Our indigenous ancestors, however, would respond to the same question by pointing to their hearts. They understood the heart’s ability to intelligently perceive and decipher the world around them, and acknowledged the limitations and reductionist nature of living in a manner in which one relies primarily on the mind.
They went beyond the thoughts in their heads, using the heart as an organ of perception to connect with the energy fields of other organisms – not just other humans, but the earth as well – in order to fully immerse themselves in the deeper meanings embodying their thoughts.
Engaging in this kind of heart-based perception and communication with the world tends to render what once seemed important as relatively meaningless, and what once seemed meaningless as meaningful. When a person breathes in the meaning of another organism using their heart field, a subtle shift occurs within, whether subtle or major, that forever changes them. The ancient Greeks referred to this kind of silent, invisible heart-based communication as aesthesis, which means “to breathe in.”
Heart-Based Hospitality incorporates heart-based perception and communication into the guest experience to provide new levels of hospitality. By means of heart-based perception, hotel staff can feel intuitively and energetically how a guest feels and what his needs are at any moment. Anyone can develop heart-based perception, and Heart-Based Hospitality provides various tools to develop it.
2. The Heart and Energy Fields
The heart, which holds the title as the organ with the most powerful electromagnetic field in the body, can sense the heart of another individual up to 4 metres away. Since the brain is highly sensitive to the reactions of the heart, it is able to pick up this kind of electromagnetic “heart sensing” and essentially alter the brain waves of another individual, as well as themselves, and/or actually synchronize their brainwaves with the other person’s.
Most of us have met a person whose presence, for no apparent reason, caused a sense of discomfort – whether it was sadness, anger, anxiety, or any other uneasy feeling – that warranted the decision to not forge a deeper connection with them. Just as we may not know why we felt this way around them, as they said all the right words and presented themselves in a “socially acceptable” way, we often may not pick up on the fact that this is occurring because of the other person’s energy and it is, in reality, not personal at all.
In this way, the electromagnetism of the heart greatly shapes our relationships, guiding us by what seems to be an almost effortless gravitation to connect with the heart fields of some people who then become friends and/or romantic partners, and steering us away from people whose heart energies clash with our own.
We know that the heart emits electromagnetic energy. Research carried out by HeartMath has shown that this energy carries messages and information into a field environment that is shared by and connects everyone. It is because of this, that hotel staff can be shown how to apply the knowledge in order to change the vibration of guest rooms, facilities, and the hotel as a whole so that they feel more pleasant to be in; and also in order to increase the feelings of wellbeing, contentment, and peace of the guests.
As you watch the following video, please consider the possibilities this knowledge offers for hospitality.
