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THE HEART REVOLUTION – Dru Yoga & Heart Power

Mansukh Patel draws much from his background in Dru Yoga for the information contained in The Peace Formula.

Science has now proved that the heart is the body’s most powerful centre of vitality and healing, a fact that the ancients have always known. The power of love is familiar to all of us; that familiar feeling of invincibility when we are in love, the strength that allows a mother to go without food in order to save her baby from hunger. This is the power of the heart with the Anahata Chakra (the heart chakra) acting as the pivot point in our subtle energy body.

Modern society has undergone dramatic changes over the last hundred years. Mansukh asserts in the Peace Formula that the trend towards a power driven society has intensified so much that there is an urgent and essential need to move towards a culture based on the qualities of the heart – listening, intuition and an awareness of nature. If we lose our deep listening capacity due to the pace at which we live, stress, burn out and emotional crisis will become the outcomes of a culture no longer centred in the heart.

Mansukh Patel describes how the Chinese sign for ‘busy’, translates as ‘to lose one’s heart’ and although staying centred in one’s heart is not easy, with a few well practised methods you can gain immediate success. This is one of the power points of Dru Yoga.

The Heart Centre

Within the body, located along the length of the spine are seven main centres of energy. Of these the heart is the central point, with the three chakras below and three above. Each centre has its own energy field, sound, colour and quality. For example the heart is associated with the colour green which is also the predominant colour in nature and is said to be the colour of healing.

The heart is unique in it’s capacity to give out only positive vibrations of kindness, compassion, selflesness and caring. When we live each day with an open heart we are more ready to experience life in its fullness, meet changes and challenges with an open mind and live in the moment free from worries.

The state of our emotions very quickly determine our thought processes and clarity of thought. Intuition and sparks of inspiration come into our being through an open heart. We rarely have great insight when we are ploughing our way through feelings of rejection, grief or anger.

Much of society today is ruled by the qualities of the three centres below the heart- fear, survival, greed, manipulation and exploitation. The aim of heart-based yoga such as Dru Yoga is to raise our energy from these base centres, up to the heart and with it our awareness and consciousness.

Dru Yoga is a heart yoga that accesses the power of the heart through combining asana (posture) Pranayama (the science of breath) and the ancient Eastern tradittion of Mudras (hand gestures). All of these come together to create flowing Dru Yoga sequences that balance the energy centres of the body and help us to express ourselves to the world through our heart.

Healing The World Around Us

If our heart has the power to heal us emotionally and physically, according to Mansukh Patel, the question must arise as to the power that a collective group of like minded and open hearted individuals have to heal the world around them. There are countless examples of people who have been healed, hostages who have been unexpectedly released, even wars that have miraculously come to an end. Could it be possible that when activated, the power of the heart plays an unseen but crucial role in determining the outcome of a situation. If this is the case, each one of us, has within us an incredible tool for transformation.

The World Peace Flame

As part of the build up to the year 2000, EuroWalk 2000 a team of health consultants led by Mansukh Patel, Andrew Wells and Savitri MacCuish who have pioneered detraumatisation skills in conflict zones across the world, walked to the Dru International Conference carrying seven flames for hope. The flames, from each of the five main continents, came together at the Conference to be united as the ‘World Peace Flame’ before being offered back into the world to honour world humanitarian leaders including the unseen heroes whoes constant work for peace goes unrecognised. Mansukh Patel’s aim is that the ‘World Peace Flame’ will also be taken to all of the major cities across the UK to be made accessible to thousands of people.

When asked about the power of the flame, Mansukh Patel reflects that in cultures and religions across the globe the flame represents the ‘spirit’ of life. “To light a candle is one of the simplest of acts, but to keep the flame alight in the face of all adversity takes the power and love of many hearts”, says Mansukh Patel.

Contact www.druworldwide.com for more details.

For more information, consider:

The Dance between Joy and Pain – Mansukh Patel and Rita Goswami
The Flame that Transforms – Savitri MacCuish, Mansukh Patel and Andrew Wells
The Peace Formula – Mansukh Patel
The Secret Power of Light – Mansukh Patel
Dru Yoga – Stillness in Motion – Chris Barrington, Anita Goswami, Annie Jones, Mansukh Patel
Dru Yoga DVD - Mansukh Patel and Coby Langford