Heart Matters

Are we over-riding the superior intelligence of our Heart?

Is our brain really the highest intelligent organ of our body? Does intelligence only come from cognitive function, logic and reason?

As someone with a Heart condition, I've spent the last 6 or so years learning how my Heart functions and understanding my own body language surrounding this, outside of the medical system. It's been a wild ride so far.

Physiology

Our Heart contains about 40,000 neurons that collectively form a neural network, much like our brain. It functions like our nervous system, being capable of independent learning, decision making and memory. It produces and secretes hormones - oxytocin, norepinephrine, epinephrine and dopamine - like an endocrine gland. It also produces and secretes Atrial Natriuretic Peptides (ATP), which was only discovered in 1983. This peptide is nicknamed the 'balance hormone' as it plays an important role in fluid and electrolyte balance, while also regulating the blood vessels, kidneys, adrenal glands and many regulatory centres in the brain.

Our Vagus Nerve is a key part of our parasympathetic nervous system. It starts in the part of the brain that connects the spinal cord, and splits off into many branches that extend through the neck, down to all of our abdominal organs. It synergistically links our Heart, brain and digestive system - Our three intelligence centres.

Eighty percent of the nerve fibres in our vagus nerve are pathways that are ascending in nature, meaning the information flows upwards. More of these pathways are related to our Heart than to any other organ, establishing that they carry information 'from' the Heart 'to' the brain. While science originally focussed on the Hearts response to the brains commands, there is new understanding of the communication between the Heart and the brain (Heart-brain system) that demonstrates an on-going, complex, two-way communication.

There are four ways our Heart communicates with our brain - through hormones, nerve impulses, pressure waves and electromagnetic fields (EMFs).

Every beat of our Heart is refining , filtering, evaluating and clarifying data relating to our physiological and emotional states. Its rhythm, when sending messages to the brain, modifies and adjusts how our brain operates, and the information being processed through this Heart-brain system influences attention level, motivation, emotions and sensory awareness. Our Heart consistently and coherently analyses and transmits vast amounts of experiential information, somatic messages and identifies patterns about our internal and external environment more effectively than our brain. This in-turn fine tunes our emotional response, how we handle stress and our decision making ability.

It seems like neuro-cardiology is finally catching up to ancestral wisdom. Its no coincidence that eastern traditions focussed primarily on these three intelligence centres (chakras) for energetic and physiological harmony, not the seven we are taught in the western spiritual space.

On top of this, our Heart generates a powerful EMF that extends one meter around our body that is 60x stronger that what our brain generates. This field holds information and provides the physical explanation of why we can 'feel' some people before we can see them, or when we walk into a room and pick up on the 'vibe', like something has occurred in the previous moments. Its what people mean when they talk about the 'energy' of someone.

Did you know that our Heart can be impacted by Solar flares and Solar storms? Earth has a magnetic field that waxes and wanes with Solar activity. These flares and storms can trigger geomagnetic disturbances on Earth, creating ripples through that magnetic field, which in turn influences our Hearts EMF. Heart attacks, irregular Heartbeats and changes in blood pressure and capillary blood flow have all been documented to occur during these times.

Coherence

As humans, we evolved to connect with, care for and about, and commune with each other, with our Heart at the helm of how we relate. We aren't designed to live and function in isolation without community and without resonant Kin surrounding us. In today's industrialised society, is it any wonder that Heart issues have been steadily rising? Loving and taking care of others releases oxytocin, an auto-regulatory mechanism that harmonises our physiology. That same hormone that flows through a woman's body the moment her child is born. I call it the care-giving hormone as it stimulates that natural instinct to protect and look after Kin, bringing happiness and contentment into ones life. Care-giving in this sense has the ability to reduce inflammation, enhance our immune system by the release of hormones via the Heart's intelligence, to bring balance and feelings of joy.

Our Heart broadcasts its on unique song, its energy signature, and other Hearts respond in kind. It holds the key to us understanding how we walk our path. It records, memorises and responds to the world around us, then invites our body to perceive how things are, in any given moment via the brain interpreting the information then expressing the results.

The Hearts rhythm is a drum beat hum that constantly re-orients you in your surroundings aiming for optimum coherence.

If statistics show that 80% - 90% of the decisions we make are based on our emotions and intuition, then clearly this means that having our Heart as the authority is in our best interests as that is our natural state of being.

I believe the way forward for us is to recognise our Heart as the source of our intellect and to learn to speak it's language.

Hon