"The heart's more than a pump — it actually sends messages to the brain"
- Dr. Rollin McCraty of the Institute of HeartMath
"Recent HeartMath studies define a critical link between the heart and brain. The heart is in a constant two-way dialogue with the brain — our emotions change the signals the brain sends to the heart and the heart responds in complex ways. However, we now know that the heart sends more information to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. And the brain responds to the heart in many important ways. This research explains how the heart responds to emotional and mental reactions and why certain emotions stress the body and drain our energy. As we experience feelings like anger, frustration, anxiety and insecurity, our heart rhythm patterns become more erratic. These erratic patterns are sent to the emotional centers in the brain, which it recognizes as negative or stressful feelings. These signals create the actual feelings we experience in the heart area and the body. The erratic heart rhythms also block our ability to think clearly."
We always have our HEART play a crucial role in emotions and our BRAIN play a role in identification, planning, clarification, understanding, etc.. As mentioned above, Heart & Brain are inter-connected and agree upon each other, then why sometimes does Brain contradict what Heart narrates ? Is it that Heart has its own internal Brain ?... If yes, then why it is not capable of taking self-decisions but just contradict or requires the Brain to agree over its thoughts to move forward...
It has rather made so difficult sometime in Life to decide upon something - "Whether to listen to my Heart or whether to listen to my Brain". Re-phrasing it to simple words: It is difficult in some situation to balance between the two.
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ReplyDeleteIf you are a muslim, you know how important is the heart considered in our religion. From my own experiences , I can say that Heart is the most important organ in human body, since it has the ability whether to believe in God or not. Once the Heart believe and has full faith then your whole body works differently. But it is also possible that, as you mentioned in your article, brain and heart may contradict each other. This is actually crucial point. in order to live totally happy, you also need your brain accepted your heart. In Islam It is called convergence of two oceans. one ocean is your heart the other is your brain. Heart conveys some upper dimensional information to you, Brain gives you knowledge from our 3rd dimesional world. Both of them must harmoniously fit each other. But still I believe heart stands one step further from the brain.
Thank You for replying... Telman ... I respect religious views and agree to your thoughts. Will take up your point on my journey of this wonderful life.
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