As a little girl I can remember sitting atop the bench in front of our baby grand piano in our living room, my feet swaying high above the ground as I happily and somewhat awkwardly plucked away at the keys to the melody of Heart and Soul. A warm memory that evokes joy from my heart as I can still hear that song playing in my head today. Who doesn’t remember Tom Hanks dancing across the giant black and whites at FAO Schwarz in the movie BIG? I realize now that those precious moments are subtle cues given to us as children to let us know exactly where the joy and power of love emanate, our heart and soul. So when we lose our way as adults we can consciously reset our vision to bring us back to our heart center. Our heart is the most powerful generator of electromagnetic energy in the human body, producing the largest rhythmic electromagnetic field of any of the body’s organs. In fact, our heart sends signals to the brain first, not the other way around.
The communication to the rest of the body begins with the heart. Your heart has it’s own brain intelligence, called neural intelligence, creating peace, joy, and balance in our bodies. You can shift your emotional state by certain kinds of heart-based experiences, such as appreciation, gratitude, care, forgiveness, and compassion, thereby increasing the quality of the language between our heart and our brain.
The electrical signal is the language between the heart and the brain, called coherence. It is the key to understanding the way we feel, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. For example, in a state of optimum coherence, our brain releases life affirming chemistry into our body, healing chemistry, our immune system is enhanced just from having these feelings.
Here are a few more interesting facts that researchers at the Institute of Heart Math are learning about this important alignment:
♥ The heart is the first organ that forms in our bodies, we still can’t explain why or how our heart begins to beat in the womb. As the heart develops it begins to regulate the chemistry throughout the entire body.
♥ The electrical field generated by the heart is 60 times greater than the electrical activity generated by the brain. This energy field can be measured with an electrocardiogram. (ECG).
♥ The magnetic field produced by the heart is more than 5,000 times greater in strength than the field generated by the brain, and can be detected a number of feet away, from the body, in all directions.
♥ This Inner experience that we have focused on our hearts allows us to deal with the changes beyond our bodies into the world around us.
What does all this mean for our day to day happiness factor? You can diffuse negative thought patterns that are getting in the way of your inner peace by becoming more heart centered. The brain can be brought into alignment with the heart by intentionally generating positive emotions. Our positive emotions are the seeds in which we blossom. A body in balance will not harbor illness.
Imagine coherence as vibrations from your heart sending waves of music to your brain, depending on how you play it, you can favorably influence the world around you. If you learn the language of the heart you can benefit many in the world.
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. --Emerson