Anxiety can create a helpless and overwhelming feeling, literally making us want to crawl out of our own skin.
Most of us try to avoid this anxiety by forcefully altering our moods in various ways. In fact, anxiety prompts many of us to engage in a relentless attempt to become emotionally disconnected from ourselves with one thing after another.
Within contemporary Chinese Medicine, there are 2 theories about consciousness.
One theory is called the brain-ruling theory and the other is called the heart-ruling theory.
The second theory, introduced by Li Shi-Zhen in the Ming dynasty, the heart is the organ and seat of consciousness within the body.
Modern science has conducted research on emotional energetics, coherence, heart-brain connection, heart intelligence and practical intuition.
Research explained and showed the physical and energetic heart plays an extraordinary role in our lives.
1. Our heart rhythms affect the brain’s ability to process information.
2. The heart has 40,000 sensory neurons involved in relaying ascending information to the brain.
3. The human heart’s magnetic field can be measured several feet away from the body.
4. Negative emotions can create nervous system chaos, but positive emotions do the opposite.
5. Positive emotions can increase the brain’s ability to make good decisions.
6. In fetal development, the heart forms and starts beating before the brain begins to develop.
7. You can boost your immune system by focusing on positive emotions.
8. Positive emotions create physiological benefits in your body.
9. A mother’s brainwaves can synchronise to her baby’s heartbeats even when they are a few feet apart.
10. The heart brain, like the brain proper, has an intricate network of neurons, neurotransmitters, proteins and support cells. It can act independently of the cranial brain and has extensive sensory capacities.
11. The heart sends signals to the brain that can influence:
- perception
- emotional experience
- higher mental processes
12. The heart has a system of neurons that have both short and long- term memory and the signals they send to the brain can affect our emotional experiences.
13. The heart sends more information to the brain than the brain sends to the heart.
14. Coherent heart rhythms help the brain in creativity and innovative problem-solving.
15. Your heart emits an electromagnetic field that changes according to your emotions.
16. Others can pick up the quality of your emotions through the electromagnetic energy radiating from your heart.
Refer to www.heartmath.org for more information regarding heart intelligence.
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