The Heart

Consider the amazing human heart, the organ that pumps life-giving oxygenated and nutrient-rich blood throughout our bodies on a precise schedule. Now researchers are learning that this marvellous machine, the size of a fist and weighing on average less than 10 ounces, also possess a level of intelligence they are only beginning to understand. 

Evidence shows the heart also plays a greater role in our mental, emotional and physical processes than previously thought.

“The heart is a sensory organ and acts as a sophisticated information encoding and processing centre that enables it to learn, remember, and make independent functional decisions,”

“The heart generates the largest electromagnetic field in the body. The electrical field as measured in an electrocardiogram (ECG) is about 60 times greater in amplitude than the brain waves recorded in an electroencephalogram (EEG).”

In the HeartMath study, The Electricity of Touch: Detection and Measurement of Cardiac Energy Exchange Between People, researchers set out to determine whether the heart’s electromagnetic field, as measured by an electrocardiogram (ECG), in one individual could be detected and measured in another person when the pair either were seated within about three feet of each other or held hands.

The results of The Electricity of Touch experiment were positive: The data showed “when people touch or are in proximity, a transference of the electromagnetic energy produced by the heart occurs,” the study’s authors wrote.

They observed that although additional research should be conducted, there were potential important implications raised by this research when viewed in conjunction with the success of numerous healing modalities.

Practices such as therapeutic touch, holo energetic healing, healing touch, chi gong and reiki among others “are based upon the assumption that an exchange of energy occurs to facilitate healing,” according to the findings. “While there exists scientific evidence to substantiate the physiological and psychological effects of many of these treatments, science has as yet not been able to describe a mechanism by which this putative energy exchange between individuals takes place. This study, together with the work of (other research) … represents one of the first successful attempts to directly measure an exchange of energy between people.”
The Heart and Emotions

The heart’s electromagnetic field contains certain information or coding, which researchers are trying to understand, that is transmitted throughout and outside of the body. One of the most significant findings of HMI’s research related to this field is that intentionally generated positive emotions can change this information/coding.

That discovery raises the question whether the cardio electromagnetic field information transmitted from an individual who is angry, fearful, depressed or experiencing some other negative emotion, takes on beneficial properties when it is influenced by positive emotions. Also, is the care, compassion, love or other positive emotion not only transmitted throughout an individual’s body as the cardio electromagnetic field radiates through it, but transferred externally as well to people in close proximity or even, perhaps, over long distances?

Although HeartMath is continuing to study the effects of human electromagnetic fields over large distances, researchers say the answer to the first question, whether self-regulated positive emotions can be beneficial to the individual, is yes.

“Through the use of tools and technologies that foster positive emotions and psychophysiological coherence, individuals can effectively initiate a repatterning process, whereby habitual emotional patterns underlying stress are replaced with new, healthier patterns that establish increased emotional stability, mental acuity, and physiological efficiency as a new familiar baseline or norm,” that was according to the paper Emotional Stress, Positive Emotions, and Psychophysiological Coherence. The paper, written by HMI researchers McCraty and Dana Tomasino comprised a chapter in the 2006 book, Stress in Health and Disease, published by Wiley-VCH.

Although additional research will be required to determine the nature and function of this energy/information the heart sends out, HMI’s researchers have conducted numerous studies on how positive emotions can affect us. Participants in several studies, and indeed thousands of people worldwide who are using the HeartMath System of tools and technology, can attest to a broad range of benefits resulting from intentionally experiencing certain emotions, which HeartMath calls emotion self-regulation.

We are made of 14 billion-year-old "stuff" from the beginning of time, yet we are "stuff" that is alive and conscious. Life is a new class of material subject to some of the same rules of other material but also others that start to test the limits of science.

They say love and/or the maternal instinct is a chemical reaction to allow for propagation of the species but what is the love for art? Why the desire to create even if there is no profit to be made?

Researchers have discovered the heart has its own electromagnetic field that allows it to literally connect to other heart fields when within a 3-foot proximity (thus opening the possible truth of qigong, therapeutic touch, etc.) What would be the broader ramifications of a planet sympathetic with one another, a planet where hearts "connected"? Would that not raise a planetary energy field reminiscent of god? Wouldn't that connect a planet and it's inhabitants in ways we can only conjecture?

I think about tribes and the group connection to one another, the rituals they have to cement sympathetic heart connections (We have sports and the rock concert.) In our pursuit of individuality and personal gain over upliftment of the group, we have lost our connection at the "heart" of us to one another. While alive, we are "the most luckiest star stuff" given a remarkable but all too brief gift of consciousness. We should be connecting, raising our "vibration" to others because at death, we return back to stardust.

This thinking is so on track, finally. The power of combined people, using their combined energy for healing was being performed long ago at Stonehenge and Mayan Temples. Starts with a small circle of people directing their energies round and round, then they increase the circle, like the Archimedean Spiral. You can send the energy flowing around increasing it to an electrical level, which sends frequencies and vibrations, through the bodies, healing many people's ailments. The heart is a huge player tuned to knowing the frequencies it's body requires. Frequency generators and zappers are headed the right way, but more synchronisation is required still. Increase negative ions.
Hopefully, we will soon remember how to use our minds and internal energy, chi, to heal our own health.

Interesting Facts about the heart.

• The heart is one of the most important organs in the human body, continuously pumping blood around our body through blood vessels.
• Your heart is located in your chest and is well protected by your rib cage.
• The study of the human heart and its various disorders is known as cardiology.
• The heart is made up of four chambers, the left atrium, right atrium, left ventricle and right ventricle.
• There are four valves in the human heart, they ensure that blood only goes one way, either in or out.
• Blood that leaves the heart is carried through arteries. The main artery leaving the left ventricle is the aorta while the main artery leaving the right ventricle is the pulmonary artery.
• Blood going towards the heart is carried through veins. Blood coming from the lungs to the left atrium is carried through the pulmonary veins while blood coming from the body to the right atrium is carried through the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava.
• You might have felt your own heart beating, this is known as the cardiac cycle. When your heart contracts it makes the chambers smaller and pushes blood into the blood vessels. After your heart relaxes again the chambers get bigger and are filled with blood coming back into the heart.
• Electricity going through your heart makes the muscle cells contract.
• You might have watched television shows or movies where a patient in a hospital is attached to an electrocardiogram (ECG). You might recognise it as the machine with a line moving across a screen that occasionally spikes (or remains flat when a patient is dying). This machine can measure the electricity going through a patient’s heart. A doctor can use the information to know when a patient is having heart rhythm problems or even a heart attack.
• Heart attacks cause scar tissue to form amongst normal heart tissue, this can lead to further heart problems or even heart failure.
• The heart begins to form in the fetus before the brain.
• The average heart beats 110,000 times a day, 40 million times a year, 3.5 billion times in a lifetime.
• Your heart produces enough power in 1 hour to lift 2,000 pounds 3 feet off the ground. In one hour and 15 minutes, the heart could lift a Toyota Prius!
• The source of the heartbeat is in the heart, not the brain. When they do a heart transplant, they cannot reconnect the heart and brain. The heart beats on its own.
• The electrical impulse of each heart beat can be measured 3 to 4 feet from the body.
• The electrical impulse of the heart is 40 - 60 times stronger than the brain. It is many more times stronger than any other electrical impulse in the body.
• The heart sends more information to the brain than the brain does to the heart.
• The heart's vascular system is 60,000 miles long and can wrap around the earth twice.
• Different people's (or even animal's) heart cells, will all beat in unison in a Petrie dish. Different people's brain cells in a Petrie dish will not communicate with each other and die.
• The electricity generated by the heart can be detected and measured in the brain patterns of another person nearby.
• The heart works without interruption for 70-80 years, without care or cleaning, usually without repair or replacement. Do you need energy or stamina? Access the heart!