“Follow Your Heart!”
“I follow my heart in making decisions and can testify that over years of practice this has again and again proven to be invaluable” - Phillip
Heart intelligence is the flow of awareness, understanding and intuition we experience when the mind and emotions are brought into coherent alignment with the heart. It can be activated through self-initiated practice, and the more we pay attention when we sense the heart is speaking to us or guiding us, the greater our ability to access our intelligence and guidance more frequently. Heart intelligence underlies cellular organization and guides and evolves us toward increased order, awareness and coherence of our bodies’ systems.
“In the past, I believed the lie for years that I am too sensitive! A big softy - MAN UP! You are one of those touchy feely types! I learnt to hide and quieten my intuitive self. I believed it’s easier to remain silent.” - Phillip
Although modern society is beginning to realise that our heart is intelligent. There also is ample evidence in the writings and oral traditions societies passed down through the generations that they strongly believed in an intelligent heart.Throughout much of recorded history, human beings have understood that intelligence, the ability to learn, understand, reason and apply knowledge to shape their environment, was a function of the brain in the head.
Research into the idea of heart intelligence began accelerating in the second half of the 20th century. During the 1960s and ’70s pioneer physiologists John and Beatrice Lacey conducted research that showed the heart actually communicates with the brain in ways that greatly affect how we perceive and react to the world around us. In 1991, the year the HeartMath Institute was established, pioneer neurocardiologist Dr. J. Andrew Armour introduced the term “heart brain.” He said the heart possessed a complex and intrinsic nervous system that is a brain.
Today, more than a half century after the Laceys began their research, we know a great deal more about the heart:
The heart sends us emotional and intuitive signals to help govern our lives.
The heart directs and aligns many systems in the body so that they can function in harmony with one another.
The heart is in constant communication with the brain. The heart’s intrinsic brain and nervous system relay information back to the brain in the cranium, creating a two-way communication system between heart and brain.
The heart makes many of its own decisions.
The heart starts beating in the unborn fetus before the brain has been formed, a process scientists call autorhythmic.
Humans form an emotional brain long before a rational one, and a beating heart before either.
The heart has its own independent complex nervous system known as “the brain in the heart.
*Above material extracted from HeartMath Institute