In essence, what this means is that a subtle yet influential electromagnetic or ‘energetic’ communication system operates just below our conscious awareness.
Indeed, they found that they could detect this, which then led to a series of experiments that confirmed that the electromagnetic signal that the heart radiates outwardly into the environment can be detected by other people and animals who are nearby. They set out to see if a person’s heartbeat could be detected in another person’s body and brain. Realizing that the human body is 80% water, the next step was obvious. The heartbeat was indeed detected in the water. They placed an electrode in a glass of water and then placed the glass in front of but not touching the person’s chest. Knowing that the heart radiates a magnetic field th at can be detected several feet outside the body with sensitive magnetometers, researchers came up with the idea to see if they could detect a person’s heartbeat in a glass of water. It’s like being pulled in two different directions at once. The lack of alignment between what our mind says and what our intuitive heart is quietly trying to tell us can be one of the biggest unrecognized sources of stress. “The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.” - Bruce Lipton, PhD Stem Cell Bioligist bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of the 2009 Goi Peace Award Practicing mindfulness where you observe your thoughts without judging them or obsessing over them can also help you to tune into your heart’s intelligence. Keeping a gratitude journal can be really helpful with this. Practicing self-love, compassion for others, kindness and appreciation can assist us with separating intuitive heart feelings from brain-centered mental concerns. They actually enhanced people’s ability to think more clearly and to self-regulate their emotional responses. These harmonious rhythms reduced stress but they did more. Positive emotions like appreciation, love, care, and compassion, in contrast, were found to increase order and balance in the nervous system, and produce smooth, harmonious, sine-wave like coherent heart rhythms. This placed increased stress on the physical system and negatively impacted mental functions. In the early 1990s, researchers at the HeartMath Institute found that negative or stressful emotions threw the nervous system out of sync, and when that happened our heart rhythms became disordered and appeared jagged on a heart rhythm monitor. The constant communication between the heart and the brain have proved invaluable to interdisciplinary fields of neurological and cardiac diseases. Neurocardiology is a new medical field involved in studying the relationship between the heart and the brain. “The heart possesses a complex and intrinsic nervous system that is a brain… the heart is a state of intelligent consciousness” - J. Pioneering Neurocardiologist, Andrew Armour, M.D., Ph.D.
They also validated that the heart emits an electromagnetic field 1,000 times stronger in amplitude than that of the brain. In 1994 researchers at the HeartMath Institute discovered that the heart contains 40,000 Neurites. It turns out that the heart sends more information to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. Scientists have discovered that this is not true. We have always been taught that our emotions come from our brain and that our heart is simply pumping blood. We are the masters of our own biology and this is scientifically proven. We are much more than we have ever imagined. Recent discoveries in the new field of Neurocardiology reveal that we are not what we have been told.