Monday, June 19, 2006

Follow your heart.


"The idea that we can think with our hearts is no longer just a
metaphor, but is, in fact, a very real phenomenon. We now know this
because the combined research of two or three fields is proving that
the heart is the major center of intelligence in human beings.
Molecular biologists have discovered that the heart is the body's most
important endocrine gland. In response to our experience of the world,
it produces and releases a major hormone, ANF -- which stands for
Atriol Neuriatic Factor -- that profoundly effects every operation in
the limbic structure, or what we refer to as the "emotional brain."

This includes the hippocampal area where memory and learning take
place, and also the control centers for the entire hormonal system.
And neurocardiologist have found that 60 to 65% of the cells of the
heart are actually neural cells, not muscle cells as was previously
believed. They are identical to the neural cells in the brain,
operating through the same connecting links called ganglia, with the
same axonal anddendritic connections that take place in the brain, as
well as through the very same kinds of neurotransmitters found in the
brain.

Quite literally, in other words, there is a "brain" in the heart,
whose ganglia are linked to every major organ in the body, to the
entire muscle spindle system that uniquely enables humans to express
their emotions. About half of the heart's neural cells are involved in
translating information sent to it from all over the body so that it
can keep the body working as one harmonious whole. And the other half
make up a very large, unmediated neural connection with the emotional
brain in our head and carry on a twenty-four-hour-a-day dialogue
between the heart and the brain that we are not even aware of."

Source http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/JCP99.html

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home