According to scientists, the heart is not just a pump that pumps blood. It is a highly organized organ that has a brain of its own. He reacts to our thoughts and moods - some are good for the heart, others can hurt it.

In his 1991 book " Neurocardiology " Dr. J. Andrew Armour proved thathearthas a complex nervous system that can be called a tiny brain of forty thousand nerve cells. In 1995, another scientist - Dr. Ming He-Huang of the Harvard Medical University - discovered that these cells were identical to those found in the brain. This means that the heart and the brain have electromagnetic communication with each other, thanks to which they send information to each other.

After transplantation, the heart remembers the donor

Scientists believe that memories of various kinds of experiences and experiences are stored in the human heart. This may explain why heart transplant recipients have memories of situations they did not participate in and behave differently than usual (e.g. changing habits to those of the heart donor). The information stored in the heart can significantly influence the personality of the transplant patient. At the University of Arizona, a new department of science called energy cardiosurgery has been established that explores these remarkable connections between the human brain and heart. Dr. Gary E. Schwarz and Dr. Linda G. Russek of the Human Energy Systems Laboratory at this university believe that with each beat, the heart not only pumps blood, but also sends electromagnetic information to the brain.

The heart works with the brain

Scientists from the Institute of HeartMath were interested in why people experience feelings of love and joy in the area of ​​the physical heart, and how stress and negative emotions affect the immune and nervous systems, and the work of the brain and heart. They proved that the heart is an organ that receives, sends and processes information received by the main center, i.e. the brain. Interestingly, it sends much more information to the brain than the brain does to the heart, and it can ignore some information from the brain and make its own decision. The signals sent by the heart to the brain affect the functioning of centers related to human behavior, perception and even emotions. The heart sends signals to the amygdala, which it is responsible forprocessing and remembering emotional reactions. So in conclusion, the heart has its own intelligence!

Negative emotions disrupt the heart's rhythm

It has been proven that negative emotions such as anger, jealousy, possessiveness and hatred disturb not only the nervous system but also the heart rhythm. Gregg Braden - author of bestsellers, incl. "God's Matrix" and "God's Code" - believes that emotions can affect both the human heart and its DNA.

Difficult experiences can alter brain neurons and genes, and affect the immune system. Fortunately, positive thoughts and emotions can increase the body's resistance and even destroy cancer cells. Research from the Institute of HeartMath has shown that love, gratitude, appreciation, admiration, caring, and compassion create a harmonious heart rhythm that promotes a favorable connection between the heart and brain. This is called the coherence state, or the coherence of the heart. The organism then uses life energy very usefully, the work of the heart is harmonized with the respiratory and nervous systems. The state of coherence has a positive effect on the immune system, increases mental creativity and access to intuitive knowledge. The Institute has developed simple techniques for introducing the state of coherence, which are proposed, among others, by children in schools in the United States, and even soldiers in the US military, to ease the stress they experience.

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