SPIRITUAL CONNECTION THROUGH THE HEART (2)
Esoteric wisdom references the heart as the organ through which love and compassion manifest. Medical science accepts that the heart is hormonally linked through the endocrine system but the deeper wisdom states that it is also energetically linked through the electromagnetic field to the primary impulse, which originates with the Higher Self or Super conscious awareness.The heart is therefore the physical intermediary between body and soul. Long dismissed by medical science as fanciful this verdict has now been overturned, confirmed by advanced technology. The heart has long been associated with love and romance; poets have written about it, singers sing about it, tweeters tweet about it. We recognize emotional response through the heart as a real phenomenon and our heart beats faster or skips a beat at significant moments; this is due to the fact that it is a sensory organ.
THE HEART AS THE SEAT OF LOVE
Emotional response is often mistaken for love when in fact these are two very different sensory expressions. Emotion is linked to need, making demands and taking, while love is linked to the ability to give and to receive. Unconditional love, however, equates with compassion and selflessness, expression of a much higher order. The ability to give should not be confused with inappropriately responding to the needs of others which results in imbalance for both the giver and the recipient.
Hardness of heart is the greatest disease afflicting mankind today. It results in fatigue, illness and ultimately disconnection from life. The energetic heart centre is where the spiritual energies converge transmuting the lower energies and bringing true spiritual awareness. When we persist in making demands upon life and upon each other we therefore limit and block our own spiritual progress. The pain of past experience shields and armours the heart against repetition, only when we find the courage to set aside the pain of the past can we truly begin to experience life through the warmth of loving emotion. The solar plexus is the seat of emotion, when this energetic centre is balanced the energy rises to the heart as the Seat of Love.
The heart is a listening organ of perception, it believes and magnifies what it hears. If loving, it amplifies Love; if fearful, angry or envious it will amplify Fear, Anger, Envy.
Through technology we can now demonstrate that the heart can produce visible and measurable light during meditation, this only occurs when the focus is compassion. Research has now demonstrated neural networks within the heart itself; contrary to popular belief, incoming information impacts initially upon the heart and not the brain. The heart transmits to the brain which then transmits information to the other bodily systems through the central nervous system.
The heart is the electromagnetic core of the body with a capacity greater than that of the brain. Compared to the electro magnetic field produced by the brain, the electrical component of the hearts field is about 60 times greater in amplitude and permeates every cell of the body. The magnetic component is approximately 5000 times stronger than the brain’s magnetic field and is detectable several feet away from the body with sensitive magnetometers. (See research: HeartMath Institute). An organ of communication, the heart manages 75 trillion cells, over 60% of which are neural, providing a means of communication with the neural pathways of the brain. Energetic communication is constant between the heart and the brain, assisting emotional processing, sensory experience and memory. Research has shown that the heart is able to manage the intuitive process, overriding the logical processes of the brain. This is the reason we can choose to follow our heart or our head with very different outcomes through ‘free will’ choices, the eternal argument between the mind and the higher consciousness which is the journey of the soul.
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