Do you let your intuition guide you? The heart is not merely a biological organ but a center of intuitive wisdom and emotional insight. Especially when it works in harmony with the brain and body. In the womb your heart started beating even before your brain began forming. Your heart has an electromagnetic field that can be detected across the room. It also has neurological synapses like your brain. Tuning into the intuitive wisdom of your heart is so important and here’s why.
Feeling the Frequency of Love
Being in harmonic resonance with your heart, mind, body, and surroundings is essential to health and well-being. There is a lot of chaos in the world so it is important to have filters. Yet we spend a lot of time tuning out the discord around us. So every day it is important to make a conscious effort to experience feeling connected within to stay balanced.
The heart plays a critical role in processing emotions, influencing decision-making, and fostering resilience and well-being. Empathy and emotional connection are transmitted through the hearts electromagnetic field. This is associated with authentic leadership and decision-making rooted in care for others. Heart intelligence emphasizes the synthesis of logic, emotion, and intuition for balanced decision-making.
When in tune with heart intelligence, individuals often report a greater sense of clarity, purpose, and emotional presence. Slow, deep breaths while focusing attention on the heart can induce coherence and calm. These ideas are supported by fields like neurocardiology and emotional intelligence research.
The New Frontier of Heart Research
There is an inherent wisdom in feelings and they are now being recognized as a form of intelligence. The heart is actually part of our cognitive system. It sends more messages to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. Electrically, the heart is 40 – 60 times stronger than the brain. Our heart is many more times stronger than any other electrical impulse in the body.
“The sciences of psychology and medicine are in the midst of a major paradigm shift as research findings have uncovered that the heart is a sensory organ that can learn, hold memory and make independent functional decisions. Even more surprising is the fact that the heart displays qualities of neuroplasticity, and that it can reorganize itself by growing new neural connections, just as the brain can do.” – Applied Consciousness International
Understanding Heart Intelligence
The leader in the field of heart science is Heartmath. They have created practical applications to this research that are helping individuals thrive. Heart coherence has a profound effect on personal relationships and productivity in the workplace. It can reduce stress, increase optimism and enhance problem-solving abilities.
“By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior.” –Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath
We all know what it feels like to do something we really don’t want to do. It can be taxes, a job we don’t like, or acting out of integrity with our own beliefs. Naturally this creates discordance and stress internally. When we block out these uncomfortable feelings we become unconscious of what is happening in our own body.
Yet our body feels and reacts to this stimuli internally even if we have tuned it out. There is no way for us to receive the intelligence within if we are unconscious of what’s happening inside.
Finding Coherence Within Ourselves
The efficient, optimal, and harmonious functioning of the various systems within the body is known as coherence. You can achieve this state of consciousness just by slowing down, feeling your breath and tuning your awareness inward. There are many practices that we can use to restore a deep sense of balance, health, and well-being. This is how we tap into our deeper intuition and create a sense of inner knowing and wisdom.
HeartMath has a very simple and effective exercise called Freeze-Frame to help us develop greater coherence. It is a one-minute technique that allows a major shift in perception. It’s more than just positive thinking. This practice creates a definitive, heartfelt shift in how we view a situation, an individual or ourselves. PBS Body and Soul has a practice for you to try the next time you are under stress:
- Shift out of the head, and focus on the area around your heart.
- Keep your attention there for at least ten seconds.
- Continue to breathe normally.
- Recall a positive time or feeling you had in your life and attempt to re-experience it.
- Remember, try not simply to visualize it, but rather to feel it fully.
- Ask a question from the heart: “What can I do in this situation to make it different?” or “What can I do to minimize stress?”
- Listen to the response of your heart.
Redefining Intelligence
Heart intelligence serves as a bridge between logic and emotion. It helps individuals make choices that are both rational and aligned with their values. By fostering this connection, people can experience greater emotional resilience, deeper relationships, and a more authentic way of living. It reminds us that intelligence is not just about thinking—it’s also about feeling and connecting.
Additional Resources
- “Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart” by Doc Childre, Howard Martin, Deborah Rozman, and Rollin McCraty
- This book delves into the emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of heart intelligence, with insights from leading researchers.
- “The Biology of Belief” by Bruce H. Lipton
- This book focuses on cellular biology and the power of thought. It also touches on the heart-mind connection and its role in shaping perceptions and outcomes.
- “The Intuitive Heart: How to Trust Your Intuition for Clarity and Peace of Mind” by Henry Reed
- A practical exploration of cultivating intuition, with a focus on connecting with the heart.
- “Your Heart’s Code” by Paul Pearsall
- This book explores the heart’s role in memory, emotions, and intuition, with personal stories and scientific findings.
Hopefully this short blog will help send you on your way to increasing heart coherence within your system. The first step in healing the discord in the world is to heal it within ourselves. Listening to your heart will undo stress and overwhelm allowing you to transition to a more coherent, peaceful world.
