Relations is selection of hearts

The heart is the seat and house of the soul and Supreme Soul (Paramatma).Because of the Lord’s love for the soul (His child), He accompanies him in the material life until he returns to the spiritual world, his original and eternal home. When the Heart is purified of all the material contaminations, then the soul develops his lost love for his Supreme Lord. Whenever any emotion comes to you, heart seems to respond first by beating faster. Don't we see people exclaiming by keeping a hand over chest! Same with love. Heart is the first one who lets you know about love, though we think with brain. Heart is the friend who initiates love, who stays during love and this poor fellow gets damaged the most, when love ends.

What does heart do in love Physiologically? Nothing. The heart doesn’t control anything physically regarding feeling of love. Your brain might modify your heart rate based on the feelings of love you are experiencing that's all. But Philosophically? of course Everything. The heart has been historically associated with love. Being the organ that moves your blood around, that gives you life, arguably one of the most important organs in your body, the heart became synonymous with life and, by consequence with love. Because love is life, and life is love.

We have 3 inputs per se to how we feel. #1 Our Brain #2 Our Gut #3 Our Gut Heart. Our gut heart sends our signals of love in a literal and figurative sense. Just as we get “gut feelings" that literally come from our gut. While on a seminar for a new supplement 3 brains, I met an ER doctor who had a patient who committed suicide by gun shot to the brain. The brain had no function but the patient spoke for several minutes after. It was later understood he was speaking emotions from his gut heart. Research is developing quickly on how our gut and our gut heart relay signals to our body.

Even during a stroke there is no pain, because the brain has no pain fibers - all the pain fibers are outside the brain tissue. The brain senses pain, but assigns it to a body location. We feel with our hearts - emotional changes are communicated through heart, belly, and eyes. Our heart thumps, races and bumps, our chest aches and burns, our abdomen (stomach/intestines) ache and emit air, and then there are tears and facial flushing/heat, dry mouth and hard to swallow. These parts of our bodies speak and communicate our feelings.The brain does all the thinking and controls the language of speech.

The heart is deep with love and heavy with loss and light with happiness. Emotional shock and deep emotional grief and loss is felt thru the heart and even causes serious heart events: arrhythmias, heart attacks, and stress induced changes in heart function. That’s because the “heart” when talking about emotions doesn’t refer to the physical heart. The word “heart” itself means the center or source of something, and the organ in our chests that pumps blood to the rest of the body is called the heart because it is the center of our circulation.

In terms of emotions, the word “heart” refers to the center of all our emotions and thoughts, which would be our consciousness and subconsciousness. In other words, the brain. We unknowingly refer to our brains, but they are the heart of sentience and emotions and that would include love as well. Our entire conscience is housed in the brain. So it is rather fitting to call it the heart in terms of emotions and love.

History also has something to do with it. Before our knowledge of neurology, the heart was thought to be the center of everything, and people probably thought the heart was where love came from because of this feeling that comes from the chest when you’re in love with someone. Also the heart rate rises when in love or infatuated, so that may have had something to do with it. But today, when people refer to the heart, they refer to the center of our conscience. By doing so, they would refer to the brain even though they are unaware that they do so.

If you’re talking about why the heart shape is associated with love, I’m not too sure about that. It could be a reference to how the heart reacts when in love, and the feeling in the chest people get when in love. Instead of using the uglier physical heart however, the more pretty-looking heart shape came to be used instead. This is only my take for it though; I don’t know the exact reason. It’s believed that heart is the center of life and mortality. Science wasn’t every advanced earlier and you couldn’t see the functions and the processes of the brain like you could feel the heart. So, our ancestors or the Ancient Greeks/Egyptians believed that heart is the epitome of love. Also, scientifically speaking, when you get excited, your heart starts beating faster, heart rate increases and decreases the blood flow throughout the body. So, it’s quite apparent why heart organ represents love.

Your heart thrashes wildly in your chest when he walks in the room. It flutters, the blood singing in your veins. You take a deep breath to calm it, but you know it can't be tamed. Your heart is drumming so loudly in your ears, it's a miracle you can hear his footfalls as he makes his way towards you. But then, right when he has come near you, close enough to touch you, he turns and walks away. Your heart clenches, writhing in pain. You can feel it sinking, as if it has been dropped from a five storey building, the impact crushing it into smithereens. The sensation dulls, and your blood is no longer singing. You are numb, and now your heart aches. Tell me: what hasn't the heart got to do with love? Cheers!