Why the heart is smarter than the brain..

Why do miseries occur in our lives? Why do we suffer from the victim mindset? Is something weighing down on us? Is the world not liveable by our standards?

Our heart knows the answer to all these questions and only if we can change our current stream of such negative thoughts, we can generate the energy equivalent to co-creating a real masterpiece of our lives. This is called a heart-centered living and with little conscious effort, we can bring ourselves closer to it. The purpose here is to delve deeper into how we can increase our heart intelligence so we could achieve this state of a heart-centered life.

The meaning of Heart Intelligence:

It’s not difficult to discern the relationship of the word ‘intelligence’ with the word ‘brain’. From the early ages of human history, the popular belief, ‘our brain controls our physiology’ has been drilled into us. Although, it is a partial truth, it’s also true that our heart is an auto-rhythmic organ and the heartbeat is a self-initiated process and not controlled by the brain. No wonder why the heart starts beating in the unborn fetus before the brain has been formed.

According to Heart Math Institute (HMI), ‘the heart intelligence is the flow of awareness, understanding, and intuition we experience when the mind and emotions are brought into coherent alignment with the heart’.

The heart as we know it is not just a 1 pound muscular pump that provides oxygen-rich blood to our body but also, goes beyond this scientific realm and influences feelings and emotions. It’s a life-sustaining organ that guides decision-making ability as well as our understanding of ourselves. The moment we are connected to our heart, we can tap into its wisdom so we could make the higher guidance available to us. This helps us in elevating our feeling of love, compassion, joy, unity, acceptance, and gratitude.?

The effects of Heart Intelligence:

These elevated feelings often appear by chance and to maintain it throughout our busy schedules and fast-paced culture is quite a challenge at times. Once we experience the loss of this mental and emotional equilibrium, it creates serious consequences for our health.?

At the turn of the 20th century, hardly anyone died of heart disease, whereas it is the leading cause of death today. Each year, in India alone, the economic implication of heart disease is pegged at $2.25 trillion making it one of the greatest economic threats, according to The Economic Times.?

‘Stress is the main contributing factor to heart disease and it’s reaching an epidemic level’, maintains Mayo clinic. Periods of excessive stress have been associated with problems that increase heart disease risk.?

Regulating our stress level is a productive step to improve our overall health. Fortunately, researchers have found a remarkable antidote to stress in ‘heart coherence’. It’s a state when the heart, mind, and emotion are in energetic alignment & cooperation.?

The Heart-Brain Coherence:

When your heart experiences coherence, your nervous system increases the brain’s energy and creativity, which in turn, generates a positive influence on almost all organs of the body. At this moment, your heart and the brain are working together causing you to feel more whole, connected, and content. The wholeness you feel overrides other feelings of lack and want, thus weaving magic in your life. It causes you to no longer wait for something outside of you to provide relief from the internal feelings of lack and separation. Now you’re becoming more akin to your new ideal self.?

?How can I achieve this state:

Heart Math Institute (HMI) has provided the following easy steps for activating your heart center and bringing your heart into quick coherence. Use this technique after a stressful situation to reset and reconnect with your heart to better manage the effects of heart and to build resilience:

1.???Observe what you are feeling?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

2.???Bring your attention and awareness to your heart, to the center of your chest

3.???Breathe a little slower and deeper than usual, in a comfortable rhythm

4.???Feel love or appreciation for a person, a pet, a moment, an achievement or just breathe in an attitude of love and gratitude

5.???Practice maintaining your new feeling for as long as possible

If you continue to activate your heart center every day, you’ll unleash the creative power to design your future and also, help humanity move forward. After all, isn’t making choices for the greatest good of everyone, quintessential to us as human beings?