The heart is the single biggest producer of electromagnetic energy (EM) in the body. It produces fields of energy more than 50 times larger than those of the brain, and the hearts’ EM fields can be picked up anywhere on the body surface, even up to 12 feet away. Energy and information from the heart is transmitted to every cell in the body and allows the heart to encode messages and influence distant cell function.

More remarkable, however, is that the heart is the only organ that has the ability to influence the brain through hard neural pathways, so that information signals from the heart can directly affect the function of the brain in the cranium. This gives the heart unique status in the hierarchy of control within the system and confers upon it a brain of its’ own.

The heart itself is thought to be comprised of more than 50% neural cells like those in the brain, and many of the neurotransmitters, special proteins that carry messages and information in the body, that operate in the brain are also found in the heart ganglia. While there are many fascinating scientific insights emerging, the bottom line here is that the heart can control the head, and the emotions that you think of as ‘heart felt’ are influencing your neural control centers whether you are aware of it or not.

There is so much interconnectedness of the heart and brain that a new science of ‘Neurocardiology’ has recently emerged. Research in this field shows that, when the fields of the heart and brain entrain, they develop a synchronous, resonant and coherent wave pattern. When you feel positive love and gratitude in the heart, brain waves and heart beats show a beautiful smooth pattern, and when anger and frustration dominate the opposite is true, with jagged, chaotic incoherent wave forms present. Smooth coherent waves relate to good health, as unsmooth incoherent waves relate to stress and dysfunction.