We are all a little piece of God. God lives within all of us. Ever get a gut feeling? That was a whisper from God. You don't have to have
religion to find God, just an open mind and an open heart. I found organized religion to be an impediment to me, they each have their own perspective
on the truth but most require strict adherence to that perspective.
After extensive research, Armour (1994) introduced the concept of functional ‘heart brain’. His work revealed that the heart has a complex
intrinsic nervous system that is sufficiently sophisticated to qualify as a ‘little brain’ in its own right. The heart’s brain is an intricate
network of several types of neurons, neurotransmitters, proteins and support cells similar to those found in the brain proper. Its elaborate circuitry
enables it to act independently of the cranial brain – to learn, remember, and even feel and sense. The heart’s nervous system contains around
40,000 neurons, called sensory neurites (Armour, 1991). Information from the heart - including feeling sensations - is sent to the brain through
several afferents. These afferent nerve pathways enter the brain at the area of the medulla, and cascade up into the higher centres of the brain,
where they may influence perception, decision making and other cognitive processes (Armour, 2004).
Thus, it was revealed that the heart has its own intrinsic nervous system that operates and processes information independently of the brain or
nervous system. This is what allows a heart transplant to work. Normally, the heart communicates with the brain via nerve fibres running through the
vagus nerve and the spinal column. In a heart transplant, these nerve connections do not reconnect for an extended period of time; in the meantime,
the transplanted heart is able to function in its new host only through the capacity of its intact, intrinsic nervous system (Murphy, et al, 2000)
Research has also revealed that the heart communicates information to the brain and throughout the body via electromagnetic field interactions. The
heart generates the body’s most powerful and most extensive rhythmic electromagnetic field. The heart’s magnetic component is about 500 times
stronger than the brain’s magnetic field and can be detected several feet away from the body. It was proposed that, this heart field acts as a
carrier wave for information that provides a global synchronizing signal for the entire body (McCraty, Bradley & Tomasino, 2004)
Data indicate that when heart rhythm patterns are coherent, the neural information sent to the brain facilitates cortical function. This effect is
often experienced as heightened mental clarity, improved decision making and increased creativity. Additionally, coherent input from the heart tends
to facilitate the experience of positive feeling states. This may explain why most people associate love and other positive feelings with the heart
and why many people actually feel or sense these emotions in the area of the heart. So, the heart seems to be intimately involved in the generation of
psychophysiological coherence (Tille et al, 1996, & McCraty, 2000).
There is now evidence that a subtle yet influential electromagnetic or ‘energetic’ communication system operates just below our conscious
awareness. Energetic interactions possibly contribute to the ‘magnetic’ attractions or repulsions that occur between individuals, and also affect
social relationships. It was also found that one person’s brain waves can synchronize to another person’s heart (McCraty, 2004).
A very interesting research finding has been that the heart is involved in the processing and decoding of intuitive information (McCraty, Atkinson &
Bradley, 2004). Previous data suggests that the heart’s field was directly involved in intuitive perception, through its coupling to an energetic
information field outside the boundoutside the bounds of space and time (Childre & McCraty, 2001). Using a rigorous experimental design; there was
evidence that both the heart and brain receive and respond to information about a future event before the event actually happens. Even more surprising
was that the heart appeared to receive this intuitive information before the brain (McCraty, Atkinson & Bradley, 2004).