The Heart’s Electromagnetic Field Is Your Superpower

“The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed.”

It is the word of Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, which I read out of necessity, without savoring it during my college years. It is time to discover the hidden treasures of our hearts.

This post is about the power of the heart. The power of the heart stems from its electromagnetic field and this field gives us Super Powers😊 First let’s see what the heart does scientifically, then you will realize that it’s time to take care of your heart “with your heart” 😊

Biofield Science

Biofield science studies the human electromagnetic field and its interaction with the environmental electromagnetic energy from the earth and other living creatures. One of the most important discoveries in this field highlights the importance of the heart in regulating and maintaining the body’s electromagnetic rhythm. The electromagnetic activity of the heart produces the most powerful and consistent energy patterns of the body. In this way, the heart becomes the center of a network that encodes and connects electromagnetic fields and conveys information throughout the body.

The magnetic field of hearth is 5000 times stronger than that of the brain. Electromagnetic signals travel from the heart to the brain almost instantaneously allowing for exceedingly rapid responses that help regulate brain physiology. Thus, the heart, which becomes the center of cognitive and emotional data, enables extremely rapid reactions.

The heart’s magnetic field is perceived by every cell in the body, in addition it reaches about one meter outside the physical body and can be detected in another person sitting nearby via an electrocardiogram (ECG). Can you bring to mind someone who, without even speaking a word, makes you feel light just by being in their presence? Have you ever been told, “you have such a positive energy about you?” The potential of how far our heart’s electromagnetic energy field can reach continues to be studied as technology plays catch-up.

When other people and animals receive this energetic information, a phenomenon known as “frequency locking” occurs in which the cardiac energy of one person becomes synchronized with the brain activity of a nearby person. Additionally, our bodies act as receivers of electromagnetic energy from our surroundings. In other words, we are the receiving all energy fields, from the electromagnetic energy created by the molten iron in the earth’s core to the electromagnetic fields of wired and wireless devices.

I would like to share with you some comments from past to present about the energy field and functions of the heart:

• Originally trained as a geologist, Gregg Braden explores the intersection of science and spirituality from the perspective of a trained scientist. He speaks of the heart/brain union, saying, “Our brain receives many of its instructions on what to do from the heart. Studies show that the heart is able to think, feel, and have emotions on its own.”
• Aristotle considered the heart as the center of reason, thought, and emotion, senior to the brain in importance.
• 9th century Arabic philosopher Abu Nasr al-Farabi believed that, “The ruling organ in the human body is the heart; the brain is a secondary ruling organ subordinated to the heart.”
• Auguste Comte, a 19th century French philosopher declared that the brain should be servant to the heart.
• 12th century Christian mystic, Hildegard of Bingen, would agree. She wrote, “The soul sits at the center of the heart, as though in a house.”

Dr Rollin McCraty Ph.d., research director at the HeartMath Institute, a pioneering research center in California that conducts scientific studies for the discovery of heart coherence and its health benefits, said that the common consciousness in all religions is that the heart is the center of wisdom. So that he has summarized this common denominator in one sentence, where all different views and movements from the past to the present meet.

So how do we experience the wisdom of the heart in real life?

The Heart “Knows” The Emotional Future Beforehand

When we anticipate the events, we say “I had sense that will happen”, now we will learn how we sense it. 😊

Studies have shown that intense anger is damaging to the heart — intense grief as well. Statistically, we are 20 times more likely to have a heart attack after the death of a loved one.

Positive emotions like joy and contentment are accompanied by coherent heart rhythms. Happiness is good for the heart. We don’t think of the heart as being capable of producing hormones like the endocrine system, but oxytocin, called the “love” hormone, is manufactured in the heart.

In an article published in the Journal of “Alternative and Complementary Medicine” in 2004, Dr McCraty declared that the heart “knows” the emotional future with a mind-blowing series of experiments.

That is, the heart can precognitively sense the emotional ‘texture’ of imminent events and react to this information before we actually experience the event and thus feel any significant emotion. In short, your heart perceives intuitively and then transmits this information to the brain, preparing you for a reaction. I know this is hard to believe, so let me briefly explain the experiments.

Each of the participants sits in front of a computer flashing randomly selected pictures. There were two types of pictures: those with neutral emotional content (such as a basket of fruit or a landscape) and those with heightened emotional content (such as erotic scenes or images of gruesome car crashes or autopsies).

The participants were hooked up to equipment that monitored their heart beat, skin conductivity, brain-wave patterns, and other measures of nervous system and organ function. Baseline measures of these physiological parameters were taken. The participants did not do anything but sit and watch the computer screen, on which were flashed a series of pictures, spaced six seconds apart, with blank spans in between. The pictures were chosen at random by the computer.

When the session was over, researchers had a record of which pictures were shown and in what order and the recordings of the participants’ internal bodily responses during the session. What they discovered when they processed their data from the experiments was entirely unexpected.

The participants’ hearts (and their other bodily responses) responded in a way that correlated with the emotional effect of the pictures (arousal for the emotionally charged pictures or calm base-line measures for the emotionally neutral ones). This was normal and expected.

What was astounding was that their hearts responded seconds before their brains did!

In fact the heart was the first part of their physiology to react to the stimulus. It sent input to the brain, instead of vice versa, which goes against the standard biological model that the brain is the command centre of the body.

What was truly mind-boggling was that the heart responded (according to the monitoring equipment) even before a picture flashed on the computer screen. It appeared to know what was coming—it displayed what is called ‘precognition’. If the picture that was going to display, but hadn’t yet, was one of the gruesome ones, the heart showed an arousal response, and sent preparatory information to the brain so that the rest of the body could get ready as well. Sometimes this happened up to 6 seconds before the picture flashed on the screen!

Dr McCraty summarised his findings as follows:

“Of greatest significance here is our major finding: namely… evidence that the heart is directly involved with the processing of information about a future emotional stimulus seconds before the body actually experiences the stimulus… What is truly surprising about the result is the fact that the heart appears to play a direct role in the perception of future events, at the very least it implies that the brain does not act alone in this regard.”

This series of experiments offers profound implications for how our bodies work and how we connect with the outside world. At the very least, we can see how we react subconsciously before we consciously respond to influences, and that our hearts play an important role in our emotional lives.

Now that we know that the heart plays a direct role in perceiving future events, at least we know that the brain does not act alone in this regard.”

Studies such as this one may help explain all those metaphors and aphorisms about our heart and emotions:

‘It breaks my heart’.

‘Listen to your heart’. ‘Follow your heart’.

When we act from our heart centre we may be following the wisdom of our bodies. At a minimum, we are able to gain a different perspective on people, events and perceptions.

“Sometimes The Hearth sees what is invisible to The Eyes.” H. Jackson Brown

My next post will be on Heart-Brain Consistency. We will examine together what we can do for this.

With Love…