Emotions

by Sonali Gangane

Title

Emotions

Artist

Sonali Gangane

Medium

Painting - Watercolor On Strathmore

Description

According to folk wisdom, the heart is the seat of intuition, love, creativity, wisdom, gratitude, faith and the like. The finest values and qualities are associated with the heart rather than the mind. How do we know this? We know it in our heart. But, is there a scientific basis for this intuitive knowledge?
The heart physically communicates with the brain and the rest of the body. The communication pathways, which originate in the heart, travel through the emotional memory section of the brain and go all the way to the top of the brain responsible for thinking and reasoning. The heart has a complex nervous system, with the capability to learn and remember. The pulse created by the heart is actually like a "blood pressure wave" that reaches and energizes every single cell of the body and brain. The heart also radiates powerful electromagnetic energy. It permeates every cell of the body including those of the brain. The electromagnetic signal from the heart is so powerful that it radiates beyond your skin, all around you, the 360-degree sphere, and as far as ten feet into the space around you. Nothing else in the body has such strong electromagnetic force. The heart is also a hormonal organ. Among other hormones, it produces one which is labeled by some as the "balancing hormone," because it contributes to the balancing of other hormones. This same hormone can facilitate the reduction or increase of stress hormones. The heart may also be responsible for the production of "Oxytocin," fondly referred to as the "love hormone." The love hormone plays an important part in our emotional and social development. For example, Oxytocin is in action when a mother feeds and tends her child. Compassion, caring, love, appreciation, gratitude, forgiveness and other behaviors that are the fabric of our family and society, may have a lot to do with how well the heart is functioning at the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.
So why am I telling you these esoteric and the scientific facts about the gut and the heart? So that you will have a little more appreciation of what you have, and so that you may become even more motivated to take care of this wonderful mind-body system of yours. Intelligence without involvement of the heart may be dangerous. Brain intelligence without involvement of the heart can be dangerous. There are indeed many heartless but very smart people in the world. The world is not going to benefit much from their short or long lives. Brain intelligence can produce a nuclear bomb but building in the safeguards and utilizing the energy for the good of the people is function of the heart.
Expressions such as, "Open your heart," or "My heart goes out to you," may be more than symbolic. Some people have habitually visualized their heart opening and reaching out to others. They report that they have become more calm, confident, compassionate and creative.
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The heart (♥) has long been used as a symbol to refer to the spiritual, emotional, moral, and in the past, also intellectual core of a human being. As the heart was once widely believed to be the seat of the human soul, the word heart continues to be used poetically to refer to the soul, and stylized depictions of hearts are used as prevalent symbols representing love and affection.
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Thanks for viewing.2013©Sonali T. Gangane

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January 23rd, 2013

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