if emotions are controlled by brain and heart only pumps blood then why we feel a strange pain or discomfort in heart when we are sad or worried?
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It’s your Vagus nerve. Sits in your upper torso and controls a bunch of bodily functions. Itdoesn’t respond very happily to adrenaline or negative emotion, and will make your stomach twist and gives you chest pain.
Emotions are controlled by the brain, but so is the heart. Different emotions cause different hormone responses and physical reactions, like certain muscles tensing and heart rate fluctuations. Those secondary responses are what cause the discomfort you’re talking about.
Stress and anxiety can cause the pain aswell .
Feeling like Angina as it goes diagonal across the chest . Like a sharpness deep inside .
Breathing and relaxing helps ..and dealing with whatever could be causing it ..
All organs have their own neuron systems which governs them. However brain can send overriding signals. When you worry brain starts to send conflicting sygnals paired with conflicting hormon release. That cause slight missfunction as heart trues to beat slover and faster in same time.
Such thing are nit exclusive to heart. Intestines might misbehave greatly and cause severe diarrhea or nausea.
its called interoception. It’s the coolest part about continuing to meditate and no one talks about it for some reason.
It’s our literal 6th sense, but somehow the branding got hijacked by the new age community
The heart and gut both have their own little clump of neurons. We have a vague understanding of how they respond and react, but we don’t know the full extent of what they do
The human heart has a large number of neurons/nerves so that it can function as a partial second brain that is connected to the emotional centers of our brain.
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