An incredible amount of information is sent from your body to your brain. I forget the exact statistic, but substantially more information is sent to the brain from the body than vice-versa. We don’t know exactly what emotions are, or where they originate, but anyone with experience in mediation or somatic work, will be able to tell you that emotions arise and are stored in the body, not in the brain. Despite what others say in this thread, the reason people refer to the heart as a source of emotion is not because it “hurts” when you’re sad. There are countless emotions and sensations that originate in this area. By feeling into this space, one can be more in touch with their feelings and their intuition and connection with other humans. Think about when you’re in love, or you feel empathy, it’s usually in your heart space – not your head or your foot. Many many people are disconnected from their emotions or have low emotional intelligence, and thus they are not really skilled or capable of talking about the subject.
the heart has its own clump of neurons, a “little brain”.
the nervous system is a network throughout you entire body. While your brain is the biggest player it is not the only player. For example consider the phrase “muscle memory”.
Also consider what a reflex is if not your body instinctively reacting to an anticipated outcome faster than you can thin with your brain.
Memory is stored throughout your body not just your brain.
Consider reading Bessel Van Der Kolk M.D. “The body keeps the score”
A book about how trauma/PTSD/CPTSD works in the human body
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium_(antiquity)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium_(antiquity))
Depends on the theory you believe, I had always heard that Silphium was a very popular aphrodisiac in ancient roman era, and the seeds were heart shaped… things sorta got tied together. What is generally accepted is the modern heart shape was descendant from the Silphium seed shape.
Why no one has mentioned this is beyond me and not much of a secret
The heart contains its own set of neurons that communicate with the brain. Receivers of heart transplants have been known to have dramatic personality changes. The brain isn’t the entirety of conciousness or memory. Flat worms can be taught to resist stimuli then have their head and brain cut off regrow a new one and both newly grown flat worms have the same resistance to this stimuli .
https://phys.org/news/2013-07-flat-worms-retain-memories-decapitation.html
https://owlcation.com/stem/your-second-brain-is-in-your-heart
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Second Brain Found in the Heart and Gut Neurons
JULIETTE KANDO FI CHORJUN 27, 2022
Juliette Kando is a dancer, choreologist, author on fitness and health, and Fellow of the Benesh Institute at the Royal Academy of Dance.
Is it true that the heart has its own brain? A network of neurotransmitters in our heart and gut may meet the standards for brain activity.
Is it true that the heart has its own brain? A network of neurotransmitters in our heart and gut may meet the standards for brain activity.
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The Second Brain of the Body?
The idea of transplanted cellular memory emerged in 1920 in the film Les Mains d’Orleac. Now, a second brain in the heart and the gut is much more than an idea.
Prominent medical experts have discovered that many recipients of heart transplants are inheriting donors’ memories and subsequently reporting huge changes in their tastes, their personality, and, most extraordinarily, in their emotional memories.
Today, scientists are testing the theory that the heart and the gut are involved in our feelings. So, what have they discovered?
Case Studies Surrounding Heart Intelligence
Amazing new discoveries have revealed that the heart organ is intelligent. Sometimes our heart can lead the brain both in our interpretation of the external world as well as the actions we choose to take. A large number of case studies was enough to prompt scientists to examine the heart with a different lens. They began by testing old theories that claim that the heart is involved in our feelings, emotions, and premonitions.
Since cardiac surgeon Christian Barnard’s first successful human heart transplant in South Africa in 1967, heart transplant recipients have had some intriguing experiences. Some of these events were so strange that recipients sought to meet the families of their donors to find out what was happening to them.
The question was: Could the patients have inherited certain behavioral and character traits through cellular memories from the heart of their donors? The following anecdotes are only a few of the many cases reported as evidence of something extraordinary happening to heart transplant recipients:
A gentle, soft-spoken woman who never drank alcohol and hated football received a heart from a crashed biker donor and turned into an aggressive, beer-drinking football fan.
A 47-year-old Caucasian male received a heart from a 17-year-old African American male. The recipient was surprised by his newfound love of classical music. What he discovered later was that the donor, who loved classical music and played the violin, had died in a drive-by shooting, clutching his violin case to his chest. A man who could barely write suddenly developed a talent for poetry.
An eight-year-old girl who received the heart of a ten-year-old murdered girl had horrifying nightmares of a man murdering her donor. The dreams were so traumatic that psychiatric help was sought. The girl’s images were so specific that the psychiatrist and the mother notified the police. Using the most detailed and horrid descriptive memories provided by the little girl, the police gathered enough evidence to find the murderer, charge him, and get a conviction for rape and first-degree murder.
The connection between our hearts and our brains is deeper than we think.
The connection between our hearts and our brains is deeper than we think.
What Are Cellular Memories?
Science has attempted to explain why organ recipients are hosts to donors’ memories and emotions, also known as “cellular memories.” While a handful of scientists are skeptical and dismissing this strange phenomenon as post-surgery stress or reaction to anti-organ rejection drugs, there are also a growing number of experts who believe cellular memories are indeed transplanted from donor to recipient with organs.
Dr. Paul Pearsall, for instance, believes in the possibility of cellular memories being transferred to new owners by way of transplant procedures, due in part to his own bone marrow transplant in 1987. He analyzes this phenomenon and its larger implications for how we conceive of human consciousness in his book The Heart’s Code: Tapping the Wisdom and Power of Our Heart Energy.
The Little Brain in the Heart
Dr. Andrew Armour of the UCLA Neurocardiology Research Center discovered a sophisticated collection of neurons in the heart that organized into a small, complex nervous system. The heart’s nervous system contains around 40,000 neurons called sensory neurites that communicate with the brain. Dr. Armour dubbed this discovery as the “little brain in the heart.”
Memory is a distributive process which means you can’t localize it to a neuron or a group of neurons in the brain. The memory itself is distributed throughout the neural system
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