Think With Your Heart

I am very much sure that each of you have heard the above phrase some or the other time. It’s one of those widely used phrases by all religious and spiritual guys. It’s one of those powerful lines by which you can make most people yield to what you want them to believe.

Very recently I was wondering what the phrase “Think/Listen” with your heart actually means. Does it mean that we have to think with our heart rather than our brain? Can we also think from our heart ? Why that the nature molded you to think with two organs than one?

Being of the non-believer persuasion, I usually think and accept the facts with proofs.

It made me to investigate further on the power house of all beings "The heart". And my study pointed me out that heart functionality limits only to the pumping of the blood and nothing more. It’s very clear from the study that heart does not have the functionality of thinking or making decisions that part is only left only with the brain.

But there are few case studies which points out that there exist few neurons around heart as in brain which they claim to have the individual thinking capability because of which we experience discomfort and heaviness in the heart when we are emotional. But when clearly observed we can know that these neurons exists for different functionality than thinking and the discomfort is because of secretion of certain hormones when we are emotional which affects the functionality of heart.

I somehow strongly believe that emotions are the root cause of all sufferings. Basically we need to understand human body at the root and may be that what they meant by saying "man has no way to go than inwards".

As for my understanding goes, feelings are the response of our body to fear, anxiety or pleasure. Feelings are nothing but physical reactions. Emotion is the response in our mind to those physical events. Emotion is how we interpret those physical feelings based on the conditioning of our mind.

When I feel fear, certain chemicals are released by my brain. These increase the blood flow in my body, which makes me sweat and increase my heart rate. I may feel stressed and certain muscle groups may start to tighten. All of these are preparing me to run from that which I fear.

When I experience pleasure I feel light and almost ready to float away. My heart rate slows compared to when I am afraid. I feel no muscular stress and my muscles are felt relaxed and this is the state that we all feel to be in all the time.

I personally feel that being aware of one's feelings requires understanding of the nature of our body and mind functioning. It requires that you become aware of your physical reactions, the feelings in your body.

There exists nothing spiritual, religious or anything for that matter, all that is there is physical and it cannot be denied by anyone.