It's way more than just a pump

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Did you know that the heart can sense our emotional response to an event before it occurs? There is incredible intelligence embedded in the heart that influences our perception. The heart has a unique nervous system that is directly connected to the brain. It sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. Scientists call it the little brain, or the brain heart. It can act independently of the brain. It has long-term and short-term memory. Stress affects our heart rhythm, creating patterns of incoherence. In contrast, love, compassion, and gratitude create coherent and smooth patterns in the heart's beat.

When we perceive a threat, a danger, our body moves into the fight-or-flight response - an automatic, survival-driven process activated by the sympathetic nervous system. It floods the body with hormones like adrenaline, causing rapid physiological shifts—such as increased heart rate, tense muscles, and sharpened senses—to prepare to confront or flee a threat. It is a natural reaction, but when the stressor, the situation—a merely emotional response to a tight deadline for a project or an upset coworker—the response is the same as if we were fleeing a raging bear. So all this action has no release valve - all this energy has no way out, and the heart starts to beat in an incoherent, chaotic way. The heart beats differently when we are resentful, angry, judgmental, as opposed to when we experience love, joy and contentment.

The heart is the creative center—the seat of the soul—and with a coherent heart, a person relaxes, shifts from survival to calm breathing, and the heart and brain synchronize into a more ordered, creative state. 

"Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is."

~ Gary Zukav

The electromagnetic field generated by the heart is 60 times greater in amplitude than the one generated by the brain. It radiates several feet outward, and the quantum field responds to that signal, not your thoughts. The heart rhythm patterns are the best indicators of our internal state.

The HeartMath Institute in Boulder, Colorado, is a nonprofit research organization founded by Doc Childre in 1991, dedicated to studying heart-brain communication, resilience, and coherence to reduce stress. They promote HealthMath, which focuses on staying in the moment and self-regulation. We can take charge of our emotional diet (Neville Goddard). We can choose to feel good, feel love toward others, to feel gratitude and forgiveness. We were never taught about emotions - what they are, how they affect us. Most of our beliefs are passed down to us from parents and past generations. All of this gets programmed at an early age when we absorb everything like sponges. It is really unfortunate because when we are really young, our alignment with the heart intelligence is incredible. Through schooling, society, and limiting beliefs, we lose it all, only to try to reclaim it later in life.

When an electric current flows in the circuit, it generates a magnetic field. (measured with magnetometers). One of the qualities of a magnetic field is that it can go through things and can be registered at a distance. We can measure the heart's electromagnetic field a few feet from the body and detect someone's emotional state with about 75% accuracy, but to detect brain activity, you have to be within a fraction of an inch of the skull. It's the feelings that are reflected in the heart activity, not thoughts. When the heart's rhythm synchronizes, or becomes coherent, its effects on the brain are influential. Heart-brain synchronization underlines performance, no matter what the field. It helps to self-regulate the body. Anger, fear, and frustration desynchronize the system—negativity vs. positivity.

What we are feeling inside does not stop at the skin - it is broadcast all around us. We always had this communication system, the magnetic field of the body, which is picked up or detected by other people. Feeling compassion, kindness, forgiveness, and gratitude matters not only to us but to everyone else as well. We do have an effect.

"It's in the heart that people access the qualities of love, such as compassion, care, kindness, forgiveness and appreciation that lift us above separation, judgments, and blame."

~ Doc Lew Childre, the founder of the HeartMath Institute.

Here is an interesting fact: the magnetic field is composed of magnetic field lines, which vibrate. The Earth's magnetic field, or lines, extend far into space and vibrate (because of the solar wind) at a low frequency of 0.1 Hz, the same frequency we can measure in a coherent human heart. Not just close to 0.1 Hz... it is exactly the same number! We do have another frequency to look at - The Schumann Resonances - a weak electromagnetic standing wave and its harmonics formed in the spherical cavity between the surface of the Earth and Earth's ionosphere. First measured in the 1960s, their frequencies are 7.83 Hz (fundamental), 14.3, 20.8, 27.3, and 33.8 Hz. It is 7.83 Hz - the same frequency as the human brain. What is interesting is that our brains and hearts vibrate at the same frequencies as Earth's two primary resonant systems. The word resonant or resonance is the key - it means that there is an exchange of information between them. Between our hearts, brains and the Earth. Fascinating, isn't it? We are truly interconnected—all living systems—through the magnetic environment in which we live. So, how to achieve such a state? Through heart-focused breathing, inhale for 5 seconds, exhale for 5 seconds. Five plus five equals ten - 0.1 Hz. There is an app from the HeartMath Institute that gives you feedback. It is a part of their Global Coherence Initiative.

So, it seems that the heart "is more than just a pump." In his latest bestseller, The Heart Code, Dr. Bradley Nelson explores the idea that emotional "heart walls" can block love, healing, and personal growth, and offers a guided method for identifying and releasing those barriers. Of course, the concept of Heart Wall is present in all three modalities that I use. It is a protective barrier to keep us safe, using trapped emotions stemming from past hurt or even those passed down through generations. Over time, this protective shield grows thicker—but when the danger fades, it keeps love and connection out, leaving the heart longing to feel free again. Knowing how important it is to keep the heart connected, working in a coherent rhythm with the rest of the body as well as the people around you, book a Heart Wall Release Package and be one step closer to claiming the life you have been longing for.