Research into the idea of heart intelligence began accelerating in the second half of the 20th century. During the 1960s and ’70s pioneer physiologists John and Beatrice Lacey conducted research that showed the heart actually communicates with the brain in ways that greatly affect how we perceive and react to the world around us. In 1991, the year the Institute of HeartMath was established, pioneer neurocardiologist Dr. J. Andrew Armour introduced the term heart brain. He said the heart possessed a complex and intrinsic nervous system that is a brain. Today, more than a half century after the Laceys began their research, we know a great deal more about the heart: The heart sends us emotional and intuitive signals to help govern our lives. The heart directs and aligns many systems in the body so that they can function in harmony with one another. The heart is in constant communication with the brain. The heart’s intrinsic brain and nervous system relay information back to the brain in the cranium, creating a two-way communication system between heart and brain. The heart makes many of its own decisions. The heart starts beating in the unborn fetus before the brain has been formed, a process scientists call autorhythmic. Humans form an emotional brain long before a rational one, and a beating heart before either. The heart has its own independent complex nervous system known as the brain in the heart. heartmath.org/free-services/articles-of-the-heart/heart-intelligence.html#.VKalAXrPG4Y.facebook
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