Why, if the brain is the seat of logic, reason and emotion, when you're hurt does it feel like your heart's been ripped out?
I can see why the Ancient Egyptian's believed that the heart was the seat of power for the body and the brain was simpley a pulp that filled a rather large cavity. I actualy agree that, for some people, this is very much the case. But I also wonder why heartache feels like that.
I have had times when I've been so emotionaly overwhelmed it feels there's a hole in the centre of my chest...I don't really know how to explain it but I think we've all felt it. It's this huge crater where something is supposed to be beating.
I wonder if it's simply a psychosymatic reaction to extereme emotional destress or wether it actualy has a biological basis set aside from the conditioning. I believe we are condition to see the heart as the seat of emotion even if it's not in a true, biological sense.
The amount of time's we use the word heart in relation to emotion is staggering "My heart's desire", "my heart's content", "the heart of me", "wearing your heart on your sleave". Where does this coome from if we know the heart is simply a muscel that pumps blood around the body? Are we really that bound up with our hearts?
Maybe it does come from a more ancient understanding of the body. Like old wives tales, years of recieved wisdom isn't going to change over night. Anyway I like this idea of something "coming from the heart" to me it makes us more than simply bio-automatons, it's not just the "great brain with out a heart"that makes us human, it's every part of us how ever ignorant that part is of what function it fullfills with in us.
And so, dear hearts, I leave you with a kiss and my hearts most secret desire.
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3 comments:
I find myself wondering whether emotions are visceral or cerebral; we have such different ways of responding to situations. To some extent I feel that the brain is simply an interpreter of the various sensations and stimuli that the flesh is heir too.
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First thanks very much for the encouragement. :D
I totaly agree with what you say about interpritation...It's a highly phylosophical idea isn't it?
Emotional responses I find are dependant on your current state of being. As a healer I have learned that it is often an emotional hurt which presents itself in a physical form. Oftentimes, tackling the emotional damage can repair the physical as a secondary issue. I have found that the heart is the first place to become shut down, and closed in the event of an emotional trauma. To release the heart from this blocked state can often bring healing to the mind body and soul. It is an instinct with people who are spiritually aware to protect themselves from emotional/spiritual damage and therefore easy to block the heart without meaning to. I think people who are not spiritually aware often become hardened and cold through the same blockage, but have no means of recognising it or indeed any way to tackle it. My brain doesnt function very well anyway, as we all know! So I tend to rely very much on emotional response and interpretation. What I feel, perceive or get told by a greater power is usually a far better thing to rely on than my brain! Personally, that empty, dark and drained feeling which comes over me in and around my heart when I am emotionally damaged or under attack, usually means that I have blocked my heart to amy further damage, therfore creating the emptiness feeling. I find it really hard to release that and often have to enlist the help of one or other of my healer friends. Meditaion is a good release aid. one can induce a state of calm and healing for oneself through focussed meditation and directed prayer. Usually it releases in a great wave of power and tears and suddenly I can feel things again. I'm not certain how the brain became known as the centre of our being? As spiritual beings the centre of our world should be our spiritual selves not our logical physical selves. Logic is only dictated by the amount of aquired information we have used to come to any given conclusion. I usually find that the most illogical answer to something is the right one. Because I arrive at the answer by discernment, prayer and the gift of sight. Maybe if we used our brains to full capacity we might have a chance of relying on them for the right answers. My brain is definately a lump of pulp filling a cavity!!!!!
I send you kisses back La xxxxxx
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