If you were to ask someone to point to the area, on the body, where their consciousness is located and decisions made, they’d point to the head. But, if you were to ask the indigenous people from centuries past they would respond by pointing to their hearts. They understood the heart’s ability to intelligently perceive and discern the world around them. They also understood the limitations of living in a way that had them relying primarily on the mind.
They went beyond the thoughts in their heads and used their heart as an organ to perceive and connect with the energy fields of other things such as human beings, animals and nature. By doing that they were able to fully connect themselves with the deeper meanings embodying their thoughts.
People don’t do this today and haven’t for a long time. In fact it seems trivial and “out of character to not think with the mind”. Perhaps because to not think with your mind, is now a stigma of being stupid and not using one’s head. However, when a person breathes in the essence of another energy using their heart field, a subtle or major shift occurs within them, that forever changes them. The ancient Greeks referred to this kind of silent, invisible heart-based communication as aesthesis, which means “to breathe in.”
THE HEART CONTROLS THE BRAIN
So, here’s a bit of science, although we’ve been taught that the heart responds to orders from the brain, sent in the form of neural networks, the truth is that the heart actually sends more orders to the brain via neural signals than the brain does to the heart. Maybe we should call the heart the “heart brain”. But in science the brain is called the “cranial brain.” Neural signals sent to the cranial brain from the heart significantly impacts brain function and affects emotional and cognitive processes such as attention, perception, memory, and problem solving.
Literally, when the heart experiences different activity, like speeding up, slowing down, palpitating, and so forth, it has different effects on the brain. For example: when the rhythmic patterns of heart activity is unstable, because of stress or having negative feelings, there are signals that go from the heart to the brain that stop or slows down reasoning and thinking abilities. As a result, it’s easy to act impulsively and make poor decisions in stressful situations. On the other hand when the heart has consistent rhythmic activity during pleasant situations or from good/positive feelings the signals sent from the heart to the brain improves cognitive functions and creates mental stability. So, making an effort to manifest a life that evokes positive feelings can greatly increase cognitive thinking and reasoning abilities, along with feeling great emotionally.
THE HEART RESPONDS TO STIMULUS BEFORE IT HAPPENS
One study found that the heart receives and reacts to stimulus before it even happens. It actually starts responding to the incoming information before the brain even has a chance to process it. That’s known as a “body premonition.” Basically the heart is an organ of perception and it’s a lot wiser than trying to isolate the brain as the primary center of perception and consciousness.
ENERGY AND THE HEART
The heart, which holds the title as the organ with the most powerful electromagnetic energy field in the body, can sense the heart of another individual up to ten feet away. Since the brain is highly sensitive to the reactions of the heart, it is able to pick up this kind of electromagnetic “heart sensing” and essentially shift the brain waves of another person and synchronize their brainwaves with the other person’s. 
I’m sure you’ve met someone for the first time you felt uncomfortable with; and it seemed to be for no reason. Whether it was sadness, anger, anxiety, or any other uneasy feeling – you just didn’t want to have a deeper connection with them. Just as you may not know why you felt that way around them, especially when they said all the right words and appeared to be “socially acceptable”, you may not pick up on the fact that it’s occurring because of the other person’s energy and that, in reality, it’s not personal at all. It’s the electromagnetism of the heart that shapes your relationships, guiding you by what seems to be an effortless gravitation to connect with the heart fields of some people, who become your friends or romantic partners, and that keeps you away from other people whose heart energies clash with yours.
Sensing energy with your heart also happens with places, objects, animals and all types of energy. For example, when you go to a restaurant and the hostess tells you that you can sit wherever you desire, you don’t choose just any old table. You’re more likely to observe the room, check out the different seating options, even if each one is just O.K. and then you choose a table. But why did you choose that table? It looks the same as all of the other identical tables. Sure, there were some factors in choosing; like noise; wanting to sit by a window; not wanting to be near the kitchen, etc. But ultimately, you chose that table because you were drawn to it, or not. You’re able to discern with your heart what doesn’t “feel” as good as somewhere else in the room. It’s not often, if ever, that you ask or wonder why you intuitively made the decision to sit where you did.
THINK WITH YOUR HEART, FEEL WITH YOUR BRAIN
Considering the heart’s ability to pick up the energies of people, places, and things, and intuitively decipher what feels “right” and what for some reason doesn’t “feel right,” along with the brain’s sensitivity in detecting even the subtlest changes in the heart’s energy field, and its ability to alter its own rhythmic patterns in response, and to then change our brain waves, thought patterns, and other energies, you can understand why I say it’s important to “think with your heart and feel with your brain.” You’ve been programed to believe that following your heart will hurt you, and to have it be too vulnerable is a mistake. The messages you’ve gotten are, “protect your heart at all cost, use your head and think about what you’re doing!” But that way of living, placing consciousness solely in the mind, as the only intelligent organ of perception in your body is misguided. To place thoughts over feelings when making decisions in life, especially big decisions, can be dangerous – not in the way society defines danger, but by the way the spirit defines danger, as confining any part of your true essence within, which is in many ways a waking death.
THE HEART AND BRAIN IN SINK
Learning to tune into the subtle shifts in energy and distinguish where they come from, and learning the difference between “me” and “not me” in order to be able to tell if the negativity you’re feeling is your own or someone else’s, helps prevent the overwhelming lower vibration energies that occur when you’re susceptible to picking up other people’s energy and taking it on as your own. Making a mental effort to silence thoughts and listen to your feelings, and to notice how feelings change when the people or things surrounding you are shifted, allows mental consciousness and heart consciousness to work productively together without one dominating the other.
Using the heart, the brain can distinguish what it really wants from what it was conditioned to want, but has no deep passion for it. Nevertheless, the heart may tune into the brain and feel its thoughts combining both organs of perception. Playing with how different thoughts make you feel, without attaching more thoughts or stories to those feelings, and letting them sit there while you consciously acknowledge they are there, is also critical for finding balance in working with both organs of perception. By listening to how the heart feels without adding mental thoughts and stories to those feelings, you can then choose to place your thoughts towards what feels more right to you when making decisions. In this way you would be experiencing Heart Consciousness… Your Navigational Center for Living!
Lynne Herod-DeVerges, founder Center of Light Miracles
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