In the pure heart there is no doubt, no seed of uncertainty.
The heart's faith is based on knowledge, not hope or blind belief.
The heart responds to things. It is responsible though totally free.
The heart expects everything but nothing in particular.
The heart realizes that what it needs and what it wants is not always the same.
The heart is in touch with the true power of the primordial imagination.
The true heart is happy to just be what it is. It does not need to be more than it is.
The heart is the only thing strong enough to cut through the all the garbage of the mind.
The heart is ruthless with itself, the head mind is ruthless with others.
The Pump
There are many things to eventually understand about this mysterious organ we call the heart. Many things beyond the physical manifestations of that pump organ that beats 110,000 times a day and puts out a strong electromagnetic field.
Modern psychology has turned a blind eye to the essence organ of human life, human love, and human intelligence. The entire conceptual framework of mental health is a reflection of the unconscious repression of the universe of the heart. Psychology's overemphasis on cognition has its roots in Skinners behaviorism which rules out all inner life, all emotions and feelings. This has impoverished the whole thrust of modern psychology and created a red herring that it is still suffering from. It has left psychology without much heart. But we now know that "there can be no mental health without HeartHealth!" It is funny that psychology in general still has not discovered that the mind can be probed, analyzed, supported, confronted, and nourished during incredibly long stints of therapy and still the more basic issues of the heart remain untreated.
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The heart represents our basic capacity to feel. The head the capacity to think. Books like Emotional Intelligence highlight the recent awakening to the deep and essential intelligence of our feelings. Since the avoidance of emotional suffering (feelings) is the basis of all mental illness, we can say that anything that directly increases a persons capacity to feel and face difficult feelings and emotions will increase metal health. This is the essence of HeartHealth.
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bring more heart into our lives. After we get in touch with our more difficult feelings we can deliberately focus on the hearts more positive attributes, on love and care and appreciation, on beauty, nature, and compassion. When we do this our heart beat actually shifts, its rhythm harmonizes, and our clouds of negative emotion clear. |
When we cave dive into the universe of the heart we transform our inner and outer world. And the first beneficiary is our physical body and physical heart pump. Dramatic changes in heart rhythm, frequency, and health patterns occur when we can shift between negative attacking heart kinds of feelings like anger and hate to those of peace, love, understanding and appreciation. Negative emotions make the heartbeat look very ragged on an electrocardiograph, love and peace transform the physical heart into a much smoother beating pump, its electromagnetic patterns are much more coherent, healthy and harmonious.
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