Howard Martin is co-author of The HeartMath Solution, Executive Vice President of HeartMath LLC, a research institution that studies the relationship between the heart and the brain, and is the developer of the Nightingale-Conant tape series, The HeartMath Method.
The heart and brain communicate with a complex physiological mechanism. This communication influences perception, emotion, and overall health. The heart is believed by some to be just as intelligence as the brain is. Many believe that while the brain tells one what to think, the heart tells one how to think.
When speaking to others, your brain directs your thoughts. Similarly, your heart directs your actions. It directs "how" you say things including your tone of voice and at which point you should speak more aggressively or give in. For quite a number of years, such ideas have only been held in the philosophical or religious realms.
HeartMath LLC wants to bring this relational idea into the scientific world. In fact, it's the reason "math" is included in the word "HeartMath." In this case, math is not referring to numbers or calculations. It's used to represent a type of understanding, the understanding that the heart sends healing signals to the brain and body.
Howard Martin believes there are four distinct ways that messages are received in the body through the heart. In the first way, researchers have mapped neural traffic in the body and have found that more messages are send from the heart than are returned by the brain. The heart is composed of complex nervous system cells, cells that are generally only found in the brain and spinal column.
In the second type of communication, blood pressure waves are sent through the body. These waves of blood through the arteries and veins are mediators of change in the electrical activity of the brain. This is a biophysical type of communication.
The third method is hormones. Howard believes that such hormones as oxytocin and cortisol are produced in the heart. Cortisol is the body's stress regulator, and oxytocin is known as "the love hormone" because it rises during relational situations like childbirth or sex.
Finally, Howard Martin believes the heart is not only a biological organ, but also an electrical organ. It's why a heart doctor performs an EKG on patients - to measure electrical impulses. This electrical energy passes through the skin into space as a measureable electromagnetic field extending approximately three to four feet. In this way, people around us can actually feel what type of mood we're having at the moment they're near us, whether positive or negative.
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