"Emotion and Health – Heart Freedom"
Part 3 of 8
Healthy Emotions for Healthy Lives
A direct connection between your heart (emotion and feeling) and the rest of your body affects your state of health. Neurobiologist Candace Pert and a team of researchers with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified “molecules of emotion.” Combinations of tiny bits of protein on the surface of cells form receptors, sensors that collect chemical information carried throughout your body by other molecules called ligands. Receptors and ligands are very particular about the company they keep; to bind together they must be perfectly matched. Some ligands are natural to the body, such as peptides, neurotransmitters, and hormones; some are natural but foreign to the body, such as viruses; and others are artificial chemicals. When a ligand binds with a receptor (in what Pert calls “sex on a molecular level”)i information is deposited onto and into the receptor in a biochemical exchange that has profound effects. If a receptor waiting for a natural body ligand is unoccupied, because emotional repression has reduced the supply of peptides, for instance, a matching virus can dock and illness results.
According to Dr. Pert:
All emotions are healthy… Anger, fear, and sadness, the so-called negative emotions, are as healthy as peace, courage, and joy. To repress these emotions and not let them flow freely is to set up a dis-integrity in the system, causing it to act at cross-purposes rather than as a unified whole. The stress this creates, which takes the form of blockages and insufficient flow of peptide signals to maintain function at the cellular level, is what sets up the weakened conditions that can lead to disease.
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"The Essence of Heart Freedom: Emotion – Heart Freedom"
Part 2 of 8
The essence of heart is emotion. Heart Freedom enables you to experience a bountiful variety and complexity of feelings. The supreme emotion is love, which by its very nature implies a relationship, the lover and the beloved. In modern Western culture, couple relationships are often symbolized by the Valentine heart. If you both want to make your relationship work, pay attention to its heart, to the emotional, energetic, and spiritual connection between you. For relationship happiness, you must welcome, nourish, and cherish such deep connection.
The responsibility of Heart Freedom is to allow yourself to feel everything, both positive and negative and to act despite your emotional discomfort. A few yogisi claim they can voluntarily stop the heart from beating, and who among us has not tried to deliberately stop our hearts from feeling? When the yogi stops his heart from beating, it is a demonstration of physical and spiritual mastery, but when you or I try to stop our hearts from hurting it is only a pathetic kind of emotional suicide. If we try to turn our hearts off in order to be protected from feeling the pain of loss, abandonment, deceit, or betrayal, eventually we feel nothing at all and life becomes flat, dull, and boring. There is little pleasure, joy, or happiness because we can’t be fully human and only feel the good things. With the heart, it seems to be “all or nothing at all.”
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"The Third Freedom: Heart"
Essence of Emotion
Poets, mystics, philosophers, and scientists have long pondered the mysteries of the heart. Religious thought claims the heart as the center of spiritual love. Christianity associates divine love with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Hindus revere Shiva’s sacred heart, Buddhists extol the heart as the site of compassion, and Sufis see the heart as the seat of God. The ancient Egyptians believed that the heart was home not only to emotions but also to thought, personality, moral awareness, and the soul. Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the heart, not the brain, was the seat of mental processes.
We now know that the heart does indeed have a mind of its own. Simple experiments on frogs in high school laboratories demonstrate that the heart, composed of involuntary cardiac muscle, is autogenic or self-excitatory—signals for initiating contraction need not come from the brain but can also originate in the heart muscle itself.
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