Friday, January 15, 2016

The Heart – It's Not Just A Pump - 9/16/2016 added new information

Genesis 8:21 New International Version (NIV)
21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.”

Deuteronomy 4:29 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

29 But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.

Deuteronomy 4:39 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

39 Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

Deuteronomy 6:5 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
These scriptures are just a tiny fraction of Bible references to the heart, its condition, and importance. I used to think that this usage of the word “heart” was just another way of talking about our brain; our thoughts and reasoning. I've always thought that the heart was just an organ that pumps blood.
In my research of this subject, I have found that there is scientific evidence that the heart plays a much bigger part in our lives than we once thought. There is a relatively new field of science called Neurocardiology.
Neurocardiology refers to the pathophysiological interplays of the nervous and cardiovascular systems. It is an emerging field in medicine over the last decade. The constant communication between the heart and the brain have proved invaluable to interdisciplinary fields of neurological and cardiac diseases.

      Neurocardiology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurocardiology
    Wikipedia


Here are just some of the things that I have discovered in my research:
The heart is in a constant two-way communication with the brain and there is more information traveling from the heart to the brain than vice versa, brain to heart. The parts of the brain that the heart and the cardiovascular system communicates with are the parts of the brain that “play a direct and important role in determining our perceptions, thought processes, and emotional experiences.
Recent work in the relatively new field of neurocardiology has firmly established that the heart is a sensory organ and an information encoding and processing center, with an extensive intrinsic nervous system that’s sufficiently sophisticated to qualify as a heart brain.”
The Heart is not a Pump by John Chitty, RPP, RCST www.energyschool.com
There is evidence both scientific and logical that leads us to believe that the heart can not be just a pump. There are over 40,000 km (more than 24,000 miles) of blood vessels in the human body. It would take a hydraulic pump a whole, whole lot stronger than the heart to push blood through all those paths. Think about it, many or most of these pipes that the blood flows through are capillaries, about the diameter of a single cell. Have you ever tried to pump a liquid, let's just say water, through a very small tube? It takes great pressure to do that.


Heart Trivia
The Heart beats 100,000 times a day, about 3,000,000,000 or more in an 80-year lifetime. Blood circulatory volume is about 5 quarts per minute, or 2,000 gallons per day. The capillaries total about 40,000 km in total length. If all the capillaries were laid end to end, they would cover the area of three football fields (Cowan, The Fourfold Path to Healing, Ch. 3 p. 4). The healthy heart varies its rate up to 20 beats per minute throughout the day. Heart rate arises from a delicate precise balance between information provided by the heart itself, the brain, the vessels, the blood-rich organs and the capillaries. 60%-65% of the cells in the heart are neural cells, and about 70% of these are glial cells not neurons. The heart produces 2.5 watts with each heartbeat. Electromagnetic amplitude is 40-60x that of brain waves, making the heart by far the strongest EM signal produced in the body. The EM field radiates at least 12-15 feet beyond the body; it is easily measurable at 3 feet. Arteries and Veins are named for Yang (Ares) and Yin (Venus) mythological archetypes. Heart, brain and planet earth all oscillate in the same 30 cps range. About half of those who suffer their first heart attack have no risk factors (high cholesterol, obesity, smoking, high blood pressure) (Pearsall, p. 36). Overwhelming evidence points to life experience (love, stress, etc.) as the primary factor. The progenitor of the heart (neutral principle) appears on day 17 of embryonic development, one day earlier than the liver (yin principle) or central nervous system (yang principle). The blood (extraembryonic mesoderm in the trophoblast) is considered to be the very first “organ,” appearing about day 12.


As I was thinking about this information about the heart, I asked myself, “What happens to a heart transplant patient who receives a heart from a donor? Do they receive some of the personality traits from that donor?”
There are some pretty remarkable stories about heart transplant recipients experiencing memories, habits, and desires they had never experienced before; some have knowledge of people who only the heart donor could have known.


From the website “UK Apologetics”, I found this article: “ Yes, the Heart Really Can “Think” and Have Emotions!
Amazing New Scientific Evidence Corroborates Biblical Teaching Yet Again!”
by Robin A. Brace, 2006.


Here is an article I found on the MBG mindbodygreen website written in 2013 by Dr. Joel Kahn :

7 Scientific Reasons You Should Listen To Your Heart (Not Your Brain)



I don't know about you, but for me knowing this new information about the heart sheds more light on the scriptures in the Bible that talk about the heart. It also helps me see God just a little clearer. He created us in His image (Genesis 1:27). No words can describe my awe of God.

I'm starting to view the heart much like I view God. I said in a previous post that I see God like a conductor as in an orchestra or choir. The heart is the conductor of the body.

I used to look at creation just at the surface of things, just skin deep. It is amazing and beautiful just to see creation at this level, at the level of just what one can see. It was when I began looking below the surface and seeing how something was made and how it functioned that I really started seeing God, the Creator.

I used to read the Bible the same way I saw creation, only skin deep. So many things that I read, when I really thought about it, were just words. The words had meanings but only from what I had been taught over the years. So often I would come across passages that just didn't seem to fit. I used to put theme aside thinking that it was beyond my understanding. I don't do that anymore; I keep asking Father God to paint this picture of my understanding a little clearer each day. He is doing that but each new thing I see makes me more aware of how much more there is. God is awesome!

9/16/2016 I thought about this post and decided to find out if there have been any new findings about Neurocardiology and came across this article posted 2/15/2016 on "Waking Science" website called

The Intelligence of the Heart: Is the Heart Another “Brain”?




  


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