Heart Brain

The term ‘heart-brain’ was introduced in the early 1990’s by Dr J Andrew Armour, a NeuroCardiologist found that the heart actually communicates with the brain. In his work he found that the heart has its own complex processing centre that operates and processes information independently from the brain. In fact, the heart has over 40,000 neurons and a complete network of neurotransmitters. The heart is the only organ in the body that has this many neurons (electrical impulses) clustered together.

This illustrates to us that our hearts have a huge effect on how our nervous system behaves, how we act and react to life. Effect how we physically respond to life.

HeartMath have continued from this research and found that the heart actually transmits more information up to the brain than the brain sends information down to the heart. This heart information is used by the brain to make choices, especially strategic thinking, reaction times and self-regulation. Therefore, when your heart is in a coherent state it will impact on your ability to think clearly.