Your Heart - Brain

I just attended an awesome seminar called "is your cranial brain the only brain in your body?" by Dr. Badri Rickhi. It was really interesting - all about the neural capacity of your other organs, with special focus on the heart, and how they may have a more prominent role in controlling your body than originally thought. General knowledge tells us that the brain is the control center but recent studies is medical science have revealed that the heart may also be a "control center", possibly with the ability to override the brain. Phenomenon that occurs in many post-heart transplant patients inspires studies investigating the heart's unique ability to store memories, especially emotional ones, and it's interaction with the brain... Sure it may sound far fetched, but intriguing evidence is being collected from EEGs, heart rhythm analysis (analyses micro changes in heart rhythm not shown on EEGs), and brain wave analysis that suggests that science has yet to discover all the mysteries of the human body. The human SYSTEM is much more complex than the parts we study it in, including the individual themselves a part of a much bigger system of people.
Much of the evidence alludes to the idea that eastern and ancient medicine can be backed up with science. Especially when one considers the enormous electromagnetic field of the heart and how it interacts with other people's. Some of the variable heart rhythms and brain wave studies have shown that your heart and brain may interact with those around you. A relatively healthy person can become sick from living with stressed or depressed individual (even when it is not obvious). These cases tend to be women being influenced by the emotions of their husband while they sleep. As well, two people in close proximity may experience a synchronization of their variable heart beat. Quite interesting... In many eastern medicine practices, energy is manipulated and in such practices as reiki, it is worth noting the uncanny resemblance of the energy pathways (alignment of chakras) to the magnetic field of the heart. I have also heard (from a different source) that specific points targeted in some Chinese therapies like acupuncture align nicely with the lymph system.
Another interesting thing this seminar touched on was the relationship between changes in heart rhythm and emotions. It is well known by most people that when you're stressed your heart races (and also becomes irregular) and when you are calm is beats slower and more steadily. A commonly taught technique to relax, calm the heart and nerves, and supposedly heal is progressive relaxation... however, while this technique is effective in relaxing muscles and calming the mind it does not cause significant enough changes to stimulate the healing effects of the parasympathetic nervous system (yes, the PNS is triggered but just to the relax point - not the heal point). What does trigger the heart to begin beating in nice synchronicity and result in enough changes to have a healing effect is the emotion of appreciation and love. When subjects were told to visualize being appreciative, giving thanks, or the feeling of love they generated more alpha brain waves and a steady heart rhythm (beautiful even wave on a graph) and reached healing levels. So isn't this what religion has been preaching all along? Now we have scientific evidence to justify it! Give thanks! Now go pray and be healthy. :-)

It's a girl thing... ?

After an increase in dramatic events and many a rant to my current bf, his immediate feedback is "if she was a guy I'd tell her to fuck off and then we'd go out for drinks. Girls are so dramatic." Although a stereotype I do feel it carries some truth. All the way up until high school I mostly had male friends, and the female friends I had were in the same boat. Our biggest problem was having parties or gatherings that wouldn't end up being sausage fests - something apparently not desirable for hormone saturated high school boys. For the most part, the same is true today (except that the boys don't mind if girls are at the party or not). The only difference is that in my university years I've had a few new female pals... and every one of them could win some kind of Academy award. I've had to deal with "feelings" (some arising from speculation derived from trivial pieces of information and great imaginations), and topics I feel unworthy of serious talk (like the length of time between phone calls for example. wtf.). Obviously there could be other factors than just being female, but for the sake of simplicity I'll just say that none of these crazy things would have happened between male friends. The worst between-male drama I've heard of so far is one guy secretly losing trust in another after he was lied to... ok understandable. Even male drama usually has a female co-star. Basically this whole blog is just me trying to extrapolate reasons for my own issues that are not in my control. What can I say... it's a girl thing?

Luckily this stuff is old news that keeps getting recycled in my brain, like a game to see how many new derivatives I can make from it. Right now everything seems to be quite alright. Even my skin is beginning to clear up!! Yay! Here is the link to the Skin Science website: Click here. If you plan on checking it out tell her I referred you! :-P