The heart… a change in perspective..

Ever have anything truly change your perspective on life? 

Recently I watched a free screening documentary on the heart called the “The Heart Revolution’. It was eye opening….or… Maybe heart opening lol…

The heart is a pump … it pumps the blood around the body…. Or does it? 

Of course, this is what anatomy has taught me and everyone who took biology in grade school; the job of the heart is to pump the blood around our body.

BUT…. What if we don’t have the full picture or have it wrong?

There are so many arteries and veins in our body that if we were to spread them out they would wrap around the earth a few times! How does our little heart pump that far? I mean your heart is the size of your fist! 

We know from the heart math institute more about the energetics of the heart, and we know it has more neural output to the brain that the brain has to the heart…

But why does the blood keep flowing for a period of time after the heart stops beating? 

How do the RBC’s within our blood get in and out of capillaries being the RBC’s are so much bigger than the capillaries themselves? 

OR why does blood flow speed up as it starts to come back to the heart? 

Science does not have all the answers and yet we rely on the science. 

The heart is not just a pump….it cannot be, it must be so much more.

It wasn’t too many years ago that science did not think we had a lymphatic system in the brain.

Logic would suggest otherwise as the lymphatic system resides everywhere else in the body; however, science had not yet seen it through imaging so it was assumed it was not there…. Until they changed the viewpoint of the imaging and there it was!

The point that I am trying to make is that this documentary helped change my view of the world a bit. 

It reminded me that none of us know it all …. Intellectually that is… 

Sometimes science cannot prove what we do know but that does not mean we don’t know it…. We all get information in some way shape or form. 

Sometimes it is the mother’s instinct that just kicks in. The knowing what’s happening simply by the energy we feel walking into a room. Or maybe it is simply a thought that comes to our mind at the right time that we take action on.

If we stopped trying to intellectualize everything then maybe we would tap into that wisdom within us, the wisdom that resides in our heart which we “know” is so much more than just a pump…. 

I’d love to hear from you… tell me a time you listened, not to the logic of the brain, but your heart and how you benefited from it?