by Dr Rachel Hall B.Ch.D (Uni Leeds), LDSRCS(Eng), MACNEM, Holistic Dentist, Brisbane, Australia
We traditionally are taught to think of the brain or the ‘head’ as being the intelligence of the body, communicating with the body and telling it what to do. Yet the body is in fact a massive network of nerve and energy pathways that communicate with one another, sending signals and instructions from one part of the body to another, cell by cell. Information travels to the brain from the body and from the body to the brain. We know that the brain sends signals to the body, but have you ever stopped to consider that your body may actually be communicating with YOU, sending you subtle messages and information for you to respond to?
The body is in fact an intelligent organism capable of acting independently of the mind via its own self-regulation and feedback systems. Within the body there are areas or foci of cellular activity which contain concentrated energy and nerve systems that are capable of sending signals to the brain and body and as such these centres or foci actually have a strong influence on the body, its reactions and our emotions.
One area of the body that communicates powerfully and extremely effectively with us is the heart. Have you noticed that in certain situations your heart may skip a beat, get palpitations, feel all warm and fuzzy; flutter or feel like it is about to burst or perhaps even stop depending on how you are feeling or what is happening around you?
Throughout history, philosophers, poets and prophets have regarded the human heart as the source of love, wisdom, intuition and positive emotions. We are all familiar with expressions such as, put your heart into it, wearing your heart on your sleeve, follow your heart not your head, find it in your heart, from the bottom of my heart, big hearted, warm hearted, heart-to-heart, open your heart and so on which suggest that the heart is more than a physical pump that sustains life.
The fact is that the heart is much more than just a pump, with a complex system of nerves and energy centres that send more signals to the brain than the brain sends to it and scientific research has found that the heart has the ability to regulate itself and the rest of the body. The human heart contains an intelligence independent from the brain that can be a source of guidance for our individual lives and for our collective potential as human beings. This is significant as we have a powerful intelligence right there in the middle of our chest with a wisdom that is vast, much more so than we realise. In actual fact, every cell in the body is intelligent with the heart being like a conductor for the cellular processes taking place within us in each and every moment. The heart is the overseer of the whole intelligence of the body and science is only just beginning to tap into and understand the wisdom of the heart, a wisdom that has been spoken of and recorded by many cultures, religions and scholars.
Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., Director of Research at The Institute of HeartMath, California has begun to examine the messages the heart sends to the brain and how the brain responds to them, exploring the role the heart plays in creating emotional experience and accessing intuition, as well as its role in the physiology of optimal function. Recent work in the relatively new field of neurocardiology has firmly established that the heart is a sensory organ and an information programming and processing centre, with an extensive in-built nervous system that confirms the heart is much more than a muscle pump and has a sophisticated intelligence that is much more advanced than previously considered or realised by science. The heart’s circuitry enables it to learn, remember and make functional decisions independent of the brain itself. The heart is in continuous communication with the brain and body through multiple pathways: neurologically (through nerves), biochemically (through hormones), biophysically (through pressure and sound waves) and energetically (through electromagnetic field interactions). This makes the heart unique as it can act as the overall coordinator of bodily functions, synchronising the system as a whole because of the extent of the heart’s influence on physiological, cognitive and emotional systems.
The fact that there is a heart and brain connection, as first postulated by the psychologist William James, has been known since the late 1800s, but has largely been ignored. Whilst it is recognised that the heart signals that flow to the brain have a regulatory influence on many aspects of the nervous system, including most glands and organs, it is less commonly appreciated that they also have profound effects on the higher brain centres. Cardiovascular nerves have numerous connections to higher brain centres where they play a direct and important role in determining our perceptions, thought processes, and emotional experiences. It has also been shown that our emotions are reflected in the heart’s rhythmic patterns.
The heart also has an energy field, called the energetic heart, which is coupled to a field of information that is not bound by the classical limits of time and space. Experimental studies have investigated the proposal that the body receives and processes information about a future event before the event actually happens. One of these studies, conducted at the HeartMath laboratories, showed that both the heart and brain receive and respond to pre-stimulus information about a future event. But even more surprising is the finding that the heart seems to receive and/or respond to the intuitive information before the brain. This suggests that the heart is directly coupled to a subtle energetic field of information within the range of energetic fields in which the body is surrounded.
The fact that the heart appears to receive intuitive information before the brain is perhaps not as surprising as it first seems, it just confirms what people mean when they speak of the intuitive heart or the wisdom of the heart – something that has been a key component of wisdom teachings and mystical texts for aeons. The energetic heart is coupled to a deeper part of ourselves. When we connect to the heart we align with a deeper source of intuitive intelligence, which produces an increased flow of intuitive information that is communicated to the brain resulting in a stronger connection with our inner voice thus allowing us access to the largely untapped potential within.
- This research demonstrates that the heart has its own intelligence, that the heart IS intelligent, is capable of giving instructions to the brain and communicating directly with us. Thus it is now being affirmed by science that “instinct”, “sixth sense” and “intuition” come from the heart.
One of the philosophies that come from the Esoteric Medicine presentations by Serge Benhayon is that the inner-heart is the seat of intelligence for the body and that the body does have its own knowing or wisdom. From this philosophy emerges the concept of connecting to yourself and listening to your heart and your body, which, as even science has demonstrated, has the ability to communicate with us. If we were to stop for a moment and feel we would realise the body actually talks very loudly.
At first this may seem a strange concept, however, what I found when I experimented with this was that quite amazingly when I sat quiet and still, simply breathing gently I could feel a beautiful warmth in my chest where my heart resides. I discovered that I could use that feeling of warmth as a barometer of what is true for me or not. I noticed that when I made choices that were more caring and loving, the feeling of warmth increased and the opposite occurred when I was less considerate of myself and the warmth diminished and felt less evident. In addition I found I could rely on my heart when making decisions and to discern if my thoughts were from my body or not. I was able to better gauge situations and remain unaffected by events and people around me.
So what if we chose to listen to the messages from our body, especially our heart, and made lifestyle and dietary choices based on those messages rather than waiting until we become ill? Why wait for science to play catch up to what the intelligence of the body already knows and is communicating to us – but which we are not listening to?
So much credence has been given to listening to our mind however, as we have seen, it is not the only site of intelligence in the body and yet it is the body that has to live with the consequences of all the choices made from our mind. The mind in fact is a central processing unit that receives and processes all the messages from the body. Our body, and every single cell within it, is able to work innately without having to rely on the mind, in fact the foci in the heart and other areas of the body are wiser than the mind, yet we simply ignore or overrule their messages and signals. The heart however works as the “mastermind”, the overseer and coordinator for the rest of the body, with its own energy field and the ability to regulate the processes and reactions of the body and respond to external energy even more rapidly than the mind. The mind as we know it can lead us astray, can override the messages of the body to allow us to carry on behaviours which are harming for the body. Thus, although the mind is a great central processing unit for all the messages in the body, it is not the true source of intelligence that we have been falsely lead to believe it is. As such we should be giving the heart more precedence over the mind and any gut feelings, as only the heart acts on the higher centres of the mind bringing intuition, intelligence and connection to our inner voice.
The body is a whole system where all the parts are communicating and interacting with each other and where change in one part affects the whole. It is detrimental and incorrect to see the body as separated parts working in isolation to each other and it is important to realise that any lack of regard or consideration for one part of the body will affect the whole body system. The body therefore has intelligence throughout it, rather than discrete isolated sections working independently to each other which is the impression we get when we only focus and rely on the brain in separation to the body. The heart exists as the true source or centre that feeds the mind which we can then choose to either listen to or override and ignore. An important aspect is the discernment of the messages from the mind and whether they have come first via the heart or not.
As this is the case, why then are we not taught to listen to or tune in to the wisdom within our body? Given that the body is innately wise, surely it would make sense for us to pay attention to it, to listen to it and in particular the messages from the heart such that we may live more instinctively and intuitively?
Listening to and feeling the feedback of the body via the heart can allow for more supportive and harmonious choices that lead to better health and improved moods and energy levels. If we choose to live, eat and care for ourselves based on what the body and the heart are telling us, then perhaps we might realise that true intelligence resides in the whole body and not in the head!
Give it a try – you might just surprise yourself as to how intelligent and naturally knowing the body really is.
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Medicine and Serge Benhayon 
The body is a living genius and the gateway to God. The mind on the other hand has a very limited range of functions and when seen as being purely ‘the head’ hinders our return to God because most of us stay up in the head and if we’re up in our heads then we can’t be down in our bodies and it is our bodies that lead the way Home.
I watched the video that was made by the Institute of HeartMath, California, I found it fascinating because it made sense to me that the heart is a sensory organ and very sophisticated, much more than maybe the mainstream scientists realise. There is so much information to be explored and I thought that the research would gain momentum and become public knowledge, but speaking to some doctors and nurses I know they were not aware of this information, I wonder why?
I feel there is a lot we don’t know about our bodies and how the organs truly function and interact with one another and I would say that if the organs of our body are in disharmony to each other that will lead to illness and disease, never mind what the brain may be telling us. We could say our bodies represent a car and if one part of the car’s engine isn’t working properly this puts a strain on the rest of the engine and if nothing is done to rectify the problem, the car will break down.
“The heart however works as the “mastermind”, the overseer and coordinator for the rest of the body, with its own energy field and the ability to regulate the processes and reactions of the body and respond to external energy even more rapidly than the mind”.
I agree Rachel, Over twenty years ago I came across the studies of Heartmath and was blown away by its research findings proving that the heart is the centre of intelligence. The missing element was how to bring this science into daily living. Universal Medicine shows you how, without the need of any tool outside of ourselves. Learning to break a habit of lifetimes and let our inner heart and body speak takes practice. It’s what children naturally do and we’ve have forgotten how to. This article invites us to return to the ways of the child.
A simple experiment for myself: go a whole day simply listening to my body, letting it speak and move from there.
A former student of history, I remember the ‘heartless’ way information was presented as purely fact. We were given cold clinical studies of earth shattering events without a inkling of understanding or sensitivity of devastation to lives, peoples and continents. This is an example of brain intelligence, devoid of heart. It can deaden us and can cut out our humanity. Bring in ‘heart-centred intelligence’ into teaching and this will truly reform the system.
The wisdom of ancient mystics and philosophers finally affirmed by the scientific community. What is needed now is an education system aligned to these findings. Formal education would change radically, if we adopted a whole body approach to learning.
Rachel this is an awesome blog so full of information about our bodies written in a way that is easily accessible to all. I watched the video that The Institute of HeartMath, California presented to the world and it is fascinating to watch and makes so much sense that it is our heart first that receives the impulses not the brain. I am surprised that actually there has not been more publicity about this research as it would have an impact on how we behave with ourselves and others.
I had not realised how much our body is intelligent until it started to fall apart in places. And when I pondered on the whole notion of the ‘body is intelligent’, it is a living organism and like all living organisms, there is intelligence within.
It was only since meeting Serge Benhayon, have I realised how important it is to listen to it. Every ache, pain, is a signal that something isn’t right or that there is a clearing. All the countless coughs and colds were signals the body was clearing but also communicating. I have come to realise that we are not prepared by the education system, how our body communicates and how to take care of it.
I now see the body’s clearing from a different perspective to how I used to perceive it in the past, and I still go to modern medicine for what is required to support it too.
There is something so simple and magical about stopping for a moment and asking what my heart feels. My whole body responds and enjoys being part of decision making.
I agree Matilda, there is ‘something simple and magical’, it only requires a heart beat to stop, listen and feel.
This is confirmed when we say ‘In my heart I knew the truth.’
It occurs to me that if we isolate any part of the body as being more important, intelligent or superior than any other part we are reducing our overall intelligence and wisdom.
Listening to the heart and in respect to the body is a deeply joyous choice, it gives us a lot of vitality and inspiration.
Whole body intelligence, that makes complete sense, after all we have a whole body and despite what our mind might think, our body is not it’s slave, but it’s equal and often it feels and knows more than just the mind.
I have often sensed things from my body about situations that my mind completely missed or was unable to discern.
Me too. And my body lights up and tells me more when I listen to it.
We all have had our own private moments where we had felt something but allowed the mind to override it with its reasons only for us to later go ‘I knew it!’. It just makes sense to let that part that does know to take the lead. The mind is very good at coming up with why we shouldn’t, and we are so used to following that, but why keep following something that has not actually got a proven record of being a reliable source of intelligence? It definitely is worth giving a go.
Fumiyo I agree with you as I have lost count of the times I have said to myself ‘I knew it’ after giving into to my mind or doubting myself, this shows me that our minds are not so intelligent. And let’s be honest we have made some horrendous decisions that have led to many mistakes by relying on our minds rather than our sixth sense.
The mind is very singular, a great central processing unit, yes, but it often disregards the rest of the body and does things which do not work for that body, to live from the heart is different for the heart takes the whole body into account, not just one aspect, and it can surprise us with what it knows.
Yeh I love this Richard – we can wait for science to catch up or we can study ourselves and begin to understand what is actually possible.
” One of these studies, conducted at the HeartMath laboratories, showed that both the heart and brain receive and respond to pre-stimulus information about a future event.” This adds a whole new dimension to life – not only are we running our lives with the wrong organ or intelligence, we also consider that we respond to things as they happen, not understanding it may be happening or we may be processing it actually before the event itself.
What a great read, thank you Rachel. It’s fascinating that we have since the 1800’s known about the link between heart and mind intelligence, as well as more current research, yet there has been no changes to how we apply that medically or psychologically, etc. Once we establish something as true, even if it’s untrue, it seems to be very difficult to shift out of that belief to adopt the truth. This whole article has been one of those life changing reads, and has been put together with clarity and a sense of order making it easy to understand.
When we live from the innate inner wisdom of our body, life has a simplicity and flow that otherwise cannot exist.
Yes when we are open to what is being communicated by our bodies we allow the spaciousness for magic to happen.
Our heart is constantly communicating with us; all we have to do is be open to what is being delivered and not letting this be overridden by the arrogant all-knowing mind. Choosing to trust what I feel from my heart has transformed the way I live and care for myself and thus interact with others.
So true Linda. When my body feels content my mind feels likewise. Could a way to be dealing with emotional and mental disturbance lie in focussing on our body, not our mind?
When I first heard about this it made so much sense – “The fact that the heart appears to receive intuitive information before the brain is perhaps not as surprising as it first seems, it just confirms what people mean when they speak of the intuitive heart or the wisdom of the heart.” And recent research shows the brain activates before we make an action – and we think we are choosing freely? What energy are we aligned to?
Constantly responding and feeding back to us, our bodies are the most amazing guides and wise friends and there is a disarming simplicity to life when we start to listen.
Over time I’ve learnt how to have conversations with my body through the connection with my inner-heart. The body is far more intelligent than the mental commentary that has me make ill or daft choices I later or straight after regret.
Yes Leigh, to have conversations with our body via the inner-heart is the way to be and offers beautiful support. In life there are only ever two choices – ones aligned to soul and others to spirit. Discerning between the two is part of daily living and a constant offering.
I had dropped those conversations and recently picked them back up. So vital in order to make truly supportive choices in life.
‘If we choose to live, eat and care for ourselves based on what the body and the heart are telling us, then perhaps we might realise that true intelligence resides in the whole body and not in the head!’ having ignored my body to my detriment this way of living is so worth giving a go. My worst decisions have all come from my head persuading me to ignore the wisdom my body so clearly communicates.
Yes, there seems to be a lot more than physiological function with the heart and other parts of the body and this may be verifiable.
I totally agree that the body and heart are far more intelligent than any commentary from the headspace acting separately from the rest.
I like this, that the heart is the centre for a great intelligence to be lived throughout our whole bodies, and so we do not need the brain to figure everything out, as the heart already knows.
Thank you Rachel, super supportive to read how it has become a proven fact that the heart communicates with the brain, and how our instincts and sixth sense comes directly from the heart, which makes perfect sense because neither of those are learnt actions or knowledge they come from a greater wisdom from within.
When we live in a quality of tenderness and self care the body knows how to restore itself to a balanced and harmonious state. However when we live solely from the intelligence of recalled knowledge we can override the natural feedback systems of the body and ignore the wisdom that is being communicated.
That’s very true Jenny, the natural feedback systems are part of the body continually restoring itself to harmony, the more we can listen and stay connected to the body we can actually begin living in harmony with ourselves.
Very timely read for me right now, as I am nursing my cold and finding myself reverting back to what I remember has worked in the past, rather than simply listening to the body.
” Why wait for science to play catch up to what the intelligence of the body already knows and is communicating to us – but which we are not listening to?” Great comment Rachel. Why indeed when so many Universal Medicine students (who pay attention to what the body says) are confounding the ‘norm’ by living healthy vibrant and amazing lives is there such resistance to accepting that there is another way to live? Slowly some doctors are now catching on to the fact that lifestyle medicine is the way to go in an effort to reduce the likelihood of serious disease.
Such a simple but profound thing you are sharing here Rachel that we can actually feel a difference in our bodies and our hearts when we honour what we are feeling in the inside and make a decision based on this intuition and when we override this knowing and make decisions based on information outside of us. I can certainly feel the difference and I will be using your heart warming idea more in future to really sense what is going on.
Given that our minds can be so destructive, in that we can allow all sorts of negative and self-abusive thoughts through, thinking that they are us, how would our relationship with ourselves change if we were taught from young how to discern where our thoughts are coming from: our hearts or our minds? To know that there are only two sources: one loving and encompassing of the all, and the other not, would significantly impact our well-being and our health.
We may ignore, block out and go with the mind, for as long as we like but the body will always let us know what’s right. Our every cell, when allowed sure speaks loud. Thank you Rachel for prompting me to ask, do I really need to make my body get its loudhailer out?
‘True intelligence resides in the whole body and not in the head’ Spot on Rachel, and Serge Benhayon gives us a greater understanding on the whole body intelligence in his interview on Serge Benhayon TV:
http://sergebenhayon.tv/episodes/whole-body-intelligence/
Our mind holds knowledge yet our heart holds far more wisdom and is capable of much more.
‘An important aspect is the discernment of the messages from the mind and whether they have come first via the heart or not.’ This is definitely key, since the messages sent from one or another site are very different among them and take us to very different points. Discernment so, offers to us the freedom of choice.
I love the fact that the heart sends more signals to the brain than the other way around – clearly we are giving too much authority to the mind over the body, instead of the mind serving the impulses of the body.
We have a choice and overriding the body, that choice has a lot of negative consequences but I am unaware of negative consequences of listening to the body.
Wow, this is a fascinating study. Thank you, Rachel. It all makes sense and proves that we were not entirely oblivious to the intelligence of the heart as we all have experienced its wisdom at some stage. And your question “Why then are we not taught to listen to or tune in to the wisdom within our body?” really just reveals the fact that world we live in is built by and around the intelligence of the mind to sustain the system and keep producing the like-minded people.
Wow I didn’t know it was proven that the heart and brain communicate with each other, and that it’s also proven the heart has its own intelligence. It makes so much sense to me and I’ll definitely be paying super close attention to my heart today and what it feels like.
There is a guiding wisdom offered by the body; one that is simple and clear. A very different feeling than how the mind communicates with lots of thoughts, chatter and pending complication.
The fact that most people do not intimately know the connection between the heart and the mind is simply showing us that we have disconnected from our body and are walking around as if we are literally heads with legs. No wonder we lack awareness!
The body is undoubtedly a complex organism of interconnecting systems, strong and delicate, adaptable. It has so much to communicate about our environment, our lifestyle, the society norms we live within if we can just be open and honest to what it is communicating.
After reading this, it seems crazy that we are not taught to connect to the body as a whole. I imagine that once upon a time we were taught that the body communicates with us, that it was a birth right to know how to treat wounds and illness with known herbs and mixtures. It seems we are stepping further away from what we once knew as common sense. So even though modern medicine is an amazing support that saves lives and has come so far, there is still a sense that we are disempowered and that we have broken everything up in to parts, including the human body, rather than viewing the body as one big communicator that is designed to bring us back to harmony. The heart is a great compass in this way.
It is so gorgeous to read of the studies that are beginning to show the wisdom of the heart. This is something we should be all taught at school so that we don’t grow to disregard it as we often do, denying the deeper source of intuitive intelligence that in connection is innate.
Last night as I drifted off to sleep I was aware of a deep and wide flow that I could feel in my whole insides – it reminded me of a huge slow moving river, with no jagged edges or barbs – no issues. It was simply beautiful and as I take that into my morning it has the ability to inform me when something does not feel right as it does not match that quality I can feel within. All I have to do then is to express that….
The emotions from our mind completely underestimate the clarity and wisdom we get from feeling with our heart.
So much is rightly turned on its head when we restore the heart to its central governing place in the body – and turned on its head it should be, for clearly ‘leading with our heads’ hasn’t solved the greater conflicts (and smaller) in this world.
It is our hearts that need to open to ourselves, others, and the part we can all play in navigating a truly purposeful and caring way in this world.
And if we ‘lead with our hearts’ and build our life on the principles of absolute care and purpose – how does that change our physiology?
This is a truly great article – showing us a truth held by many through the ages, inclusive of Pythagoras and the cardio-centric focus he brought to his teachings about ‘the Way’ to live life in true accord with the All.
The heart is the power centre of the body, it is through our inner heart that our connection with our soul is formed and thence the messages of the soul can be heard.
We definitely have to shake off this perception that the body is merely a puppet of the brain that carries out its bidding and it looks like we are beginning to understand that the body has a intelligence and wisdom that is far greater than the brain and far grander than we were led to believe.
It’s just plain obvious that the body is a much larger, more intelligent organism then just restricting our experience of intelligence to the brain. We are so much more than what we have been taught – we feel, we sense, we experience and it’s bringing that together into a whole that feels amazing. Add to the fact that this way of living connects us to something much deeper – our soul.
“as first postulated by the psychologist William James, has been known since the late 1800s, but has largely been ignored. ” That is amazing that we have known about the intelligence of the heart for centuries yet it is still totally ignored by science and psychology. Time to start paying attention to the heart and the ways of it communicating with us.
We give great creed to the ability of our mind, and how much we are able to educate ourselves, however what if we were to give the same amount of time in connecting to our body from within our heart, we would find that it is actually our heart that responds quicker than our mind, and we actually have access to a far greater wisdom.
Thank you Rachel for this very thorough analysis of our body intelligence. It makes so much sense, and yet as you note it’s odd that we give so much credence to one part (our mind) while ignoring the rest and that decisions by the mind affect the body. I know those heart based feeling you speak of and I also know the drive of the mind. The world actively encourages the latter and we need desperately to live more of the former so we can be whole bodied in how we live.
A really supportive and amazing sharing on our true intelligence and the magnificence of our body and especially our heart, with clarity and understanding that makes absolute sense and is known and felt inside us all so beautifully. Who would what to live any other way than in connection to the all when this truth is made so obvious to us all.
Thank you Rachel, it’s a fabulous blog to read. I found it very confirming it read all you have shared, I feel we are innately wired to refer first to our heart and body but the education process is weighted towards the mind so we are kind of trained away from the heart. Interesting too regarding your experience with loving choices bringing a feeling of warmth to the heart area, and unloving or uncaring choices bringing on a shutting down of that warmth.
Well said Doug, it is this working together Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine that will help restore true health rather than just settling for a restored version of function without true vitality.
While the body is so intelligent the majority of people in this world tend to live from their mind instead. Why is this? may you ask. To me, as my heart is showing me clearly, it is because our body lives as part of a whole and our mind lives in its self-created world and it is that creation we give precedence to and we do not like to give up our individuality and become one with the all.
A very insightful article around the body, the heart, the mind and their intelligences. As with everything it makes more sense to consult or take care of everything and not just hone in on one part. The basic current mode of thinking is around the brain being the central intelligence we have and yet if we have a real look around us we are getting more and more unwell. Coupled with the fact that the brain sits on top of the body even maybe an indication of where we should be looking. There are more and more studies showing how intelligent and connected our heart centre is to everything and also we are becoming more and more aware that how we are going about things is seriously hurting us. Perhaps and as this article talks about, it is beyond time for us to make a change.
One great and simple way to listen to and connect to our heart is to very gently tip our head forward towards our heart – the opposite is to tip our head backwards which actually cuts us off.
True meditation is all about connection – connection to ourselves, our body and our inner-heart. Never is it about escaping or checking out. Funny (not) how many “meditation” photos you see with people tipping back their heads back and lifting their jaw up which is a posture of disconnection or people sitting in a torturous position which is again not in connection to the body.
It’s true Doug. When we only look at a small part of something instead of the whole, as so often is done in modern medicine and scientific research, we run the very real risk of reducing it into these parts and ignoring the magnificence of the whole.
The heart as the conductor of the body is a powerful image. It occurs to me that the brain/mind like to be the puppet-master, in absolute control of it’s subject, whereas the heart leads the whole to work in true harmony together.
Indeed Lucy, there is a great integrity and responsibility gap between the mind and the heart. While the mind can act only for its own benefit and in that cause harm to others. Our heart however will never be able to make such choices and perform such acts because, as you say Lucy, it works in true harmony together with all.
The inner heart has shown me the way for over a decade now, providing insights and readings on life and being a guide that I can without exception rely on.
I used to live as if my head was all there was. The disconnection with my body apparent with constantly tripping over or knocking myself and very little co-ordination. Everything felt rigid and separated from the warmth, connectedness and fluid movement I feel in my body now. Thank you Serge Benhayon for giving me the opportunity to make different choices and begin to return to the truth of who I am / we are.
The layers of the heart and body is our number one point of call in showing us the way to understanding true health and vitality. When choose to stop and take a moment to make this the source of our movements we are then offered a whole lot more in the quality in which we heal and grow.
There is growing evidence, as you have shared here, that the heart has an intelligence that is far more acute and reliable than that of the brain. When we start tuning in to this, and let’s include the Inner Heart, of which Serge Benhayon speaks, it has us wholeheartedly( pun intended) living our life from the truth of who we are, resonating with absolute truth and true love.
True intelligence comes from the body and the heart is of so much importance it simply makes sense. Giving power to the mind as we are taught is devoid our our natural innate connection to the universe and needs to be learnt when we have it all inside our bodies waiting to be connected to. How beautiful is this 🙂
Before I came across Universal Medicine I didn’t regard the body as a whole seeing the mind as separate to the body and what’s more I never questioned it although I distinctly remember feeling the separation in my body. It showed me how I was living my life overriding my body and listening to the mind but this abusive way of being eventually caught up with me with a diagnoses of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 1995.
Thank you Rachel for getting to the energetic heart of the matter. We are so much more than our physical body.
Very true Mary, well said!
The wisdom of the heart is a support and guidance in my life which even in the darkest times, it has never failed to be there for me. The difference between the intelligence of the heart and of the mind for me, is there is a feeling of settledness and surrender when the heart leads, it is very warm and still, but there is a feeling of unsettledness and often panic when the head leads, it is like turning in circles repeatedly without end.
We place such credence on our minds, yet it is one removed from where we feel and of course it can re-interpret what we feel, and yet we can feel, so why ignore it through our mind’s reinterpretation. The body knows and we know this. Why not live it?
This blog takes me back to a time when I discovered HeartMath and was fascinated by its research programme and discoveries. I can see now how this earlier seeking was preparation for a time when I would meet Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Serge presented on heart and whole body intelligence in a way that confirmed the knowing I already had, but went further: he also offered a way to bring this truth into our lives. From theory to integration – The Way of The Livingness. My life changed forever.
True intelligence comes from the whole body, not mind.
Heart over mind, makes so much sense and yet we are taught the opposite, to our cost. To hold bias and pre-judge people comes from the mind, not the heart. The heart feels the unity of all things and seeks to connect one with another.
When I was in a wheelchair with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome around twenty years ago I can remember feeling totally disconnected to my body. My body had completely shut down due to the ill choices I had previously made and my mind was ruling the roost! It showed me how abusive and harming the mind could be when over-riding and ignoring the signs my body was offering me. It makes total sense to me especially after experiencing C.F.S that to listen to my heart together with the whole of my body with my mind aligning to my heart is essential for my wellbeing.
Since attending presentations of the Ageless Wisdom by Serge Benhayon, it has been possible to return to a deeper level of awareness of the wisdom of the body and the language it communicates with, extremely loudly, when it is constantly overridden – making itself heard through discomfort, tension, illness and disease.
Science catching up with the Ageless Wisdom – when these truths are hit upon by science it makes what already feels totally obvious to the body, a more widely acceptable understanding. However it does a disservice to us all to wait for science to prove what the inner-heart already knows.
It’s great that science is catching up with what we have known for millenia, Not that we really needed proof, but because we have lived in such a brain-centric way for so long, and have been living in complete denial of the intelligence of the body, which is in truth true intelligence, the brain needs the proof before it will believe it.
It is interesting that on one hand we are easy with dismissing the body, denying its intelligence and priding ourselves on our mind and on the other hand we simply know what the body is communicating, we feel it anyway, know when something is wrong, what is loving or not etc but as long as we don´t honour the body we will continue to dismiss the intelligence of the body, the wisdom of the heart.
When it comes to intelligence we may say that we are ‘brainwashed’ with a false idea of what intelligence is, where it comes from, where it may be located in the body and how it works. As there is nothing like brainwashing, we may rather call it indoctrination as we simply grow up with the notion of what intelligence is, that the brain is its source etc., simply by everyone believing in the same concept without ever truly questioning it – it seems to be common knowledge or simply a general consent. On the other hand we may wonder what kind of intelligence produces so many disastrous situations on a global scale and still considers itself to be intelligent. Time to explore our true intelligence.
“So much credence has been given to listening to our mind however, as we have seen, it is not the only site of intelligence in the body and yet it is the body that has to live with the consequences of all the choices made from our mind.” – And this says it all – do we allow the cold and heartless mind to control the body or do we choose to allow a heart-full mind to guide the body with much love and respect? The choice is ours.
The intelligence of the heart is very fascinating to me as I was once bound to the belief that the brain held all. But the more I listen to my whole body, the more it is clear that the heart holds a deep wisdom that when listened too, speaks very loudly. Our bodies are amazing things, and i feel like I am only just discovering the depths of which it can communicate with me.
“… the proposal that the body receives and processes information about a future event before the event actually happens.” This is true for me and how important is it then to receive all that information without the brain or any other part of the body interfering with the received information. What it presents is how significant it is to fully complete events, give it your all and apply what is needed for the task itself, and how it is needed to be performed for all who are involved. This also adds the layer of dealing with your emotions so they do not cloud the quality and clarity required to complete the task.
That feeling of just knowing without thinking or computing in the brain is an example of the intelligence of the heart.
“The heart however works as the “mastermind”, the overseer and coordinator for the rest of the body”, yet we have been lead, erroneously so, to believe that it is the mind that is the most important one. How wrong have we been, and in spite of evidence to show the intelligence of the heart and the body we are still encouraged to grow the intelligence of the mind which unfortunately comes at the expense of the body. It is time for the text books to present the truth.
Honouring our inner heart and body is essential, and so much more loving of ourselves, ‘the inner-heart is the seat of intelligence for the body and that the body does have its own knowing or wisdom.’
When you tune into the brain and the messages it delivers that are not supportive, even destructive at times, and you realise Wisdom and Love would never deliver such messages so there has to be an intelligence that in truth holds and supports us, and that is our inner heart, “which is the overseer of the body” This brings up a whole new consideration in how we treat our bodies, do we support it or do we hamper and hammer it making its job more difficult.
“The heart is in continuous communication with the brain and body through multiple pathways: neurologically (through nerves), biochemically (through hormones), biophysically (through pressure and sound waves) and energetically (through electromagnetic field interactions).” Wow – So many sentences in this blog stopped me in my tracks but this one was particularly powerful for me to read today. I realise I have had a vision of ‘brainwaves’ being in control of everything (as I was taught in school) never once did anyone mention that the heart communicates biochemically, biophysically and energetically. I am also astounded by the fact that scientists will readily admit that much of the workings of the human body are still a mystery to the human race, perhaps if we connected to our hearts we would receive the truth and perhaps we do not make this choice precisely for this reason.
This is so intelligent Rachel! Considering that our body communicates to us takes us a huge leap into pondering and awareness. If one choice is either intelligent for the whole body or not, so then there is a way of life that is constantly intelligent or constantly fighting the body.
There is more intelligence in the human body than I could have ever imagined. What’s even more wonderful is that it is like an internal library where we can keep accessing volumes of wisdom. No book is really needed, but a way of living that opens the door to all the intelligence and wisdom we will ever need.
Neurocardiology is catching up with what we have instinctively known for centuries. Our heart is so much more than an organ that pumps blood around the body.
scientific research has found that the heart has the ability to regulate itself and the rest of the body. This I find very fascinating Rachel, as for so long, we have all been under the belief that the brain was the granddaddy of intelligence and prided it on being the only go to for any sort of information or knowledge. What you share here Rachel, is huge and definitely a point to consider very seriously, as a lot of us know the power of coming from your heart as opposed to coming from your head.
Thank you Rachel for a fascinating article on the interactions within our body. It gives new meaning to the saying ‘The heart of the matter’.
‘The heart is the overseer of the whole intelligence of the body and science is only just beginning to tap into and understand the wisdom of the heart, a wisdom that has been spoken of and recorded by many cultures, religions and scholars.’ Everyday I truly understand this more deeply through connecting with my body and feeling what is there to be felt and when I look out side of me I am reminded the answers come from within.
Thank you for writing this informative article Rachel and it very clearly makes sense to listen to what the body is sharing with us and not to allow the mind to override these messages.
This is awesome Rachel. When I reflect on the way my mind operates I can instantly feel the forcefulness of it and it’s determination to do what it wants without regard for the impact these choices have on the body or anyone else. In contrast, when I receive a message via my heart I feel completely held and supported and my thoughts come with a great understanding and consideration for my body and the impact my choices have on everyone and everything else.
A great article Rachel , I love this part of what you have written “The heart however works as the “mastermind”, the overseer and coordinator for the rest of the body, with its own energy field and the ability to regulate the processes and reactions of the body and respond to external energy even more rapidly than the mind. The mind as we know it can lead us astray, can override the messages of the body to allow us to carry on behaviours which are harming for the body. ” So for me making decisions and living by the impulse of heart or from our hearts and through our bodies makes much more sense.
This is such an informative blog Rachael what stood out to me this morning while re-reading it is “One of the philosophies that come from the Esoteric Medicine presentations by Serge Benhayon is that the inner-heart is the seat of intelligence for the body and that the body does have its own knowing or wisdom. From this philosophy emerges the concept of connecting to yourself and listening to your heart and your body, which, as even science has demonstrated, has the ability to communicate with us. If we were to stop for a moment and feel we would realise the body actually talks very loudly.” This has been my experience also and when I choose not to listen my body speaks louder and louder until I do stop and listen. I am learning to connect with my body on a deeper level and listen to the little messages I receive on a daily basis rather than ignoring my body forcing my body to bring me to a stop before I listen and respond lovingly.
Brilliant writing on a topic that affects us all. It’s crazy how little we discuss the subject of the heart and its intelligence in our schools and centres of learning and the broader global community, even though in every second of every day we all feel impulsed from the heart, whether we act on it or not. For the heart could influence most profoundly the choices we make at all levels of society. Perhaps one day we may see politicians act from the heart’s intelligence and make decision from that centre for the benefit of humanity.
Well it is very clear Rachel from all you share that we are fools if we choose not to listen to the heart… and by that I mean that we cut ourselves off from our greatest source of intelligence to do so.
Rachel you hit the nail on the head, when we start to unpick the fact the head is not where our true intelligence lies but our whole body. There is no doubt this challenges many people as when I grew up schooling, education and the world is setup on how smart our “head” is and very few people, although there has always been some, bring our awareness to the fact its about the whole body first and foremost.
I love this part Rachel: “One of the philosophies that come from the Esoteric Medicine presentations by Serge Benhayon is that the inner-heart is the seat of intelligence for the body and that the body does have its own knowing or wisdom. From this philosophy emerges the concept of connecting to yourself and listening to your heart and your body, which, as even science has demonstrated, has the ability to communicate with us. If we were to stop for a moment and feel we would realise the body actually talks very loudly.” – it is life changing to adopt this approach, and as you have shared, when we listen and I mean truly listen, then the body speaks very loudly.
Our body is very wise and indeed truly amazing in its 24/7 functionality. Our minds can be super intelligent and perform on cue. But there is a difference between wisdom and intelligence. For me one is all knowing, supportive and nurturing. The other is more self orientated, controlling and manipulative. I know which one I would rather have running the show.
And it really is as simple as making that choice. The choice to listen to our bodies. Once you do that you will hear all sorts!!
As I read this amazing blog again, I remembered that in the early days of computers there were comedy sketches about nightmare scenarios where computerised entities take over humanity. But if we allow our own CPU, the mind, to run the show, are we in fact letting this happen in reality? Is the mind without its connection to the heart precisely this eventuality?
I feel there is deep truth in the suggestion that the heart connects us all to our ‘collective potential’ as human beings. The possibility of us all working together as a one unified race is one of those things that warms and expands my heart for sure.
Learning to listen to our bodies is one of the most fundamental things we need to re-learn in society today. Not wait until it is full of illness and disease or trying to tell us something time and time again, but we are so disconnected that it is impossible to hear it. This is what is going to change the way we live, when we learn to listen.
I did not know this research existed about the heart which is very interesting because growing up we get taught that the mind is the center of the body so to speak yet it is just a processing centre. My mind has often made me do things that were not rational that only led to exhaustion of my body. Yet since listening more to my whole body my health has truly benefitted and life got so much more enjoyable. So I am all for listening more to my heart and whole body.
This is very refreshing to read, as I can feel it in my body. The choices I make from the mind most of the time are not appreciated by my body, but when I truly choose to listen to the incredibly intelligent heart it is supportive of the body. And there is no doubt about the truth, as the body already received whatever the truth is, before we even come to it with the thinking mind.
Trusting my heart with the major – and minor – decisions in life has never let me down. It is when I overthink things, analyse, get too heady about a decision that I get into trouble.
Overriding the wisdom of our body seems to bring some fairly clear consequences – a hangover being an obvious one. Yes, the body is brilliant at recovering its innate balance – but I feel we need to consider whether this is a reason to take advantage of the fact or to work in harmony with it. How might our lives be if we choose to work with our bodies rather than ask them to expend so much energy simply working to redress our unwise choices? We might – as Rachel Hall suggests – ‘surprise ourselves’.
One of the words that stands out for me in this blog is ‘processing’- ‘The mind in fact is a central processing unit’. We are familiar with central processing units these days in relation to computer functions but we don’t allow the unit to make key life decisions for us…do we? I am reminded of a comedy sketch where the customer service person refers all decisions to the computer and inevitably responds with the answer…’computer says no’. A computer is a wonderful tool supporting us to do what we choose in life, but it is not a replacement for the innate wisdom we know in our bodies and never will be. To me, the connection to our body and this innate wisdom is crucial if we are to learn to live more harmoniously together – as I feel the vast majority, if not all of us would choose.
It makes a great deal of sense to me that we see and embrace the body as one whole being rather than in parts. Things such as common sense are so much more than mental constructs – but a sense that is all encompassing and a deep feeling of knowing in the body. We have missed a trick by become head-centric in our thinking, ignoring the indubitable wisdom of the body. Thank you Dr Rachel Hall for bringing scientific fact to what we can all feel within.
Thank you for explaining more about the cardio-centric way of life, one that honours the intelligence of the body and doesn’t assume that it is all in the mind. We have much to learn about how it all truly is and works.
So beautifully described Rachel. It makes so much sense. I have been doing my best to put this theory into practice and I feel it is really making a difference in my daily activities and quality of life. For instance, my mind can be leading me astray with self-negating thoughts, however when I stop to feel into the truth of my body there is a stillness and harmony and my heart sits beating gently and warm. How is it possible to have such stark contrast residing within different body parts of the same body? Then when I walk and I connect into the movements of my body and I stop focusing on the ceaseless barrage of self-sabotaging thoughts, I feel a delightful easy flow and more silence, harmony, lightness and stillness within. I am realising a truth in the saying, “the mind can be a wonderful servant but a dreadful master”. I am now listening more intently to my heart and the movements of my body for a greater harmony and quality of life. When the mind says one thing and it feels untrue, go into the heart and movements of the body to find the true you.
There is a lot to reflect on in what you have written Rachel. One thing that certainly stands out for me is just how much wisdom we have have lost over thousands of years by placing our minds on a pedestal while virtually dismissing the intelligence of our bodies. It shows me just how unintelligent humans can be when they rely primarily on their brains to determine a course of action!
Thankfully there are now people starting to talk about and research what has been there all along, ie that our bodies, especially our hearts, are very intelligent and can discern the truth of matters more accurately than our brains. It may take a while for this knowledge to return to being mainstream understanding, but the swing back is thankfully happening.
‘The heart is the overseer of the whole intelligence of the body and science is only just beginning to tap into and understand the wisdom of the heart, a wisdom that has been spoken of and recorded by many cultures, religions and scholars.’ I am beginning to understand more deeply what the wisdom of the heart is – it is connection through my body with the pulse of the whole of the universe – all that IS. There is an alignment to be made to this that makes it an act of co-creation.
‘Yet the body is in fact a massive network of nerve and energy pathways that communicate with one another, sending signals and instructions from one part of the body to another, cell by cell.’ This sentence alone stopped me in my tracks to appreciate that being alive and consciously typing these letters is a miracle in itself – the body is a miracle and the word intelligent does not nearly describe its magnificence.
How wonderful that our heart has an intelligence independent of the brain… There is definitely hope for humanity with this understanding… Now all we have to do is live by this intelligence and not by the dictates of our mind.
The part is only that a part. How often do we listen to the part before the illness comes to the the body as a whole?
When we talk of intelligence, we rave on about how intelligent we might be if we used All of our brain. What if we used all of our body? Maybe much of the complexity of life would be revealed in its simplicity, and we would not have to dedicate so much time to thinking.
This is a truly informative read Rachel, I have learnt so much from your sharing and have a new appreciation for the whole of my body and its intelligence thanks to you.
The wisdom of my body is a truth I cannot deny and the only science experiment I need is my observation of my own body and the way it shows me the truth in each and every moment.
We tend to categorise intelligence as from the head. We hold thinking and problem solving in such high regard. But as you have shared here Rachel – our whole bodies are intelligent. They allow for things to happen to and within them to ultimately communicate with us on some level. I develop a cold – where is my level of self care at. I have soft and tender skin, it is a reflection of the way I treat my body. I do not want to see what is being shown to me, I get an eye problem. Our bodies have endless depths of wisdom because they are a constant reflection to us of what is needed to look at and feel
Thanks Rachel. This subject is definitely worth more discussion so that people can understand why they struggle with trying to mentally control situations without realising why things often fall down time after time. In our minds we build up images and ideas about how things could/should be, only to find that reality doesn’t match our expectations. If people realised that their hearts and bodies held their true intelligence, it would make a world of difference to how people could live their lives with much more honesty and simplicity, free from the ‘torture’ of a racing, chaotic mind.
Most of us don’t tend to leave a lot of room to listen to our heart or feel what is true or not from the heart. If we did, how much simpler would day to day life be? I am certainly a novice, finding sometimes the radiance and expansion in my chest quite strong and at other times wondering where has that loving feeling in my chest gone and how can I get it back. There is a big clue within this blog about connecting and listening to the body; so perhaps this is the gateway to re-connecting with the love in our hearts.
Rachel Hall, this blog, like the healing power when connected to our heart was like drinking an elixir. An alchemy of science, medicine, truth, philosophy and love.
I have a dear friend that often draws on critical analysis, research and logic to understand the world and make decisions. We were discussing a choice I have to make and I said, even with my own doubt what it was I felt in my heart to do. My friend immediately stopped the conversation stating ‘well that’s it then’ revealing to me the power of the heart to break through mental constructs and ideals – the power of the heart that resides within us all equally always.
Each time I read this blog I am more aware of how the body is constantly communicating with us if we are open to hearing. There is always a choice to accept this or ignore. Having ignored a lot in the past has left me feeling a definite ill ease that always comes to the surface sooner or later.
We need to challenge the age old paradigm that the brain is the sole centre of intelligence, and this blog goes a great way to challenging that. After all, where do thoughts come from. Something I have noticed over time, is that I can change my stance, or my posture, or even better the way I walk, and immediately the quality of my thoughts change. Cross my arms, and I become defensive. Open my arms, and I find it hard to be aggressive towards another.
Thank you Rachael, a really powerful and informative article to re read again. I have been so run by my mind most of my life, it has taken time, little by little to tune in and trust and feel what my body, in its amazing intelligence is telling me. Inspiring to read.
“Listening to and feeling the feedback of the body via the heart can allow for more supportive and harmonious choices that lead to better health and improved moods and energy levels”.
This sentence says it all really, simple yet very powerful and wise.
I loved rereading your blog Rachel, so much knowledge and wisdom to inspire us all, thank you.
A powerful article Rachel Hall, offering great insight as to the phenomenal workings of the body as a whole. This exposes how we tend to reduce ourselves in believing that the mind is the most important part when we choose to live the majority of our life through it alone, rather than bringing awareness to the body and listening to its incredible and profound innate wisdom always on offer for us to act upon.
When becoming more aware of the body harmony can be restored to our daily living.
“Listening to and feeling the feedback of the body via the heart can allow for more supportive and harmonious choices that lead to better health and improved moods and energy levels. If we choose to live, eat and care for ourselves based on what the body and the heart are telling us, then perhaps we might realise that true intelligence resides in the whole body and not in the head!”
I love to come back and read this blog about the body and how intelligent it really is – its innate wisdom – it fascinates me all of the complexities of how it all works together harmoniously and on the other hand the simplicity of it all. How different our health system would be if we were taught this from a young age and all listened and paid attention to our bodies.
” If we choose to live, eat and care for ourselves based on what the body and the heart are telling us, then perhaps we might realise that true intelligence resides in the whole body and not in the head!” So many pearls of wisdom in this article Rachel. Thankyou.
“..why then are we not taught to listen to or tune in to the wisdom within our body? Given that the body is innately wise, surely it would make sense for us to pay attention to it, to listen to it and in particular the messages from the heart such that we may live more instinctively and intuitively?” So true Rachel. And why isn’t this taught in schools and hospitals – and for all training in education and health too?
Thank you Rachel, this is such a great article to re read, and what you share, this needs to be taught as part of the education of health care for all.
”Yet the body is in fact a massive network of nerve and energy pathways that communicate with one another, sending signals and instructions from one part of the body to another, cell by cell. ” Here we are trying to tell what it needs to do with our minds. It simply does not work in truth. We might try.
This article shows us that:..” that the heart has its own intelligence, that the heart IS intelligent, is capable of giving instructions to the brain and communicating directly with us. Thus it is now being affirmed by science that “instinct”, “sixth sense” and “intuition” come from the heart.’’.
Also it does not make any sense that our mind ‘is the creator of intelligence’ as if it was, and it was the most intelligent, it would never suggest actions that lead to harming our body.
And very well said about our whole body working and connecting together. As our physical bodies prove us that ‘a body’ is actually very well capable of energizing itself and make it work together with all the organs. It again, would make no sense to live in a way that is disturbing this bodily well working organism (body) by making unloving choices from our mind. Thank you Rachel Hall.
That is a great question Rachel, why are we not taught to tune into the wisdom of the body in this way? We have lost or forgotten the art of living more intuitively and in connection with the body. How much simpler life could be if we did stop and listen to the innermost workings of the heart more. There are many things we just would no longer do full stop.
I love re reading this blog there is so much inspiring truth in it. The intricate yet simple workings of the body as a whole amaze me.
Rachel I felt to re read your sharing on the intelligence of the Heart again. I always find something new and inspiring in your blog. I will definitely take more time to connect to my Heart.
I love reading this blog Rachel, thank you for an easy to understand explanation of the intelligence of the heart, this is what should be taught in conjunction with academia.
I agree Joe this is a powerful article it offers so much insight into the phenomenal workings of the body. “Listening to and feeling the feedback of the body via the heart can allow for more supportive and harmonious choices that lead to better health and improved moods and energy levels. If we choose to live, eat and care for ourselves based on what the body and the heart are telling us, then perhaps we might realise that true intelligence resides in the whole body and not in the head!” I love it.
As a registered nurse you can tend to get quite bogged down in the education of how the heart is a pump and that other body tissues and organs only have physical functions. I have discovered through Universal Medicine and many brilliant people affiliated with it that there are very practical ways to explore heart, connective tissue, other vital organs and really the whole body as a very intelligent, informative organism.
‘The human heart contains an intelligence independent from the brain that can be a source of guidance for our individual lives and for our collective potential as human beings.’ The fact that the mind convinces us to undertake actions like overeating smoking, drinking, doing drugs etc. tells us that it might not be such a good idea to let that part of the body be in charge of what we do. The way we feel emotionally is a direct result of what we subjectively think up in the brain about the situation we are in.
Thank you Rachel, for sharing more deeply an understanding of the heart’s intelligence, it is amazing how this lives within all of us, and that most of our lives have been lived from the processes of our mind, not knowing the innate intelligence that we all have, and that if we lived from our heart centre how amazingly, our lives would change.
Such an important message you have shared with the world Rachel. Thank you.
“Listening to and feeling the feedback of the body via the heart can allow for more supportive and harmonious choices that lead to better health and improved moods and energy levels.” A lesson in this I have experienced just today. By allowing myself to keep my body posture as such with an open heart – without my shoulders turned inwards. I started to feel horribly anxious, depressed and exhausted the longer I remained sitting down when my mind was being fed thoughts of ‘Go for a walk’ so I get up and as soon as I get out the door it’s like a thick blanket was taken off of me! I loved my walk and feel more energised that doing the task at my computer that my mind previously in a tone practically baring down at me would of had me do. Allowing the heart to be open and say what it has to say I am in less doubts (without perfection I still follow any thoughts my mind is given without checking if they come from my heart/body or not) now that this is the way to true health.
It is amazing how much value we have placed upon the intelligence of the mind when the heart and body in fact and in truth so clearly are where true intelligence reside. For myself I can feel the difference and I know since choosing to live more and more in my body and following my heart, life has felt much truer. That warmth you speak of is something I too have felt and it is confirmation to me that what I have chosen or connected to is true. My heart has never truly led me astray and its wisdom and that of my body teach and reveal so much more to me every day.
Beautiful Jade. I was stopped in my track reading Rachel’s point about discerning if the thoughts in the mind come through the heart. I have never considered asking myself this question before and it feels like a game changer as it will make it impossible to be untruthful about what is love and what is not.
This is such a great article Rachel! It is incredible how compartmentalized the world is and even medicine who knows perfectly how the body works treats all its parts in separated boxes. What a reductionism of this amazing bodily system. The world is full of people who totally disrespect their bodies and focus only on the mind, but what is it actually that they are transmitting then, when they have totally reduced themselves to this one part. As you describe Rachel, if not coming from our hearts and the whole body what is it that the brain in a dysfunctional body is able to bring?
We have come so far away from the true meaning of intelligence is and because the words “heart” and “love” have been bastardised in their own way, it is understandable that people could be dismissive about the heart holding intelligence. But, when presented with some deeper truths about the heart as presented by Dr Rachel Hall above ‘The heart also has an energy field, called the energetic heart, which is coupled to a field of information that is not bound by the classical limits of time and space’, it starts to make sense that perhaps there is another way to be, another way to live that does not involve the mind the way we currently understand and use it. A way for the mind to live in connection to the body and to our inner-heart or Soul, rather than separate from it. True intelligence coming from our bodies and our hearts – the whole being. Makes a lot of sense.
Rachel I find so much in this blog, some I know and some I didn’t and such a great explanation of how the Heart works in conjunction with our bodies and brain. It is truth that If I listen to my Heart, it is always Loving and truthful. If I listen to my brain instead, it can bend the truth and excuse my slip ups , when I need to take responsibility for these, for the sake of my body.
This is a great article Rachel – I actually learnt a lot from reading this. A lot I knew already from what I have experienced in my own body, but it was interesting to hear the science behind this and advancements in this area. I also enjoyed the discussion about intelligence – a completely different way of understanding what intelligence is compared with how we have generally come to understand it.
I have noticed that when I am ill, when I am tired, when I am in pain I actually tend to have different quality thoughts. I have also noticed that what I eat and drink, as well as how much I eat tends to affect the quality of my thinking and my thoughts. In fact whenever I have not taken care of myself in any way and my body is out of sorts, the quality of my thoughts suffers. It seems that when I deeply take care of myself, when I pay attention to and honour my body’s signals, this directly affects the level of my awareness, assessment of the situation, discernment and ability to make wise choices. Our body definitely has an intelligence, one that we would be very wise to appreciate, honour and listen to.
I really enjoyed this presentation Rachel, it opens up the discussion that the body “is in fact an intelligent organism capable of acting independently of the mind”…and if that is the case then we are responding and acting to way more than we think we are. There is undoubtedly a deeper understanding and way of being that comes from this intuitive level of the body. This should most definitely become part of any science and biology course, imagine if both patient and doctor knew this, there would be better health and improved moods and energy levels all round.
The head, or mental intelligence does not match the wisdom of my heart. My head gets tired, if I eat the wrong food it goes fuzzy, if I’m emotional it fails me altogether, but the heart is, as Golnaz says, a constant that I only need to listen to, and my body has it’s own intelligence also. I appreciate your detailed description of mind/heart intelligence Rachel, and can say that the science and my personal experience agree.
I love the way you have presented the various research providing evidence for the mind that it is not what it has puffed itself up to be. I know that my thinking gets affected by how tired I am, how emotional I am, what I have eaten and drank and if I have over-eaten. But in contrast, my heart if I listen to it is always constant, always loving, always feeling the truth about the situation and responding to what is here and now, as well as offering great wisdom that can enlighten and guide my thinking.
We are so much more than a head on a stick. Our senses derive their intelligence from the whole body, and yet we often overrate how much information is made available to us and is acted upon without relying upon the thought processes of the brain. We sense to move out of the way of a collision, we feel a sharp object and move before the brain even interprets what is going on. We anticipate the path of an incoming object at speed with a grace that belies the capacity of our intellect to make such an informed decision. All of this intelligence is coming from the body, and yet we conveniently choose to honour only that one little organ at the top of our head, ignoring the fact that true intelligence arises as a result of the interplay of every single cell in our body.
We sure are much more than a head on a stick Adam. The intelligence of the human body is fascinating and often something we take for granted until we suffer a stop through dis-ease in the body.
An awesome well researched article Rachel – to learn to live, feel and think with our hearts is definitely the way forward for humanity. As we have seen through our horrible history using just the head and brain hasn’t worked. I love this part quoted:
“So what if we chose to listen to the messages from our body, especially our heart, and made lifestyle and dietary choices based on those messages rather than waiting until we become ill? Why wait for science to play catch up to what the intelligence of the body already knows and is communicating to us – but which we are not listening to?”
Our minds and thoughts can lead us astray to choose things that are not healthy for our bodies and health, yet our hearts, when we choose to listen, never lie or distort the truth there is simply a knowing of what is true or not true.
A very interesting and informative blog Rachel thank you, I live in my head and thoughts a lot of the time, but am learning to connect to my heart more and more. The absolute clarity and knowing my heart brings and the loving choices I choose for my body are a joy to behold.
“Thus, although the mind is a great central processing unit for all the messages in the body, it is not the true source of intelligence that we have been falsely lead to believe it is.” This is very important to realise. Thank you Rachel for an amazing article on the science of the body.
Yes Katinka I also would love the world to read that as a headline… It would be an equaliser if we were to understand True Intelligence!
I honestly feel the mind to be the most cruel of companions if we allow it to run the show with out the heart leading the way. I love this article and could read it over and over again Rachel, thank you for putting the different research together in one place super helpful.
“The body therefore has intelligence throughout it, rather than discrete isolated sections working independently to each other which is the impression we get when we only focus and rely on the brain in separation to the body.” I love this and I love the clarity of your article Rachel. Great to see that science is slowly catching up to what Serge Benahyon has been presenting since 2000.
This is a great article, presenting something I have learned over the past couple of years, our bodies are far more intelligent that our brain is. The heart is connected to all and responds almost instantly, when feeling something is not right or something is right.
So true Rachel, sometimes the things that my head tell me in response to situations are just not true and if I followed that would just make matters worse, however when I come from connecting to the heart and then making a decision, it is entirely different. The approach is much more loving and it doesn’t create further tension but brings people together.
What a spot on article. The current research confirms what has been said in ancient text throughout the ages.
The thinking centre of the human being has been said to be the heart from ancient cultures such as ancient Greece and Egypt. In Egypt when mummifying their dead they didn’t preserve the brain in a jar like other organs but rather discarded it.
Beautiful article Rachel, presenting the question of heart over brain so well. Certainly we need both functions, however I love the point you make.. “When we connect to the heart we align with a deeper source of intuitive intelligence, which produces an increased flow of intuitive information that is communicated to the brain resulting in a stronger connection with our inner voice thus allowing us access to the largely untapped potential within”.. The heart does seem to know much faster than the thoughts we get, and i suppose we recognise this when we just get that knowing feeling about something, when there isn’t ‘proof’ in front of our eyes.
“The human heart contains an intelligence independent from the brain that can be a source of guidance for our individual lives and for our collective potential as human beings.” Yes, learning to listen to what my body – and heart – are telling me is so much more fruitful than listening to my brain. My mind can lead me on a merry dance, enticing me to eat, do and try all sorts of things that are not supportive for my body. On the other hand, if I listen to my body, and adjust my choices, I can feel its truth.
Understanding that our body feels first and our brain is playing catch up is mind -boggling.
A great article, Rachel, thanks for putting it together. I especially like “it is the body that has to live with the consequences of all the choices made from our mind”. Oh yeahhh…. my body is a case in point! The mind may think it’s making the right decisions, but if they lead to illness and disorder, it means the thinking itself was wrong. The mind doesn’t love, it can only conceptualize love and could this be why it can (unlovingly) dismiss the body’s needs so easily?
But I know that when I love from my heart, it glows with a spacious, healing sensation of warmth throughout my whole body that others can feel as well as I do, and this cannot be said of any mental ‘version’ of love, the ultimate unifier and harmonizer. True intelligence in action.
I agree Dianne. As someone who has always prized mental intelligence, I am finding it a slow turn around to learn to stop and listen to my body and place the thoughts second. This isn’t because I don’t feel the difference (as you have well described), but more because my mind is very tenacious about it’s prized position as the ‘top dog’ even though I accept that I have had it the wrong way around. But each time I capture my mind running the show, I remind myself that I am creating more space and opportunity for me to strengthen my ability to to hear my body’s messages.
Awesome awareness Dianne. “The mind may think it’s making the right decisions, but if they lead to illness and disorder, it means the thinking itself was wrong.” Impossible to argue against, even though the mind will probably have a good go!
Beautifully put Dianne, our minds can so easily override our bodies and hearts needs your so right.
Our minds can justify and make excuses be cunning, whereas our hearts make choices from love for oneself and all others.
Great reminder Dianne ” the mind doesn’t love, it can only conceptualise love” yes this is why we can disregard the inner hearts communications and wind up with a body that’s showing the direct results, broken bones, illness and disease as the mind doesn’t have any regard or love for the body it inhabits.
This is such an awesome blog, Rachel. It has reminded me of what I love about science, and how in its truest form it is about asking the questions about how we live with an innocence and wonder that seems sorely missing in many important areas of science today.
I have found that my mind is really great at focussing on one particular thing or problem, but when it comes to taking in the whole along with what makes up the whole it does not do so well. My mind either sees it as a single unit without any parts to it or it sees all the separate parts, but has a hard time sensing the connections between them all. However, if I connect to my heart and ponder on a complex system (the human body for example) the interplay between all that is going on in the body from a physical to emotional to divine level all comes together as a beautiful dance of expression.
What I feel and hear from my body and heart is very simple.
We are that much more than our mind wants us to believe and it is time that we become aware of this fact that it is not so wise to be guided by the mind since it is capable to act completely disconnected from our bodies where the true intelligence resides. Thank you Rachel Hall for presenting all this information about the intelligence of the heart and body as this is of great support in making humanity aware of these facts we collectively have walked away from.
As I open up to the possibility of what my heart holds, I am discovering a deeper and all encompassing intelligence that I could never have imagined or searched for.
In my experience the intelligence of our body and heart is seriously under appreciated and held lesser than knowledge that we can recall from our mind. We need both, not one in isolation from another!
Rachel to bring back the fact that it is our body that is intelligent instead of the mind blows away my education where it was all about what I could remember and the test scores i could complete. Yet we all innately know the body is intelligent – often I don’t think I get sick I start to feel my body tired or sick, or pushing its-self. I then can choose to listen to this and look at why or override it. Yet it’s my mind that overrides what my body is telling me. Looking at it this way the mind is not only not the intelligent one it is actually anti-intelligent.
I really do love articles such as these Rachel, as the body is one fascinating part of life and on many levels it really is the marker of all truth. I find that getting to really know one’s body on a very intimate level really highlights the simplicity of how our bodies really work and how simple they really are. Rhythms are huge here and having your body in it’s own rhythm is enormous when it comes to living life truly harmoniously.
I am always in awe of the depth of information and wealth of learnings within your articles Rachel. I especially love what you wrote about the heart being the conductor of the body, overseeing the brain’s intelligence… and that science is beginning to prove what Serge Benhayon spoke of years ago – that the heart possesses an undeniable wisdom that we can listen to, make choices from and live by… or choose to override this wisdom with the mind and deny ourselves the enormity of the true intelligence available to us.
What a great profound and deeply impressing article about the heart being the center of true intelligence and communication internal and with the world, as the heart is e.g. able to know/feel the future. It makes so much sense to rely on the heart and the body with all its innate ability of communication and living in a community (of cells, embedded in the world, embedded in the universe from the beginning on! What a meander to rely mainly on the mind. It creates a world that is so much less, than we are able to unfold trusting on the true intelligence of the body. Although it is challenging for a mind-focused society to let go of its false center of decisions and communication it is so much worth it, even more, it is the only way to stop just surviving.
For a lot of people this is the world up side down: true intelligence is in your body, not your head. I absolutely agree. The more I am connected with my body and listen to that what it is communicating the more intelligence is there for me and everybody around me.
Thank you Rachel for sharing this beautiful breakdown of the importance and intelligence of the heart. We are all aware that it has been referred to historically as more than a pump, and this really does go deeper with that to show the beauty of the heart being a conductor of our cells and our body. The body can be an amazing guide for us if we let it .
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Love this article!
So True Simon, Rachel nails it with this blog. Cardio-neurology, is a great development and it is science catching up with what has been said in the ageless wisdom…we are so much more than a mind.
This is a great article Rachel giving us an in depth explanation of the workings of the heart, brain and body. This should be taught in schools, starting simply and gradually moving to the more complex information in the later years. Students would be more prepared in handling the stress/pressure in that final year of school and beyond.
Our bodies really are magnificent. Articles like this one really show us how multi-faceted our bodies are. Not only are we physical beings but we also have aspects that cannot necessarily be measured with current instruments or standards. We can however ‘measure’ these aspects with feeling. Presenting how we are feeling to our medical practitioners is an important part of our care. More and more people’s feelings are being incorporated into scientific research, where they weren’t before. This shift is important, as we discover more and more how much the body knows and communicates with us.
I love this Amelia it is so true that our bodies are so much grander than they appear to be, I have always been amazed at the sheer detail of both the physical science of the human body but also of what is allowed to come through it and everything else that we are but cannot necessarily measure, quite incredible
Reading this blog again and again as I do really increases the depth of appreciation I have for my body and the amazingness of the way it works. After being so ignorant as to how it even works and the location of most body parts, abusing and taking my body for granted for so many years, I have now developed a deep appreciation of it.
Thank you Rachel, Well said and presented, to give more validation to what the body and heart tells us. That there is intelligence there. My mind forgets to turn the sprinkler off in the garden and yet the heart never misses a beat in my chest.
Great article Rachel, the heart is at the centre of our world and body. Living life from this centre, can only make sense and it is the heart that we all wish to feel in all that we do.
Wow Rachel this is a great read and the second time I have read it. There is no argument from me the body is the marker of truth and when the mind aligns with the body and stands in the energy field of the heart – love – then there is great intelligence.
So true Paul. Great intelligence never comes from the mind first, as we have always been taught, but from the communication from our bodies to our mind. The body is a more reliable source of information, as it incorporates all of us, instead of the brain operating singularly.
It really makes no sense the way I lived most of my life, pretty much ignoring my body and taking it for granted. Abusing my body with heavy physical work, alcohol, food, lack of sleep, and driving it with energy for outside forces with no regard for the body at all. Totally overriding any message it gave me through pain or even feeling tired and not resting, really makes ponder on how awful that life style was. The fact is I really made my body so numb to avoid feeling the emotional pain of my life, so I barely felt any of the messages anyway.
Reading this article and others like it really makes me appreciate the working of a healthy body. I now really appreciate my body, re-connect to it, listen to the messages it gives me and respond with the nurturing and support it is asking for, in the way of what I eat, how and when I sleep and being gentle with myself.
Margaret I know that lifestyle I also lived in complete disregard to the bodies communications. It didn’t serve me and I developed Asthma in my 50’s followed by a removal of a tumour which resulted in a hysterectomy seemingly out of nowhere! That lifestyle is in the past and I now listen to my whole body’s communications … interesting if I look back on the STOPS I had I can now see they were a direct result of the choices I made and allowed to be my life of overriding the directions and intelligence my body would have been saying very loudly.
How many of us wait until we are struck down by illness before we make serious lifestyle changes or even after a serious illness that has been patched up or cured by the medical profession go back to the reckless unloving way we treated ourselves before. It’s time to stop the numbing and listen to what our bodies are trying to tell us. Thanks Rachel for reminding me that the whole of the body is intelligent, especially the heart.
Thank you Rachel- a very needed discussion.
I say Yes! We constantly know how we feel, what hurts, etc. We know our bodies communicate to us, what I believe is that the world has never been taught to realise what our body is actually doing. The vital importance of something we take for granted, and something I am re-learning by the simple truths of Universal Medicine.
True, our body is always communicating to us, but whether we listen to it or not, is through our choices.
The body is what takes us through our days, it responds to our surroundings and food we put into it,. We should be treating our bodies with the utmost respect, as it houses us. Then the heart, wow, thank you Rachel for your very informative blog.
“If we choose to live, eat and care for ourselves based on what the body and the heart are telling us, then perhaps we might realise that true intelligence resides in the whole body and not in the head!” I love this reminder Rachel, and it has been my experience that the more that we honour the body and listen to what it is ‘telling’ us and live that way, the greater access we have to true intelligence which is there when needed – no thinking required!
This is great Oliver and Lieke, and so the body requires a huge amount of respect and integrity to function at its natural rate, therefore we are only as intelligent as our last self-loving choice.
I love to re-read this blog I just find it amazing and so informative. Thanks for writing it Rachael. I like how “the heart is the overseer of the whole intelligence of the body” and the mind is not the most intelligent part of the body. The intelligence that comes from the heart feels so much more true than the head stuff.
The article is clear and well written and resonates with me, especially the bit about the heart center registering information ahead of the brain. I know this empirically. Back in the late fifties -(I’m seventy-six now) I was on a motorcycle with a female passenger. We stopped, at a certain point, and she asked if she could drive, so I agreed, I had a crash helmet, that a friend who was visiting at our house, fortuitously, urged me to take, so I gave it to my friend to wear -just then I felt a strong impression around the mid-chest, heart area, which wordlessly conveyed, unequivocally, to me not to keep going in the direction in which we were going -so I told my friend, she dismissed my strong impression, and told me not to be so silly (incidentally, she had a strong intellect, attending a school for the gifted); so off we went for about a quarter of a kilometer and got clobbered by a car, both of us thrown about six or seven meters. My friend landed on her head, and one leg later need fifty stitches; I was relatively uninjured. After reading Rachel’s article, for the first time I wondered if her well-developed brain precluded her from experiencing the same warning as me.
Anyway, had we stopped and decided to change our direction, I would never had known such things can occur. Like others, Rachel’s article is a reminder how much I’ve neglected guidance from the heart center.
Returning to your amazing article Rachel, has reminded me how little I have known about the inner, and outer, workings of the heart, but within what you have written there is so much for me to understand and marvel at. I have begun to understand that the mind is not the most intelligent part of the body that I had been led to believe that it was, and to now know that actually: “the heart is the overseer of the whole intelligence of the body”, is so confirming of that. What a life changing realisation!
“An important aspect is the discernment of the messages from the mind and whether they have come first via the heart or not.” This is key. There is an inner knowing to the heart but I often find thoughts get in the way and I doubt myself. As I cut out stimulating drinks and food or numbing (often comfort-type foods) from my diet I have more clarity and by taking more care of myself I become more centered and steady and by bringing more awareness to my body, and how it is feeling, I gain more confidence in understanding the messages it brings. This supports me to listen to my heart and not get carried away by what my head is telling me.
Thanks for a very informative article Rachel and one that I found supportive and confirming. You pose a great question ” Why wait for science to play catch up to what the intelligence of the body already knows and is communicating to us – but which we are not listening to.”
Truly thought provoking Rachel. The fact that the brain is not the one with the Wisdom and Love and intelligence but that our Heart is! That our bodies are where our intelligence lies also is something we all need to acknowledge.
It makes sense that we don’t know much of the intelligence of the heart. After all, it is the brain that is doing the investigating…
I love the way you have written this blog Rachel and it’s so meaningfull what you have presented. Living by the impulse of the heart offers so much evolution
We resort to the image of a hierarchical order to approach how the body works. The brain dictates the body executes. Yet, this image only explains so much. The image of the cells communicating with each other and adjusting to whatever is there denotes an intelligence that is yet to be appreciated and understood in full.
“I discovered that I could use that feeling of warmth as a barometer of what is true for me or not.” What a simple and enlightening discovery Rachel. Let my heart lead the way!
Reading your blog I remember when I first studied anatomy and physiology and how utterly and completely fascinated I was with the way of our body. How, from organs to the tiny molecules, everything about our body works in perfect harmony, and most of them involuntarily, to keep us going. There really is something, an order, in our body that makes sure that our body functions at its optimum. Thank you, Rachel, for reminding us how totally magical our body is.
That’s amazing, that there was knowledge of the intellect of the heart in the 1800’s and it has been ignored all this time. How could you ignore such amazing understanding? I’m baffled. Thank you for this great blog Rachel,
The way you explain the functioning of our bodies is humbling me Rachel Hall. It is bringing me down onto my feet and from my mind into my body, down into my heart. it is beautiful to read that what we already know about the higher connections of the heart, is now also scientifically proved. In a way this scientific confirmation helps me to fully claim to live my life in co-creation with my heart and body, and it helps me to stop relying on my mind as this is the creator of all the misery I have had in my life up to now.
What an excellent article. Thanks for taking the time to put it together. I found this very confirming and supportive. Regardless of how much science does find out, it’s still a really simple choice to honour our heart and whole body. It’s something we all can do. Loved every word, thank you.
I loved reading this Rachel, fascinating, isn’t the body and the heart marvellous!
I began conducting a science experiment with me as the subject, learning to feel more from my body and my heart than my head.
Whenever I get lost in my head my body tenses and hardens, I also knock into things or hurt myself in some way, it is remarkable to notice this. In contrast, connecting back to my body and allowing the wisdom of the heart to speak creates a flow and natural ease with whatever I am doing.
Thanks Rachel this is a great blog, such a comprehensive look at the intelligence of the heart and body as a whole, I really enjoyed it.
The saying “don’t let your heart rule your head” is the wrong way round it should be “don’t let your head rule your heart”. Thank-you for this well researched blog Rachel written from the heart and not the head.
“Don’t let your head rule your heart” is so true Deidre. Once one has started to live and make choices from a heart-connection, life starts to change in amazing ways and there is no going back. Imagine if we were all raised to listen to our heart and not our head. How different would society now be.
The trick with this heart businesses, I find, is creating a momentary marker somehow and then pulling-it into your everyday. For example I’ve learned to feel and give presence to all the parts of my body that touch my mattress before and after I sleep. Whilst beautiful to feel my body, I’m finding that developing a strong sensation or relationship with my extremities whilst walking is more practical, because I’m always walking and therefore, with practice, can always connect to those extremities (feet and limbs etc). It’s interesting to feel how natural it is being connected to your hands, feet and limbs, yet how much loving discipline it can take for someone like myself who lived almost entirely from my mind for years. It’s now all about living from my heart and in the body we must all start.
An informative blog that has so much information that I have never before considered Rachel! My Heart has always been actively trying to communicate with me but I have often put it down to other things. Palpitations when I am anxious or music too loud with base sound such as live music. I will respect the Hearts intelligence and listen more to what is expressed. Thank you Rachel.
Great blog Rachel, beautifully written and obviously from the heart. Thank you.
The signals come thick and fast but so do the signs to ignore them. By listening to the body we allow the truth to come through in volumes and the level of help and understanding deepens by far. A great blog and reminder to stop and listen more often.
A completely amazing blog that feels super supportive with its information, supportive to start to live listening to one’s heart and body and the amazing intelligence that is there to be found. From the depth of my heart, thank you Rachel for sharing your infinite wisdom and love.
Fantastic article Rachel, its incredible that we make choices from our mind when it is in complete diregard to the body and the heart it is with! Our super loving intelligent heart and body really does know it all.
How wonderful that our body is SO intelligent, and has such innate wisdom, and that all we have to do is to allow the sensitivity that is naturally us to return, and we will have a built in GPS to return us to our inner heart.
Thank you Rachel – everyone should be aware of the intelligence of the heart. It should not only be considered a pump or place of emotion. To read that our heart and brain are connected, that there is an energetic heart that has a very deep connection and intuition, and that our heart can ‘think’ independently to our brain is incredible and something science is only just exploring.
I love what is shared here – and I can really relate to how powerful the human body actually is.
Rachel throughout my schooling it was always about the brain, the brain is what thinks – our intelligence is in the mind. However what you have shared is the same as what I have come to understand and feel – that the real intelligence is in the body it is the whole and not simply the part. With the brain I also understand that it does not create anything itself but receives impulses and thoughts. How different from what I learnt at school. Makes me question – why were we not allowed to know the whole truth? Now I know that if I am connected and feeling my heart the intelligence that comes from there is far grander.
An absolutely wonderful article Rachel, one that I know I will return to as it is full of such heart-felt wisdom and much intriguing information. I have been understanding this more and more: “The body is a whole system where all the parts are communicating and interacting with each other and where change in one part affects the whole. ” Most people today appear to consider each part of their body as being separate from the others, and unfortunately as a result, are unable to understand the harm that many of today’s sports and leisure activities bring to them. I am sure that if they listened to their hearts instead of their minds before climbing the next mountain, racing around a track, snowboarding down the steepest run etc, the number of accidents and injuries would reduce. Time to teach this in schools!
Reading this has re-inspired me to connect in full with my body and heart!
Wow Rachel, this comes with such a deep appreciation of the heart and its intelligence – an utterly enjoyable read. If we had teachers in school talk like you, every student would be on the edge of their seat and anticipating the next lesson – we would be so eager to learn more.
And I spent all those years at Uni filling my head with knowledge yet no real understanding of life or the wisdom that comes from my very own body. Imagine a university with a class ‘Your Body 101’. Now that would be a game changer.
How beautiful it is to read so simply and clearly that we have a built in roadmap to bring ourselves home, our own body, and that all we have to do is to tune in and everything we need to know will be there. Thank You Rachel
I loved reading and rereading this blog Rachel, thank you for your wisdom and inspiration
The information you presented helped me understand more fully the “workings”, function and purpose of the heart (inner heart)
Thanks for this blog Rachel, it is beautiful to read how intricate and amazing our bodies are.
There is no doubt that the heart is an amazing organ. It is fascinating to read what you have written here Rachel and very confirming of what we all innately know.
Thanks Rachel for writing and sharing this post, your ability to combine science and wisdom as well as make it accessible for all to understand is rarely done with this kind of sensibility and credibility. Dare I say you may be ahead of your time or rather a pioneer for a future where science and wisdom are inseparable.
My head has betrayed me many times, in fact it can badger, my body too can badger but it has never betrayed me like my mind – my body simply shows me what I have chosen. I know my heart can be very responsive, becoming felt and alive in my body, especially when I am more settled and aware of my body, it is like it wakes up and I can feel it get warm and expansive. By knowing my heart by this warm and expanded feeling I can adjust my posture, especially my shoulders when I lose the felt connection to my heart and it helps, especially when I sit at a computer and in meetings.
Our body is so delicate yet very powerful. A well written blog Rachel.
Indeed, and the more love and care we bring to it, the more it will let us feel what magic there is inside of us.
I’m finding more and more at the moment that not listening to the body and heart is a big mistake as my mind seems to be working over time to trick me into making bad decisions about food. I am at the sea side for the Easter break and not listening to my body decided to have some fish and chips. My stomach has ballooned to to the size of a large watermelon. Love this blog Rachel and look forward to the day science catches up to what we all already know already.
“The body is a whole system where all the parts are communicating and interacting with each other and where change in one part affects the whole. ” There is no cheating or shortcuts it is one incredible machine that needs to be loved and looked after.
Very true Nicole. There is no cheating or shortcuts. The body registers and logs everything. And it has very intelligent ways of dealing with our choices that are wayward to our true essence and expression, illness and disease is a great example of this. Loving and taking care of ourself and our body is a great place to start.
Really interesting blog, thanks Rachel. I have always been fascinated by the body’s incredible intelligence that naturally regulates and maintains itself, constantly bringing balance and regeneration, whereas the brain can override the body as it uses its form of intelligence that often is not so good for the body. The two most definitely can be linked to work together harmoniously, but in many cases the brain overrides the body, unwisely so.
Thank you Rachel for a very simple but informative blog, it was obviously written from the inteligence of your heart
I am getting used listening to and hearing subtle messages from my heart, until recently they were always over ridden by my racy mind.
The times I do allow the mind to take over, I catch it, realise what’s happened and bring myself back to my heart, the joy is, the/my truth is always there.
So much wisdom from the head down to tap into and accept.
Brilliant Rachel, thank you so much. This is a study that is for all and is ageless in its wisdoms. If people and the medical system really accepted that our true intelligence comes from our heart and bodies, then they would also come to realise that good medicine comes from living with increasing self loving and caring choices. In this way we are all our own practitioners, for the state of our bodies and lives are our responsibilities. What relief this would be for our over burdened, desperately struggling health care system.
Thank you Rachel for making time and space to write this blog from your heart. Amazing to consider that we all carry this wisdom within, just waiting for us to connect and listen. I ❤ this blog and the heart's way.
Brilliant article Rachel. If our mind is as intelligent as it is made out to be then why is it that we are misled by our thoughts. We all have at some stage had some great “brainwave”, put it into practise and had it come crashing down around us. The mind tries – the body knows.
If people were to understand reincarnation then perhaps we would pay more attention to our bodies. At present – and I feel it will only increase as time goes on – is the arrogance we have around modern medicine. I hear countless people say they will have a remedy for that or I will get a new one of those in years to come when questioned about their bodies and how they treat them. We have the ability to keep the body going a lot longer than it should through medicinal and modern technology, but for many of us that has led to an ignorance of caring for our body and an attitude of “I’ll fix it when it is broken”.
Thank you for such an informative article. From my own experience I have found that when I take the time to listen, my body and heart are only too willing to communicate with me, whether I choose to acknowledge the messages from my body or go with my head the different outcomes are often very obvious. The difference being the choices made from my head are usually self serving and not necessarily in the best interests of the situation or anyone involved, and those made from listening to my body/heart benefit not only my health and wellbeing but serve and benefit everyone involved in the choice/decision/action taken. It would then seem an obvious choice to go with the body/heart but for me it is still a learning to truly listen as my head often still wants to leadl!
Lovely to read your comment Rosemary, I’m still learning, too, sometimes my head still gets in the way of those more beneficial choices of the heart. Work in progress!
Great Nicole, if we just listened to our bodies and heart at that christmas lunch, then would we eat until we could only sleep or at least feel lethargic? So much energy is used to digest food especially when we over eat. Maybe we could listen to our body and stop eating before it feels overloaded?
True intelligence really does reside in our bodies and your fantastic blog is a testament to that. Thank you Rachel this was an extraordinary blog.
Another great article Rachel, thank you. I particularly love the part.. “If we choose to live, eat and care for ourselves based on what the body and the heart are telling us, then perhaps we might realise that true intelligence resides in the whole body and not in the head!” Trying this (even if its just for one day) is a great experiment to notice all the things that attempt to question and doubt. It certainly exposes that there is more going on, in and around us, if indeed everything is about energy!
This is such a powerful article Rachel and a testament to your connection to and appreciation of your heart’s intelligence. It needs to be spread far and wide. I know when my heart is ignited so to speak because I feel a physical sensation as well. Your writing here (it is more than a blog!) has made me pause and feel how much more attention I can give to my heart and body. I still get caught in ‘nervous energy’ which means that I am overriding my heart’s intelligence as it is the heart which responds and confirms what is true. Thank you and I look forward to hearing more about this from you Rachel!
I love your writing Rachel, thank you. I agree in full the body is super intelligent and the wisdom contained within is the only self help guide we need 🙂
This is a gem of an article, it articulates with such simple reasoning the rationale of listening to the heart. This phrase is often considered wishy washy or touchy feely but as you show Rachel it is more entwined with science than we as a race have given credit to up until now. It is quite amazing what the heart can show us if we are willing to separate ourselves from the constant chatter and motion of our days.
I love what you write Rachel – and in particular I am pondering on the fact that when the body and all its parts work together in harmony, there are no discreet and isolated sections working independently of each other (which is an instant separation from the natural way of being). This too I feel applies to many other areas in life and not just the body – when we separate ourselves from others/society/etc then there is that loss of harmony. I know I have experienced that in relationships – this feeling of disconnectedness, but again this can be brought back to the body and by focusing on my connection with myself (heart and body) as opposed to the mind over the body, I can bring back a more natural way of being with myself and those around me – and suddenly these relationships feel that much more complete and fulfilling once again.
Thank you Rachel for some very interesting reading – makes me feel that what Plato said back in the days makes much sense. That to know what’s going on both inside our body and outside of it we have to consider the whole and not just one part of the body. We seem to learn pretty slow when the mind still is considered as the mighty one, but there seems to be great progress toward us knowing more of what is truly going on, which is great.
I love the old saying ‘The body speaks volumes”. Your article highlights this for me once again. Thank you!
This is a fantastic blog Rachel. You explained so clearly and simply the true role of the heart. I love that science is finally catching up to a truth that is my experience and the experience of others thanks to the presentations of Esoteric Medicine by Serge Benhayon. The heart receives first and if we simply connect to our heart, all that we need to know is there for us all.
Thank you Rachel I love this blog. Before meeting Serge Benhayon 11 years ago and attending his presentations, I came across The Institute of HeartMath and read about their work. Hence when I met Serge Benhayon and he talked about the intelligence of the heart this concept was not new to me and in fact one I felt to be true. With so much research now supporting this concept, it begs the question as you say, ‘why then are we not taught to listen to or tune in to the wisdom within our body?’ My experience has been that ‘listening to and feeling the feedback of the body via the heart can allow for more supportive and harmonious choices that lead to better health and improved moods and energy levels’. I am living proof of that!
I think we really do underestimate the intelligence of the body. As so clearly outlined by Rachel there is much we can learn about how to live our lives if we just choose to listen. Something I am in the process of doing more and more of.
I enjoyed re-reading this blog Rachel as it got me wondering: If we give so much focus to such a small part of us (The mind) then how much energy and force are we using to hold back not feeling what the body and heart are saying especially when you wrote that it “[The heart] send[s] more signals to the brain than the brain sends to it “. It would make a lot of sense then as to why exhaustion is so rampant if everyday we go about our lives in a constant, non-stop fight to ignore what our whole body is trying to tell us!
Rachel to read your words of appreciation for the wonder of the human body and all the wisdom that lies within is a true celebration – thank-you. Whilst humanity continues its mind/brain driven path there lies within the body an intelligence that once connected to will impart true harmony.
I really love this blog Rachel – I love the way you explain how our body really functions.
Rachel I was fascinated to read that you could use the strength of the warmth in your heart as an indicator to make decisions from. Your explanation of how intuition works makes a lot of sense to me.
LOVE the science behind all of this. Confirms everything that I have been re-connecting with through listening to my own body a lot more in my life.
Rachel what became incredibly clear to me whilst reading your article is that we have been prevented from connecting to our bodies in their natural state by two main means. Firstly, our minds have been occupied by an increasing array of stimulation and secondly, our bodies have been almost continually kept from their natural state by the constant drip feeding of foods that stimulate/dull/ sport/drugs/hobbies etc. It seems that the whole world is set up to keep us from connecting to our inner hearts, because then we would discover who we really are. And who are we? We are the sons and daughters of God.
Perhaps so little attention has been given to the phenomenal intelligence our heart has because no one else can manipulate that intelligence as they can our brains, thought based intelligence. We get a cross current of thoughts and images all the time, some intentional others not, and we pick them up through our senses and act on them all the time. If more connected to our hearts signals, we would simply be more able to feel whether the thoughts we entertain are truly supportive and healthy for us or not. That seems very much worth exploring and studying.
Great question here Rachel…..”So what if we chose to listen to the messages from our body, especially our heart, and made lifestyle and dietary choices based on those messages rather than waiting until we become ill?”. When I was a smoker, I used to think about the moment that I might get told that I had cancer because of smoking….and I would project myself into the future and see how that felt. And I remember thinking I’d be devastated, embarrassed and angry that I was now facing a terminal illness because of something I had chosen to put in my own mouth/lungs – knowingly. I knew that I would ask myself …..how could I have damaged myself like that because I simply did not want to get cranky when I gave up?!?!?!?? Deep down I did not want that moment to happen but I still remained a smoker for many years. I tried a few times to give up and successfully reduced my smoking – even stopped for a few years – but I took up social smoking (and let me tell you I engineered many social opportunities that involved smoking!) and found that habit hard to kick.
It was not until I connected with Universal Medicine and the presentations of Serge Benhayon that I re-connected to the wisdom and intelligence of our own bodies and the importance of connecting and listening to your body. Once I did that, I stopped smoking instantly and have had none of those ‘cravings’ ‘issues’ ‘always-a-smoker’ that ex smokers go on about it…nothing. It was super simple and super easy and remains so. So I am very grateful that I chose to listen to my body and not my head. Great blog.
A classic case of the mind overruling the body is drinking alcohol. My body always told me it couldn’t cope with it, but my head told me otherwise – crazy!
When you discuss how there are tissues throughout the body that have intelligence, it takes me back to high-school biology class where I remember learning that ‘simple’ life forms such as insects have ganglia throughout the body instead of a single brain, which, if my memory serves me (haha) are simply areas of concentrated nerve endings, where ‘decisions’ are made. Interesting correlation.
Wow Rachel, thank you for explaining that so clearly. I never knew the wisdom of the body was so accessible. It’s like a finely tuned instrument within us communicating with us all the time. Intelligence independent of the mind, I have to learn more about that.
The ‘feedback’ you mention in your last paragraph will one day be studied as a science. It is quite incredible what feedback we receive from introducing self care into the normal everyday things we do. There is nothing strange or weird, just ‘the way’ that recharges our batteries and turns on the light within so very bright.
‘The human heart contains an intelligence independent from the brain that can be a source of guidance for our individual lives and for our collective potential as human beings.’
When I listen to my heart it speaks very loudly to me. Thank you Rachel for this awesome blog. I felt my heart expand. 🙂
I never cease to be amazed by the human body – it is a truly sophisticated instrument of life! I really appreciated what you have captured here – it covers physics, neurocardiology, ageless wisdom, psychology and above all our responsibility to make loving choices. What you have shared here actually makes life simple – we need only listen to the intelligence of our heart. Thank you
Loved reading your blog Rachel – the heart sure does beat in tune to our emotional state and is a great barometer for our general state of being at any given time – our bodies intelligence is unsurpassed.
Oh Rachel, I just love that science is catching up with what the Ageless Wisdom has posited throughout history as far back as we can investigate.
Wow, totally awesome blog Rachel! So supportive for many to have such clear and concise scientific explanations about a topic that has been known and shared for aeons really, and something that we all know is how it all really works when we allow ourselves to connect to the innate wisdom of our heart.
Our bodies do have much wisdom and an intelligence that always encompasses the whole. Practically being more in tune with my body has helped me greatly to have more clarity around situations. I’ve found the Gentle Breath Meditations by Serge Benhayon to be invaluable in supporting me to be more connected with my body and intuition.
Agree 100% Rachel that the body is intelligent. I was amazed a few years ago to find out that if a female rat had all her cortex removed – the entire ‘thinking’ part of the brain that we associate with intelligence – she could still go about her life effectively, have babies, care for them and raise them properly. And there was a boy born with hardly any brain at all, but he managed to function and communicate as a human being. The heart indeed sends messages to the brain. This hit home to me when I learned that one of the common symptoms of an impending heart attack is a sense of fear and foreboding, which are mental states brought about by the nerve signals to the brain from the heart. Any medical student would know that. Yes, bodies, and hearts in particular, have great intelligence and we would do well to listen carefully to them, much more often.
That information about the heart attack is true Dianne. And an attack is frequently followed by a plunge into depression and despair.
Would it not then be interesting to measure the field generated by the heart in people following heart attack and in people with depression? What if depression (unrelated to physical heart attack) was related to the field generated by the heart? And what changes would this make to our approach to treatment?
I wonder why it takes humanity so long to get it! We are living in physical bodies for quite a while, and only now science starts to catch up with facts about our true heartfelt intelligence? What force is behind our past and current science then? Is it working for or against humanity – that’s something to consider, isn’t it?
It is interesting that so much emphasis has been placed on the brain/mind as our centre of intelligence. Although a vital part of our bodies, it may have been the smoke screen to keep us from our true intelligence – our inner heart.
I know that at any time, in any situation, when I choose to be still and connect with the body, the feedback comes simply and feel so right. I acknowledge and there is a shift. The brain is part of this process but not the only part. The proof is in the the pudding – try it. Thanks Rachel for bringing more ‘consciousness’ to the subject of the intelligence of the body via the heart.
AND – the brain is part of the body! It does not work in isolation.
Rachel – reading your blog really reminded me of the basics of just coming back to listening what my body, especially my heart, is communicating to me. Thanks.
Awesome blog, thanks Rachel. It’s interesting to consider the relationship between our minds and the state of our health, world, relationships. Is it possible that we have missed something in letting our minds take over and rule everything? Finally science is starting to say we are much more than a brain. Actually we have a body that is super intelligent and a heart who’s wisdom and innate knowingness is limitless and that it’s already there fully intact and waiting for us to re-discover who we are.
“Why wait for science to play catch up to what the intelligence of the body already knows and is communicating to us – but which we are not listening to?”RH
Rachel I am reading your amazing blog for the second time and each time I learn something new about the intelligence of the heart, so why wouldn’t I listen to it and experiment as you have suggested! Thank you,
I learnt more about the heart and mind in the short article than I ever did at school, which in the end only confirms what I thought at school, which is I could never make sense why they taught what they did.
‘Why wait for science to play catch up to what the intelligence of the body already knows and is communicating to us.’ I agree Rachel, I’m not going to. Trust me first and let science have it’s day in due course.
Realising how much we exert control over our body with our mind is so important. We do make it do crazy things that it would never do of its own accord. Luckily it does have ways of showing us, and telling us – if we want to listen and feel. A great blog, thanks Rachel!
Great article Rachel. I grew up thinking there were no mysteries. Humans pretty much knew all the big and important things. I think I was given this belief because as I grew up I realised much of the way things are done do not foster love or harmony. It’s funny to think the heart is the way because really we knew that all along did we not?
Even the driest of scientists who does not assess the quality of our knowledge by the suffering in human life will tell you that we know very little about anything with regard to life, our planet or the Universe. Our minds have barely made a dent on all that is there to be known.
Rachel has given us the key to true knowledge in this blog.
A power packed piece Rachel that brings to the fore our innate wisdom – “The energetic heart is coupled to a deeper part of ourselves. When we connect to the heart we align with a deeper source of intuitive intelligence”. I find it interesting how we have become so very good at letting the mind run the body, and yet this means we are often absent from what’s really happening in the body. It has been my experience that when I tune into my heart it is easy to know what is needed for myself and for others and there is an effortless flow. When I approach things from my mind there are endless questions and doubts, it seems complicated and I often get a heavy head. I’m going to let my heart be my compass.
Michelle, what a beautiful and very fitting picture:
the heart as our compass.
It can tell us where we are at in any moment and under all circumstances if we are willing to trust ourselves and listen to it.
Me too Michelle. When I have a decision to make and I go into my head, it can become complicated and I go into the pros and cons and around and around. But when I’m still and just feel from my body, there is a feeling that just knows what to do. Absolute wisdom.
Rachel I love being reminded to trust my heart. I am connected to all that’s around me. It doesn’t make sense to not listen and feel and rely on my mind which can be incredibly cold.
This is the just the tip of what is possible. Science is playing catch up, but why wait for what we already know deep within. We just need to listen a little closer and tune in to what is already there.
Great point Matthew. There is so much more available to us if we really tune in. It’s all there if only we listen.
Yes Matthew, why wait once you know? But we have to let people know, help them remember. To learn how to connect to the constant communications from my heart and body has been a wonderful gift. I can’t express just how much my life has changed and how grateful I am to Serge Benhayon for showing me how to do this, for restoring me to my most basic human functions – the intelligence of the heart and body.
You are right Matthew, what are we waiting for. We innately know it, we need to stop thinking about it and just feel it. Turn the switch off in our heads and re-tune our hearts back to the frequency of who we know we truly are.
Thank you Rachel, such a great blog. I wholeheartedly agree, the body holds all the intelligence we need to live in harmony with all. However as human beings we have generally given so much power to the brain. It’s awesome to feel this starting to change as our awareness grows and we evolve and begin to allow ourselves to feel that we are so much more than that.
A great point you make above David – “However it makes sense and if the brain really was the answer then would we not have sorted out all the problems of world, as we’ve been trying to use the brain for thousands of years?”
I agree, of course the brain cannot sort out the problems of the world because it is not the true source of who we are. It is only the inner heart that it capable of this.
As I read this I can make the connection to my heart – thank you for this insightful blog. Love that my body can be a sentinel in my own life.
Wow, Rachel that was a most beautiful and profound blog for me. It was as though as I read your words my heart was responding to all the wisdom. When we do truly connect we know that it is true – that the inner heart is the centre of all our inner wisdom within our human body – and that when we respect this it is the centre of love.
Thank you Rachel for this very informative and deeply inspiring blog.
We are so used to following what our brain tells us and keeps us busy with, that we often do not even consider to listen to the heart – let alone do this. Learning to listen to our heart is an impressive experience on many levels. Especially on those of simplicity, stillness and connection to ourselves and everybody around us.
When I listen to my brain, it doesn’t seem to have a stop button. nor even a slow mode. When I listen to my body and my heart, I know so much more and can monitor what is really going on. My brain is good at learning facts, but not much good at learning love.
Wow great point Catherine the brain is great at dealing with facts and figures until of course it ages and begins to tire but the body and heart feel everything, if we allow it and that never leaves us.
Rachel I love what you have written and can feel the truth as I read it. There is so much focus on the mind and the brain and its intelligence, which is the basis of academia and is the identity that many people get from achieving in this academic world. I agree with David – if this is the answer how come the world is in such a mess?
Science will eventually prove beyond a doubt what we all intuitively know to be true already – that the heart and the body has an intelligence that is way beyond anything the mind can come up with or even comprehend.
Wow that’s amazing Doug, isn’t science wonderful. Put science and religion together and we may have the answers.
Great sharing Doug. Its an exciting time to be in where we may start to give credence to the power of the heart and how we can live by its infinite wisdom. As things stand we would have to admit that the choices we make from the mind are not making for very healthy bodies and this is obviously not a very intelligent way of living.
It is so good to read this Rachel – it turns everything we have been previously educated to think on its head – and it certainly has not been working so a shift of focus world-wide might be an awesome thing.
Thank you Rachel, such a well researched article. Science is catching up to the Ageless Wisdom teachings as presented by Serge Benhayon and all the Esoteric teachers of the past.
It’s funny actually that science is catching up with what is already a truth, yet we don’t see it as a truth until it has been proven by science. So it seems like there is a slow train and a fast train in getting to know truth and since we all know that we all have the ability to know truth without it having to be proven by anyone it makes no sense not taking the faster one.
Thank you Rachel showing us the science of the interactions and communication of the body, brain, heart and energetic heart. The part that resonates with me most strongly is where you say “One of the philosophies that come from the Esoteric Medicine presentations by Serge Benhayon is that the inner-heart is the seat of intelligence for the body and that the body does have its own knowing or wisdom. From this philosophy emerges the concept of connecting to yourself and listening to your heart and your body, which, as even science has demonstrated, has the ability to communicate with us. If we were to stop for a moment and feel we would realise the body actually talks very loudly.” The body doesn’t lie, it lets us know when we are not treating ourselves gently but do we listen?
Very insightful what you write Rachel. Lovely to have it written in such clarity with the latest insights from your field. The body is a big feedback system to us with the heart at its centre. Indeed what are we waiting for. Let’s listen to our heart and body more than do and most of all let’s confirm kids to trust what they feel from the start: that what we feel from within is a barometer for what is going on in and around us and basis for our choices in life,
What a wonderful expose of the central role our heart plays – so much more so than our brain. This makes me realise how important it is to take care of our heart, to be tender with it, to be open and unrestricted in the way we love and to heal any ‘broken hearts’.
Fiona I felt the same – science is slowly showing us that the heart is more “alive” than the brain. It’s a strange concept to consider, bearing in mind that all through our eduction we are told the head/brain is it. However it makes sense and if the brain really was the answer then would we not have sorted out all the problems of world, as we’ve been trying to use the brain for thousands of years?
Thank you for this blog, bringing together an interesting merging of scientific understanding and inviting readers to practically explore it for themselves. Like other readers I also relate to that warm feeling in my heart when hearing or reading something that feels true. There is so much to learn about the guidance our bodies can offer us in how we see life and how we live. It seems that an important learning is not about any big events that may arise in one’s life, but how to live every day with a joy in our hearts.
I am proof of the science you are talking about here Rachel. My heart and body often know what is before me. It comes as a feeling from heart/body then to mind (as you describe) and I am learning more and more to listen to these feelings. I love how you describe the warmth of your heart and the message that this gives you, with this barometer we can trust we will be shown what is right or wrong for us at every turn. The description of the body as whole, interconnected intelligence rings so true to me, this is definitely how I experience my intelligence. It is not just a thought but a whole body feeling that I can trust completely.
Yes Rachel, our bodies are amazing when we consider the intricacies of the communication and relationships between the different areas or foci. I love how you mention that when we disregard one area of our body it affects the whole and therefore vice versa – once we start to listen, care and honour our body’s messages, we will start to heal the whole. Let our heart lead the way… Thank you.
Thank you Rachel for sharing your knowledge about science and then also sharing a personal experience. It really hit home for me reading your article that you can hear/read something, but then you really have to test it out for yourself and see what is true to you. And the body is an amazing barometer to do just that. I know through connecting with Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon that I have been deeply inspired to ‘step away from the head’ and into my body and I have not looked back.
There remain so many unknowns or unprovens about the human body. It is a complex interconnected network of communication living cells. The textbooks are continually being rewritten. Thank you for providing further insight into the possibilities Rachel. Could it be as simple as connecting and listening to our heart?
Awesome blog Rachel. Aren’t we amazing human beings?! And don’t we take our bodies totally for granted, expecting it to function whilst all the time ignoring what it is communicating to us. If only we realised that we had the answers to our dilemmas right there in our body – if we only choose to listen to it.
Since Universal Medicine I am listening to my body more, and by stopping and bringing my awareness to my body, allows me to recognise where I am at.
When you say “Have you noticed that in certain situations your heart may skip a beat, get palpitations, feel all warm and fuzzy; flutter or feel like it is about to burst or perhaps even stop depending on how you are feeling or what is happening around you?” – love it, I had all these feelings in my life, palpitations, missed heart beat, I even had tests for Marfans syndrome, I just put my symptoms down to anxiousness or tiredness, but it affected my life greatly and being told by doctors that “some people can just hear their hearbeat, it’s normal”, was not very helpful at the time. They didn’t have the answers either.
I am more aware of my heart now and am starting to truly listen to what it is telling me, thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, and thank-you Rachel.
Such an interesting article. It is crazy that we are taught from a young age to ignore what our body is communicating & to push through regardless. It makes such sense to stop & feel what our body & heart are telling us, thank you.
After suffering a lifetime of decisions made by my mind over-riding body, I was thrilled to hear Serge Banhayon’s presentations at Universal Medicine about the body’s being in Rachel’s words “an intelligent organism capable of acting independently of the mind” and that the heart actually sends messages to a responding brain. Great article Rachel, I must read it again and again.
Thank you Rachel for the updated scientific based article stating that the heart is indeed more intelligent than the mind, despite what we have been taught in schools and universities.
Thanks to Serge Benhayon and his infinite wisdom, we as students of Universal Medicine are living this truth, and have all benefitted from living by this truth.
Thank you Rachel, a great reflection of what we have lost from the past. I absolutely recognised all these sayings from my head and did not live them from my body until the presentations from Universal Mecicine. “Put your heart into it, wearing your heart on your sleeve, follow your heart not your head, find it in your heart, from the bottom of my heart, big hearted, warm hearted, heart-to-heart, open your heart” Let’s not wait another 2000 years before we listen to the teachings, we now have a blessing for humanity, Serge Benhayon who states “ Listen to your heart “
Rachel, I too was fascinated by the work at the Institute of HeartMath which I discovered just before I met Serge Benahyon. Being familiar with their research, I was open to hearing Serge present that “the inner-heart is the seat of intelligence for the body and that the body does have its own knowing or wisdom”. Once this is known, it feels natural to connect to our self and listening to our heart and body, which has the ability to communicate very loudly with us. The rates of illness and disease in the world today would not be so high were we to listen to the messages from our body and make lifestyle and dietary choices based on those messages rather than waiting until we become ill? Why are we not listening?
Good question Anne. Why aren’t we?
I loved reading this blog again Rachel it is so well researched and makes so much sense, this line in particularly stood out for me, “The heart is the overseer of the whole intelligence of the body and science is only just beginning to tap into and understand the wisdom of the heart, a wisdom that has been spoken of and recorded by many cultures, religions and scholars.” Science is playing catch up to things that have been known for thousands of years. I love how you talk about feeling the warmth in your body as a barometer for what is true for you and what is not.
What an amazingly informative article that fully explains what is truly felt when we get out of our heads.
If I were to stand way back & get a little perspective on the human race ‘in light of the emerging research AND ancient teachings about the heart’ I may surmise that human beings have been mind-oriented or following-the-mind for a very long time and it is obviously not working!! I would want to know what our personal, family, community and global lives would look like if we all moved in the direction of ‘learning from and honoring the heart’. This is something we have not given a heartfelt try…
‘Listening to and feeling the feedback of the body via the heart can allow for more supportive and harmonious choices’. Thank you. This is so true. Why do we get caught up in our heads all the time ? It really doesn’t serve us at all.
Dear Rachel, thank you so much for such a great post, bringing more to light about the amazing functions of our hearts. When I connect with my heart I feel a harmonious flow through my body , I know a feeling of warmth and love , not so when I am in my head with all it’s worry, concerns, and constant doings taking me away from my true self.
Another great post, Rachel. “The fact that the heart appears to receive intuitive information before the brain is perhaps not as surprising as it first seems, it just confirms what people mean when they speak of the intuitive heart or the wisdom of the heart – something that has been a key component of wisdom teachings and mystical texts for aeons.” As I have gradually learned to listen to my body and my heart I realised how my mind has ruled the roost for years, and not brilliantly at that. Returning to stillness, and simplicity, allows me to feel what is right for me at any given time, rather than the busy-ness of a mind that gives constant complication.
I really appreciate this very clear understanding of the bodies intelligence and that as you say “the heart is the overseer of the whole intelligence of the body”.
So that is why we make such loving comments about the heart at times. Thank you, Rachael.
Rachel I’ve most certainly come to realise that my body is far more intelligent than when I just listen to my head. Looking back over my life I can say that has been a consistent truth. Without my body telling me, letting me feel what is true or going on, then I would be ignorant, as my mind easily runs away with a million complications or distractions that are way out of line with something that is loving or nurturing – yet all that time I thought I was being loving – the irony.
I loved your article Rachel it was very informative and expressed in a simple way
Wow, I didn’t realise that the heart is so much bigger then the brain In regards to the signals it sends and receives. We spend so much time building the brain – making it full of knowledge and teaching it cool tricks but completely forget about the important parts as well! I really love how you have stated that being disregarding or abusive to one part is to be that way with the whole body. Sometimes I forget that everything is all connected and I don’t actually realise how much damage I am doing. Realising that the body is not in segments brings a bigger picture to it and I can see more of the damage done (like with over eating – doesn’t just affect the stomach but the whole body etc.)
A very interesting look inside our physicality in accordance to the energetic view. Yes we have the combination in our language and we use metaphors to better describe our feelings or emotions we want to share. A feeling says so much more and can show us where we are at. It is in our awareness and honesty to use them wisely, perhaps for our next decision.
Thank you for this blog Rachel.
I was struck by how much the wisdom of the heart is actually in our everyday language, as you said terms like “put your heart into it, wearing your heart on your sleeve, follow your heart not your head, find it in your heart, from the bottom of my heart, big hearted, warm hearted, heart-to-heart and open your heart. It is like we have known all along that there was something special about the heart and now science is catching up.
My heart gives me constant feedback on how I am treating myself physically, mentally and emotionally. For example, if I have been stuck in my head way too much (even if they have been ‘good’ thoughts), I sometimes feel the pounding affect that this has had on my body, and it’s my heart that reports this to me.
I love this scientific approach to the heart Eunice. Having this deeper common sense look at the workings of our body, heart and mind brings me the great sense that if we were to adhere to the wisdom of our heart more we would not only make more healthy choices for ourselves but may have the wisdom to live more harmoniously with everyone else.
Could one of the reasons we don’t like hearing about the intelligence of the body be because our hearts don’t compete, they just are?
“Why wait for science to play catch up to what the intelligence of the body already knows and is communicating to us – but which we are not listening to?”. Awesome blog Rachel….True words all quite obviously written with the wisdom of your heart. Thankyou for sharing.
My body communicates to me loudly and clearly, the only issue I have is whether I listen or not and this choice either harms or heals my body.
Not until a health scare came my way did I choose to feel/listen to what was really going on. Anything I do which is not self loving I’m given a very clear signal from my heart/body. Amazing blog Rachel thank you.
Great to read this blog today as I was just talking to a client about the brain – heart connection a little while ago. This is so well put together, a great blog to share. Thank you Rachel.
Rachel its great to read some of the studies science is doing that show us we should really trust our “Heart” over our “Gut”. Growing up we were taught about “Gut Feelings” yet if the “heart” receives the impulse first (before the brain and other organs) then surely trusting the heart would be getting closer to the source and therefore would be less interfered with?
Thank you Rachel for presenting such a heartfelt intelligent blog. I innately know that through inner listening to our heart and body we can make profound changes to ourselves and humanity. I’m glad the heart is now being recognised as being “much more than a muscle pump” and the centre of vast wisdom.
As somebody else said, most discoveries are not commented on with ‘Eureka’ or some other exclamation but with “That’s strange…’
A small discrepancy can open a big new vista. In 1887 Michelsen and Morley found the totally unexpected result that the speed of light is the same in all directions. This allowed Einstein to bring through his amazing insights.
Here we have the heart responding to stimuli before the brain. Is it a dead end or the doorway to something much bigger?
Why wait for science to play catch up to what the intelligence of the body already knows and is communicating to us – but which we are not listening to? So true Rachel our body is constantly communicating with us, telling us what we truly need and what is harming us, all we have to do is begin to listen more and our health would naturally improve.
Ah listen – what a great suggestion Alison – I’ve started and it works, so for me, what you say is the simple truth.
Agree Alison, it’s like within us we have a whole range of specialists sharing with us all of the time what is going on and they don’t even charge a cent.
Thank you Rachel for an extremely interesting blog. I find it especially interesting that there seems to be a convergence here between conventional science and Universal medicine. Could this be the start of seeing the two working together?
The more I listen to my body and heart the more I get true guidance which is simple and clear. I can really feel the difference when I go into my mind and thoughts for answers, and how complicated I can make it , it takes me so far away from what my heart and body are telling me.
“why then are we not taught to listen to or tune in to the wisdom within our body? Given that the body is innately wise, surely it would make sense for us to pay attention to it, to listen to it and in particular the messages from the heart such that we may live more instinctively and intuitively?” A great question Rachel. Imagine the impact if this was something that was on the curriculum of all our schools and universities?
Great to be grounding in scientific knowledge what we all experience, and many of us live by – that the heart is our guiding presence in life, and not our head.
What I am learning is that my body is my best quality radar and the more I listen to it the more I am noticing these clear messages when my mind wants to dominate as it has been allowed to for so long. At times it feels like I am being pulled in two different directions but I only have to look at how I feel at the end of each path to know the difference. The more I listen to my body and experience those feelings of being lighter and less self-critical I can say to myself that I know and have a lived reality that responding to the bodies messages are worth their time and worth listening to.
I love what you have said Leigh about your body being your best quality radar! So true! My head was telling me to stay in as it was cold and my body reminded me it would benefit from a walk and that I had a snug duvet jacket to keep warm. I passed a neighbour’s house and saw lights on in his car but walked on by as my mind said he is a down to earth guy who would know but further down the road my body said to go back, knock on the door and check with him. He was extremely grateful, said he had been in a rush and did not mean to leave them on. A simple case of listening to my heart not my mind!
I agree Leigh! I could relate to what you said about feeling at times like there is a tug-of-war between the brain and the body.. For me, I have found in these instances that it always comes back to the body regardless. If I listen to my body, my body confirms my choices, and when I choose at times to over-ride this and listen to my brain / head, my body ‘still’ confirms this. In other words, I am always feeling the after effect of my choices in my body. So to me, it’s not about whether or not my body is talking to me, but whether or not I choose to listen!
Thanks Rachel, I have selected some wise, timely reminders from your excellent blog to ponder from my heart:
“my body is innately wise, give my heart more precedence over my mind.
Live, eat and care from instinct and intuition “
What a beautiful informative article sharing the importance and love of our heart and listening to our body thank you Rachel. It feels so confirming and appreciative of ourselves and the depth of who we really are.
Reading this I could feel my heart become more alive saying ‘I’m here’ and how my mind tries to control everything!
I allowed my mind to control me and ate too much the other day Vicky, and when I felt into my body afterwards, the only words I could find to describe it were ‘my heart felt sick’. Your comment is so true.
“…you might just surprise yourself as to how intelligent and naturally knowing the body really is.”
It sounds absurd when we are used to living from our minds and all the chatter and knowledge we hear and accumulate. But the body comes up trumps every time. It knows; and until you begin to listen for yourself you can never appreciate the absolute gold we possess within.
With all that in mind (Or should I say ‘in heart’) it makes a lot of sense that the body can be more intelligent than the mind in regards to it’s own health. For me a good marker is how open or tight my chest feels, especially around foods before eating them. This is a much gentler message than if I just go with my mind to ignore feeling something else (Stress, emotions etc) the only feeling I get to say a food was bad is the upset stomach, feeling heavy/nauseous or worse for hours afterwards. Re-reading this blog has got me wondering if I can apply this marker to other situations in my life.
Beautifully presented Rachel. It is so simple when we live from intuition from the heart and body. When we use our minds to make all our choices we are constantly at the mercy of what we have been told or experienced. However the heart’s intelligence is not based on any of this, it just feels and knows what love and truth is.
Brilliant article Rachel. It goes to the heart of the matter, or more accurately, to the inner-heart of the matter.
Thank you Rachel for presenting all of this in such an accessible way. I particularly love this sentence: ‘When we connect to the heart we align with a deeper source of intuitive intelligence, which produces an increased flow of intuitive information that is communicated to the brain resulting in a stronger connection with our inner voice thus allowing us access to the largely untapped potential within.’ Learning to get out of my head and re-connect to my heart has been and continues to be life-changing and has to be the way forward for humanity.
You have put everything into perspective in a way that everyone can understand, Rachel, it is so clear that what you say is what we innately feel but choose to override with our minds. Scientific fact and a healing all in one!
Fantastic blog Rachel, reading it I was struck by the realisation that we have always known that the heart is so much more than a pump but that actually science has removed this knowing from us and placed it in the “out there” basket and until it can be proven it is no longer the truth that we have always known it to be. So we end up all giving our power away to science and choose to forget what we know.
Very beautiful blog. Just to consider a shift from what has been such a ‘brain’ lead discussion on how we see and feel the world to considering the ‘heart’ is wonderful. I am studying anatomy and physiology at the moment and it feels an absolute gift to be getting a deeper understanding of how our bodies work and learn about all of the collaborative roles parts of the body undertake to support the whole. I feel our bodies can reflect a way that humanity can work together rather than separately. Thank you for sharing.
Wow, what an awesome blog, and it makes so much sense, truly wise, and obviously from the heart ; )
An amazing and inspiring blog Rachel which I will be re-visiting many times. I love how you weave the science and energetic truth together here. Your reminder of feeling the warmth in your chest when being open to your heart is such a simple, powerful way of listening to the body.
My heart/body is saying thank you so much for writing this awesome blog Rachel. As I read it I could feel my body expand and a gentle knowing that my heart has been gently guiding me but oh so many times let my head rule instead of making self loving choices!!! Reading your blog has just so inspired me. Thank you
Rachel it sounds like what you are saying is if we connect to our inner hearts we will feel warmth from within throughout our body and that is a pretty good indicator that the thoughts that follow will be from our heart.
Rachel – when you say here ‘…yet it is the body that has to live with the consequences of all the choices made from our mind.’ – that stops me in my tracks.
That by not listening to the heart with the knowing of its importance, we are neglecting our bodies and how we truly feel.
It is absolutely fascinating and yet so familiar what you write here about the hearts knowledge.
I can feel the difference as I sit here, and become aware of my heart vs my head. When I make choices from my heart, there is a call to be much more present to feel what’s going on in my body.
When I make choices from my head, it is as though my thoughts are almost a default – I don’t need presence to have them.
That’s a huge awakening for me!
Love it Rachel, so straight and scientific – it’s good to see all the proof of quite how amazing our hearts really are! Here’s to hoping we start listening to them soon as a race of human beings…
yes wouldn’t that be a great tide changer if inner heart intelligence ruled the minds of men rather than the cold intellect!
Science that makes sense and that is understandable on many levels without needing a degree in this or that. I can relate to certain situations making my heart change rhythm such as if I were to get into an argument it completely upsets my pulse and the whole body with it. From experience my brain can and does make choices that ill affect my body, why not give the heart a chance to make choices?
Excellent blog Rachel. I really enjoyed reading and learning from this. Your style of writing made it easy to understand and kept it interesting-so thank you, from the bottom of my heart!!
A really great blog Rachel. What if we were, ‘to listen to the messages from our body, especially our heart, and made lifestyle and dietary choices based on those messages rather than waiting until we become ill? Why wait for science to play catch up to what the intelligence of the body already knows and is communicating to us – but which we are not listening to?’ This is something I am now choosing, it feels lovely and makes more sense.
I agree Rachel… there is so much to our heart than a physical pump. I love what you have written – making what has always been deemed as mysterious easy to understand. What have we got to lose by giving it a go and start listening to our hearts? Nothing! Well actually may be a few bad habits, but I can live with that.
This is a great article on just how intelligent the human body and heart is, and that our current idea of intelligence being just ability to retain information in the mind is really selling the word ‘Intelligence’ short of it’s possible true meanings. Thank you for sharing.
It’s great to have the true workings of our hearts explained so clearly Rachel. I have to say I have been taking time to stop and listen more these last few weeks and the relationship and trust in myself is building. I certainly agree that it is well worth listening to our hearts and the messages our body gives us.
Thank you Rachel for sharing, it makes so much sense that the inner-heart is the seat of intelligence for the body and that the body has its own knowing and wisdom.
This is a really interesting article Rachel , thank you. I find it so interesting how science and the wisdom of the heart/body have the same answers. Your article shows how clear it is to listen to the heart.
Thank you Rachel for making science so simple. I particularly enjoyed where you said why wait for science to tell you why you are ill or feeling unwell when your body already knows and is telling you. Learning to listen to my body and my heart is giving me the responsibility and opportunity to make choices that improve my health and how I feel about myself.
Awesome, just such an awesome article Rachel. It is funny how we seem to need science to tell us what we intuitively know is true. We have allowed ourselves to be hoodwinked by our minds and give ourselves over to talking heads who have very little respect or care of their bodies. We already know everything you write of, we know to ‘follow our hearts’. Its great science is now catching up with what we have always known.
I so wish I’d come across this blog when you wrote it but maybe I was not ready to receive or understand it in the way I can right now. It all makes absolute sense to what I already know but you so wonderfully put it down in black and white in plain english to really confirm it. I sometimes wonder if the mind is not envious of the hearts intelligence – why else would it think or convince us that it’s OK to smoke, drink or eat foods that make the poor old heart, not to mention all the other organs work overtime for no good reason. Thanks so much Rachel for this great, great article it really has helped me to understand more fully the importance of how we treat our body as a whole and be more aware of how the mind can trick or convince me into making decisions that aren’t in the best interest of the entire body.
Great blog Rachel, thankyou – heart-warming, literally as I read it, listening to my heart, not my mind. My mind can trick me into believing I’m not good enough etc- all sorts of blind alleys that are not supportive. This makes so much sense. My body knows best. Science is catching up too!
I love the way you have married the theory and the research Rachel to how this can be applied on a practical day to day basis. This makes it much more real, possible and tangible. I will certainly be giving my heart more of a say after reading this. Thank you.
Rachel I loved how you simply and clearly explained the heart and how it truly supports the body if we listen. Amazing we have this awesome organism and we often ignore it with our supposedly better informed mind, but it’s not, and as I and others have found out, our bodies bear the consequence. This blog has so much, I love science especially when it’s presented like this in a true and accessible way and I loved your experiment, feel you choices and feel your heart’s response – that is something I will take into my daily living. Thank you.
What a great blog and a great invitation to listen to the communications from my body as I start my day today. My heart opened up after reading this blog. Thank you Rachel.
It is amazing how much we over-rule our heart by our intelligence. It is great to have that clarification Rachel, I know when I listen to my heart and the little messages it sends to my body it is so much more enjoyable than when I listen to my head and all the stories it runs to justify everything I do. My heart just knows, it is instant, clear and simple, all I have to do is listen.
My head is full of consequences, which may harm, my heart knows only love, which heals.
I love the detailed way you have presented the science of how our body works and the way our heart can be a source of infinite wisdom to help us in every moment if we stop to feel it: ‘when I sat quiet and still, simply breathing gently I could feel a beautiful warmth in my chest where my heart resides. I discovered that I could use that feeling of warmth as a barometer of what is true for me or not.’
To turn how we currently think about the brain and intelligence literally on its head is wonderful. To know that the heart is full of intelligence and can actually inform the brain is a revelatory stop. When I make choices that first start from the heart I can feel a warmth and a richness. When I make choices from my head first I can feel a coldness and emptiness. There is no brainer… pun intended, from which place in my body I prefer to make my choices from! ( I am slowly and gradually resetting my heart button to be my primary intelligence initiator).
Thank you, Rachel, your article supports that which I have always felt but often disregarded for lack of reflection or a role model. Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and articles such as yours, inspire me to live that common sense.
Beautifully put Matilda, I agree completely.
This is a blog that I will come back to read again and again.Thank you Rachel
I’m all for not waiting for science to catch up to the intelligence and knowing of the heart and the body. This is such an informative piece and presents very clearly what we have chosen to over-ride and ignore, the infinite wisdom of the body and how we can listen to it to support our everyday choices. If we truly listen to the heart would we perhaps all make choices that would mean we would not become burdened with the epidemic of illness and dis-ease that is currently unfolding. It would be accurate to say that our current mind led activity is not working, a new approach is needed and it would be a simple and loving choice to look to our intelligent hearts for the answer. Thank you Rachel.
I enjoyed reading this blog Rachel. You have explained things very clearly, and I am finding that my body is truly intelligent if I listen to the messages it sends me.
Thank you, Rachel for bringing science and the body’s natural intelligence together. When I saw an ultrasound on my daughters heart and witnessed the flow between the chambers and constant pumping of blood that never ever stops, I was in awe. I could appreciate the power, commitment and strength of the heart and for me it makes sense why the heart holds the intelligence as it is receiving information on a physical level, via the blood from every single part of the body all of the time. Coupled with what Serge Benhayon presents does it not make sense to live from the inner wisdom of the heart rather than the mind? Must be something special for such a small and powerful organ in the body to have such a responsible role?
I agree Julie and as Serge Benhayon has indicated if we live from the mind without the connection to the heart we get the loveless world that we all know so well and live in. If instead we chose to live with our minds connected to our hearts, it would be impossible to have the wars, the cruelty, the abuse, the corruption etc.
So true Doug. Governments could do well to go to the college that helps them to chose to live with their minds connected to their hearts. No wars, cruelty, abuse, corruption etc., they would have time to come together as one! Great article Rachel.
I love this.
Thank you Rachel for such a clear account of the heart and our bodies from both a scientific view and combining it with all we feel and know naturally if we stop and listen to our bodies. The Heart is a very special organ, amazing and vital and to be honoured and respected and you bring such a beautiful sharing of this as a great reflection for us all.
Thank You Dr Rachel Hall for your in depth article which is clear that the mind makes choices and the body has the consequences.
Connecting to the inner heart and feeling what it is we actually need to support our body will help science to advance as the scientists can adopt this first themselves and then apply it to their research. To me this makes simple sense.
I don’t know much about all the in’s and out’s of anatomy and physiology but one thing I do know is that the heart is a muscle of its own and not like any other muscle in the human body. For me that was and is a clear sign that our heart holds something precious for us to learn and develop – not our brain what we call the intelligent mind.
‘feeling what it is we actually need to support our body will help science to advance as the scientists can adopt this first themselves and then apply it to their research’. What a great statement Bina, and what wonderful research would be done if this was the first protocol of any research project.
Yes Bina, the heart plays a much bigger part than science gives it credit for. It was fascinating to read in Rachel’s article about the research being done that examines how the heat and brain communicate. Your suggestion about how research can be done based on what we feel is needed to support our bodies would really revolutionize things.
Thank you Rachel, what a great article you have written and such important points you raise. It has taken me two months to read it, but really I wish I had read this 50 years ago. It always amazes me that we can spend so much money flying to the moon and yet be so ignorant about our own bodies.
Thanks Rachel. Curious how we do not apply the same caring attitude towards our bodies as we do towards our cars let’s say. If a part broke down on the car, we’d be concerned about the entire car, and address the problem, but if a part of our body sends us signals that it is coming to a breaking point, most of the time, most of us simply ignore it, until we are forced to look at it in extreme cases of illness and disease. Is it possible that we value our cars more than ourselves – surely this is not how it is meant to be!
I agree Dragana, how often do people spend hours cleaning polishing and servicing their cars and yet would never consider something as simple as gently moisturising their own body, choosing the right fuel (food) and actually wait until it ‘breaks down’ (illness and disease) as you say ‘surely this is not how it is meant to be?’.
Thanks, Rachel. Wouldn’t it be great for this information to become known in schools and universities. Imagine the change around to being more responsible in your choices and therefore perhaps seeing a decline in illness and disease.
Thank-you Rachel. You express these awarenesses & information with amazing simplicity, making them real and applicable in regards to how we choose to live on a daily basis. A joy to read, and a joy to appreciate all that you bring to us – about ourselves!
I agree Victoria, thank you Rachel for bringing true science to us and by doing so making it real and accessible for all.
Thank you, Rachel. This is a lovely clear summary of some complex research and concepts- it must have come from your heart! With love, Anne.
Hi Rachel,
Thank you so much for writing this article. It makes complete sense and is a bridge for all. I could feel the warmth of my heart opening and expanding in my chest as I read it….confirming what you were saying and what I know is true. I am inspired by the potential of us all connecting to our already naturally built in intelligence.
thanks, Rachel – this makes so much sense and from the looks of it, science is starting to catch up with what people have always known; watch their space, I suppose?