If you ask someone on the street what function the human heart has, the great majority would respond “to pump blood around the body”.

Indeed that is but one of a myriad of roles the heart plays, but did you know that it’s also the primary perceptive organ of the body? The subtle changes in our heart (the cardiac-pulmonary response) happens before anything else. So our hearts are responsible for our very first perceptions of reality.

As a species, our physiology is hard-wired towards the fight-or-flight response. Love feels foreign to us, so much so that we find comfort in fear. Love feels unsafe. We only need to look at our protective mechanisms to see how it betrays us.  Fear has become the default state in our species and by possessing the body, perpetuates depression, anxiety, fatigue and overwhelm. Being driven by fear is like driving a car without breaks, we seldom have control over which direction it will take. 

The good news is that along with this hard-wiring is another in-built mechanism that integrates our physical, emotional and mental systems and bring them into balance.

Cognitively, it frees us from the tunnel vision of fear. We can then solve problems and make decisions with courage, compassion and creativity. These are the qualities we desperately need when facing a hardship. We have a comprehensive understanding of fear pathways. To date, no one has linked the biological mysteries of the human heart. The rhythms of the heart is the missing link and the key to the evolution of humankind.