2.4.3. Heart: an Electromagnetic Organ

How did you find the information from the previous sections? Convincing?
Well, if not this section will do the job; it will certainly make you totally amazed, without any doubt. 

For a long time now scientists have thought that the heart responds to the signals that come from the brain but now, or rather from some time now, evidence have shown that there is a bilateral (two-way) dynamic relation.
The heart sends signals to the brain in many forms such as: 

1- Neurologically through electrical impulses.
2- Chemically through hormones & neurotransmitters.
3- Physically by pressure waves.
4- Electromagnetic field. 

This may not be new to you however the last point is worth mentioning and explaining in detail.
Let’s keep on going and see where the road ends: 

The Electromagnetic Field: 

A stronger electromagnetic field dispered from the heart than the brain

The electrical component of the heart’s field is 40-60 times greater in amplitude and permeates every cell in the body. The magnetic component is approximately 5000 times stronger than the brain’s magnetic field and can be detected several feet away from the body with sensitive magnetometers. This makes the heart the body’s main source of power. 

The picture shows the heart electromagnetic field, which is the most effective in the human body; it does not only encircle every cell in the body  but it also goes out to the surrounding place, it can be estimated or detected several feet a way from the body with sensitive magnetometers. 

The electrical transmission from one individual to another

It is difficult to understand the roll that our magnetic field plays. But there have been some remarkable discoveries made on the roll that the earth’s magnetic field plays on our body (more on this can be read in the coming section on earth’s electromagnetic field).

The figure shows us when two people come near each other or touch each other, how one’s heart affect other’s electrical brain waves. 

On the right side of the figure you can see when the two subjects hold each other’s hands; a transfer of electrical energy is transmitted from (B’s) heart to A’s Brain and this can be detected by the EEG. 

This observation can be compared to the relation between a mother and a baby. Once the mother of a baby embraces his crying baby this baby will become calm and feel safe. What happens is that electric waves from the mother’s heart are transferred to the baby’s brain (shown by the EEG). The baby’s brain receives these waves that in turn give tranquilizing signals to the baby’s heart (that is what many religious scholars in Islam used to tell Moslems about holding a baby by his mother). 

Some might argue that holding ones hand is not the same as holding a baby. Therefore, I recommend these people to thing again. Here is tremendous information on the relation between mother-baby that is related to heart and brain and written by Randall Parker on January 29 2004 at 05:12 PM. The title of the article is called “Women Hold Babies On The Left To Connect To Emotional Half Of the Brain”. 

Victoria Bourne and Brenda Todd of the University of Sussex in England have found that women hold babies on the side of their bodies that connect to that side of the brain which is dominant in the processing of emotions. 

The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and usually helps to process emotions, explains Bourne (see the table in section 3.5.1). So holding the baby on the left-hand side may help to direct the sight of emotionally charged information, such as tears or laughter, to the specialized right hemisphere for processing, she says. 

Keep in mind that the left brain gets input from the right side of the body and the right brain gets input from the left side. It is interesting to note that the heart is traditionally associated with the seat of emotions and it happens to be on the left side of the body and that side is the side that connects to the center of emotional processing in the brain in most people. 

The abstract for the research paper more clearly explains what they did. The researchers used both people who have left-brain dominance for emotional processing and people who did not. 

Previous research has indicated that 70-85% of women and girls show a bias to hold infants, or dolls, to the left side of their body. This bias is not matched in males (e.g. de Chateau, Holmberg & Winberg, 1978; Todd, 1995). This study tests an explanation of cradling preferences in terms of hemispheric specialization for the perception of facial emotional expression. Thirty-two right-handed participants were given a behavioural test of lateralization and a cradling task. Females, but not males, who cradled a doll on the left side were found to have significantly higher laterality quotients than right cradlers. Results indicate that women cradle on the side of the body that is contralateral to the hemisphere dominant for face and emotion processing and suggest a possible explanation of gender differences in the incidence of cradling. 

One thing that would be interesting to discover is whether less emotionally intense women are less likely to prefer one side over the other for holding a baby. 

The idea that an energy exchange of some type occurs between individuals is a central theme in many healing techniques. The fact that the heart generates the strongest electromagnetic field produced by the body, coupled with the recent discovery that this field becomes more coherent as the individual shifts to a sincerely loving or caring state prompted us to investigate the possibility that the field generated by the heart may significantly contribute to this energy exchange. 

We present a sampling of results which provide fascinating evidence that an exchange of electromagnetic energy produced by the heart occurs when people touch or are in proximity. Signal averaging techniques are used to show that one’s electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is registered in another person’s electroencephalogram (EEG) and elsewhere on the other person’s body. While this signal is strongest when people are in contact, it is still detectable when subjects are in proximity without contact. 

This study represents one of the first successful attempts to directly measure an energy exchange between people, and provides a solid, testable theory to explain the observed effects of many healing modalities that are based upon the assumption that an energy exchange takes place. Nonlinear stochastic resonance is discussed as a mechanism by which weak, coherent electromagnetic fields, such as those generated by the heart of an individual in a caring state, may be detected and amplified by biological tissue, and potentially produce measurable effects in living systems. One implication is that the effects of therapeutic techniques involving contact or proximity between practitioner and patient could be amplified by practitioners consciously adopting a sincere caring attitude, and thus introducing increased coherence into their cardiac field. 

The fact that the electromagnetic energy transfer is possible between two individual without any contact but close enough can – in theory I believe – be compared to how great effect the electromagnetic energy field of a believer has on another individual. An example on this is the Prophet Muhammed (SAAS) among others who many of the non-Muslim people of Mecca were afraid of; since they used to claim, verbally, that “that man (Muhammed) looked deep into my soul”. This used to be said since those people knew that they were wrongdoers who have rejected the signs of their Lord – including by not accepting Muhammed as the Messenger of God. Therefore I believe that those kinds of people who had a “heart of stone” feel strange and afraid while receiving the electromagnetic field of a true believer of God; since their heart is full of hatred and sins committed throughout their lives. In Islam, as in most other religions, it is said that one can see a light being ejected from a believer; even though this cannot be directly seen it is rather felt in ones heart while being close enough or especially in contact with that person. Since we do know from optics (modern physics) that what is thought of as “light” is actually a propagating oscillatory disturbance in the electromagnetic field, i.e., an electromagnetic wave the electromagnetic energy transfer from a believer to another person is a light being transmitted into the heart of the other; as said in Islam. This does not mean that only belivers eject electromagnetic radiation, but rather that believer’s propagated radiation can be felt more by others than non-believer’s raditation. Why is it so? So far no one has the answer. Hence, I have used this fact as a support for my strong theory from the famous book of Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Serway & even wikipedia. May God be Praised! 

The shape of the electromagentic field’s wave is composed of both an electric and a magnetic component that are positioned 90° in respect to one another as follow in the second figure below. The speed of propagation of the electromagnetic wave is c or speed of light. Note that a usual mechanical wave does not have an electrical nor a magnetic wave.

Difference in nature between mechanical and light waves.

As proved above, more sophisticated techniques developed by IHM – from Institute of HeartMath – have indicated that there is an energy exchange that occurs up to five feet away from the body even without touching, but when people do touch – even a simple handshake – there is a surprisingly large exchange of subtle electromagnetic information being transferred.
Therefore to prove that this also is applied to non-humans this time we’ll consider a boy and his dog instead of human-human contact.

In an informal experiment, a boy named Josh and his dog Mabel demonstrate how one heart field can calm another heart down. IHM researchers monitored the heart rhythms of both the dog and the boy. Researchers had Mabel enter a room by herself. Her heart rhythms were very jagged and erratic. Then Josh entered the room and greeted Mabel – petting her and emotionally bonding with her. At this point Mabel’s heart rhythms made a significant shift, synchronizing with Josh’s heart rhythms. Mabel’s rhythms stayed very close to Josh’s rhythms throughout their visit. When Josh got up and left the room, Mabel’s heart rhythms clearly shifted again, becoming very spiked and jagged (see graphic below). Although the experiment was not a formal study, it appears that Josh’s calm heart field connected with Mabel’s heart, helping her to feel secure and relaxed.

The human heart rhythm reaching the dog’s

Considering everyday interactions, moods and attitudes, whether we realize it or not, our hearts not only affect our own experience, but they can also influence those around us. This poses questions about our everyday interactions, such as if a parent comes home feeling edgy and stressed from the day’s events, does this transfer to their children, creating stress in them? Or perhaps we’re influencing our colleagues more than we know. If we’re feeling uncertain and anxious about a business plan being accepted, might we be transferring this uncertainty in a meeting via a handshake, or if we feel insecure about a relationship, could we be sabotaging it by emanating our insecurities? 

In University of Arizona, now, one of the scientists is doing research on 300 heart transplantation trying to prove the cardio electric theory which states that there is an exchange of energy and information between the heart and the brain by using the electromagnetic field, he is trying to find how many recipients did feel changes in their personalities or their diet, also trying to answer questions according to  the ethical point of view; if someone receive a heart from a criminal what will happen to him? 

As you can see these experimentally observed facts cannot be ignored. Their nature is really worth studying. If we put everything all together, from the chapter on the brain as well as everything we’ve covered on the heart, we have good reasons to concentrate us more on the human heart than the brain. In other words, we’ve always put our weight on the brain, considering it as the only intellectual source of our biological system, whereas it seems that the heart has a more important role than the brain both intellectually and certainly spiritually when the Quranic verses are taken into account. 

So when you read the Holy Quran, you can feel a merciful hand patting on your heart removing sadness and desperateness. It includes within itself all the science and knowledge that man has reached and not yet reached, you won’t lose any time reading it . It even talks to the unbelievers and is keen on removing atheism (or any other such thought). Even those who are skeptic of God can find answers to their questions.
And at last, allow us to see what God has told us on this in the Holy Quran: 

In time We shall make them fully understand Our messages [through what they perceive] in the utmost horizons [of the universe] and within them¬selves, so that it will become clear unto them that this [revelation] is indeed the truth. [Still,] is it not enough [for them to know] that thy Sustainer is witness unto everything?
(Surah Fussilat (Chapter 41 – Explained in Detail) verse 53)  

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THE ELECTRICITY OF TOUCH:DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT OF CARDIAC ENERGY EXCHANGE BETWEEN PEOPLE
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Continuation of Article: http://www.heartmath.org/research/science-of-the-heart/soh_24.html
References:
About the Authors:
Paul Pearsall, PhD, is a Clinical Professor at the Department of Nursing, University of Hawaii. He is the author of over 200 professional articles and 15 international best-selling books including The Heart’s Code (Broadway Books,  ).
Gary E. Schwartz, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, Surgery, Medicine, Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Arizona. He is also Director of the Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science and Director of the Human Energy Systems Laboratory, both at the University of Arizona. He is the co-author (with Linda Russek) of The Living Energy Universe (Hampton Roads Publishing,  , soon to be re-released; reviewed in NEXUS 7/04), and co-author (with William L. Simon) of The Afterlife Experiments (Pocket Books, 2002; reviewed in NEXUS  ) and The G.O.D. Experiments (Atria Books, 2006).
• Linda G. Russek, PhD, is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona and Director of The Heart Science Laboratory of The Heart Science Foundation in Tucson, Arizona.
She has co-authored more than 40 papers as well as the book, The Living Energy Universe (with Dr Gary Schwartz; see above).
Editor’s Note:
This article was originally published under the title “Changes in Heart Transplant Recipients that Parallel the Personalities of their Donors” in the Journal of Near-Death Studies, vol. 20, no. 3, Spring 2002.
, http://veritas.arizona.edu/ and http://www.openmindsciences.com/
Leslie A. Takeuchi, BA, PTA is a physical therapist assistant and is currently a graduate student in Holistic Health Education at John. F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California. An article about Julie Motz’s energy healing work appeared in the June/July issue of San Francisco Medicine in 2000. Her book, “Hand of Life” was published by Bantam Books in 1998.
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