Using Your Heart, Brain & Gut Intelligences Collectively To Make Better Decisions

Your brain is not the only organ in your body with it’s own intelligence and ability to make decisions.

You also have your heart and your gut, both of which are decision-making tools who guide you through life holistically.

Society has conditioned us to develop our rational logical left brain while ignoring all the other intelligences in your body. We were not educated holistically and balanced. We are educated to be overdeveloped in logic, which is limiting and remedial for the potential of the capacity of the holistic beings — psychical, emotional, mental, and spiritual — that we are.

We are creators of worlds and more.

We are one with the universe and each other.

We are infinite and immortal.

So let’s get down to business and lemme show you how to make better decisions. First of all, you have more than one independent intelligence in your body. Each of your cells have their own consciousness and their own little “thought processes” although seemingly simple in comparison to ours.

“Critically the cell is now seen to be interpreting our environment into whatever adapted reality it can inside the cell, with the purpose of ensuring we survive and thrive in our environment. IBMP personally call our cells the cellf, instead of the self, to show the direct correlation and link from micro level cell consciousness, to the macro level self consciousness of traditional psychology.” – Energetics Institute.

For simplicity, let’s focus on the three main intelligences in your body.

Your Brain — Your Gut — Your Heart

Yes, all of three of these are capable of making their own decisions based on their own way of perceiving the various inputs in your life.

You already know about the intelligence of your brain, so let’s move on to the intelligence of the gut.

The Intelligence of the GUT

Within your autonomic nervous system, you have three systems.

Sympathetic nervous system – Responsible for the “fight or flight” state of your body. This system initiates, communicates and regulates a hightened, ready for action, state through various neurotransmitters, receptors, hormones etc.

Parasympathetic nervous system – Responsible for the “rest and digest” state of your body. This system initiates, communicates and regulates a relaxed state through various neurotransmitters, receptors, hormones etc.

Enteric Nervous system – This system has been described as a “second brain”. It communicates with the central nervous system through the vagus nerve and sympathetic nervous system.

The enteric nervous system, or “gut brain”, has the ability to influence the brain.

90% of the signals passing along the vagus nerve come from the enteric nervous system to the brain.

The enteric nervous system is located beneath the ribcage in the upper area stomach (the solar plexus area.) This is why it’s critical to have a strong, balanced and toned vagus nerve. Read more about that here.

The Intelligence of the Heart

The human heart has approximately 40,000 neural cells. Its’ neural system sends more information to the brain than the brain sends to the heart.

The heart’s electromagnetic field is 5,000 times greater than the brain’s. The field’s reach is about 8-25 feet from its central location.

The heart sends the brain emotional and intuitive signals. The heart directs and aligns many systems in the body so that they can function in harmony with one another.

“Scientists at the nonprofit HeartMath Institute, which had been conducting research into heart intelligence and emotions posed the theory that “heart intelligence actually transfers intelligence to the emotions and instills the power of emotional management,” the book explains. “In other words, heart intelligence is really the source of emotional intelligence.” – HeathMath Institute

The heart is a powerful instrument of intelligence.

However,

In order to truly attain heart intelligence, as defined by the HearthMath Institute, there must be a holistic coherence between the mind, emotions and heart.

Heart intelligence is the flow of awareness, understanding and intuition we experience when the mind and emotions are brought into coherent alignment with the heart. It can be activated through self-initiated practice, and the more we pay attention when we sense the heart is speaking to us or guiding us, the greater our ability to access this intelligence and guidance more frequently. – The Heartmath Institute

Achieving coherence to make better decisions

To achieve coherence between your mind and emotions, the Hearth Math Institute has developed a Quick Coherence technique.

This uses the energy of your heart to balance your mind and emotions.

You can play or download The Quick Coherence techniques for Adults here.

Balancing your mind and emotions creates coherence between your brain, heart and gut.

In addition,

To maintain a healthy balance in your gut, maintain a healthy gut flora.

Researchers at Rockefeller University found that the bacteria in our gut produce one of the same signaling molecules that humans do, which can then interact with receptors in the body to mediate health.

While psychological and physical stressors can affect the composition and metabolic activity of the gut microbiota, experimental changes to the gut microbiome can affect emotional behavior and related brain systems. These findings have resulted in speculation that alterations in the gut microbiome may play a pathophysiological role in human brain diseases, including autism spectrum disorder, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain. – Gut Microbes and the Brain: Paradigm Shift in Neuroscience

If you maintain a healthy balance in your brain, heart and gut, your heart you will create the type of ecosystem in your body that contains the proper hormones, signals and messages, creating the foundation for optimum intelligence, decision making and intuition.

References:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4228144/

http://www.russligeikis.com/?p=95

https://www.heartmath.org/resources/heartmath-tools/quick-coherence-technique-for-adults/

http://energeticsinstitute.com.au/cellular-consciousness/

https://www.brucelipton.com/resource/article/insight-cellular-consciousness

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