Heroes Not Zombies

How often have you had “a heart to heart” with someone? What does that really mean? Is it just a metaphorical use of “heart”? As in how we use “heart” to mean the “core” or the “centre”? Something important. Something authentic and true?

Or do we mean “heart” as “love”, so a “heart to heart” is a loving exchange?

It’s all that and more.

Because we know now that the heart has a network of specialised nerve cells around it, and that the heart physically processes and produces information for us. Exactly what kind of information isn’t clear but it’s not the same as “thinking” in any conscious or rational way. It seems it’s more like intuition, more like feelings.

But there’s more. Because the heart is rhythmic it produces waves. Waves of energy which radiate throughout the body, brain, and beyond. We know from heart resonance studies that two people, sitting close to each other, can find their heart rhythms begin to synchronise. They get in tune with each other. They connect along the same wavelengths.

So a “heart to heart” is both a physical and a metaphorical experience. We know what it feels like. We know when we have been heard, even felt, by another person, because we’ve connected heart to heart.

Just one more thing…the heart, of course, doesn’t work in isolation. It is massively interconnected within the body, and embedded in multiple feedback loops. When we experience a “heart to heart”, it’s more than our hearts which connect. It’s our whole being, our mind, spirit and soul.