Your heart is wiser than your brain. And a quicker thinker, too. Modern neurological research is finding proof that consciousness is in your heart, before it is in your brain. It is proving what the ancient Egyptians already knew: Your heart is the seat of your intelligence, and indeed of your intuition. It is where your soul lives.

It is now documented that your heart is a fine sensory organ connected to the body’s nervous system and processing information independently of the brain’s cerebral cortex. Your brain may have millions of synapses but only a select few fire when it is processing information. Your heart has 40,000 synapses and they all fire at the same time!

Like all organs, the heart also shines an electromagnetic field. The electric element of your heart’s radiation is 60 times stronger than that of the brain, whereas your heart shines its magnetism with a force 5,000 times stronger than the brain’s. This is why you can ‘feel’ the mood in a room, or indeed you know if someone is looking at you before you look at them. Your hearts are already talking, even before you turn your heads towards each other.

Humankind has spent the last 300 years researching ourselves into the ground in scientific pursuit of ‘proof’ of something before we trust it or believe in it. This has created a notion in modern man’s thinking that only the visual and concretely physical world is reality. Well, science is now coming full circle, and beginning to find physical proof of the esoteric, intuitive insights which we all know as hunch, gut feeling – or desire!

So how is one to apply this insight in daily life? Well, I advise the following: Trust your heart! If it feels right, it is because it is! And why do I argue that business decisions is a matter for the heart? Because when decisions are taken with your heart, they are true to your honest, purest desire, which is one of confidence, community, and inclusion.

The tired old logic of your brain is trained to chasing bottom lines and calculating stiffly as if it were a spreadsheet. In the 21st century more and more people will realise that this medieval approach to business operations is outdated and unhealthy for the planet on which we live. The new paradigm begins today – let the hard facts in your life align with the heart facts in your life.

(some information in this piece from Institute of Heartmath)