Turn on your heart light

The heart is the physical center of the circulatory system, managing over 75 trillion cells. It is also the electromagnetic center of the body, emanating thousands of times more electricity and magnetism than does the brain.
The heart's electromagnetic field (EMF) is five thousand times stronger than that of the brain. It's electrical field is sixty times greater than that of the brain. Not only is its electromagnetic capacity greater than that of the brain, but it is organically capable of performing certain brain-like functions. In fact, between 60 and 65 percent of its cells are neural, identical to those present in the brain. Energy, information that vibrates, flows, constantly, between the heart and the brain, assisting with emotional processing, sensory experience, memory and derivation of meaning from events, and reasoning. In addition, the heart is one of the body's major endocrine glands, producing at least five major hormones, which impact the physiological functions of the brain and body.
Most people believe that the brain initiates the first response to incoming events and then orders our reactions. Analysis reveals, however, that incoming information first impacts the heart, and through the heart, the brain and then the rest of the body. Our hearts are so strong that they can actually formulate the most well known symbol of love: light. Research has shown that under certain conditions, a meditator can actually generate visible light from the heart. The meditation technique must be heart-centered, not transcendent. When this occurred during studies at the University of Kassel in Germany in 1997, the heart emanated a sustained light of one hundred thousand photons per second, whereas the background had a count of only twenty photons per second. the meditations drew upon energetic understandings from several cultures, including the Hindu practice of kundalini.
It has been said that the heart is the center of the body, but it also might be the core of a subtle universe-or perhaps a "subtle sun" generated by every individual.


Excerpted from "The Subtle Body" by Cyndi Dale

Flavor Tripping parties

There is a tiny fruit called the miracle fruit.
It blocks the tongue's ability to detect sour.
So lemons taste sweet, goat cheese like cheesecake and vinegar like apple juice...
Hence, flavor tripping parties were born.
Check out the article in the Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28flavor.html?_r=2

Quote for this day

Tension is who you think you should be.
Relaxation is who you are.