What If I Told You The HEART Is Not a Pump?: A short thought exercise!
So, there's this crazy idea out there that an organ the size of our fist, weighing ~300 grams, is responsible for pumping (through sheer force) 5.5 liters of blood through veins over 100,000km long (the circumference of the earth is 40,000 km) and it does this roughly 1.5 times a day! Pretty insane proposal right? But, that's what we believe.
Did you know the blood flows through our veins before our heart develops!?
"Sure, but that is because our mothers' heart is pumping it. Right?"
Maybe, but do you know this is also the case with baby chicks, while they are developing in an egg? Without a 'mothers heart'...
There's a theory
A theory that the heart is more of a sensor(among other things) and less of a pump! That blood circulates with a complex combination of vortexes, arterial compressions and the inherent makeup of blood itself... I'm not entirely sure, to be honest, I don't think anyone really knows...
I have searched for a reasonable modern medical explanation of how the heart works to cite here, but I found nothing of value and most of what I found was quite comical.
(Any medical-scientists out there who would attempt to enlighten me?)
Either way, this thought intrigues me.
The idea of my heart being solely responsible for pumping my blood through my body is pretty stressful! My heart likes the idea of being a central sensor and guide opposed to a mechanistic pump!
What do you think?
My heart likes the sound of it too. Would be cool if you're right.
Did you check out the last link under "thought" it leads to Rudolph Steiners research concerning it. Extremely compelling!
heart is the primary electro magnetic organ in the human system - it is MUCH more than a pump. the heart is the balancing centre through which thought and emotion can be lovingly bonded - all healing thus starts in the heart.
Exactly, I've been told that our(hearts) electromagnetic field resonates at the same frequency as the earths'... Have you heard of this?
I had the same conversation with a friend a few months back and he sent the following link, can't confirm its quality though: http://www.drjoedispenza.com/blog/consciousness/what-does-the-spike-in-the-schumann-resonance-mean/
Also related, if you would like to experiment, google youtube for 528 hertz (or other solfeggio frequencies), listen to them for a few minutes and see if anything happens in the torso
Definitely on the agenda for the morning :) As I'm headed to bed just now. I will report back tomorrow!
The Earth's primary frequency is known as the Schumann Resonance and many have claimed it has been rising in recent years. In my internet research I was unable to find any reliable source for this claim, so I can't really comment on that part of it all.
I do feel it would be good to have our hearts tuned to earth and I personally consider Earth to be a manifestation of Heart.. Which is partly why I named the social network I run the 'Earth Heart Community'. I don't know of any repeatable science or maths that confirms that this is how it should be - at present.
Fascinating! I'll have to do my own digging and see if it brings anything up! Do you have any links to information regarding the heart resonance (opposed to earth) and methods to modify our frequency? (if you're suggesting that the frequency is not stable)...
You can explore the material from the heart math institute and Paul Pearson's book The Heart's Code is highly relevant.
In terms of actually changing our own frequencies, the heart is fundamental - it is a topic that can easily extend to over 1000 pages though, it is probably the most complicated topic in thus universe at present. The very short version is that the more we accept all of us in a loving way, the more we can increase our vibrational level, heart coherence and capacity to thrive. <3
Excellent!! Thank you for the recommendation I'm getting it now! I'll read it and report back, I was looking for a project :)
From what I've been taught, the pumping of the blood involves the heart and the muscles in the extremities. So, when a man runs or walks, the muscular contraction of the extremities add to the pumping mechanism of the heart. Also, the Arteries and arterioles are arranged in parallel, rather than serial fashion, reducing the stress on the cardiac muscle. When the human body is most immobile (sleeping), he is in supine position, which also limits the stress on the cardiac muscles, as gravity need not be overcome in supine position. The veins in man has valves to trap blood from back flow; varicose veins result from the venous valve malfunction. Arterial blood is shunted via pressure gradient in the system; so, vasodilation and contraction efficiently direct blood to necessary areas. In case of cardiac arrest, CPR can circulate blood through the body to supply necessary oxygen to affected areas. It may not be too far fetched to assume that the cardiac muscles alone can pump blood to needed areas when man is not active.
Thank you so much for the response! You seem to be much more versed in the psychological processes of the heart. I would love to know your opinion then on this paper http://www.rsarchive.org/RelArtic/Marinelli/, it gets into a lot of the finer details of my claim!
"It may not be too far fetched to assume that the cardiac muscles alone can pump blood to needed areas when man is not active."
The article claims:
I would love a critique as I'm in the process of formulating my opinion on the matter. Enquiring minds need to know :)
I will read the article, but from reading the excerpt, I think the author is of the assumption that all muscle fibers uniformly contract at a given moment. Cardiac muscle structure is an interesting anomaly; it is a skeletal muscle, like those in our extremities, but is not under conscious/voluntary control (which makes sense, since we would have people dying daily because they forgot to start their heart!). The voluntary skeletal muscles in our extremities can lift quite significant amount of mass with only 10-20% synchronous muscle fiber contraction. The Olympic athletes can recruit 30-35% of synchronicity in their skeletal muscle fibers voluntarily.
The cardiac skeletal fibers likely are operating at much higher synchronicity (someone should do a study on the synchronicity of cardiac muscle fibers). There are reported cases of women who lift automobiles to save her child; a phenomenon explained by increased synchronicity of skeletal muscle fibers. Of course, if we all operated at 100% synchronicity, we would need to be constantly eating, so I think 10% synchronicity to survive is a good thing.
I think the synchronicity of muscle fibers, rather than the size of the organ, may explain the incredulous power of the organ.
Fantastic!! I love this. Thank you for taking the time to write this up! This to me adds so much more depth to the story. It's much more complex than the definitions I was finding of a heart that just pumps blood by force through tubes (essentially). This makes the whole process much more fine-tuned synchronism and beautiful. Also, explains how blood flows prior to heart development.
Astonishing! You just expanded my mind :) Thank you!
Side thought. This fits in perfectly with me redesigning my fitness routine. For some reason this gave me the idea that I will need to be employing more synchronistic flow of movements in my fitness opposed to rigid uniform movements I have used in the past... Not sure why this connection was made, just was!
It seems like you will be incorporating some Chi-gong type routine. I think I saw a documentary about "internal" vs "external" kung-fu techniques on youtube, where "internal" techniques involve energy flow and such. I think the "internal" method utilizes synchronous recruitment of skeletal muscle fibers described in terms of energy flow, but it could be something entirely different and I am imputing my framework unjustly.
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Great article... follow your heart I say!
Lead with heart, manage with mind :)
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As a future MD I think that's very interesting topic. It is stresful to think how much work our heart is doing, so better not to think too much about it :) I like the picture, it's insane how many blood vessels we have in our body. Thank you for sharing :)
A future MD?! Excellent! Maybe you could help me understand what the medical understanding is. As far as I was able to tell, it's still unknown.