Listening to your heart which only listens to your brain.

The heart is the only anatomical organ that has received the honour of maintaining the limelight alongside human beings as their symbolic image. When in love your heart beats, when in despair your heart breaks. Kindness apparently comes from bigger hearts, some claim to have given away their hearts and some are searching for its real place. We somehow identify ourselves with this small piece of flesh in the rib cage so much that when you hear somebody speak about their heart you expect it to be something deeply about the person, unless you are a cardiologist. The long history of the symbol heart being extensively used to symbolize love is a whole different topic, I am rather talking about the identity we have in our minds to the word heart or the idea of heart. It does have some anatomical explanation, at moments of feeling intense emotions the heart does play an integral role in responsive action, by regulating the blood flow and responding to the chemical releases. It has been studied that the emotional triggers we face directly affect the functioning of the heart. More than a metaphor, our hearts actually behave differently to our different emotional states. I didn’t see the reality of this fact until someone in my close circle was diagnosed with a heart disease. He had to go through a major heart surgery and on the day of discharge the only advice the doctor had for his caretakers was “Keep this man happy. It will keep him alive”. So our hearts do care about how we feel but does it get to determine what we feel? Not really. <a href="https://medium.com/@blessedto77/listening-to-your-heart-which-only-listens-to-your-brain-5e2fb54be888">Click Here</a>