+ 심장의 놀라운 발견 / 자체 두뇌도, 의식도 갖고 있다

심장은 그 자체의 두뇌도 가지며 의식도 갖고 있다

The Heart Has Its Own “Brain” and Consciousness

안녕하세요? 심장이 좋으신가요? 왜, 갑자기 심장이냐고요? 네 의학의 획기적인 이야기기도 하고요 정신과학의 지평을 확 열어제끼는 발전이기도 해서 함께 나누려합니다. 이야기를 보니 제가 항상 주장하는 인체의 전기와 전자파 이야기입니다. 거기에 인체 DNA 의 운영원리를 규명하는 신비한 과학이 엮어지니 정말 흥미로운 이야기가 시작됩니다. 그 시작점이 심장이고요 클라이맥스의 월계관도 심장이라는 이야기입니다.

심장은 우리 몸에 혈액을 공급하는 중요한 기관입니다. 만일 그 사람이 괴롭거나 심한 스트레스를 받는다면 심장맥박이 불규칙해지고요 뛰다 안뛰거나, 또 높았다 낮아졌다하는 부정맥이나 빈맥을 보이고요 심하면 심통도 생깁니다. 이러면 사람의 온 몸에 맥이 없으니 살기가 힘들어지는 것입니다.

이 정도의 이야기는 의학상식이 있는 분은 거지반 아는 사실입니다. 그런데 심장이 자체의 뇌를 갖고 있다면 뭐라 하시겠습니까? 즉각 예상되는 소리는 “별, 미친소릴 다하는군..” “쩝, 그럼 그 사람은 머리가 필요없겠어, 심장이 다한다니 말이야”, “심장이 무슨 생각을 하며 의식도 있다고 그래?” “그게 마음이 심장에서 나간다고 했지, 그러면 그런 생각과 일맥상통하겠군..” 등등 여러가지 반응이 있을 것입니다. 좋습니다. 아래이야기는 일급의 의과학진의 최근의 심장의 신비한 영역을 열기위한 실험의 결과이기도 하고요 인간의 의식이 심장을 통해 온몸을 조화로 이끌며 타인과 환경, 또 인류사회와 상호 교호하는 관문이라는 사실을 보여주고 있습니다.

이는 심령과학 같은 믿거나 말거나 소식이 아니고요 고급의 과학 에세이 뉴스이니 만치 귀담아 들을 필요가 있습니다.

1) 심장신경학의 최근 연구는 심장이 감각수용체이기도 하고 정보를 수신해서 일처리를 하는 정교한 정보센터임을 입증한다. 심장 안에는 소위 심장뇌라 부르는 신경체제가 있는데 이는 심장이 배우고 기억하며 기능적 결정을 할 정도까지 능력을 발휘한다. 이런 심장의 능력은 대뇌의 상피조직과 무관하게 발휘된다는 사실이다.

2) 심장은 두뇌를 향해 끊임없이 신호를 보내서는 두뇌의 고등 기능이 작동해서 감각하고 인지하고 감정을 발산하는 일에 두뇌가 함께 작용하라고 이끌며 가고 있다.

3) 심장은 두뇌와 몸에 신경망을 형성해서는 심장이 내보내는 전자파 파장에너지 교환을 통해서 두뇌와 몸이 교신하도록 강력한 리듬을 가진 파동에너지를 발산하고 있다. 이 파장의 진동에너지는 뇌파의 60배나 될 정도로 큰 것이어서 몸의 모든 세포 하나하나에 미치지 않은 곳이 없다.

4) 심장 파동의 자기장 에너지는 뇌파 자기장 에너지의 5천배 만큼이나 강력해서 몸 바깥에 수 피트의 거리에서도 자기장 미터기를 통해 측정이 될 정도이다.

5) 심장은 끊임없이 전자기 펄스를 생성해서 그 맥박의 간격 사이에 다양한 리듬의 파장 음조를 실어서 온몸의 세포에 강력한 영향을 주고 있다. 이는 뇌파 리듬이 심장파에 동조하도록 요구하는 것인데, 가령 사랑의 감정이나 감사의 정서 같은 경우에 혈압과 호흡 리듬이나 세포 장기의 맥이 심장의 리듬에 완전히 동조되도록 요구하고 있다.

6) 그런 의미에서 심장파는 온 몸이 내고 있는 신호들을 총체적으로 실어날으는 반송파로 간주할 수있다. 심장파는 몸의 장기와 세포에 도달해서 상호 교호하며 심장파 안에 실려있는 에너지와 신호의 패턴은 온 몸에 영향을 미치는 것이다. 그러면 몸의 세포 하나하나는 마치 하나의 조직처럼 동조하고 반응하는 것이다.

7) 사람의 감정상태를 실은 정보는 심장 전자파를 통해 몸으로 전달된다. 이때 가령 두려움과 분노 같은 부정적 감정은 심장파의 불규칙한 형태로 실려나간다. 또 제대로 심장파가 나가지 않거나 산만하게 변질된 파장으로 나가곤 한다. 그러나 사랑이나 감사의 감정 같은 긍정의 상태는 부드럽고 규칙적이며 상호상관성이 있는 형태도 심장파가 나간다. 이런 심장파의 유형은 스펙트럼 분석장치를 통해 측정이 가능하다.

8) 긍정의 감정 상태에서 심장파가 나갈 때는 정신 생리적 상관성이 높고 뚜렷해지는데 이는 사인파 sine wave-like pattern 유형을 띈다. 이런 심장 파형은 인체 내부 활동과 상호작용에 효율이 높아지고 조화를 보여준다. 또 정신의학적으로는 내부 정신감응의 대화가 현저히 줄어들고 스트레스는 매우 적으며 감정의 균형이나 명료성, 통찰과 분별력이 높은 특성을 보인다.

9) 보통 사람의 교신은 언어나 표정 몸동작으로 이뤄지는 것으로 알고 있으니 심장파를 연구한 결과 개인간이나 사회관계에 있어서 심장파가 감정교환과 의사전달에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타난다. 연구결과는 사람 사이에 5피트의 거리에서 심장파가 느껴지는 것이며 상관성이 높은 심장파가 나갈 때 상대방의 두뇌가 심장파에 동조 현상을 보이고 있다. 이는 나아가 어떤 집단에서 이런 심장파 동조 현상이 급하게 전염되는 현상도 검증하게 된다.

(이하 번역생략 - PeterKim)

By Rollin McCraty, Ph.D. & Raymond Trevor Bradley, Ph.D. & Dana Tomasino, BA
Feb 22, 2012 - 2:20:05 PM

Heart Fields

Many believe that conscious awareness originates in the brain alone. Recent scientific research suggests that consciousness actually emerges from the brain and body acting together. A growing body of evidence suggests that the heart plays a particularly significant role in this process.

Far more than a simple pump, as was once believed, the heart is now recognized by scientists as a highly complex system with its own functional “brain.”

Research in the new discipline of neurocardiology shows that the heart is a sensory organ and a sophisticated center for receiving and processing information. The nervous system within the heart (or “heart brain”) enables it to learn, remember, and make functional decisions independent of the brain’s cerebral cortex. Moreover, numerous experiments have demonstrated that the signals the heart continuously sends to the brain influence the function of higher brain centers involved in perception, cognition, and emotional processing.

In addition to the extensive neural communication network linking the heart with the brain and body, the heart also communicates information to the brain and throughout the body via electromagnetic field interactions. The heart generates the body’s most powerful and most extensive rhythmic electromagnetic field. Compared to the electromagnetic field produced by the brain, the electrical component of the heart’s field is about 60 times greater in amplitude, and permeates every cell in the body. The magnetic component is approximately 5000 times stronger than the brain’s magnetic field and can be detected several feet away from the body with sensitive magnetometers.

The heart generates a continuous series of electromagnetic pulses in which the time interval between each beat varies in a dynamic and complex manner. The heart’s ever-present rhythmic field has a powerful influence on processes throughout the body. We have demonstrated, for example, that brain rhythms naturally synchronize to the heart’s rhythmic activity, and also that during sustained feelings of love or appreciation, the blood pressure and respiratory rhythms, among other oscillatory systems, entrain to the heart’s rhythm.

We propose that the heart’s field acts as a carrier wave for information that provides a global synchronizing signal for the entire body. Specifically, we suggest that as pulsing waves of energy radiate out from the heart, they interact with organs and other structures. The waves encode or record the features and dynamic activity of these structures in patterns of energy waveforms that are distributed throughout the body. In this way, the encoded information acts to in-form (literally, give shape to) the activity of all bodily functions—to coordinate and synchronize processes in the body as a whole. This perspective requires an energetic concept of information, in which patterns of organization are enfolded into waves of energy of system activity distributed throughout the system as a whole.

Basic research at the Institute of HeartMath shows that information pertaining to a person’s emotional state is also communicated throughout the body via the heart’s electromagnetic field. The rhythmic beating patterns of the heart change significantly as we experience different emotions. Negative emotions, such as anger or frustration, are associated with an erratic, disordered, incoherent pattern in the heart’s rhythms. In contrast, positive emotions, such as love or appreciation, are associated with a smooth, ordered, coherent pattern in the heart’s rhythmic activity. In turn, these changes in the heart’s beating patterns create corresponding changes in the structure of the electromagnetic field radiated by the heart, measurable by a technique called spectral analysis.

More specifically, we have demonstrated that sustained positive emotions appear to give rise to a distinct mode of functioning, which we call psychophysiological coherence. During this mode, heart rhythms exhibit a sine wave-like pattern and the heart’s electromagnetic field becomes correspondingly more organized.

• At the physiological level, this mode is characterized by increased efficiency and harmony in the activity and interactions of the body’s systems. [1]

• Psychologically, this mode is linked with a notable reduction in internal mental dialogue, reduced perceptions of stress, increased emotional balance, and enhanced mental clarity, intuitive discernment, and cognitive performance.

In sum, our research suggests that psychophysiological coherence is important in enhancing consciousness—both for the body’s sensory awareness of the information required to execute and coordinate physiological function, and also to optimize emotional stability, mental function, and intentional action. Furthermore, as we see next, there is experimental evidence that psychophysiological coherence may increase our awareness of and sensitivity to others around us. The Institute of HeartMath has created practical technologies and tools that all people can use to increase coherence.

Heart Field Interactions Between Individuals

Most people think of social communication solely in terms of overt signals expressed through language, voice qualities, gestures, facial expressions, and body movements. However, there is now evidence that a subtle yet influential electromagnetic or “energetic” communication system operates just below our conscious awareness. Energetic interactions likely contribute to the “magnetic” attractions or repulsions that occur between individuals, and also affect social exchanges and relationships. Moreover, it appears that the heart’s field plays an important role in communicating physiological, psychological, and social information between individuals.

Experiments conducted at the Institute of HeartMath have found remarkable evidence that the heart’s electromagnetic field can transmit information between people. We have been able to measure an exchange of heart energy between individuals up to 5 feet apart. We have also found that one person’s brain waves can actually synchronize to another person’s heart. Furthermore, when an individual is generating a coherent heart rhythm, synchronization between that person’s brain waves and another person’s heartbeat is more likely to occur. These findings have intriguing implications, suggesting that individuals in a psychophysiologically coherent state become more aware of the information encoded in the heart fields of those around them.

The results of these experiments have led us to infer that the nervous system acts as an “antenna,” which is tuned to and responds to the electromagnetic fields produced by the hearts of other individuals. We believe this capacity for exchange of energetic information is an innate ability that heightens awareness and mediates important aspects of true empathy and sensitivity to others Furthermore, we have observed that this energetic communication ability can be intentionally enhanced, producing a much deeper level of nonverbal communication, understanding, and connection between people. There is also intriguing evidence that heart field interactions can occur between people and animals.

In short, energetic communication via the heart field facilitates development of an expanded consciousness in relation to our social world.

The Heart’s Field and Intuition

There are also new data suggesting that the heart’s field is directly involved in intuitive perception, through its coupling to an energetic information field outside the bounds of space and time. Using a rigorous experimental design, we found compelling evidence that both the heart and brain receive and respond to information about a future event before the event actually happens. Even more surprising was our finding that the heart appears to receive this “intuitive” information before the brain. This suggests that the heart’s field may be linked to a more subtle energetic field that contains information on objects and events remote in space or ahead in time. Called by Karl Pribram and others the “spectral domain,” this is a fundamental order of potential energy that enfolds space and time, and is thought to be the basis for our consciousness of “the whole.” (See heartmath.org for further detail.)

Social Fields

In the same way that the heart generates energy in the body, we propose that the social collective is the activator and regulator of the energy in social systems.

A body of groundbreaking work shows how the field of socioemotional interaction between a mother and her infant is essential to brain development, the emergence of consciousness, and the formation of a healthy self-concept. These interactions are organized along two relational dimensions—stimulation of the baby’s emotions, and regulation of shared emotional energy. Together they form a socioemotional field through which enormous quantities of psychobiological and psychosocial information are exchanged. Coherent organization of the mother-child relations that make up this field is critical. This occurs when interactions are charged, most importantly, with positive emotions (love, joy, happiness, excitement, appreciation, etc.), and are patterned as highly synchronized, reciprocal exchanges between these two individuals. These patterns are imprinted in the child’s brain and thus influence psychosocial function throughout life. (See Allan Schore, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self.)

Moreover in a longitudinal study of 46 social groups, one of us (RTB) 　　　　documented how information about the global organization of a group—the group’s collective consciousness—appears to be transmitted to all members by an energetic field of socio-emotional connection. Data on the relationships between each pair of members was found to provide an accurate image of the social structure of the group as a whole. Coherent organization of the group’s social structure is associated with a network of positively charged emotions (love, excitement, and optimism) connecting all members. This network of positive emotions appears to constitute a field of energetic connection into which information about the group’s social structure is encoded and distributed throughout the group. Remarkably, an accurate picture of the group’s overall social structure was obtained from information only about relationships between pairs of individuals. We believe the only way this is possible is if information about the organization of the whole group is distributed to all members of the group via an energetic field. Such correspondence in information between parts and the whole is consistent with the principle of holographic organization. [2]

Synthesis and Implications

Some organizing features of the heart field, identified in numerous studies at HeartMath, may also be shared by those of our hypothesized social field. Each is a field of energy in which the waveforms of energy encode the features of objects and events as energy moves throughout the system. This creates a nonlocal order of energetic information in which each location in the field contains an enfolded image of the organization of the whole system at that moment. The organization and processing of information in these energy fields can best be understood in terms of quantum holographic principles. [3]

Another commonality is the role of positive emotions, such as love and appreciation, in generating coherence both in the heart field and in social fields. When the movement of energy is intentionally regulated to form a coherent, harmonious order, information integrity and flow are optimized. This, in turn, produces stable, effective system function, which enhances health, psychosocial well-being, and intentional action in the individual or social group.

Heart coherence and social coherence may also act to mutually reinforce each other. As individuals within a group increase psychophysiological coherence, psychosocial attunement may be increased, thereby increasing the coherence of social relations. Similarly, the creation of a coherent social field by a group may help support the generation and maintenance of psychophysiological coherence in its individual members. An expanded, deepened awareness and consciousness results—of the body’s internal physiological, emotional, and mental processes, and also of the deeper, latent orders enfolded into the energy fields that surround us. This is the basis of self-awareness, social sensitivity, creativity, intuition, spiritual insight, and understanding of ourselves and all that we are connected to. It is through the intentional generation of coherence in both heart and social fields that a critical shift to the next level of planetary consciousness can occur—one that brings us into harmony with the movement of the whole.

For more information on the Institute of HeartMath’s research and publications, please

visit www.heartmath.org.

요약번역멘트: PeterKim http://blog.daum.net/petercskim/7863070