CHAPTER 10 BREAKTHROUGH
HEART
POWERFUL OR PITIFUL
Your heart knows the way.Run in that direction.
–RUMI
If connections with our brain can either drain our energy or renew it, so too do we have those same connections with our heart.
THE POWER OF THE HEART
The human heart, with some sixty thousand miles of veins, capillaries, and arteries, is an incredible energy source. In fact, the heart’s electrical field is about sixty times greater in amplitude than the electrical activity generated by the brain. We can feel that energy.1
Think about a time when you walked into a neighbor’s house and you could feel the tension between the spouses or partners. Your heart sensed it. Not your brain. And that negative energy came from their hearts. We now know ...
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