Here is a major miracle that you experience every second of
your life…your heart.
About 3 to 4 weeks after the sperm and egg united and got
started to make you, there were a couple of blood vessels that suddenly started
pulsing in a very regular beat. Those vessels grow together, enlarge, and twist
around each other to form your heart in only about 2 weeks. A swirling pattern
of muscles forms around a bulge which splits into the 4 chambers of the heart. It
continues to beat about every second for the rest of your life.
In the womb, the heart is responsible for the very
development of that fetus into you.
The average heart is about 10 ounces and the size of a fist. Through an amazing process the electric pulses (red lines below) cause the top part of the heart to beat first, followed by the lower part.
It beats an average of 72 times a minute. It beats 1,000 times in 14 minutes.
It beats 10,000 times every 2.3 hours. It beats 103,680 times a day, every day,
your whole life. It beats a million times in less than 10 days. That’s a pretty
amazing muscle.
The average heart pumps about 2.4 ounces of blood (.073
liters) each heartbeat. It pumps about 1.3 gallons of blood (5 liters) per
minute. That is 1,900 gallons a day (7,200 liters). That would fill an Olympic
sized swimming pool in a year. It would fill a couple super size oil tankers in
your lifetime.
All the veins in your body are dumping blood into your heart
which sends it to the lungs to pick up oxygen before sending it back out
through arteries to capillaries and every cell of your body. The blood takes
nourishment to your cells and withdraws waste products. There are 60,000 miles
of blood vessels in your body. End to end they would reach around the world at
the Equator 2.5 times.
That’s not all. That’s just the very basics. Modern research
is learning a lot more about the heart.
For example, there is more information being carried by your
nervous system from your heart up to your brain than from the brain down to the
heart. Some research is even showing your heart perceives things milliseconds before
your brain does.
The energy field of the heart can actually now be measured
up to 8 feet away from your body. Other people are constantly picking up on
that energy intuitively and being affected by it. We influence each other on an
invisible energy level. Our hearts to a much larger extent than we realize effect
our emotions, our physical bodies, our relationships, and our health. [1]
"The heart
generates the largest electromagnetic field in the body. The electrical field
as measured in an electrocardiogram (ECG) is about 60 times greater in
amplitude than the brain waves recorded in an electroencephalogram (EEG). The
magnetic component of the heart’s field… is around 5,000 times stronger than
that produced by the brain"[2]
Although our hearts are nearly autonomous, there are still
nerves that run from our brain to the heart that can speed it up or slow it
down according to what is going on in our consciousness. Is that really a lucky
accident?
When people get a new heart through a heart transplant, they
find themselves with habits and memories from the previous owner of the heart.
Research is showing that there are sections of memory cells in the heart
exactly like the memory cells in the brain.
If you believe that all of this came about by accident
through mutations and natural selection over many, many generations, how did it
happen? Did the beating start first in some random muscles and then many
generations later a heart accidentally formed? Or did the heart accidentally
form and then some generations later it started beating accidentally in exactly
the pattern necessary to push the blood in the right directions.
When did the
valves and the chambers inside the heart form? Even if the heart was beating and pushing blood in the right directions, where did it push
the blood before the arteries, veins, and capillaries were accidentally mutated
into place which must have taken many generations?
Blood is made in the marrow
of our bones. When did blood accidentally start being produced? How did the hemoglobin
cells that carry oxygen evolve over many generations? Toxins are cleaned from
the blood by the liver. Food and water are inserted into the blood stream by
the intestines to be sent to every cell of the body. When did the lungs get
accidentally connected to the heart arteries so they could start supplying
oxygen that the cells needed (before they all died)?
I’m having an impossible time seeing how small changes over
many generations could accidentally put all these complicated systems into
place. Oxygen, food, and water are essential for life to exist from the very
first cell and the systems need to be in place at the beginning of the very
first organism. Waste products and CO2 need to be removed in the very beginning. The very
first human cannot live without all these systems in place right at the start.
You can’t wait generations for them to develop by mutations one at a time.
All cultures have expressions like “from the bottom of my
heart” and “follow your heart.” Our very existence is a miracle and at the
center of it all is the biggest miracle of all, our heart. It is our constant,
trusted and faithful companion. “Be true to your heart” because it is being
true to you. It is symbolic of something much bigger than yourself. It is
symbolic of your Creator and the essence of your creation.
It’s not in your brain, it’s in your heart where you will
find that there must be God.
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[1] McCraty, Rollin, Ph.D., The Energetic Heart: Bioelectromagnetic
Interactions Within and Between People, 2003, Institute of HeartMath, http://www.heartmath.org
[2] McCraty, Rollin, Ph.D., The Energetic Heart: Bioelectromagnetic
Interactions Within and Between People, 2003, Institute of HeartMath, http://www.heartmath.org
Stunning
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