![]() Stress, anxiety, depression show the taking over of one brain over the other. The cognitive brain concludes that that long shape in the dark is a piece of wood, long after the limbic brain, faster and prudent, has already instructed our body a step back for fear that it is a snake. It deals with our ability to process information, conventionally labeled intelligence. The cognitive brain was formed during the evolution of our species. It communicates through the body and makes it express basic emotions such as fear or pleasure. This emotional brain controls the physiological balance (breathing, heart rate, etc.). The limbic brain (that all mammals have) is related above all to our survival. “Cardiac coherence” also helps to establish harmony between our two brains, the limbic one and the cognitive, so that none takes over the other. ![]() Scientific research lead to conclude that a harmonious (“coherent”) heartbeat helps the brain to fight against stress, anxiety and depression. Some experts now suggest the existence of a true heart-brain system. The measuring of intervals between heartbeats confirms poets’ insights: our heart beats to the rhythm of our emotions.īut the influence of mind over the heart is not unidirectional the heartbeat also has an impact on the brain.
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