I was just sitting down and meditating and I don't often do that the only time I ever do really is when I just have this urge to sit down and meditate which is every so often and basically I just sit down and start meditating I don't really think about it it's not premeditated meditating and I was sitting there and some random images and associations were going through my mind a little bit and then it subsided and it became really quiet and I realized I realized in that moment that my attention or the center of my felt sense of who i am who i was at that moment at least it dropped into my heart and i've read before that some people have actually have the sensation that they reside in their heart and just in that moment a few minutes ago i really felt that I didn't feel like I was my head I felt like I was my heart and and maybe I have felt that way for a while and not notice it but that was the first time that I really noticed that I felt like I was my heart and then I was breathing and noticing my breathing and I was talking in a different video about breathing and how certain types of breathing especially even amounts of breath into even amounts of breath out is coherent breathing and after a while it produces a coherent heartbeat and there's an app called stress doctor that helps one do this and there's another app called complete coherence or that's the website and the complete coherence guy I forget his name I remember watching a talk and he talks about how the heartbeat has to be coherent in order for the right sort of electrical nutrition to go from the heart to the brain because there's actually more neurons going from the heart to the brain then from the brain to the heart so more information is actually going from the heart to the brain and if the heart's beating erratically or stressed that basically goes along with stressed emotions which probably means there's a storm of thoughts and feelings going on in the body in the mind that correlate with that stressed heartbeat so all that information a lot of it is actually coming from the heart if the heart was calm the mind would probably be a lot more calm but what I was thinking about today when i realized that i was actually residing in my heart was that i was just wondering if it matters as much to breathe coherently or if the coherent breathing is sort of a way to be mindful and actually calm the heart to be in the heart and the subtle difference here is I'm wondering if a person is just in their heart if the heart is naturally more coherent instead of having to sit down and coherently breathe and there's still a ton of value in that I'm just wondering that if a person naturally was in a state of breathing coherence or heart coherence then naturally there'd be breathing coherence there'd be the proper electrical signals and energy going from the heart to the brain naturally so is it as much to practice breathing coherently or could it also be helpful to actually have the felt sense that we reside in our hearts more so than our minds and how to do that I don't know exactly perhaps not having so many thoughts in one's head all the time when naturally might feel more connected to one's heart I just feel personally that thoughts in general are very detrimental whether positive or negative there's way too much emphasis on thinking and reasoning and logic so if there's a bad logical thought and you place it with a good logical thought it's still logic and there's a lot more to life beyond that logic and what is more to life beyond that logic is life itself and life isn't logical life is life it's like a living energy vitality force so being in one's heart center is like being connected with the vital force the heartbeat that electromagnetic energy field that it creates which is thousands of times stronger than the electromagnetic field of the brain so that goes along with some of my thoughts around how a lot of mental health troubles are actually problems of the heart
