Your Heart’s Secret: It has its Own Nervous System.
Controlling our heartbeats
Scientists have now discovered that the heart has its own complex nervous system that is crucial to controlling its rhythm.
“This ‘little brain’ has a key role in maintaining and controlling the heartbeat, similar to how the brain regulates rhythmic functions such as locomotion and breathing,”
The heart has long been thought to be controlled solely by the autonomic nervous system, which transmits signals from the brain. The heart’s neural network, which is embedded in the superficial layers of the heart wall, has been considered a simple structure that relays the signals from the brain. However, recent research suggests that it has a more advanced function than that.
This pondering around Triangle posture in the video above and below was highlighted in thinking about the breath and the spine twist at the end. Coupled with the pointed instruction on when and how to breathe entering and exiting the spine twist off to the side whilst tractioning shoulders apart to make space before twist. It’s a little geek out, but fun to think about the effects when you practice!
Triangle is the posture we traction our hearts in a linear path using the angles of the the legs and arms in the most obvious way. We even call the posture ‘marriage between the heart and the lungs’. With the help of smarty pants bio-engineering scientists, we are able to understand what the Yogi’s are showing us. Powerful! Understanding why math using the skeletal structure to access spin of our internal organs is super fun. Especially when considering everything is atoms, everything spins, everything is connected.
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