Why Art Is Good for Your Health and Health Is Good for Your Art Carrie Schmitt - Spirituality Health
go to original February 21, 2022

For centuries, artists have described a heart-guided flow state that allows them to create effortlessly. Today, science has confirmed that heart intelligence influences creativity, intuition, and clarity, as well as the health of our physical and energetic bodies.

What Is Heart Intelligence?

The heart has its own information processing center that sends more messages to the brain than the brain sends the heart. This heart brain, also called our “wisdom brain,” affects every part of our body, including our thoughts and emotions. When we let it guide us, we achieve an optimal state of wellness in every system in our body, including hormonal, cardiovascular, nervous, and immune.

Heart intelligence is “the flow of awareness, understanding, and intuition we experience when the mind and emotions are brought into coherent alignment with the heart,” according to HeartMath Institute, a scientific research center based in Boulder Creek, California.

Let Your Heart Guide You

Van Gogh famously stated, “What is done in love, is done well.” The “love frequency” is the frequency of the heart experiencing love. In this state, your heart rhythm settles into its optimal pattern to allow all your systems to work together harmoniously.

This love resonance creates the right environment for the input and output of energetic reciprocity in the creative process. Anodea Judith explains that in the path of manifestation, also known as creativity, the heart is the bridge between a formless idea and physical matter. It is the space where the previously unknown begins to physically take shape. Science and mystics agree that love is a way to access creativity and wellness.

However, when you are stressed, frustrated, or overwhelmed, your heart rhythm becomes disordered, which disrupts every system in your body. When your mind is not listening to your heart, this actually creates resistance within your body. This creates turmoil in your system and disrupts the state of flow that we access when we create.

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