Does anyone have any science, psychology, or theology to prove that our heart is our emotional center?

Question

Not the blood pumping organ. I've heard our heart is in the front lobe of our brain. I'm looking for theology proof mainly.

Answer 1

while emotions originate in the brain, they can adversely affect our major organs.
For proof just remember any time where you have been seriously emotional, whether happy sad, angry or whatever. If you have not noticed that under certain strong emotions your chest tightens, and such, then you might be a little bit dense.
Also, I seem to recall reading an article years ago that showed that people who were prone to outbursts of rage had higher rates of stroke and heart attack.

Answer 2

Is the heart the center? Yes. Is there proof. Only the testimoney of experience.

Scripture says that God has a heart! We are told in Proverbs that as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. David in Psalms prayed, create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me.

All to say that a schematic of the human emotional system, and other inner workings, is about as fragmented as belief in God.

Is the heart in the head or? For some everything is in the head. There are some very detailed positions on what consitutes the processing of thought and emotion among those involved in scientific research.

Not many have delt with this subject. One book that does is "The Spiritual Man" by Watchman Nee. Some three volumes and 694 pages. If you understand that the heart and human spirit are synonymous in Scripture; you may get a "handle" on the answer to your question.

Nee places the conscience and the experience of God's love in the human spirit as the ability of communion! Most will say communion is a ritual. He makes use of the word intuition, which he supports in great detail, to set up the three major functions of the human spirit --- which to me is the human heart.

Here is the kicker. In most of Christian writing the human being is described as having a soul inside a spirit inside a body. Nee follows along with this. However it does not fit Scripture.

What most preachers or Christians call soul, Scripture calls heart or the human spirit. What we call a human being, the Scripture calls a soul.

So man is a body, which encases a spirit from God which animates the body, and houses that spirit which is the essence or heart of man.

I conclude, from my experience and study, that the heart is the essence of man and is capable of thought and emotion to the extent of each heart's true nature. This heart, called by many a soul, is in fact a spirit and is located in our very bones. It speaks to, and through, and is mirrored by every living cell in our bodies.

We could say this is a gut feeling! I am evasive, but open to an e-question, as I am drafting a book around this subject.

Answer 3

There was an article in the San Antonio Express News on February 14, 2005 that talked about that. I have it somewhere, in a box in my storage closet. The article was on the front page. I remember because I got engaged the next day. It talked about how people can actually suffer heart damage following heartbreak, thus relating the heart/mind connection scientifically. Maybe it's archived on the website. Peace.

Answer 4

In ancient Greece, they believed your heart was the center of emotions because when you were excited, scared, or angry it pumped quicker.

Answer 5

lol. look for the answer with your heart, because apparently your heart can think since right now.