The Relationship Between Emotions and Your Nervous System However, the opposite also is true for whenever you feel loved and appreciated as you generate internal feelings of emotional well-being and your heart rhythms become synchronized and harmonious and your ability to think clearly is enhanced. For example, when you are experiencing intense emotions like fear, frustration, anxiety or anger, your heart rhythms are spiked and jagged and because there is a neural (nerve) connection between your heart and brain, your intense emotions greatly affect your ability to think clearly. It has been discovered that intense emotions are clearly shown in your heart's rhythms. One of the easiest ways scientists have found to observe the effects of emotions on the nervous system is through monitoring heart rhythms. This means that your nervous system has the intelligence to distinguish between positive and negative emotions, as well as between different negative emotions. Scientific research shows that your emotions stimulate very specific activities in your nervous system. Your emotions are perfectly reflected in your nervous system. These internal communication networks also affect the way you perceive your reality, which greatly influences the emotions you experience. With each heart beat, your heart communicates with your body, heart and brain through your nervous system, hormonal system, electromagnetic fields and other energetic pathways. In his book, The Biology of Belief, cellular biologist Bruce Lipton, PhD, shares current biomedical research about how your beliefs become your biology.

It's been discovered that your heart functions as a complex information and networking center. New research now shows that you can consciously choose to influence the development of your mind and emotions. Today, the idea of the body and brain being completely separate is fast being replaced by the holistic model of mind, body and spirit being intimately connected. We now know that emotions have as much to do with the body as with the brain. Previously, it was thought emotions were purely mental activities generated by the brain, over which we had little or no control. For many of us, emotions seem to have an interior life and will of their own. Like brush strokes on a blank canvas, your emotions color your world with contrast and meaning.

Your emotions are invisible energies in motion that move through you with lightening-fast speed, flooding you with signals of either pleasure or pain.

Somatic nervous system manages