The Heart of Love by Amber

 Love and heart have captured my attention lately.

It started several days ago when I heard that perfect love casts out fear.

This got me curious about love, so I started looking into it. The verses that struck me were found in John, and they stated “whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected; hereby know we that we are in Him”.

And: “If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us”.

I found it very interesting that it’s by loving that love is perfected.

I think in my mind perfect love always came with fireworks and possibly a package deal of perfection all around, but it’s starting to look like it must be practiced to be perfected.

This led me to a new question: what does our heart have to do with love anyway? Why does love create a feeling in our heart?

It didn’t make much sense if I thought about it, but I knew there must be something to the fact that a heart shape is used as a symbol of love around the world.

So this was the next thing I began searching for, and a very interesting article turned up.

Entitled “Emotions And The Heart”, in the article, scientists explained that they used to think that love was just a mental state.

But they now know that love and other emotions originate in the heart, and that our heart sends way more information to our brain than our brain ever does to our heart.

Emotions like anger, frustration, anxiety and insecurity stress the body and drain our energy, causing our heart to beat erratically, constricting blood vessels, raising blood pressure, and weakening our immune system.

People that frequently experience these feelings, or spirits, are at much greater risk for heart diseases and attacks.

Conversely, experiencing love, appreciation, care and compassion produce a very different heart rhythm.

Your heart pattern smooths out, like gently rolling hills. Your blood vessels open and your body begins to work harmoniously.

This produces the warm feeling around your heart, a signal that it feels good and is working as it should.

It literally makes you healthier.

All this was very profound to me, the physical manifestation of the spirit realm.

I had just been wondering this:

Why was it that love was so hard for people to grasp; why, when we come from the very foundation of love, can it be so difficult to receive or even comprehend?

I realized this is because Adam and Eve sold our soul to the devil all those years ago.

When Christ died he broke that curse and made the way, but our soul still lives under that curse.

Our heart is God’s, and even our heart has dominion over our brain.

Our spirit is stronger than our soul.

And yet we have the choice whether or not to allow our soulish, normal, every day feelings dominate us.

It is mind boggling that where you are at in your spirit or feelings can affect you so physically.

You would never suspect something like an emotion to have such physical substance, but it really does. This must be why giving up can lead to a stilled heartbeat so quickly.

It is at once heartbreaking and profound.