The Healing Codes: Underlying Principles by Dr. Jerry Graham

Author:Dr. Jerry Graham
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: www.healingcodes777.com
Published: 2013-11-15T23:00:00+00:00

11 — The Physical Parts of the Spiritual Heart If you’re interested in the “mind-body-spirit” connection, you may be wondering what the physical basis is for what’s known as the “spiritual heart.” That’s important information to know, because it also allows us to understand how healing that spiritual heart can also heal our bodies.

Split Brain Research

To start our explanation of the physical basis for the spiritual heart, let’s start by looking at research done by Roger Wolcott Sperry, 1981 Nobel Prize winner for his “split brain”

research. Sperry’s work involved patients in whom the corpus callosum (the connecting band between the two sides of the brain) had been severed in an attempt to control severe epilepsy. What he found was that the two hemispheres of the brain have separate functions, the left side controlling speech and analytical functions and the right side allowing us to do things like understand maps and recognize people. The surprise was that, with the connecting tissue removed, each side of the brain still displayed a conscious mind!

The Surprising Effect and Resulting Conclusion The problem came when the patients were asked the meaning of images. The left side of the brain might know how to lift a fork to the mouth, but without the input of the right side of the brain to assign meaning, the people in the study didn’t know what the fork actually was. Why does that matter when talking of the spiritual heart? It allows us to know that the right side of the brain is one of the components of our “heart”, the part that takes in and stores memories as images.

The Source of Emotional Significance That’s also where the second part of the physiological mind comes in. It’s the limbic system, which is central to behavior, autonomic function, emotion, and motivation. It’s also the part that attaches emotional significance to sensory input. This is where we get the

“fight or flight” stress response. Here’s how that happens — the left brain takes in sensory input, the right brain turns it into an image and assigns a meaning to it, and the limbic system compares what we have stored in our minds with what we experience. For example, if you’ve been taught that all government is corrupt (a stored memory), and you receive a notice of tax assessment to improve sidewalks (sensory input), your response will be that the government is stealing your money (this comes from the limbic system).

That “programming” from past experience all happens in the limbic system.

The Link to Physical Action

The third part of the physiological brain is the reticular formation. This is the network that routes the brain’s electrical activity to the appropriate muscle groups for action. It also moves these impulses to the limbic system so perception can occur. To illustrate how the reticular formation works, David D. Olmsted activated different parts of this area in cats’

brains and observed corresponding parts of their bodies moving consistently. His conclusion was that the reticular formation causes immediate physical action through the central nervous system.

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