Sunday, November 19, 2006
Trust Your Gut Feelings?
I am grateful to M&P Tarlow in 'Digital Aboriginal' (Warner Books) for these ideas. I thought that I would share them with you.
According to researchers the heart can create thoughts independent of the brain, so the concept of 'Listen to your heart' has some meaning. Indeed, when those researchers measured the electromagnetic field of the body, 90% of the energy flows from the heart to the brain, only 10% vice-versa.
So it seems that the heart creates thoughts and feelings that transmit an emotional interpretation to our 'rational' brain. So thought just doesn't come from the brain.
Here is the bottom line: As researchers we have long known that we are not rational beings. Indeed we have had to create some clever techniques to understand our emotional needs and drivers for decision making. But that emotion still stems from the brain - who is understanding or measuring (if it can be done) that from the heart?
How would we do it? Can it be done? Unlocking 90%....Can dialogue do it?
According to researchers the heart can create thoughts independent of the brain, so the concept of 'Listen to your heart' has some meaning. Indeed, when those researchers measured the electromagnetic field of the body, 90% of the energy flows from the heart to the brain, only 10% vice-versa.
So it seems that the heart creates thoughts and feelings that transmit an emotional interpretation to our 'rational' brain. So thought just doesn't come from the brain.
Here is the bottom line: As researchers we have long known that we are not rational beings. Indeed we have had to create some clever techniques to understand our emotional needs and drivers for decision making. But that emotion still stems from the brain - who is understanding or measuring (if it can be done) that from the heart?
How would we do it? Can it be done? Unlocking 90%....Can dialogue do it?
