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	THE HIDDEN LANGUAGE OF THE HEART Tapping the Wisdom and Power Within by Cynthia Gage
Index of Issue 17

Imagine," writes Dr. Paul Pearsall, "that two jumbo 747 jetliners full of passengers crashed every day with no survivors." That, he states, is the number of people who die of heart disease daily in the United States! A startling graphic image, yet not as startling as these facts: 1) About half of those who suffer their first heart attack have none of the common risk factors; 2) more than eight out of ten people with three of these risk factors never suffer a heart attack, and 3) most people who do have heart attacks do not have most of the risk factors.

"Clearly," concludes Pearsall, "there seems to be something else at work when it comes to heart disease." That 'something' is the subject of his latest book, The Heart's Code, which not only boldly asserts that the heart actually "thinks," but also corroborates theories that cells "remember," and that both of these processes seem to be related to an as yet mysterious, extremely powerful, but very subtle energy with properties unlike any other known force. Pearsall calls this "fifth force" (known by the Chinese as "Qui") "L" ('love') energy, and has determined that it obeys quantum laws, connects our hearts with other hearts and carries with it our vital information-information which permeates every cell in our body and is communicated by the heartbeat.

This comprises our "heart's code," which may be an informational template of the soul. "The heart can literally perceive and react on its own to the outside world and communicate an info-energetic code of that reaction through a network of tens of thousands of miles of vessels and 75 trillion cells," says Pearsall. "And every cell is a holograph, or complete representation of our energetic heart. Until it has to 'attack' us to get our attention, our heart has a very delicate way in which it tries to speak to us," he states, "and to hear it we must focus on our chest and not on our head."

Pearsall explains that we live in a world constructed by our brain's insecurity and driven by its constant need to preserve itself at any cost. A neuropsychologist specializing in psychoneuroimmunology (the interaction between the body, mind, brain and immune system and our experiences of the outside world) with more than thirty years of western scientific training, Pearsall is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Psychological Association. He theorizes that, though our neo-cortex is known for rational thinking, that capacity comes second to the brain's reactive, survival instincts-the brain is more protectively reptilian, paleomammalian and immaturely emotional than it is reflective, considerate and patient.

As he puts it, "The thinking centers of the brain have been evolutionally crumpled up and crammed in above the more dominant and primitive brain systems that tend to take up most of our cerebral time." Our brains have created an intense, complex, fast-paced, often soulless world that contributes to failing hearts, weak immune systems and malignant cells-the ultimate "type A". In contrast, the heart "thinks" in a more "type B," gentle, relaxed, connective way. Succinctly stated, the brain seems to want to "have a blast," while the heart needs to "have a bond."

Though it plays a quieter role, the heart's electromagnetic field is five thousand times more powerful than that created by the brain, and its muscle tissue and strength do not appear to weaken with age. It seems to pump not only the biochemical nutrients that keep us alive but also the spiritual energy that represents our soul.

Physically, the myocardium is actually two pumps situated side by side, divided by a wall called the septum. It's a cardiovascular version of yin and yang-each side has its own unique energy. Each has an upper, collecting chamber (the atria) and a lower, ejecting chamber (the ventricles). The left pump is far more powerful than the right, sending blood through thousands of miles of vessels under pressure that would shoot water almost six feet into the air. Its counterpart propels blood to and from the lungs under just enough pressure to shoot water only one foot into the air. The heart is clearly our most powerful organ. It is also, according to new research, a dynamic system that is as much a wave of energy as it is particle of matter, the body's primary organizing force, the conductor of the energy of body cells and the body system's core.

Pearsall seems to have been destined to focus on his heart: A difficult birth in Detroit, during which he almost died, prompted his grandmother to write: "Paul has been born to trouble the sleep of the world." His early years seemed to confirm her insight-thrown out of kindergarten the first day since he "didn't fit," he attended about a week of first grade before again being pronounced a misfit. A third teacher wrote his parents a note which said, "Don't worry-now you've got a teacher. I will see to it that Paul will become like all the other students." But by the end of the year, that same teacher wrote, "I give up. Paul will never be like the other students!"

Pearsall went through school quickly, receiving his doctorate at the age of 26. He considered going into medicine or neurosurgery, but chose psychology "so I could study the soul and work in a broader spectrum." After obtaining his B.A. with honors from the University of Michigan and a Masters degree and Ph.D. in Educational and Clinical Psychology from Wayne State University, Pearsall did post-graduate studies at Harvard and Albert Einstein Medical Schools. He served as neuro-psychologist at Sinai Hospital of Detroit, while researching and publishing. When Indiana University's Kinsey Institute asked him to help with training programs in sexology, he became their Director of Professional Education and simultaneously set up a clinic at Sinai Hospital called "Problems of Daily Living," which he envisioned as "preventive psychology". He teamed psychiatrists, psychologists, and neurologists, assigning both a male and a female professional in any given group to ensure balanced gender response. The program was awarded the American Psychological Association's Rush Gold Medal.

Life was soon to take a major turn for Pearsall. Invited by the International Association of Psychiatry to lecture in Hawaii, he fell in love with the land and its traditions. While writing NY Times bestsellers SuperImmunity and Super Marital Sex, he steeped himself in the language and culture, experiencing what he calls, "the daily effects of a 2000-year-old Polynesian cultural belief in cellular memory." He was given the name "Ka'ikena" or "Person of Vision."

His career was really booming when, at age 47, he learned he had stage IV lymphoma that had been eating away at his bones and was rampant throughout his body. "My cells had become heartless," he says wryly. It was during his long, painful recovery from a bone marrow transplant that Pearsall discovered that the heart thinks, feels, remembers and communicates with other hearts. During the months he spent in a ward with dozens of other transplant recipients, he participated in shared stories of resonance with donors. Told his case was completely hopeless, he and his wife "joined hearts" to overcome the almost impossible odds of restored health.

The ordeal is detailed in a subsequent book, Making Miracles. Pearsall speculates about the cause of his cancer: "It's never one thing," he states. "I have kidneys that are twice as long as normal ones, and as I was growing up my abdomen was bombarded with x-rays-I'm sure that's a contributing factor. And my wife and I have had serious family stresses." Looking back, he says he had a premonition in the first grade and remembers telling his mother that someday he would have cancer. Pearsall doesn't blame what may have been excessive medical intervention with radiation for his illness; in fact, his "pet peeve" is that "holistic medicine isn't balanced in the sense of using the best of all available systems" and is quick to acknowledge that modern medicine saved his life. "I'm always the radical at the medical conferences and also the radical at new age conferences," he notes. "By exploring the possibility of a heart's code, we may be able to build a bridge between the biomechanical wonders of modern medicine, the spirituality of ancient traditional healing systems, the various alternative or complimentary medicines and the wisdom of religious scholars and spiritual leaders."

An entertaining as well as informative speaker, (his wife says that hearing him lecture is like getting a drink from a fire hose), Pearsall gives about 100 presentations each year, speaks frequently to Fortune 500 companies, medical schools and societies, regularly appears on national television and radio talk shows (Oprah calls him "Our Carl Sagan of Psychology") and has produced a number of audiotapes. His series on The Pleasure Prescription, based on his book, Write Your Own Pleasure Prescription, topped the charts.

An excellent writer, he has authored eleven books, all of which he has researched, written, documented, edited and even typed himself! And he is president and CEO of "Ho'ala Hou," a non-profit research and consulting institute which studies the application of ancient Hawaiian principles to modern living. Yet, even with such extensive, productive output, Pearsall manages to walk his talk, and claims his lifestyle is a balanced one. He rises with the sun, swims or snorkels daily, walks often on the beach with family and friends and enjoys playing music and doing the hula regularly. Meals and prayer time with Celest, his wife of 34 years are his first priorities, along with time for sons Roger and Scott.

At 56, Pearsall has his philosophy boiled down to six words: "Have less, do less, say no," he laughs, pointing out that; "We could have the same standard of living we had in the forties with half the work, yet we've chosen to work twice as much in order to 'have it all'. The stream of life is full of the flotsam and jetsam of clutter from this techno-culture...we have more timesaving devices and less time than anyone I've ever seen!" Pearsall says he starts and ends his day with these three questions: 1)What is the most important thing to do today? 2) Who is the most important person to do it with? and, 3) When is the most important time to do it?"

One of the most important things to Pearsall is music. He leads a band, though it's not the rock band he played in to earn his way through college. "Hawaiian music," he explains, "is like poetry written in iambic pentameter-it resembles the steady, slow beat of a restful, secure heart. Hawaiian music usually contains 70 - 80 beats per minute, replicating the natural rhythm of a healthy heart.

According to Pearsall, all of us experience the results of what he calls "The neglected heart syndrome" which manifests as an increasingly heartless world of alienation, depression, disconnection, failed or abusive relationships, violence, discrimination, sexual harassment, environmental pollution and an accelerating life pace that leaves us too busy trying to stay alive to have the time to reflect on the joy of being alive.

He has designed a clinically tested Heart Energy Amplitude Recognition Test (H*E*A*R*T*) that offers the average person an opportunity to discover whether his or her "heart energy" is balanced, overly agitated ("you're bothering your body and other peoples' bodies and hearts) or very agitated ("you're becoming a real pain to your body and other peoples' bodies and hearts). "I designed the test more as a teaching tool," he says, "to show my patients how they could be more aware of the quality of the energy they are sending out to their world and help them recognize by which code they are primarily living their life-the brain's or the heart's."

With his usual meticulous attention to scientific detail, Pearsall designed the questionnaire so that no item was included unless its relevance was supported by at least five current research findings from the fields of cardiac, social and health psychology, psychoneuroimmunology, and epidemiology. He points out that "all of these fields are showing that chronic emotional reactivity to minor and unexpected stressors, free-floating hostility and impatience seem to be the primary indicators of toxic cardiac energy."

And he's not the only one discovering this. For over twenty years, a team of highly skeptical, careful scientists at Princeton University have been using uncompromising protocols to conduct studies of subtle energy connection. Known as Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research, or "PEAR," the program's purpose is to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems and processes. Among other things, they are discovering that people can influence machines. "And," writes Pearsall, who has visited the program, "those who talk nicely to the machines and try to connect pleasantly with them are more successful in influencing them than those who become angry and yell at them."

What we're learning about the heart could forever alter how we feel about living together and, in the process, drastically change science, medicine and spirituality in the next century. And none too soon, according to Pearsall, who expresses great concern about the way things are proceeding. "I'm very worried," he says. "I see disconnection all around us. The earth is hurting. I think the key issue is: 'Where does the me stop and the other begin?' We fail to see that when anyone starves, we all starve; when someone throws trash on the street in NY, we're all littered." The only hope he sees is for each of us to discover and connect with our own heart's energy code and then to consciously connect with other hearts around the world.

He has included techniques for doing just that in The Heart's Code, which Dr. Candace Pert has endorsed as, "probably the most important and revolutionary book of 1998." He is enthusiastic about programs and products offered by HeartMath, a California Think Tank that has come up with many of the same startling revelations that he has.

Additionally, Pearsall asks readers to consider the ultimate gift of organ donation, along with the personal essence that goes with it. As a transplant recipient, he is repulsed by the attitude, "Well, I'll give you my organ, but I don't want to give you myself." "Your consciousness is in everyone, anyway," he counsels. "Entrusting your essence, which isn't really yours, but a part of the collective oversoul or consciousness, is a natural act." In interacting with each other, we should all be "energetic donors" everyday.