Heart Trouble

Every mind-body disease begins the same way: with an unanticipated experience for which we have no practical preparation leading to a biological conflict mediated by the brain. Different functions of the heart are directed by different parts of the brain, and are called into the special biological response process according to different kinds of unanticipated experiences. The key to the experience that you've had lies in the symptoms. The key to healing lies in looking at the experience that you've had.

The heart muscle itself responds to a self-devaluation conflict of "not being able to take any more," a sense of being overwhelmed. Myocardial heart problems have no bodily symptoms until the healing crisis, when the heart begins pounding erratically and the experience is accompanied by a sense of doom. This always takes place within 48 hours of resolving a conflict of being overwhelmed. A myocardial infarction takes place in the heart muscle, innervated from the white matter of the cerebrum, and does not involve the coronary arteries.

The coronary arteries and veins, innervated from the grey matter of the cerebral cortex, are governed by territorial experiences. "Heart attacks" involving the coronary arteries are directed by the right side of the brain as a healing crisis four to six weeks after the resolution of a territorial loss conflict.  The coronary veins also undergo healing crises four to six weeks after resolution of a rejection conflict dealt with on the left side of the brain, but the blood flow through the coronary vein is in the other direction and the diagnosis is "lung embolism." Heartrate and other rhythms of the body (such as the menstrual cycle) are governed by the heart centre on the left side of the brain.

If a person has two active territorial or rejection conflicts, both the right and the left sides of the brain will be involved; however, the two territorial conflicts will cancel one another out in the body so that neither the coronary arteries nor the coronary veins will be affected. Instead, the symptoms of the two conflicts will be entirely psychological.

Lastly, the pericardium (sac around the heart) is part of the corium skin and will thicken when the mind either consciously or unconsciously has an unanticipated experience of "attack against the heart" - which can happen as a result of a myocardial problem or as a result of coronary heart attack. When this sense of attack is resolved, the pericardium will heal and produce fluid around the heart. This can be diagnosed as a "swollen heart" and produces symptoms of its own. These symptoms will be greatly exaggerated if the person also feels abandoned or badly cared for.