The heart is a specific place in the body. Recently a woman in my meditation group that that she got a perception for the part of her body behind her heart and that part gives different answer and she now experiments with following those answers.
That a very high level of self perception that most people who speak about listening to their heart don't have. Most people are a bit more vague about what part in their body they are listening to.
Why should they have any such perception? The literal heart doesn't provide any answers whatsoever, the "heart" answers are generated in the brain as much as any of the other ones.
the "heart" answers are generated in the brain as much as any of the other ones.
There are plenty of neurons outside the brain, so I don't know whether that's true. Regardles, the motor cortex has somewhere a representation of the hard that"s "in the brain". Given that panthom limbs can hurt it's probably somewhere in the motor cortex with feedback channels to the actually body location.
Why should they have any such perception?
That's a complicated question.
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