With The Heart In Mind: The Moral and Emotional Intelligence of the Prophet Muhammad

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Wilhelm, Richard, trans. (from Chinese into German), and Cary F. Baynes, trans. (from German into English). 1950. I Ching, or Book of Changes. Princeton: Princeton University Press. In the language of Buddha and Pali, the teachings written down were based on Sanskrit, so we can look at the Sanskrit terms and understand them. Moreover, Pali was also derived from Sanskrit. The mind is as complicated as the heart and soul. The mind is a part of a human that gives the ability to think rationally and to feel emotions. It’s described as the faculty of consciousness and thought. It’s strange to think that the brain is physical in nature; it is merely the organ, but the mind is what forms our consciousness and can’t be detected in an MRI but the fact that the mind is in conscious form is accepted universally. The relation between the amount of grey matter in the frontal lobes and intelligence; the inferior parietal lobules and spatial reasoning and intuitions on numbers (as in Albert Einstein) and the third interstitial nucleus in the anterior thalamus and homosexuality (Pinker, 2003) are a few more examples of specific areas of the brain linked to characteristics attributed to the mind. Paul Broca showed that damage to the area (subsequently named after him) in the dominant cerebrum results in an inability to talk. Subsequent studies showed several other areas within the cerebrum that govern other aspects of speech. Fools!" he cried. "This is only the courtyard! The real treasure that can acquire all this and much more lies beyond!"

developing a Chinese practical conception of knowing ( zhi知). Practical knowing, knowing-how, can underlie how we use It’s also said that our joys, laughter, pleasures, sorrows, pains, and griefs arise from the brain alone. Moreover, through the brain, we see, think, and recognize the ugly from the beautiful and the bad from the good. Rabbi Zev Wolf of Nikolaiev told it as a parable. He told of the king who at the height of a one crazy, drunken party, announced that on a certain day anyone of his kingdom could come and take whatever they wished of the royal treasure. Then, the next morning he was sober and couldn't believe what he had done. Fortunately for him, his wise advisers came up with a plan. We assume that the brain is controlling our emotions, but Professor David Paterson, Ph.D. at Oxford University, disputes this. He says that the brain is not the only organ that produces emotions. This is because the heart actually contains neurons similar to those in the brain, and these fire in conjunction with the brain. The heart and the brain are therefore connected:

Using an Electrocardiogram (ECG)– looks at the electrical activity of the heart which is what controls the heart’s activity. Sensors attached to the body are coupled with a machine that gives an ECG reading. Normal and abnormal activity can be identified. When your heart receives signals from the brain via the sympathetic nerves, it pumps faster. And when it receives signals through the parasympathetic nerves, it slows down,

You’ll find that heart vs. mind will be casually represented by the following contrasts, and clusters will form around these words heart (left side) vs. mind (right side). In a way, the heart vs. the mind is a substitute – a metaphor – for all the comparisons listed below.The heart is usually equated with emotions – something fundamental to being human; fundamental is another association for the heart. We use such vague ideas based on associations. This is how humans have abstract thoughts and metaphors and associate multiple ideas.

These observations show the heart is closely tied to emotions at a physical level, but the labeling of emotion occurs in the brain. So, using the word “heart” to represent emotions is quite natural and logical. However, the heart’s properties aren’t the emotion itself. This leads people to equate the heart with emotions. How heart/emotion vs. mind/thought problem arises What if in this courtyard a man married a woman and gave her a baby transforming the environment of the courtyard in a matter of fact for them,impeding them to proceed to the palace where was the real treasure . Mencius on Goodness of Human Nature and Fate of Human Nature 孟子論性善與性命.” Contemporary Philosophy 現代哲學 6: 115–119. In addition to structure, we must consider the chemical processes within the brain. The effects of caffeine, alcohol, marihuana and opium on the brain and mind are common knowledge. Chemicals within the nervous system, such as adrenaline, serotonin, dopamine, the endorphins and encephalins, enable and modify the many functions of brain and mind and body we take for granted. Craig (2005) quotes the statement made by Steven Johnson: ‘Our personalities, the entities that make us both unique and predictable as individuals, emerge out of these patterns of chemical release.’The tricuspid valve is located between the right atrium and right ventricle, while the pulmonary valve is located between the right ventricle and pulmonary artery. The mitral valve is located between the left atrium and left ventricle, and the aortic valve is located between the left ventricle and the aorta. The Laceys noticed that the model proposed by Cannon only partially matched actual physiological behavior. As their research evolved, they found that the heart in particular seemed to have its own logic that frequently diverged from the direction of autonomic nervous system activity. The heart was behaving as though it had a mind of its own. Furthermore, the heart appeared to be sending meaningful messages to the brain that the brain not only understood, but also obeyed. Even more intriguing was that it looked as though these messages could affect a person’s perceptions, behavior and performance. The Laceys identified a neural pathway and mechanism whereby input from the heart to the brain could inhibit or facilitate the brain’s electrical activity. Then in 1974, French researchers stimulated the vagus nerve (which carries many of the signals from the heart to the brain) in cats and found that the brain’s electrical response was reduced to about half its normal rate. [1] This suggested that the heart and nervous system were not simply following the brain’s directions, as Cannon had thought. Rather, the autonomic nervous system and the communication between the heart and brain were much more complex, and the heart seemed to have its own type of logic and acted independently of the signals sent from the brain. This is so that more oxygen is delivered to the tissues around the body to prepare it for action (E.g. if it has to run away).