Textbook biology teaches us that your Cardiovascular System pumps blood around the body and consists of the blood, heart and blood vessels (arteries, veins and capillaries). The Heart is a hollow muscle made of two pumps side by side in your chest and is responsible for pumping blood, oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body and removing wastes and toxins.
We have been told forever that the heart is a pump. The father of “modern cardiology” was William Harvey, an English physician who in 1628 (“modern”/1628? Go figure!) wrote An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and described in detail the circulation of the blood being pumped by the heart to the body.
Your Heart is about the size of a fist and weighs less than one pound. Every day your heart beats about 100,000 times and moves approximately 1900 gallons of blood through your body. It only takes about 60 seconds for your blood to travel the more than 60,000 miles of veins, arteries and capillaries in your body.
Your Heart is vital to everything that goes on in your body; it works 24/7 and it doesn’t ever take a vacation. Talk about pressure and stress!
Even though we are still taught, and modern medicine accepts, that the heart is a pump, scientists don’t actually know how this small organ can generate the pressure to move the thick blood uphill and with so much resistance.
Tom Cowan, MD, explains in The Fourfold Path to Healing, that “the heart is best described not as a pump, but as a hydraulic ram, a device engineers use to push fluids short distances up hills.” Cowan goes on to write, “the heart does not pump, what it does is listen. This amazing organ senses what is in the blood and then calls for the necessary hormones so that homeostasis is maintained and the cells can function optimally. The heart serves the cells not by pushing blood toward them but by balancing and integrating the blood’s chemistry. The heart also senses and integrates our thoughts, our emotions and our will to carry out tasks. The heart, then is not a mechanical pump, but actually a sensitive integrator of all our experience.”
And we take this Miracle for granted?
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