the critical role of ascending input from the heart and body to the brain in the generation of emotions

Heart-Brain Neurodynamics ENDY Heart–Brain Neurodynamics: The Making of Emotions By Rollin McCraty, Ph.D. The Making of Emotions Heart-Brain Neurodynamics explores recent scientific advances that clarify a number of central controversies in the understanding of emotion, including the relationship between intellect and emotion. A discussion of the critical role of ascending input from the heart and body to the brain in the generation of emotions culminates in a detailed presentation of a new model of emotion in which the brain functions as a complex pattern-matching system. From this perspective it is shown that the heart is a key component of the emotional system, providing a physiological basis for the link between the heart and our emotional life.