Gil Hedley gave a talk for the Embodiment Conference in 2020, where he gives a completely different perspective on the heart. The heart is a whole body organ. Hedley practices integral anatomy, which analyses the body in terms of texture and tissue. He has not been able to find a logical point at which to isolate the heart. It is not a tiny ball at the centre of the body. It is a web that embraces the whole body. Our brain is cupped in the embrace of the heart. When we embrace, we hold each other's whole heart. The feeling-tone of the heart is appreciation and gratitude. By consciously appreciating things, we can change the rhythm and vibration of our heart. He came across an article by Rudolf Steiner entitled "The Heart is Not a Pump". He was so flabbergasted that he couldn't read the article, but spent the next decades of his life discovering what the heart actually is. The standard model says the heart is a pump, and the blood vessels are like pipes. Instead, Hedley thinks of it as the place where our life (blood) comes to refresh itself. In the churn of the heart, blood becomes oxygenated. It is turned, accelerated and mixed. This is the same process by which the waters of the world flow. There are 60,000 miles of pathways for blood to go through, tiny capillaries which reach into every part of the body. There is no way a pump could propel blood through this system. Instead, blood is drawn through by suction. The capillaries suck the blood outwards, and the heart sucks it back in by creating a low-pressure zone. It is a dance of life taking place inside our chest, a gift from the universe. The heart's electromagnetic waves are 5000 times stronger than the brain's. The heart is the leader and the brain its lieutenant. The polyvagal nerve wraps around the heart and helps it communicate with the brain. The body is communitarian and inter-communicative in every conceivable way.