Is your heart broken?

The condition of your heart is so important to your emotional health. For many years, I read Bible verses that spoke about the heart, and I concluded the authors were not speaking about our literal hearts. They were referring to the inner person where our will and emotions dwell. Psychologists are now calling the heart our second brain.

No one spoke about the heart when I got my graduate degree in psychology. We studied the brain and its impact on emotions and relationships. You can imagine my surprise when I started having pains in my chest, and the doctor gave me this surprising diagnosis. He told me the good news first: I had no blockages in my heart, which meant no hidden dangers of a heart attack, thank God. But then, he said my heart had over 40,000 neurological connections that were stressed out.

Have you ever had chest pains? Have you ever had high blood pressure? Your heart is like a brain. It thinks and transmits messages to your body, blood, arteries, and nervous system.

My mother died a few months ago, and I felt the pain in such a deep fashion that I felt sick physically. I’ve told a few people that her death left me feeling like someone ripped out my kidneys and stomped on them. Emotional healing is often a heart issue. “I said, ‘LORD, be merciful to me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.’” (Psalms 41:4, NKJV)

In a previous email, we defined our souls as our minds and emotions. Sometimes we need our hearts and minds to be healed. Do you need deep inner healing? I did, and I looked for people to pray for me and counsel me through the pain. I believe you were designed to be healed because you are a miracle.

Your friend, Paul Marc Goulet