NEO Magazine Issue 1 | Page 12

We propose that the heart is in ‘charge’ not the brain and the heart’s field acts as a carrier wave for information that provides a global synchronizing signal for the entire body! We also suggest that as pulsing waves of energy radiate out from the heart, they interact with organs and other structures. More, the waves encode or record the features and dynamic activity of these structures in patterns of energy waveforms that are distributed throughout the entire body. In t his way, the encoded information acts to inform (literally, give shape to) the activity of all bodily functions-to coordinate and synchronize processes in the body as a whole. This perspective requires a new model, energetic concept of information, in which patterns of organization are enfolded into waves of energy of system activity distributed throughout the system as a whole. The lateral statements are having quite profound impact on why, what and how we design to make our buildings singing! We also felt an urge to investigate and look into options where design repertoire makes the opera, a place where the architecture is healing the body, the mind and the soul. Our research at the Institute of Design and Development shows that information pertaining to a person’s emotional state is also communicated throughout the body via the heart’s electromagnetic field. For the first time in history we are able to really measure human emotions such as compassion, empathy, love, anger and frustration. Thanks to Dan Winter’s work we are able to determine levels of harmony and coherence between brain and heart. We always believed heart is the home of our feelings and emotions, it is expressed in almost any popular love song, however human emotions can now really be measured and they stem from the heart indeed. The rhythmic beating patterns of the heart change significantly as we experience different emotions. Negative emotions, such as anger or frustration, are associated with an erratic, disordered, incoherent pattern in the heart’s rhythms. In contrast, positive emotions, such as love or appreciation, are associated with a smooth, ordered, coherent pattern in the heart’s rhythmic activity. In turn, these changes in the heart’s beating patterns cre- new earth designs by juan schlosser ings of love or appreciation, the blood pressure and respiratory rhythms, among other oscillatory systems, entrain to the heart’s rhythm.