How Does The Heart Know Love? (Paperback)

by Brad Walton (Author)

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Product Description
For centuries, poets and philosophers have sensed that the heart is at the center of our lives. Saint-Exupery wrote, And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Even when we re not consciously communicating with others, our physiological systems interact in subtle and surprising ways. Did you know that the electromagnetic signal produced by your heart is registered in the brain waves of people around you?

With all of our conversations about love and exposure to the word "love," we have done little to understand the deeper relationship of love that is so vital to our physical and spiritual heart. We feel the pain of a broken heart but don't understand why. We find it difficult to accept the fact that we feel pain for good reasons. Those reasons are becoming more evident as modern research provides greater insight into this incredible organ. The physical and the spiritual world are joined in this pulsing universe where love finds its home.

About the Author
WCCO (Minneapolis, MN) radio personality Brad Walton shares his personal story of a profound transformation that followed his open heart surgery. How Does the Heart Know Love? brings new and meaningful personal insights from his emotional and spiritual transformation in learning how to deal with a broken heart and wounded soul.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Beaver's Pond Press (August 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592980724
• ISBN-13: 978-1592980727
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,131,342 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Touched me deeply, February 11, 2007

By	Lynne Eldridge - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a physician and a friend to many, this book is one that all should read. It is infrequent that people, especially those that have a role in the public eye, such as Brad, share the delicate, intimate components of life's most important battles and thoughts. This should be a must read for anyone in medicine, as well as anyone who may experience the thought of dying... which means, all of us.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ***** Love is a Four-Letter Word That We Can't Live Without *****, March 1, 2007

By	John Jay Harper "www.johnjayharper.com" (Spokane, WA United States) - See all my reviews

The next time I hear someone say "good things come in small packages," I shall recall the message of this book: Love is what makes the world go round. However, it also makes life "square," a never-ending series of four-cornered choices that in one way or another ask us to forgive; Forgive our own rough-edged shortcomings in particular. But also to forgive the slings and arrows shot at us by our parents, our siblings, our boss, our co-workers, our neighbors, our government, our world itself for these wrongs we have to absorb daily: a careless word or deed that adds up over time to inflict untold suffering.

Perhaps, more than anything else what this author is saying to us that have not experienced a life-threatening illness -- yet -- is to give thanks for each day that we have been given. For indeed it is a gift that we need to reflect upon more often as we face the ultimate challenge of mortality; how to live one day at a time, in spite of it all, with a sweet thought in our head and a lovely song in our heart.

In other words, we must live until we die. But, if I am correct in my musings, what we experience in the hereafter is indeed only the love that we have sown here. Read this book and learn how to do that gracefully, or go kicking and screaming like the vast majority of us do today. Yet never forget the message of this masterpiece: The choice to love or hate is ours to make each and every ... heartbeat!

Dr. John Jay Harper is the author of the bestseller Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century.