Your heart beats faster, your blood pressure increases, your breathing picks up. Through the course of a workout, this controlled exertion is regarded as a good thing for most.Īnd what happens when you receive devastating news, such as the death of a loved one? When you exercise, your heart beats faster, your blood pressure increases, your breathing picks up as your lungs work to oxygenate the blood your heart is pumping, energy (sugar) is sent to your muscles. Heathcliff, 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte I have not broken your heart - you have broken it and in breaking it, you have broken mine.' 'You love me - then what right had you to leave me?. 'A growing body of evidence suggests that psychological factors are - literally - heartfelt, and can contribute to cardiac risk,' Harvard's Medical School reported.Ī broken heart really can hurt you. While there is much still to understand, science already tells us there is no doubt that emotion impacts not only our mental health but also our physical well-being, especially that of the heart. So was Beatrice right? Did she not love with her mind as much as her heart alone? They travel our emotional highway between our hearts and our minds in a beat, the connection undeniable but difficult to measure. When you declare 'I love you,' is that purely a statement of cognitive thought? Or simple, heartfelt emotion? A mix of both, one indistinguishable from the other?Įmotions can overwhelm our brains and our bodies.

Think for a moment about someone dear to you. 'I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.'

Heart beating fast for no reason