{"id":3624,"date":"2016-10-13T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2016-10-13T23:17:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T04:17:51","slug":"what-about-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/?p=3624","title":{"rendered":"What About the Heart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;A recent article I read mentioned that the &#8220;gut&#8221; is the center of the emotional domain.\u00a0 Actually, the brain produces emotion in the limbic brain (middle brain), but isn&#8217;t the heart the place we associate with emotions?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a great question!\u00a0 There is much to be said about the heart.\u00a0 After all, we say, &#8220;I love you with all my heart,&#8221; and make paper hearts for Valentine&#8217;s Day (which really look nothing like a real heart).\u00a0 However, the heart is actually the intersection of the three learning domains &#8211; cognitive, affective and kinesthetic.\u00a0 Educational researchers William Huitt and Shelia Cain in 2005 posited that another domain, the conative, provide the connection.\u00a0 In their words,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conation refers to the connection of knowledge and affect of behavior and is associated with the issue of &#8220;why.&#8221;\u00a0 It is the personal, intentional, planful, deliberate, goal-oriented or striving component of motivation.\u00a0 Some of the conative issues one faces daily are:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>What is my life&#8217;s purpose and are my actions congruent with that purpose?<\/li>\n<li>What are my aspirations and goals?<\/li>\n<li>On what ideas, objects, events, etc., should I focus my attention?<\/li>\n<li>What am I going to do, what actions am I going to take, what investments am I going to make?<\/li>\n<li>How well am I accomplishing what I set out to do? (Source: http:\/\/edpsycinteractive.org\/papers\/conative.pdf)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that all these items can be related to the interaction of all three learning domains.\u00a0 It can also connect the believer to a fifth domain &#8211; one of spirituality.\u00a0 This is why the brave soldier is said to have &#8220;heart.&#8221;\u00a0 It is also why painfully negative events can make us &#8220;heartsick.&#8221;\u00a0 We cognitively realize the negativity of the event in our minds, we affectively feel sick to our stomachs, and kinesthetically, our bodies becomes weaker.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to exercise and nourish our bodies to keep our joints and muscles functioning properly, but also to provide good cardiovascular health.\u00a0 It&#8217;s important to exercise and nourish our minds for proper brain health, acuity and awareness, and it&#8217;s also important to learn about and control our emotional intelligence which helps to shape our behaviors.\u00a0 All three of these domains working as a system help to keep the heart healthy, and allows us to fulfill the purpose to which each of us is called.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A recent article I read mentioned that the &#8220;gut&#8221; is the center of the emotional domain.\u00a0 Actually, the brain produces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dearschooladvancement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DearSA.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ggCS-Ws","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}