The Human-Dog Heart Connection: Your Dog’s Heart and How YOUR Heart Impacts it

Your dog’s heart acts as a conductor, orchestrating every springing step, wagging tail and wet kiss. It serves as the compass guiding every aspect of their existence, including their emotional and physical well-being.

Your dog’s heart is e v e r y t h i n g.

Without your dog’s physical heart, they wouldn’t be here living with you on this Earth, and without their emotional heart, they wouldn’t be the dog they are. The heart gives your dog life, personality and purpose.

A marvel of biological and metaphysical magic, the heart is intricately designed in sustaining life through its rhythm. A rhythm seen and invisible, a rhythm heard and silent, and a rhythm you and your dog can orchestrate together.

Heart Anatomy and Physiology- The Least Exciting Aspect of the Heart

Your dog’s heart, a muscular organ roughly the size of a clenched fist, is composed of four chambers—two atria and two ventricles. It orchestrates bloodflow throughout the body. The heart’s right side receives deoxygenated blood returning from the body and pumps it into the lungs for oxygenation, while the left side receives oxygen-rich blood from the lungs, propelling it out in nourishing the tissues and organs. The health of your dog’s lungs impacts their heart health and vise versa.

Interwoven within the heart's muscular walls are intricate blood vessel networks, including arteries, veins, and capillaries, facilitating the transport of nutrients, oxygen, and waste products to and from every corner of the body. Valves, akin to delicate gatekeepers, ensure unidirectional blood flow, preventing backflow and maintaining the efficiency of circulation.

The kidneys govern the blood, impacting heart health, and the reverse is true; heart health greatly impacts kidney function.

Ultimately, when you look into every system and every organ in the body, they all depend on the heart, the body’s most vital organ.

“But the heart, it turns out, is much more than a muscular pump…it is an electromagnetic generator, producing a wide range of electromagnetic frequencies; an endocrine gland, making and releasing numerous hormones; and a part of the central nervous system. It is, in fact, a brain in its own right.”

-Stephen Harrod Buhner

Your Dog’s Sixth Sense: Heart Perception

We’ve learned about the five senses; sight (eyes), hear (ears), taste (mouth), touch (skin), and smell (nose). The “five senses” model is based on where sensory cells are located in the body. The problem is, the five sense model completely leaves out the heart as a sensory organ. The heart is our (and our dog’s) most powerful sensory organ. It has complex and extraordinary sensory abilities.

Your heart’s perception may be how and why you brought your dog into your life in the first place; the love you felt when you first met your dog; your heart longed to home your dog(s) and make them your companion(s).

According to extensive research from Heart Math, the heart perceives information more quickly than what a brain could process at any given time. The heart immediately feels and perceptualizes while the brain thinks (usually overthinks) and its perception lags behind. Heart Math has found the heart is accurate in its impressions and rapid information processing while the brain responds at a slower rate AND isn’t always giving us accurate information.

Heart perception is why, dogs can be wiser than us humans; they feel from their hearts and use this perception constantly while we overthink more than we trust the way we feel- our heart’s immediate feedback.

Dogs’ heart sensitivity makes them more vulnerable to their environment, and to our nervous system and emotions. This can be a negative or positive thing. If we’re not doing well or feeling well, they’re absorbing these vibes. While if their environment is healthy, positive and loving, it can tremendously positively impact their health and help prevent health issues.

The beautiful thing is, ultimately, your dogs perceptual feelings can’t be taken away from them with poor health while the other senses, for example, hearing and vision, can become dulled or obsolete. A blind and deaf dog may even have ENHANCED heart perceptions.

The pitfall humans suffer from cutting off heart communication is tragic. Choosing to ignore the heart’s innate intuition, trusting technology or others to make decisions for them, living in complete disconnect from nature (missing out on true authentic love-love with Mother Earth) and people around us, is making humans sick and miss out on the fullness and goodness of life. This impacts your dog’s life because your lifestyle, including your connection with the Earth and your heart brain coherence, impacts them, their lifestyle and energy field.

In addition, your dog constantly relies on you making sound decisions for them, and sound decisions rely on your groundedness and connection.

Tune in to your heart’s subtle messages; they’re quiet nudges but powerful ones. The heart’s messages can tell us about our dog’s feelings, overall well-being, and help guide us on supporting them optimally.

If we overlook our heart’s immediate feedback, we’re ignoring critical feedback and neglecting a major source of vitality, for us AND our dogs.

Modern culture trains us to be “brain-based”. Most schools, and parents, didn’t teach us how to live from our hearts, use our heart as sensory organ, nor explain the intelligence of our hearts or how our heart contains tens of thousands of neurons.

The great news is, you can train yourself, starting today, in using your heart’s senses, nurturing your heart, feeling its feelings, listening to its messages and shifting your hearts energy fields to a higher vibration.

Your dog can be your heart’s most powerful spirit guide in the journey of reclaiming your heart’s intelligence if you let them.

The Heart’s Electromagnetic Field

The heart’s biology and visible function is the heart’s least interesting aspect. The greatest power the heart holds isn’t visibly seen, rather, it’s intimately felt.

Beyond physiological function, the heart holds profound emotional significance in the bond between humans and dogs, beating in synchrony with every moment together, serving as a testament to the profound connection forged between species.

Dogs are constantly feeling how we feel and it’s not always pretty, especially during a time when mental/emotional illnesses in humans are soaring.

At the core of every heartbeat lies an electromagnetic field—a subtle yet powerful force extending far beyond the physical body’s confines. Produced by the heart's rhythmic contractions, this field pulsates with electrical and magnetic energy, creating a dynamic aura enveloping humans and dogs.

Research in the bioelectromagnetism field has revealed the heart emits a coherent electromagnetic signal, characterized by rhythmic fluctuations known as heart rate variability (HRV).

In the presence of a beloved dog, something remarkable occurs—a subtle yet palpable synchronization of heart frequencies. Studies have shown when humans and dogs share close proximity or engage in bonding activities such as petting, playing, or even gazing into each other's eyes, their heart rhythms mirror one another, falling into a harmonious rhythm of coherence.

This phenomenon, known as heart rate coherence or entrainment, highlights the deep empathic bond between humans and dogs, whereby their physiological states become attuned to one another on a subconscious level. It’s as if their hearts are engaged in a silent conversation, exchanging signals of love, trust, and companionship without uttering a single word.

Emotions are Shared Through Heart Fields

The heart’s electromagnetic signal, influenced by emotions, thoughts, and physiological states, serves as a window into the inner workings of the heart-mind connection, reflecting the intricate interplay between physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Meaning, your emotions, communication via electromagnetic fields to your dog, affects their physical, emotional and mental well-being.

The spectrum of emotions shared through the heart’s electromagnetic fields includes moments of joy, companionship, and unwavering loyalty as well as moments of stress, anxiety or grief.

Consistent emotions unaddressed overtime manifest physically (more on this in future article coming soon). In order to help prevent, or balance, physical ailments in our dogs, we must nurture our own hearts, emotions and physical wellbeing.

The Invisible Human-Dog Communication

In the silent language of the heart, humans and dogs communicate not through words but through the rhythmic cadence of their beating hearts. Beyond the realm of verbal dialogue, a profound connection emerges—one transcending species boundaries and resonating at the energetic level.

With energy fields being shared, dogs and humans oftentimes need similar remedies, and sometimes protocols I create for dogs and their humans are almost identical.

The intricate interplay of heart frequencies between you and your dog is what ultimately binds you together, and is a major factor for your dog’s overall health and your overall health.

What if you could transcend your health and emotions with your dog using herbs and natural lifestyle techniques, in a wellness journey you can embark on together?

Personally, my dog Thor and I went on our alternative medicine and energy therapy journey together and it was one of the most beautiful, grounding, and connected experiences I’ve ever had. Since then, I’ve helped numerous dogs and their humans experience a similar journey,

I’ve noticed when a human’s health improves, so does their dog’s and vise versa. Dogs and humans are continuously thriving off of each others energy, including emotions, and physical wellbeing. Herbal and energy therapy for both you and your dog at the same time is extremely complimentary, motivating, AND more enjoyable because you’re improving your life alongside your furry, wise, heart-centered best friend.

To book a companion herbal consultation or companion Reiki (energy therapy) session, click here, and scroll down to the Human AND Dog Companion Packages Section and click the black “Book” button to the right of your preferred companion service.

References

Buhner, Stephen Harrod. The Secret Teachings of Plants. Bear and Company, Rochester, 2004.