The Valentine's Day card I gave Yvonne this morning has this verse in it: "Love for you is the music in my heart."
We use phrases like, "I love you with all my heart." That sounds so much better than, "I love you with all my brain." One comic strip mother this morning said to her brainy son, "If your father had tried to woo me with a brain-shaped box of candy you would never have been born!"
You can be thankful that Alcmaeon didn't make his major contribution to the understanding of the human brain until the belief that the mind was in the heart was too established in our vocabulary to be changed.
Circa 520 BC, the Greek anatomist and physician Alcmaeon discovered that the optic nerve goes to the brain, not the heart. Until then, most people believed that the mind was found in the heart, and that the purpose of the brain was simply to cool the blood. Wrong!
The mind is in the brain. Alcmaeon's student, Hippocrates (the Father of Modern Medicine), would later write, "From the brain come all of our joys and sorrows."
To be technically correct in both physiology and psychology we should say, "I love you with all my brain."
Guys, try that and let me know how it works out for you. Your Significant Other might think it is more evidence of your CLOD gene. (See yesterday's post.)
You won't read this "Gradyism" anywhere else: "Sometimes it is psychologically smart to be physiologically wrong."
February 14, 2010
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I'm glad that we dont use the term "I mean it from the bottom of my brain" either...that would be a little creepy. This blog post has made me question the phrase..."I love you with all my heart and soul"...since the heart doesn't actually have these emotions, would the soul also be emotionless??
Sarah Raunikar
When i told my husben that he just looked at me like a deer in headlights look like is this a test or something he looked so funny i wish I could send you a pic of his facial exprestion lol. whitney dodds your 12 class mwf at muskogee.
If Javier ever said he loved me with all his brain i would think something was wrong with him. So im glad that we say we love someone with all our heart. It sounds so much better. And if the brain is where we feel from, why do people say, "what does your heart tell you?" or "think with your heart and not your head."
Mariah Norwood
Developmental
This post and some of the comments on here also brings the phrase "go with your gut" or "gut instenct". How can someone say "gut instenct" after reading this. But after saying that phrase for so long its kinda hard not to say it anymore.
I think the phrase sounds a little more catchy with brain because its something that would suprise a girl and probably make her laugh. It could also make you look like a complete idiot either way it would be funny in its own way. Now when someone says "follow your heart" counter them by saying "follow your brain".
With all of my brain? That's an interesting phrase kind of like your head and your heart feel the same thing so in all actuality it pretty much the same.
I don't know about this! Why is it when you care so much for someone you can actually feel your heart hurt? A breakup or a loss of someone it hurts deeply and you have this ache in your heart. Clinically you are right DR. Grady but, "experientially" ...My make up word...I would have to disagree.
what about the people with out brains? lol they need love too.. cross my brain...hmm doesnt really get the same dramatic effect as cross my heart.. dont go breaking my brain..the song would not have been a hit... lol
i agree with amanda my brain doesnt hurt when something bad happens my heart does..
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