Emotional centre

Heart brain — feeling and evaluation

The emotional centre is the heart brain in the three-centres framing: it registers immediate feeling, attraction and repulsion, and rapid evaluative response. We place its point in the mid-chest as a deliberately broad heart projection, while noting the source tradition's heart / solar-plexus variation rather than presenting this coordinate as an anatomical fact.

Intellectual centreEmotional centreEmotional centreMoving centre

Point 2 of 3 in Gurdjieffian Enneagram — Three Centres

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

G. I. Gurdjieff, All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (primary_canonical)

Gurdjieff's primary text; its recurring account of three-brained beings supplies the canonical three-brain frame, although it does not provide this normalized body diagram.

P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (secondary)

A secondary record of Gurdjieff's lectures, including the intellectual, emotional, and moving centres, their differing speeds, and their practical observation.

Kathleen Riordan Speeth, The Gurdjieff Work (scholarly_modern)

Modern scholarly and practice-oriented synthesis of Fourth Way exercises, self-observation, and the functional centres.

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