WCCO radio personality Brad Walton shares his personal story of a profound transformation that followed his open heart surgery. How Does the Heart Know Love? brings new and meaningful personal insights from his emotional and spiritual transformation in learning how to deal with a broken heart and wounded soul.

For centuries, poets and philosophers have sensed that the heart is at the center of our lives. Saint-Exupéry wrote, And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Even when we’re not consciously communicating with others, our physiological systems interact in subtle and surprising ways. Did you know that the electromagnetic signal produced by your heart is registered in the brain waves of people around you?

With all of our conversations about love and exposure to the word “love,” we have done little to understand the deeper relationship of love that is so vital to our physical and spiritual heart. We feel the pain of a broken heart but don’t understand why. We find it difficult to accept the fact that we feel pain for good reasons. Those reasons are becoming more evident as modern research provides greater insight into this incredible organ. The physical and the spiritual world are joined in this pulsing universe where love finds its home.

  • What does pain have to do with our healing?
  • Is love worth the price of its own pain?
  • How do we live with the unthinkable pain we encounter in the cost of our loving?
Love is our greatest need.

How does your heart know love?

His story is eloquently told and painfully honest. It leaves the reader with a knowing—that we can, and do have the strength to heal, that we can survive tragedy and choose to love again and again…fearlessly.

- Dr. Janis Amatuzio
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