Our heart has a bigger role in your body than you think. Not only does it pump blood to all the major organs of the body, it can also play a role in the functioning of our mental, emotional, and physical processes. According Rollin McCarty, who wrote The Enegetic Heart, Bioelectromagnetic Communication Within and Between People, "The heart is a sensory organ and acts as a sophisticated information encoding and processing center that enables it to learn, remember, and make independent functional decisions."