Learning The Secrets of the Heart

S.O.U.L. visits the HeartMath Institute, who share some wisdom from their decades of research.

Katherine prepares Evan for a mind-blowing  discussion.

The scientists at HeartMath Institute are the visionary heart field researchers who have scientifically proven that it is the heart that makes the brain tick and not the other way around.

The mission of the HeartMath Institute is to help people bring their physical, mental and emotional systems into balanced alignment with their heart’s intuitive guidance. This unfolds the path for becoming heart-empowered individuals who choose the way of Love, demonstrated through compassionate care for the wellbeing of themselves, others and Planet Earth.

Benefits that people have received using the methodologies at the HeartMath Institute.
  • Children have learned about emotions and self-regulating their behavior, resulting in significant improvement in the ability to learn and communicate.
  • Veterans are better able to manage PTSD and reconnect with their families.
  • College students are able to reduce stress and anxiety.
  • Thousands of police officers are using HeartMath programs to help increase intuitive sensitivity, clear thinking under stress and to ease the tension that comes with their job.
  • HeartMath research is developing new techniques and technology for increasing social connections and facilitating harmonious interactions among groups, families, teens and communities.
  • HeartMath professional trainers are working with Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and children in South Korean and Mexican orphanages.

Here are just a few of the tangible benefits that people have received using the methodologies at the HeartMath Institute.
  • Children have learned about emotions and self-regulating their behavior, resulting in significant improvement in the ability to learn and communicate.
  • Veterans are better able to manage PTSD and reconnect with their families.
  • College students are able to reduce stress and anxiety.
  • Thousands of police officers are using HeartMath programs to help increase intuitive sensitivity, clear thinking under stress and to ease the tension that comes with their job.
  • HeartMath research is developing new techniques and technology for increasing social connections and facilitating harmonious interactions among groups, families, teens and communities.
  • HeartMath professional trainers are working with Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and children in South Korean and Mexican orphanages.

It appears that the heart and brain have access to a field of information that are not limited by the boundaries of time and space.

– Rollin McCraty Ph. D., Director of Research

Defining the Love Paradigm

Director of Research Rollin McCraty offers his own interpretation of what The Love Paradigm means, and what life could potentially look like if we made that fundamental shift in consciousness leading us to a more cooperative and peaceful world of individual and collective success in thriving.

He proposes that LOVE may very well be the “organizing intelligence of the Universe”, and that the love “domain” or “spectrum” also takes many forms (brotherly love, romantic love, love for a child or close friend, etc.). Could he be right that if we live in closer alignment between the heart and mind we would make decisions that are good for ”the whole”, and that most of our social and environmental problems would simply be gone? Wouldn’t that at least be worth a shot anyway? If this shift in consciousness is what’s required, what will it take for us to accomplish it?

Calming the War Within

HeartMath Institute experts Brian Kabaker and Rollin McCraty share some insights into how tools and techniques they’ve developed over years of research is at play out in the “real world”. These guiding principles and effective tactics can help us better self regulate our emotions, especially in the heat of “battle” of one kind or another. In as far reaching places as Syria, and of course here in the United States, everyone from refugees to military and first responder personnel are employing the effective methods of shaking off emotionally impactful experiences in order to face the new moment with a renewed calm. Brian refers to law enforcement officers, firefighters, and paramedics as “care givers of an extraordinary type”.

The work being done at HeartMath Institute on understanding the body and how it works has helped develop methods that are making a real impact on the lives of  people who use it, as well as those with whom they interact in the line of duty or just the course of their day.

We left the HeartMath Institute inspired by their transformational work accelerating our collective shift into the Love Paradigm. They’ve taught us that the fundamental component in coming from a Love source is to live from our heart center.

Visit the HeartMath Institute website to learn more about their work, sign up for their network, and start using some of their powerful tools for achieving more coherence and finding power from your heart source.