The Cares of the World – How to Transform Your Overcare into Balanced Care

November 6, 2019 Articles of the Heart, HeartMath Tools & Techniques17,354 Views = 19

The Cares of the World – How to Transform Your Overcare into Balanced Care

The world needs our care now more than ever, and these days there is so much to care for – a pet, work, or our family, health and the planet. But, how do we deeply care without depleting our energy? What does it really mean to have balanced care? What happens when that care turns to overcare – when we excessively worry, over-identify or have anxiety about the object of our care? Overcare is easy to fall into because of its stealthy way of making us feel that we are caring more when worry is added. This is not the case.

Study Validates Effectiveness of Heart Lock-In Technique

October 7, 2019 Articles of the Heart, Science of the Heart25,786 Views = 12

Study Validates Effectiveness of Heart Lock-In Technique

The Heart Lock-In^® Technique, one of HeartMath’s earliest tools, has helped individuals and groups increase heart-rhythm coherence for many years. Now a study* has validated the tool’s effect on synchronization between the heart and geomagnetic activity, which is significant because this synchronization is associated with better health.

A Deeper View of Intuition

August 26, 2019 Articles of the Heart, Personal Development58,298 Views = 14

A Deeper View of Intuition

“As more of humanity practices heart-based living, it will qualify the ‘rite’ of passage into the next level of consciousness. Using our heart’s intuitive guidance, will become common sense — practical intelligence.”

Doc Childre, HeartMath founder

Measuring Workplace Stress – In A New Way

July 16, 2019 Articles of the Heart, General, Science of the Heart9,899 Views = 7

Measuring Workplace Stress – In A New Way

Researchers studying the effects of stress on employees undertook a new approach in their research to improve upon what they said may be outdated and obsolete tools for evaluating workplace stress. As a result, they said, some of their findings were "astonishing."

The researchers, Adrian Low of the Hong Kong Association of Psychology, and study advisor HeartMath Institute Director of Research Dr. Rollin McCraty, used HeartMath’s emWave^® Pro Plus as a quantitative assessment tool for the study. (Click this link to read the entire study: Emerging Dynamics of Workplace Stress of Employees in a Large Organization in Hong Kong.)

Raise Your Vibration With Appreciation and Compassion

February 21, 2019 Articles of the Heart, HeartMath Tools & Techniques28,176 Views = 15

Raise Your Vibration With Appreciation and Compassion

Practicing genuine appreciation and compassion raises our heart’s vibrations.

“When our vibrations are up … we respond to stressful situations with soundness, resilience and clearer discernment. We are less vulnerable to frustration, impatience, anger, anxiety, and we feel more self-secure and less critical of others and of ourselves. We are drawn to notice nature, flowers and trees that we usually sleep-walk past, as our preoccupations rob us of this gift of conscious connection.”

Doc Childre, HeartMath founder

Study Uses Paced Deep Breathing to Measure Dutch Workers’ HRV

January 9, 2019 Articles of the Heart, Science of the Heart11,370 Views = 10

Study Uses Paced Deep Breathing to Measure Dutch Workers’ HRV

The researchers who conducted a recently published study using a short breathing protocol to measure heart rate variability (HRV) in a large group of Dutch workers say it’s the first of its kind.

"This is the first study," the researchers explained, "to explore a 1-minute paced deep-breathing HRV protocol as an objective screening measure for multiple future health issues in a working population."

2018 Humanitarian Heart Award Recipients Named

November 29, 2018 Articles of the Heart, General6,750 Views = 4

2018 Humanitarian Heart Award Recipients Named

Thoughts from this year’s Humanitarian Heart Award recipients:

“I live everyday focused on others’ healing journey and living the quote from Albert Einstein "only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

Steve Sawyer

“My most heartfelt wish for the planet is that we … fulfill our obligation to take care of the whole Earth, including plants, animals and the atmosphere, instead of just looking out for the next way to make a dollar.”

Ann Linda Baldwin

“… it’s the heart that one needs to be educated on, the heart that can bring emotions into alignment, the heart that will take your learning, your community’s learning, our planet’s learning to the next level and beyond.”

David P. Parisian

Study Finds a Little Quick Coherence Good for College Students

August 29, 2018 Articles of the Heart, General, Science of the Heart14,718 Views = 8

Study Finds a Little Quick Coherence Good for College Students

Editor’s note – “Coherence is the state when the heart, mind and emotions are in energetic alignment and cooperation. It is a state that builds resiliency – personal energy is accumulated, not wasted, – leaving more energy to manifest intentions and harmonious outcomes.”

Dr. Rollin McCraty, HeartMath Institute

Know someone about to begin or continue college this fall? Naturally, you’ll want to offer encouragement and helpful advice for coping and succeeding in what is sure to be one of the more stressful ventures of his or her life. Think coherence. Even better, think quick coherence:

A newly published study assessing the efficacy of HeartMath’s Quick Coherence Technique^® (QCT) found significant improvements in a group of students’ heart-coherence levels, as measured by heart rate variability (HRV). Study participants were undergraduates at the Universiti Putra Maylasia, in Pahang, Malaysia.

How A Pause Can Save The Day

June 27, 2018 Articles of the Heart, HeartMath Tools & Techniques22,412 Views = 13

How A Pause Can Save The Day

From time to time, we all need to take pause, a brief stillness, a moment to review "our initial reaction so we can move to the place where a calm, thoughtful response is born." – L.R. Knost

Through hindsight, we often realize how much stress we could have prevented by pausing to reconsider our choices before taking action. Many of us have learned this lesson many times over: for example, sometimes our heart nudges us to take a pause before releasing an angered response to an e-mail and we don’t listen. We mechanically press send and often second-guess ourselves the minute we click the mouse.

Study Shows Geomagnetic Fields and Solar Activity Affect Human Autonomic Nervous System Functions

April 11, 2018 Articles of the Heart, Science of the Heart62,566 Views = 18

Study Shows Geomagnetic Fields and Solar Activity Affect Human Autonomic Nervous System Functions

Did you know geomagnetic and solar activity can affect your autonomic nervous system (ANS), which controls your breathing, heartbeat and digestive processes? It’s true: A recently published long-term study whose researchers included HeartMath Institute’s Rollin McCraty and Mike Atkinson, reached that conclusion.

"These findings," the study states, "support the hypothesis that these energetic environmental factors act as energy sources that outplay in different ways depending on an individual’s health status and maturity level and capacity of self-regulation."

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The Cares of the World – How to Transform Your Overcare into Balanced Care

Study Validates Effectiveness of Heart Lock-In Technique

A Deeper View of Intuition

Measuring Workplace Stress – In A New Way

Raise Your Vibration With Appreciation and Compassion

Study Uses Paced Deep Breathing to Measure Dutch Workers’ HRV

2018 Humanitarian Heart Award Recipients Named

Study Finds a Little Quick Coherence Good for College Students

How A Pause Can Save The Day

Study Shows Geomagnetic Fields and Solar Activity Affect Human Autonomic Nervous System Functions