Category Archives: Science of the Heart

Documentary Explores the Power of Heart Intention in Musical Performance

March 11, 2020 Science of the Heart 18539 Views = 9

Documentary Explores the Power of Heart Intention in Musical Performance

The conductor abruptly waves, signaling the orchestra to stop playing. "People, please," she says, "when you play this piece, try to imagine, feel the emotion this great composer intended. Play each and every note from the heart. Again, from the beginning."

Words to that effect have been uttered by thousands of conductors and music instructors through the centuries. They are not words with which Dr. Kathleen Riley of California would disagree. The concepts they suggest are integral to her unique approach to helping musicians and clients in all professions achieve optimal performance and overcome related anxieties.

Study Validates Effectiveness of Heart Lock-In Technique

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.

Measuring Workplace Stress – In A New Way

July 16, 2019 Articles of the Heart, General, Science of the Heart 8706 Views = 6

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the effects of stress on employees undertook a new approach in their research to improve upon what they said may be outdated and obsolete tools for evaluating workplace stress.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.)

Study Uses Paced Deep Breathing to Measure Dutch Workers’ HRV

January 9, 2019 Articles of the Heart, Science of the Heart 10031 Views = 9

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."

Study Finds a Little Quick Coherence Good for College Students

August 29, 2018 Articles of the Heart, General, Science of the Heart 13642 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.

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

April 11, 2018 Articles of the Heart, Science of the Heart 54785 Views = 17

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."

Effects of Geomagnetic, Solar and Other Factors on Humans

July 26, 2017 Articles of the Heart, Science of the Heart 86965 Views = 18

Effects of Geomagnetic, Solar and Other Factors on Humans

"All biological systems on Earth are exposed to an external and internal environment of fluctuating invisible magnetic fields of a wide range of frequencies. These fields can affect virtually every cell and circuit to a greater or lesser degree." – Synchronization of Human Autonomic Nervous System Rhythms with Geomagnetic Activity in Human Subjects, a newly published study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

A research team that conducted the study cited above and published this month added further evidence to the scientific community’s understanding of how human autonomic nervous systems respond to environment influences. In this study, those influences resulted from, among other factors, changes in solar and geomagnetic activity, cosmic rays and the frequencies known as the Schumann resonances.

Study Looks at Coherence and Feeling States

March 7, 2017 Articles of the Heart, Science of the Heart 28958 Views = 12

Study Looks at Coherence and Feeling States

Researchers at HeartMath Institute and elsewhere have undertaken numerous studies through the years that have demonstrated the ability of HeartMath^® tools and technology to help people increase psychophysiological coherence. A recent one was a small study at a South African university in which people attempted to increase their positive feeling states and decrease their negative feeling states.

In a profile of the experience, one of the six participants who volunteered for the study, said: "Doing HeartMath makes me aware of my breathing and helps me to slow it down and breathe more deeply. It also helps me to focus and still my mind from fleeting thoughts and worries."

HeartMath Converges With South African Tradition

October 6, 2016 Articles of the Heart, Global Interconnectedness, Science of the Heart 15931 Views = 5

HeartMath Converges With South African Tradition

Umuntu ngumuntu ngabant is a Zulu proverb that translates to “a person is a person because of people.” More broadly it means that each of us is who we are in the context of our interconnectedness with the community around us.

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Category Archives: Science of the Heart

Documentary Explores the Power of Heart Intention in Musical Performance

Study Validates Effectiveness of Heart Lock-In Technique

Measuring Workplace Stress – In A New Way

Study Uses Paced Deep Breathing to Measure Dutch Workers’ HRV

Study Finds a Little Quick Coherence Good for College Students

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

Journal Cites, Importance of and Strategies For Social Coherence

Effects of Geomagnetic, Solar and Other Factors on Humans

Study Looks at Coherence and Feeling States

HeartMath Converges With South African Tradition