Think of a time when everything in your life seemed perfect: your mind was as clear as a cloudless day high on a mountain, your heart full with purpose and promise, your emotions true and unburdened as in the first moment of new friendship. You could feel the energetic life coursing through your body and you looked upon yourself and all persons with genuine caring and appreciation, simply for being. Life was good and everything was just so! Oh, to be in this a place for more than a few hours or a few days.
This idyllic state is known as coherence, in this instance personal coherence. It is a very real psychophysiological state that can be measured in the waveforms, or rhythms, of our hearts, which, like all of our bodies’ systems, are orderly and harmonious at such times. Virtually none of our energy is wasted when we are in coherence and we enjoy a synchronicity between the heart, brain, respiratory and other systems. We are in sync, in the flow and the sky’s the limit.
"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right."
—Confucius, 551-479 BC
Community Coherence
Perhaps you can recall another time when your own or another’s personal coherence seemed to permeate a gathering of friends, members of an athletic team, colleagues collaborating on a project or likeminded persons embarked upon a noble quest.
Science tells usthis community coherence actually generates a measurable connection from one person to another through the electromagnetic field of each when they are in close proximity to one another. Moreover, researchers with the Institute of HeartMath have shown, the heart’s powerful electrical signal shows up in the brain waves of people in this close proximity, establishing a scientifically measurable connection between people that does not involve touch, and suggesting a threshold of communication we may one day master.
Global Coherence
The intelligence of the human heart and the powerful electromagnetic field it generates are of great interest to the Institute of HeartMath because we believe they may soon provide the vehicle for achievable mass global cooperation in the healing of our planet. Through the attainment of heart coherence on a global scale, the human family may at last achieve the wisdom and the will to solve its greatest problems.
IHM’s dedicated researchers and staff are committed to joining with an international cadre of individuals and organizations who wish to promote and achieve heart-based living and global coherence – the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of the greater community of human beings acting in concert with their own hearts, each other and nation to nation in harmony with our living planet.
"In the shelter of each other, the people live."
—Gaelic Proverb
The Global Coherence Initiative
(A Call to Action)
Now, perhaps more than any other time in history, the health and well-being of our planet and its life forms are severely threatened and the need for clarity of purpose and commitment to action is critical – whether from the stewards of governments or caretakers of the afflicted, the captains of industry or the guardians of children.
The great concerns of our time – the melting of the ice caps, war and terrorism, rapid depletion of nonrenewable energy sources, entire nations at the brink or in the throes of starvation – have led to critical levels of individual and collective incoherence. Stress is pandemic in many of the world’s industrialized nations and the result is a crisis of anxiety, anger, depression and a host of other negative emotions and debilitating conditions.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
—Gandhi, 1869-1948
For these reasons and out a sense of heartfelt caring, compassion and community, the Institute of HeartMath has embarked upon a grand quest: the Global Coherence Initiative, whose aim is to nurture and sustain our planet through global coherence by enabling millions of people to connect with the power, wisdom and guidance of their own hearts. HeartMath aspires to no less than a planetary shift to heart consciousness and we respectfully request your participation and the benefit of your heart’s wisdom as we enlist groups of people around the world to take part in the Global Coherence Initiative.
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
—Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
The Global Coherence Monitoring System
A key component of the Global Coherence Initiative is the Global Coherence Monitoring System (GCMS), an undertaking that is unique in human history and which the Institute of HeartMath envisions will have vital and long-lasting implications for the health and well-being of our planet.
The GCMS will measure how fluctuations and resonances in the earth and ionosphere’s magnetic fields affect or are influenced by human heart-rhythm patterns, brain activity, stress and emotions. Together, HeartMath and astrophysicist/nuclear scientist Elizabeth Rauscher will build an elaborate system of tracking stations around the world to gather data.
Researchers will examine this date to determine whether the magnetic fields can be influenced by collective human emotional resonance following major events and whether the emotional energy generated by collective intuition about major future events is measurable in these fields. Analysts also will examine the data to assess whether the magnetic field shows indications of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other planetary physical events.
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Help HeartMath Help the World
"To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping."
—Chinese proverb
Your financial commitment and support is vital if the Global Coherence Initiative is to succeed. IHM estimates it will cost $5 million to build and deploy the Global Coherence Monitoring System. We also will require funding to help thousands of people learn how to achieve and sustain measurable states of heart-rhythm coherence as we seek to magnify the power of their coherence to connect with and influence millions worldwide.
Our goal is to have 100,000 people using handheld emWave® Personal Stress Relievers, a proven technology for achieving measurable coherence easily and quickly, to collectively send coherent heart energy to planetary stress areas, even before the GCMS is completed.
You can take the first step in our journey today by doing the following:
Make a contribution to the Global Coherence Initiative fund either at www.glcoherence.org, where you can also get further details, or by calling Katherine Floriano at (800) 711-6221.
E-mail the Global Coherence Initiative Web address, brochure and fliers to family, friends, associates and your database and networks; print and post them at work, your church, gym and other locations, and mail it to others you feel would be interested in participating.
