This spring, The Woodlands College Park High School in Woodlands, Texas became the birthplace of a potentially exciting movement in student well-being, thanks to the vision and leadership of student Sai Balaji. By founding the very first Heart Coherence Club, Sai set out to spark a culture of inspiration — encouraging students to become the best versions of themselves while lifting up those around them.

Since opening in January 2023, Spirit Horse Ranch has conducted 2,250 HeartMath^® sessions, helping individuals regulate their emotions, build resilience, and recover from trauma. Ranch sessions integrate equine-assisted learning with HeartMath tech- niques, teaching participants to manage stress, improve focus, and enhance emotional well-being. Serving wildfire survivors, youth facing personal crises, first responders, and mental health practitioners, the program has provided a vital resource for healing on Maui.

In a world of increasing separation, divisiveness and stress, the need for kindness has never been greater. Kindness is a heart feeling that transcends distinctions of race, gender, education, religious or political preferences and income. Kindness recognizes the inherent goodness in people and strives to bring it to light. Kindness is love in action – a powerful heart vibration that deepens our connections with each other.

A groundbreaking study involving researchers mainly from USC but also from UCLA, UCI, Rutgers, and Vanderbilt Universities, and supported by NIH funding, has unveiled the potential of daily heart rate variability (HRV) coherence biofeedback to improve neural connectivity and emotional well-being. HRV, a measure of variations in the time intervals between heartbeats, is closely linked to emotional regulation and overall health.

Léon Marchand, four-time gold medalist in swimming at the 2024 Olympics, didn’t achieve success overnight. He has been preparing mentally for competitions for two years.

Among other techniques, his performance coach, Thomas Sammut, taught him Heart Coherence to help him manage his stress and anxiety during competitions. Together, they worked on his well- being with the goal of improving his athletic performance and chances of success.

In our complex and rapidly changing society, it is increasingly important for schools to provide more than just academic support. In order for students to succeed, they need tools to support their emotional and mental well-being. The staff at the all-girls site, Kent Place School in Summit, New Jersey recognizes the importance of supporting their students’ overall health and well-being to ensure their students’ success in school as well as in society. This kind of value is heavily promoted on their website: We know that wellness is a condition necessary for successful learning and leadership — and we seek to cultivate and model it at KPS. This approach has led them to incorporate HeartMath^® into their curriculum and extracurricular activities.

It’s in the heart that people access the qualities of love, such as compassion, care, kindness, forgiveness, appreciation, etc., that lift us above separation, judgments, and blame. Through intentionally demonstrating these heart qualities in our lives, we connect with our heart’s natural intelligence and guidance for a unique opportunity to create a future together in harmony.