The Making of Emotions Your emotions – Things happen, you engage in conversation, attempt to do something, go someplace. Feelings arise and you often feel them in your body. Sound about right? Pretty simple. Except it turns out that emotions, and where and how they originate, are not simple at all.For nearly all of human history, emotions have been the subject of much debate among scientists, HeartMath Institute (HMI) Research
ho-lo-gram — a three-dimensional image created by directing two coherent light sources such as a lazer, a source beam and reference beam, through a two-dimensional image. Heart Ho-lo-gram-ming™ — a practice in which an individual sincerely focuses/directs spirit and heart intelligence to the heart’s true intent — likened to a hologram — to actualize it. Would any of the following be desirable in your life? a. Wake up each morning
It has only been five decades since scientists began to alter their long-held belief that the human body’s cells, tissues and organs, particularly the heart, strive to maintain a constant static or steady state. “We now know that the normal resting rhythm of the heart is highly variable rather than being monotonously regular, which was the widespread notion for many years,” write the authors of a new article slated to
Heart rate variability (HRV), which is at the core of research the HeartMath Institute conducts, is a measure of the naturally occurring beat-to-beat changes in heart rate/heart rhythms. It serves as a critical method for gauging human health and resiliency. “The study of heart rate variability,” according to HeartMath’s signature work, Science of the Heart, “is a powerful, objective and noninvasive tool to explore the dynamic interactions between physiological, mental,
Core HeartMath research and principals figured prominently in a recent doctoral research project that explored whether heart-focused internal prayer-compassion meditation could contribute to personal and communal healing. “Can a heart-focused formal and informal contemplative practice of tuning in and identifying with indwelling life force energy, or spirit as one’s deepest, truest self, contribute to healing?” That was the central question in a program designed by doctor-of-ministry candidate the Rev. Catherine Mary Quehl-Engel. Quehl-Engel conducted her project
Now and then we all take a moment to look at the life we are living and daydream about how our futures will look. So, take one of those moments right now, and rather than “thinking” about what the future might look like based on your life as it is now, do the following: Look as deeply as you can into your heart and visualize the future you’ve always truly
Very important memo to self, staff! — What can WE do to make this a better place to work? That question is one today’s public- and private-sector employers who genuinely care about their workers are prone to ponder often. Among the attributes people tend to list for ideal jobs and working environment are a fair wage, good benefits, workplace flexibility – parental leave and respect for the importance of parental duties. Others
Research shows how intimately the heart is involved in the processes and proper functioning of the human body. Therefore, even the nonscientist might easily accept the premise that certain aspects of heart rhythms can be indicators of general health. Now, a recent study suggests that personality can be a useful barometer as well. The study, Personality and Heart Rate Variability: Exploring Pathways from Personality to Cardiac Coherence and Health, hypothesized that
Having a well-functioning memory is something we all think about more and more as we age. Memory and other cognitive processes gradually diminish as we grow older, but research in the last several decades shows those who experience persistent or high levels of stress are especially vulnerable. Although much remains to be learned about the causes of mental decline, it has been well documented recently that stress is an important
