The Making of Emotions

The Making of Emotions - HeartMath Institute

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 …
Heart Rate Variability

Heart Rate Variability - HeartMath Institute

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, …
Doctoral Research Project Explores Healing with Heart-Focused Prayer/Compassion Meditation

Doctoral Research Project Explores Healing with Heart-Focused Prayer/Compassion Meditation - HeartMath Institute

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 …