Journal Cites, Importance of and Strategies For Social Coherence Being out of sorts, or off our game because of Illness or injury, anger or anxiety or when we become stressed out and overwhelmed can cause deterioration in our personal coherence levels. Likewise, dysfunction within a group – large or small – because of animosity, jealousy, judgment or other negative conditions can signal a weakening of social coherence and, ultimately, lead
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
Try a Little Kindness Everyone loves that warm heart feeling they get when they do something kind for another. It’s wonderful, right? Did you know kind acts – even secret ones – can do wonders for your physical, mental and emotional health? And there’s another curious thing about kindness: It’s uniquely contagious, kindness researchers say. A study conducted among students at the University of British Columbia found that performing acts
Stress Is on the Rise: Take Action! Editor’s note: Besides discussing the rise of stress in the U.S., this article provides a few suggestions for not only weathering increasing stress, but also taking action to reduce and prevent it. Feeling more anxious, frustrated or angry in recent months? You are not alone. Stress among Americans is on the rise, say those who monitor people’s emotional responses to political and other
Global Tree Monitoring Network Tree Research Project: Phase 2 Something about trees. … a walk in the forest, the spiritual experience of planting a tree, settling down against just about any kind of tree with book in hand. Can these “other beings” sense how humans feel about them? Do trees feel and are they affected by our emotions? When the HeartMath Research Center launched its tree research project last year, we asked
HeartMath Helps New Vision Wilderness Reach At-Risk Youth in Rural Wisconsin HeartMath Education Projects Taking a break from ice fishing with three adolescent boys in Northern Wisconsin’s 1.5 million-acre Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Steve Sawyer climbed a modest mountain for better phone reception. It was freezing as Sawyer, a therapist, licensed clinical social worker and certified substance-abuse counselor, talked on the phone for nearly an hour, describing how, years before, he co-launched New Vision Wilderness, a wilderness therapy intervention
Raising Our Vibration Through Compassion and Unconditional Love It’s becoming clearer to many of us that working together with kindness, compassion and acceptance are the missing pieces for resetting humanity’s fast and furious trajectory into separation and division. It’s also becoming obvious that we cannot create solutions from the same consciousness level that’s creating the problems. Raising our consciousness vibration for drawing peaceful solutions is an undertaking that calls for
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,
Heart Qualities For Re-Setting Our Lives Increasing numbers of people are commenting about a heightened attunement in their hearts and minds, to the need for increasing their care, kindness and willingness to co-create peacefully. People are feeling that the timing for heart-based cooperation is in alignment with the changes Earth and humanity are experiencing. Many of us believe that the global waves of chaos and tension can be repurposed into
