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 …
Stress and Cognitive Decline

Stress and Cognitive Decline - HeartMath Institute

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 …
Instinct for Compassion

Instinct for Compassion - HeartMath Institute

com•pas•sion noun [kem-pa’-shen] a feeling of wanting to help someone who is sick, hungry, in trouble, etc. We reach out to those in pain, take in stray animals and dash off our checks to help strangers suffering across the globe. Humans are compassionate toward those in need. In fact, considerable scientific research suggests, we may actually …