Study Shows Geomagnetic Fields and Solar Activity Affect Human Autonomic Nervous System Functions Did you know geomagnetic and solar activity can affect your autonomic nervous system (ANS), which controls your breathing, heartbeat and digestive processes? It’s true: A recently published long-term study whose researchers included HeartMath Institute’s Rollin McCraty and Mike Atkinson, reached that conclusion. “These findings,” the study states, “support the hypothesis that these energetic environmental factors act as energy
Heart Humility Heart humility – that is, knowing who we truly are and accepting our strengths with gratitude, our limitations without judgment and the world around us with appreciation – is a powerful and attainable quality. Heart humility can help us to walk through this world with confidence, integrity and wisdom. Heart humility does not require reserve or timid postures in our interactions with others, but rather a quietness in
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
