This is a Time that’s 
Calling for More Kindness

Many countries have major elections coming up leading into the holiday season. The holidays are a time for joyful celebration and genuine warm-hearted connections and gratitude for family and friends. However, it’s understandable that people feel overwhelmed with what’s going on in the world at this time. Each day supplies streaming news that can create more fear or insecurity. The ongoing wars, higher prices for gas and food, AI going rogue and hacking into websites, and political leaders disdaining those with whom they don’t agree. It’s as though insult has become an acceptable norm. Articles describe how children are repeating demeaning words they hear on the news or from friends or family members. It’s as if kindness and the “golden rule” to treat others as you hope to be treated has lost its agency rating.

We have tremendous compassion for what millions of people are experiencing during these turbulent shifting times. Old energies are being released so that new heart energy and light can enter the planetary system. More of humanity is waking up to the need for heart, kindness, and compassionate care, and more are practicing how to interact harmoniously. Kindness starts with individuals and then energetically communicates itself to others.

It’s time to increase our personal practice of kindness, respect, and compassion, especially during today’s contentious dialogue. Increasing these heart feelings helps us maintain our energetic balance and health through the “off-the-chart” chaos going on due to fear, violence, and disconnection. Engaging in kind, caring, or compassionate actions releases a cascade of nervous system and hormonal responses that benefit our mental and emotional resilience and our physical health. We all could use this right now.

Note: In this Care Focus we’re often using the word kindness as a cover term for other heart feelings, such as care, compassion, respect, deeper listening, etc., rather than always naming each one.

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The Earth vibrates to Kindness

Researchers have found that one act of kindness often creates a ripple effect – helping the receiver open their heart then wanting to do something kind for others. The heart radiates a magnetic field that enables GCI researchers to measure the impact of heart energy sent to people, animals, or trees. Earth’s geomagnetic field vibrates with magnetic waves at 0.1 Hz – the same frequency as coherent human heart rhythms. This is how heart feelings of kindness, care, and compassion can be amplified by the Earth’s field to help create a viral effect. Even a small amount of practice can reduce and prevent much personal and collective stress. Collective kindness can change the world. It’s up to each of us. It’s time for love to hit the street.

Benefits of Increased Kindness and Heart Warmth

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Increasing our kindness also has been shown to reduce levels of cortisol (the stress hormone) and stimulate dopamine (the reward and pleasure hormone) and serotonin (the mood stabilizer). It’s important to be genuine in our practice, because genuine adds the warmth to our heart connections. Studies have found when we do something kind for another, it activates what’s called “the helper’s high” by releasing endorphins, a pain-relieving hormone and immediate mood booster. In addition, kindness has been shown to strengthen the immune system’s ability to fight off illnesses.

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Other studies have found that practicing kindness reduces social anxiety and loneliness while promoting a sense of belonging. What’s interesting is that GCI researchers discovered that holding someone in your heart with a feeling of love and kindness shifts heart’s rhythms and creates coherence in the energetic field. More than ever, researchers are coming on board to take love (kindness, care, compassion, etc.) out of the basement. We don’t have to wait for science, as we can each prove the power of our own love — we just have to unleash it. So what is the collective hold up? It requires a little practice to install the habit. We may practice for hours in a row, learning cell phones, computer games, the list, but not where it counts the most for our health and wellbeing.

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Practice is one of our straightest lines to the ownership of our commitments. However, the word “practice” often causes hesitation because the word indicates that there’s something we can’t have right now. People feel they “want what they want now,” but impatience blocks the way. This is a time that calls for a mature commitment to not let procrastination and practice-dread prevent us from developing important habits for maintaining balance and clear sorting through these transitional times. As we extend our practice of kindness and compassionate interaction, we can raise our vibration to experience more peace and energetic management.

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We’ve talked about tools and practices for years, yet we are putting more emphasis on practice during these times especially, because the stress table has taken a tremendous jump and people are getting more drained by the chaos going on than they may be aware of. Many feel they are losing their grip. Having tools is so important, yet it is the practice of them that generates the love and care that reduces stress points and helps us maintain balance.

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We can start by asking our heart where we can increase our kindness with caring words and actions. Where can we extend more warmth and non-judgmental acceptance toward others or toward ourselves, especially during moments of difficulty. Increasing our kindness at times can be as simple as listening with more patience, expressing appreciation, or showing compassionate understanding when someone is struggling or expressing a different viewpoint.

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Kindness and compassion are powerful love frequencies that radiate from the heart into the environment and can help calm erratic emotional energies – our own and others. In meditation or prayer or while watching the news we can send kindness to people and situations. Increasing our kindness, respect, and compassion is the secret sauce recipe for moving through waves of planetary chaos and uncertainty with more balance and ease.This is attainable as we put our heart’s intention into our meaningful practice.

We’re living in some of the toughest times of stress, and it’s important to know that more and more people throughout the world are feeling these stressful symptoms while doing the best they can. So don’t judge yourself, and practice trying not to judge others as well. Our judgments amplify most of our stress. It’s okay for us to feel concerned and out of balance at times, but it’s prudent to learn tools to offset the stressors and find the best path through our particular situations. Connecting with our heart feelings in stillness for guidance is a good place to start.

Doing one or more of these practices for a week or longer will strengthen our inner stability, while helping to prevent much of the stress that blocks our clear thinking and effective choices. With a little practice, we will be able to take quick inner pauses while on the go to discern what would be the most appropriate mental, emotional or physical response to a situation.

Global Coherence

One of GCI’s intentions with each Care Focus is to provide effective tools, even if we repeat some of them at times. We do this because they are especially helpful for handling the increasing stressors that compromise our mental and emotional reasoning capacity. We realize that not everyone is experiencing the same level of stress. These types of tools, however, and not just HeartMath tools, can add to anyone’s discernment and mental and emotional stabilization. We know that Love is the principal tool. GCI’s research has been to help prove that. Any tools that bring the heart, mind, and emotions into greater coherence can be more helpful now than ever through these transitional times. Remember: It’s practice that releases the genie within the tools.

Care Focus: It’s Time for More Kindness

  1. Center yourself and breathe in love, appreciation and kindness to warm your heart.
  2. Next, radiate love, kindness, and compassion to yourself and others, then into the Earth’s field environment. Activating these heart frequencies (feelings) more often can increase our intuitive feelings to help guide our next best steps.
  3. Pause and listen in stillness. Ask your heart where you could be kinder, more caring, empathetic, and patient. Then genuinely commit to that intention, not just with family but in the grocery store, workplace, wherever you are. Practice installing these heart-based attitudes that represent who you really are.
  4. Now visualize people across the world practicing more kindness, respect, and compassion. Realize how this could increase cooperation between people and nations and magnetize new answers to social and global problems. Opening our hearts to each other is the solution, long awaited.
  5. Let’s close by radiating love, kindness and compassionate care to all who are enduring hardships. Let your heart direct where to send this care.

You can continue to do this Care Focus after the full moon period, if convenient, as this will help raise the consciousness vibration of the personal and collective field environment.

Thank you for your participation in this Care Focus.

The following website — https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter — is a time conversion site for determining the exact time the Care Focus will take place in your Local Time Zone.

  • Select Time: 8 p.m. (date optional)
  • Convert from: U.S.A. – California – San Francisco
  • Convert to: Select your Country/City.)

Learn more about the Global Coherence App, Synchronized Care Focus events and how to download the app.

FAQs

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What is a Global Coherence Initiative Care Focus?

A Care Focus is a synchronized, heart-focused group meditation led by the HeartMath Institute’s Global Coherence Initiative (GCI). People around the world come together at the same time to radiate warm-hearted feelings such as care, compassion and love toward a specific situation or planetary need. Each Care Focus has its own theme and a short set of guided steps.

When do Care Focus events take place?

GCI holds a synchronized Care Focus around each full moon and during special events that respond to global needs. Participants usually join together at three synchronized times, 4 a.m., 12 p.m. (noon) and 8 p.m. Pacific Time, so people in every time zone can take part. The current theme, dates and times are always posted at heartmath.org/gci/care-focus/current/.

How do I participate in a Care Focus?

To participate in a Care Focus, read the current Care Focus, find a quiet place and follow its guided steps. Sessions typically begin by connecting in the heart with everyone participating in radiating love and appreciation to one another. They then move through the theme’s practice and close by sending care and compassion to the people or situation in need. Most sessions take a few minutes.

Do I need the Global Coherence App or a sensor to join a Care Focus?

No. You can do any Care Focus on your own, with no app or sensor. The free Global Coherence App lets you practice together with GCI participants worldwide at the synchronized times, and you can join those sessions in the app with or without a HRV Coherence (heart-rhythm) sensor. A sensor or phone camera is only needed if you want to measure your own heart coherence

Can I do a Care Focus if I can’t join at the synchronized times?

Yes. You can do a Care Focus at any time that is convenient for you, and GCI encourages continuing the practice after the full moon or event period. To join the synchronized sessions in your own time zone, use a time zone converter to change the listed Pacific Time (San Francisco) times to your city. 

Why does GCI hold synchronized Care Focus events?

GCI holds synchronized Care Focus events to bring people together in heart-centered care and compassion, and to support each participant’s own inner balance during stressful times. GCI’s research is testing whether large numbers of people in coherent, heart-centered states can help create a more coherent global field environment. Early results are encouraging: the Global Consciousness Project 2.0 network has recorded significant network-wide coherence during several global meditations in which people were sending heart-focused care to the planet.

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