Heart Health and Coherence
Among Heart Math Institute's most significant findings is that what we feel on a minute-to-minute, second-to-second basis influences the heart and that our feelings and emotions are a key aspect of unlocking "heart intelligence." When you place your finger on your wrist, you feel your pulse. That pulse is a wave of energy called the blood pressure wave, and it travels through your entire body, influencing everything, including brain function. Not only does the heart's magnetic pulse reverberate through every cell of the body, but it also produces a field around your body that can be measured up to 8 to 10 feet away using a sensitive detector called a magnetometer.â£
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When you activate the heart by calling up elevated emotions, you are not only broadcasting that energy to every cell; you are also radiating those feelings out into space. This is where the heart moves beyond biology and into physics. Using electroencephalograms, scientists at the HMI laboratory discovered that when the heart goes into coherence, the brain waves entrain with the heart's rhythm at a frequency of 0.10 Hz and also that the synchronization between the heart and the brain is increased when the subject is in a heart-coherent state. The coherent frequency of 0.10 Hz has been shown to be a state of optimum performance associated with increased access to our deeper intuition and internal guidance. Once the analytical mind is out of the way, the individual can move down the ladder of consciousness from alpha to theta to delta brain waves—the state in which restorative functions in the body take place.â£
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Coincidentally, we often see our students reporting profound or mystical experiences in deep delta around .09 to .10 Hz (.09 Hz is just a hundredth of a cycle per second off reported optimum coherence) while their hearts are in a very coherent state.â£