Usually when we think of heart we think of love and compassion and of a big blood pump in hour body. While all this are the heart qualities they’re very limited. Your heart has its own intelligence and transforms intuitive and emotional information to every cell in your body, including your brain. Therefore, the way you think is influenced by your heart’s intelligence.

Researchers Doc Childre and Howard Martin sum up 30 years of research on the role the heart plays in our physical, emotional health, mental helath and longevity. What comes up to the surface is that when you ensure a coherence of your heart, you create the inner balance between your mind, your emotions and your spirit, rather than waiting for the balance to reach you.

Researchers are finding that learning how to access the heart intelligence is the key to managing the speed of personal and global change. The heart awareness is your gateway to creating a new life experience, regardless the chaos in the outer world, regardless the negative noise in your mind, the feeling of separation or even regardless your poor emotional and physical health. Key facts researchers list in their book The HearthMath Solution shines more light on what the heart really is:

• Heart has its own independent nervous system, comprised of more than 40,000 neurons.
• The heart’s electromagnetic field is the most powerful field generated by your body. It is projected throughout the body, and radiates several feet outside of you.
• Your heartbeat, is a tightly compressed information stream, sending messages to every cell in your body, including your brain.
• Heart provides you with emotional and intuitive guidance to help you direct your life.
• Core heart feelings (love, appreciation, compassion) down-regulate the activity of the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) and increase the activity of the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest).
• Heart’s rhythm pulls all the body’s systems into a state of entrainment or synchronization.
• Positive emotional states have a balancing effect on the nervous system by strengthening immunity, enhancing hormonal function, and improving brain function.

The heart intelligence when connected to your mind, heals and lifts up your inner world. The natural step if for your actions to change and your external world to shift, matching your renewed inner world. Your daily stress is reduced, you meet challenges with more ease and you act in truth to who you really are, your being starts to shine. But how do you do this?

Let’s First Understand What a Coherent Heart Means

Modern science is discovering that heart is an information processing centre in the body. It sends signals to the brain and the rest of your body. It has a complex nervous system that communicates with your brain. It produces electromagnetic field that is imprinted by your emotions. Therefore, the heart influences how we feel, how we act, how we interact with others, our brain functions, our health. When you allow your heart cooperatively align with your mind, your emotions and physical systems, you are in the state of heart coherence. The results are: you feel less emotional pressure, you make more effective choices and your resilience becomes stronger. Since your heart coherence is communicated through your energetic field with others, through their energetic fields, it has an uplifting impact on people around you, and feeds back to you with more authentic communications and more harmonious relations and results of our interactions.

Heart’s Highest Quality Emotions & Heart Coherence

Increase Your Heart Coherence by Strengthening Heart’s Highest Quality Emotions, connect with them, activate them, nurture them. This sends different signals from the heart to the brain, your perception changes and it gives you more control to choose how you respond to situations.

Appreciation – take 5 min each morning or night and write all that you appreciate in your life.

Love – before responding or taking action, ask “What would heart do?”

Kindness – shift from “what’s in it for me” to “how can I serve”

Patience – be present instead being in a hurry, be aware of what’s in you and around you, right here and right now, reach for understanding that we all have our own rhythm and try to flow with life instead of rushing it.

Compassion – remind yourself that each one of us goes through good and bad emotions, behaviours, states. Instead of judgment offer compassion, support, comfort. You are not the person you see in front of you. If you were in situation, with their believes, in their circumstances, their experiences, their learning journey, maybe you would feel and act just like they do…

What further helps with maintaining personal coherence is tuning into the deeper wisdom – the intuitive thinking, which your heart is associated with. This is known as the heart’s voice and it directs us with making better choices when interacting with life.

Heart Intuition

Your heart’s intuition is the voice of your true authentic self. When you are in connection with your intuitive voice – your being, this is when you are able to move beyond your limitations.

With our heart qualities activated life becomes much brighter place. Connect with you heart daily and embrace the highest emotions at all times. Here is one technique designed by the HeartMath Institute researches, that will help you to take a first step in building a higher quality relationship with your heart’s intelligence, your true self…

….Heart Focused Breathing (your eyes closed or open)

Focus your attention in the area of your heart.

Imagine your breath is flowing in and out of your heart or chest area. Breathing a little slower and deeper than usual.

Try to feel like the energy up in the head is now flowing down into your heart.

Keep your focus there and breathe deeply and slowly, in a casual, steady rhythm that feels comfortable to you.

For more information about the heart intelligence visit HeartMath Institute or reach for the HeartMath Solution book by Dock Childre and Howard Martin.