The HeartMath System – Howard Martin

Everyone has a central, organizing intelligence can lift us above our problems even in the midst of chaos and confusion. It is called “heart,” and it has been talked about for thousands of years.

In this first module, we will explore the history of “heart”, what heart intelligence is and develop an understanding of the ultimate partnership between heart, mind and body. You will learn about important scientific discoveries showing that the physical heart is an information processing center in the body and you will hear about the communication pathways by which the heart sends essential commands to the brain.

In Module 1, you’ll discover:

• A fundamental HeartMath technique that can quickly activate your heart’s intelligence
• Easy methods to clear negative emotions and unhappy life experiences so you have more time and more energy for what matters most to you
• A greater state of appreciation and gratitude, which helps to harmonize situations, deepen relationships and improve your productivity

The heart’s intelligence provides intuitive guidance for navigating the complexities of life with grace. Yet, anxiousness, overload and sadness, all forms of stress, often block our capacity to receive this essential information.

So what exactly is stress? How does it affect you and how can you reduce it?

In this module, you’ll explore answers to these questions, gain a scientific understanding of coherence — the antidote to stress and the foundation of new awareness — and learn atechnique that will give you access to the heart’s intelligence in the moment.

In Module 2, you’ll discover:

• HeartMath’s foundational technique of Quick Coherence® to increase heart coherence at the beginning of your day and whenever you become stressed
• The science behind your heart’s intelligence and thus how to better access its full power
• How your heart sends and receives essential information — and techniques you can use to improve your overall health and wellbeing
• How to apply the science of the heart to find your own peace of mind – no matter what is going on around you or in your life circumstances

Every day you wake up with a certain amount of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energy. How you spend this vital, precious energy has everything to do with our overall quality of life, health, relationships and more.

In this class you will use your heart’s intelligence to see what depletes your energy and what renews it. Learning how to be more energy efficient is an important key to creating the life you were meant to have.
In Module 3, you’ll discover:

• 3 heart-power tools for reenergizing your system and increasing your energy bank account
• The Inner Ease technique
• The relationship between your heart and your brain, and how to access the “more” of your brain most people never tap into!

The ability to feel many different emotions is a great gift. And yet, you may sometimes feel like a victim of your emotions. Successfully regulating our emotions represents the next frontier in human evolution and the heart’s intelligence offers a way to maximize the gifts our emotions offer.

We’ll explore heart intelligence’s guiding role in emotional choices and learn how to make refined distinctions between Care and Overcare and Empathy and Compassion.

In Module 4, you’ll discover:

• The steps for shifting to a baseline of positive emotions such as compassion and appreciation that activate a coherent heart/brain interaction
• How you can “turn on” positive emotions to resolve conflict and bring harmony to discordant situations
• Easy methods to clear negative emotions and unhappy life experiences so you have more time and energy for what matters most to you

Emotional memories shape our perceptions of life and provide context and meaning. However, at times these emotional associations can be limiting, coloring perception and awareness in ways that no longer serve us. In this class you will experience a powerful, heart-based technique for clearing old emotional patterns.

In Module 5, you’ll discover:

• The Cut-Thru technique, a 6-step process designed to free you from limiting emotional history, which can prevent you from having the life you were meant to have
• How to open to a new connection with your authentic self and pave the way for new fulfilling possibilities to emerge

Intuition is always available as the heart speaks, sometimes softly and other times with clear direction. Intuition demystified can become a practical, common sense intelligence useful for making decisions big and small. In order to gain access to more of our natural intuitive intelligence we need to sustain a connection to our core power, the heart.

Practicing techniques to increase the time you are in heart coherence is an effective way to increase intuitive access, improve health and wellbeing. In this class you will learn about intuition and practice two key HeartMath techniques.

In Module 6, you’ll discover:

• A heart-centered method of intuitive discernment that will help you see your commitments through
• Tools to cultivate intuition and knowledge that come from your heart’s awareness of people and situations
• How to make more effective decisions that unfold your optimal potential involving your heart as your guide

The emergence of heart intelligence is an evolutionary imperative at this time in human history. Changes are happening quickly. The world’s problems are on full display. Concurrently, an expansion of “heart” is taking place. People around the world are shifting perception and beliefs and as a result a new and better world is taking shape.

In this final class, we’ll look at our current and future world through the lens of the heart. We will explore how we can contribute to creating a more heart-connected world and look at the personal, societal and global changes that are possible as more people use the heart’s wisdom to direct their lives.

In Module 7, you’ll discover:

• Fascinating research that measures the effects of human emotion on the planet
• How you create a collective field with others that affects the health of your community
• Ways to calm and center others, from your children to co-workers, through heart-based communication practices that have a global impact
• The benefits of connecting with the Global Heart and how to extend your own heart-coherent field