These days many people are finding the benefits they seek from meditation, mindfulness, or other spiritual practices are taking longer to experience due to the increasing amount of stress, overwhelm, and anxiety in the world. HeartMath researchers have found that the stress of the world creates a type of static that can make it harder to get centered and stay focused. You invest 10 minutes, 20 minutes, or longer and hope to feel more peaceful or more inspired by the time you are done. However, very often, you can find that you are spending a good portion of your meditation time trying to chill, calm down, or quiet runaway thoughts. This can leave you feeling frustrated, inadequate, worrying you “aren’t doing it right” or “will never get there.” Even people who have been meditating for years can find themselves spending more time distracted and musing over issues. This is understandable. High-speed changes are taking place in the world, and everyone is adjusting to the uncertainty. It can be harder for the mind and emotions to keep up with the accelerating pace, which can block heart flow and ease.

“These days, people need to feel their heart and spirit more, to bring them peace, intuitive guidance, love, and happiness. They want to take control of their life instead of having to just hang on because of the speed up of stress, with their emotions hanging in one place and their mind in another. People want to know they’re investing their time in something that’s effective and gives them an advantage. They need tools that help open the heart to create a portal for drawing in more spirit so they can find a more peaceful flow through the changing rhythms of life.” — Doc Childre

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HeartMath researchers have also found that a stressful environment often disrupts people’s internal rhythms, which is one reason why it can be harder to calm the mind and stay coherent in the heart. That’s why HeartMath^® coherence tools and technology were designed for these times—to help us reset our internal rhythms and create a coherent alignment between the mind, heart, emotions, and body.

It starts with the heart. Your heart’s rhythm reflects your emotional state and sets the rhythmic pace for your whole system. When you are feeling tense, irritable, impatient, frustrated, or anxious, your heart rhythm shifts into a disordered or incoherent pattern. Your heart sends this incoherent rhythm to the brain via the vagus nerve, triggering a stress response. On the other hand, when you are feeling sincere love, care, compassion, appreciation, gratitude, or joy, your heart rhythm shifts into a smooth and coherent pattern, reflecting how you feel inside. Your heart sends this coherent pattern to the brain, which synchronizes to the heart’s coherent rhythm. This makes it easier to experience inner harmony, peace, and a deeper meditative state.

Getting in sync starts with heart rhythm coherence, which powers up your ability to maintain presence and focused attention. It makes it easier to experience heart qualities, like compassion, gratitude, love, or kindness that expand perception and bring intuitive clarity to choices you have to make.

“The mission of HeartMath is to help people bring their physical, mental, and emotional systems into coherent alignment with their heart’s intuitive guidance system. The guiding voice or feelings of the heart have been referred to in writings and teachings throughout millennia. Unlocking this inner guidance can enable us to navigate through these changing times with more personal balance, coherence, and heart-based connection with each other.”
— Deborah Rozman, HeartMath President