The Electricity of Touch
Research at the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) has found that the heart literally can make sparks fly between people. When two people are in resonance, there is a powerful transfer of energy produced by the heart. In fact, the heart generates the strongest electromagnetic field in the body, about 100 times stronger in amplitude than the magnetic field generated by the brain. Maybe this is why our heart speaks louder than our thoughts at times.
Think of the heart as a radio station, broadcasting a pattern of information on a radio wave through its electromagnetic field. That pattern changes based on what we are feeling. The pattern that's broadcasted through the heart's electromagnetic field can be detected (measured) in another person's brainwaves, when two people are touching or in close proximity. In other words, we are always transferring nonverbal emotional information to each other. This research gives scientific meaning to sayings like, "You could feel the electricity between them," or "It felt like a current running through me," or "You could cut the tension in that room with a knife," or "I could just feel his vibes."
Additional scientific findings like this, which reveal the extraordinary mysteries of the heart, are summarized in IHM's "Mysteries of the Heart" video that can be viewed on YouTube: Mysteries of the Heart. What are you Broadcasting Today?
According to IHM Research Director Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., "A handshake, a hug, a pat on the back to a teammate - these interactions help us communicate and perhaps say more than what meets the eye." So we need to ask ourselves, "What are we broadcasting?"
To cultivate love, it's important to take pause and consider what emotions we are broadcasting to other people and into our environment. Or as we often say at HeartMath, "What are you feeding the field right now or today?"
The nature of true love is care, kindness and other heart-felt emotions that create resonance. By focusing on and broadcasting these heart feelings, we create a deeper connection with others.
Let's focus on what our heart is broadcasting to our loved ones and into the field environment. Perhaps we can ask ourselves each day, "What am I feeding the field?"
To share these important and but not often known understandings of the heart, the Institute of HeartMath is conducting a research campaign this month and giving away one of its best-selling electronic books, The Energetic Heart. The book explains the transfer of energy between people and how we can enhance our resonance with each other. To celebrate HeartMath's understandings of the heart download:
(If you are not a Facebook user, email us at info@heartmath.org and include a note requesting your free copy of The Energetic Heart e-book and an MP3 file of Dr. McCraty's interview.)
With care,
Sara Childre,
President
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