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As anticipated in Different bodies same mind, I dedicate today’s article to http://www.heartmath.org, found a decade ago in one of my web explorations. I was intrigued by a statement related to my studies in signal theory: certain characteristics of the electrical signal associated with the heartbeat are closely related to the state of our psychophysical well-being, with particular effect on reducing the state of stress. In the introduction available at this link we read “For more than 34 years, the HeartMath Institute Research Center has explored the physiological mechanisms by which the heart and brain communicate and how the activity of the heart influences our perceptions, emotions, intuition and health … The heart is, in fact, a highly complex information-processing center with its own functional brain, commonly called the heart brain, that communicates with and influences the cranial brain via the nervous system, hormonal system and other pathways. These influences affect brain function and most of the body’s major organs and play an important role in mental and emotional experience and the quality of our lives.“

Basically, when the analysis of heart rate variability shows certain characteristics (for the more technical reader, the frequency analysis of Heart Rate Variability shows a narrow-band spectrum), our body is in a state of coherence and the self-regulating abilities of the autonomic nervous system work at their best: we are in a state of well-being in which there is harmony between body and emotions and our internal systems work with maximum effectiveness. Here you can find the various chapters of the book “Science of the heart”: this is a text that, while rigorous and scientific, offers content that can be understood also by non-technical reader.

Reading Heartmath’s content satisfied my stubborn desire to find links between different disciplines: signal theory, neurophysiology, psychology, emotional well-being. But the scientists at Heartmath have gone further. Beginning in 2008, they started the Global Coherence Initiative, a scientific experiment designed to measure the effect that the joining of hearts has on a planetary level. I report main concepts.

“The Global Coherence Initiative (GCI) was launched by HeartMath Institute in 2008. It is a science-based, co-creative initiative that has the goal to unite millions of people globally in heart-focused care and intention… (there) is a related hypothesis that human emotions and consciousness interact with and encode information in the geomagnetic … The Global Coherence Monitoring System (GCMS) gathers scientific data on Earth’s electromagnetic fields, with state-of-the-art magnetometers located on suitable sites around the world. GCI uses the GCMS to measure and explore fluctuations and resonances in the earth’s magnetic fields and in the earth-ionosphere resonant cavity in order to conduct research on the mechanisms of how the earth’s fields affect human mental and emotional processes, health and collective behavior.“

Leaving aside the more purely scientific aspects, the purpose of the experiment is in summary to show that the well-being of the earth organism is related to the well-being of individuals, with influence being exerted from the planet to living beings, and from living beings to the planet. In my interpretation, this scientific experiment is another example of convergence between science and spirituality and confirms thoughts already presente by Fritjof Capra
in the book “The Tao of Physics,” (Edizioni Adelphi 1982). As reported in Science and spirituality: the Tao of physics, the book describes common points between findings of quantum physics and principles of some ancient Eastern philosophies in which the universe is a continuous flow of energy and interconnections. Here are rwo excerpts:

“The deeper we penetrate into the submicroscopic world, the more we realize that the modern physicist, equal to the Eastern mystic, has come to regard the world as a set of inseparable, interacting and continuously moving components, and that man is an integral part of this system.

No matter how deep we delve into matter, nature does not reveal to us the presence of any isolated “fundamental brick,” but rather appears to us as a complex web of relationships between the various parts of the whole.“

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