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The HeartMath Institute (www.heartmath.org) has brought out a HeartMath system offering an innovative view of psychology, physiology and human potential to provide a new model for efficient living in the modern world.
With trainers around the world and a strong scientific backup, their research has made pioneering inroads into the fields of neuroscience, psychology, physiology, biochemistry, bioelectricity, and physics.
Today we will look at a SIMPLE, yet POWERFUL coaching exercise called HEART LOCK-IN, taken from their book, ‘The HeartMath Solution: The Institute of HeartMath’s Revolutionary Program for Engaging the Power of the Heart’s Intelligence.’
PRACTICING HEART LOCK-IN:
- FIND A QUIET PLACE, CLOSE YOUR EYES AND TRY TO RELAX.
- SHIFT YOUR ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE MIND OR HEAD AND FOCUS IT IN THE HEART AREA. PRETEND THAT YOU ARE BREATHING SLOWLY THROUGH THE HEART FOR TEN OR FIFTEEN SECONDS.
- REMEMBER THE FEELING OF LOVE OR CARE FOR SOMEONE WHOM IT’S EASY FOR YOU TO LOVE. ALTERNATIVELY, FOCUS ON A FEELING OF APPRECIATION FOR SOMEONE OR SOMETHING POSITIVE IN YOUR LIFE. TRY TO STAY WITH THAT FEELING FOR A TIME FROM FIVE TO FIFTEEN MINUTES.
- GENTLY SEND THAT FEELING OF LOVE, CARE OR APPRECIATION TO YOURSELF AND OTHERS.
- AS HEAD THOUGHTS COME IN, BRING YOUR FOCUS GENTLY BACK TO THE AREA AROUND THE HEART. IF THE ENERGY FEELS TOO INTENSE OR FEELS BLOCKED, TRY TO FEEL A SOFTNESS IN THE HEART AND RELAX.
- AFTER YOU’VE FINISHED, TRY TO WRITE DOWN ANY INTUITIVE FEELINGS OR THOUGHTS THAT ARE ACCOMPANIED BY A SENSE OF INNER KNOWINGNESS OR PEACE TO HELP YOU REMEMBER TO ACT ON THEM.
“Jennifer Weil, a middle school teacher, tells how the technique helped ensure that her English honor students would be able to demonstrate their knowledge on an important exam. Jennifer’s twenty high school students were assembled on a hot afternoon to take the English placement exam for honors English. They had only one hour to compelte the essay they’d been assigned, but Jennifer took more than five those precious minutes to do a HEART LOCK-IN with them.
‘During the hour’, Jennifer said, ‘I watched as several students closed their eyes again, placed their hands on their hearts for a moment, then continued their essays. Every student finished calmly and easily, and all but one was accepted into the honors program on the basis of their work that afternnon.’ (The HeartMath Solution, by Doc Childre & Howard Martin –Harper Collins Publishers, 1999)
Filled to the brink
is my cup of sweet communion…
Life spills over orange sand piles
and beckons me to sit for a while
in the darkness…sit with my sisters,
my bright-eyed children of Africa
with the goats laying around on dirt piles
in a blissful state of surrender…
True love is the only language spoken here.
Visionary Coaching 
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