What Millions of Heartbeats Tell Us – Insights from the “Love Unleashed” Conference
Heart coherence isn’t just personal – it also affects other people, the local and global community, and the Earth itself.
Dear readers,
In podcast episode #148, I report on a special conference I attended online. It was titled: Love Unleashed – organised by the HeartMath Institute. It took place in May in Santa Cruz, California, close to HeartMath’s headquarters in Boulder Creek. Around 200 people were there in person; many more – like myself – joined online.
HeartMath has been researching the heart for nearly 40 years. And that’s exactly what my podcast Führen mit Herz (Leading with Heart) is all about. This conference was therefore important and deeply fascinating for me.
I’d like to focus on one talk in particular. All of the presentations were very interesting, but the one I want to highlight here is by Dr. Malathi Muthu, titled: Coherence in a Changing World – What Millions of Heartbeats Tell Us.
Here are some key insights from the talk, in brief:
Heart coherence isn’t just personal – it also affects other people, the local and global community, and the Earth itself.
It even influences the more than 700 random number generators distributed around the world – one of which sits in my home. These devices show a non-random response to strong collective human emotions (for example, the outbreak of a war, or a meditation retreat).
Feelings like enthusiasm, gratitude, joy, and appreciation produce the highest coherence scores. Sadness, anger, and stress, by contrast, show up as erratic, jagged HRV curves.
Heart rate variability (HRV) was recently recognised by The Economist as a valid measure of general health (not mentioned by Dr. Muthu, added by myself).
In coherence, the heart entrains to the rhythm of the Earth.
The sun, the Earth, and the human being are measurably connected – through the heart.
When I myself am in coherence, it becomes easier for others around me to enter coherence as well.
My inner state influences those in the room with me, but also reaches further – globally, cosmically.
These insights invite us to become aware of the responsibility we carry: our inner state continuously influences those around us and the world at large. What we think and feel is far from irrelevant. On the contrary – with our thoughts and feelings, we are constantly shaping our environment and the course of events in the world.
Warm regards,
Alexander Schwedeler
