Thank you very much for this information on HeartMaths
There is an affiliate in my town but I have been reluctant to pay $140 for a demo
Raymond
Before brain coherence there is heart coherence.
A coherent heart influences the brain and makes it coherent too.
HeartMath Institute has done research on heart's intelligence, heart's waves and much more. Pamela Hickein mentions them in her book, but I've known about them few years before reading her book about TweedleWink.
THey have come with biofeedback games and devices, tools for children and adults.
I have tried their emWave PC and emWave system. They SHOW you the heart coherence, they show you if and when you get to that state.
More: http://www.heartmath.org/research/science-of-the-heart/introduction.html
There is another biofeedback game series that I have tried: http://www.wilddivine.com/. It's based on the same principles.
Tweedlewink does exactly the same thing: calms down the heart, then the mind.
I'm pretty sensitive to waves, words, sounds, people's emotions, in the sense that I feel their inner state, I feel what they are spreading by the waves of their feelings, so to speak. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
All it takes to begin on the path of developing these inner senses or to the path of working with you midbrain is to LISTEN, listen to yourself, be AWARE of oneself, turn your focus inside you. And I'm not talking about meditation - this is the upper level. I'm talking about what kids do: they usually are very aware of themselves and the world around them, by their nature, in the first years of life.
So start being aware of yourself, and you will start a wonderful journey and an easier way to reach coherence.
I'm just saying all that because for children it's much easier to enter alpha state. For us, adults, because of our minds and perception, and judgement, etc. it's hard, we need to work more. But, instead of working hard we can do a simple thing:
Use your heart to get to the brain, calm down your heart, make it coherent and the brain will listen.
Tip from HeartMath Institute: there's more information going from the heart to the brain than the other way around. Does this ring a bell or make you read HMI research? I hope it does cause it's mindblowing!
Love you all for all this info! TmT, you've lighten up my mind!