Why meditation?

Positive thinking can bring about health and wellness.

But what has that to do with meditation?

We all know that positive thinking brings health and wellness in life. Unfortunately, often times, we simply cannot stay positive, even though we very much want to, because our minds seem to be out of control. That is, our minds seem to be controlling us, instead of we controlling our minds.

Why does the human mind run rampant?

It is because we subconsciously give reins to our thoughts, and our thoughts affect our bodies, which produce biological and chemical changes that, in turn, affect our minds — and thus creating a vicious cycle of ill-health.

Why do we give reins to our thoughts? Why do we let our thoughts control our minds? Why can’t we have positive thinking all the time?

The truth of the matter is that we do not consciously let our thoughts do that. Simply, there are too many things happening around us. Subconsciously, our minds just jump back and forth between events and happenings. As a result, our minds become chaotic. A chaotic mind creates internal chaos and disharmony — a setting for biological and chemical changes within the human body. These changes may adversely affect the body’s functions, making them incoherent and dysfunctional.

Why meditation?

Meditation helps to stabilize a chaotic mind. When you meditate, your mind focuses only on the present moment to the exclusion of everything else in the past or in the future. Meditation is single-minded focus that brings calmness to a chaotic mind.

Meditation is an antidote to stress, which is an important agent in premature aging. Your body begins to age due to deterioration in your endocrine system (which is responsible for manufacturing hormones). Your human growth hormone (HGH) keeps you healthy through repeated rejuvenation of your cells. In particular, your DHEA (dehydroeplandrosterone) is instrumental in delaying aging through controlling emotional and mental stress. Meditation gives your mind a meaningful break, just as restful sleep gives your body an opportunity to relax and to recover.

That meditation can contribute to anti-aging has been validated in a scientific study in which participants who regularly meditated had a significant increase of DHEA; in another study, those who meditated for more than 5 years were physiologically younger by more than 10 years than their chronological age; in yet another study published in “Neurobiology of Aging” meditation had “neuroprotective” benefits on the brain by increasing the brain’s gray matters.

To sum up, meditation brings tranquility to a chaotic mind, thereby enabling us to control our thoughts, instead of the other way around. As an antidote to stress, meditation is anti-aging.

Copyright © 2010 Stephen Lau

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People frequently tell me that they can not meditate, they have tried, can not do it and have given up. So they miss out on all of the benefits that meditation can bring. Learning to meditate is like learning to do anything else; you begin knowing little or nothing and practice until you can do it without thinking. Start right now, find out why meditation is worth doing and follow these five steps that will make meditation easy.

Recently I was working with a young woman who told me that she was extremely stressed and unhappy with her work. She said that she had no time to herself, no time to think and her mind raced constantly. In an average day she had information overload from the time that she woke until she went to sleep. She would rise in the morning to the television, took her iPod when she went for a walk, listened to the radio to and from work – you get the picture. Sound familiar?

To start, we found some time during the day when she had zero information flow. The TV was turned off in the morning and no radio in the car to and from work. Just quiet time to contemplate. We then moved to meditation. “Well”, she said, “I have tried that. I can’t meditate and I hate it.” Turned out she had launched into an hour long session, could only last a short while and decided it was not for her. An all too common story.

What is meditation and why bother? Meditation is a process or technique that you use to clear and calm your mind. You can use meditation just for that purpose or you can focus your meditation on something that you desire such as prosperity or well being. Meditation has been scientifically shown to be a powerful healing tool and a self help tool for achieving stress reduction and better sleep. Many people enjoy the personal development, self awareness, inner peace and freedom that results from meditation. Successful entrepreneurs often claim that meditation creates clarity of mind which in turn effects their success.

So how do you meditate? The following five steps will help you to get started:-

1. Learn something about meditation, just as you would with any new pursuit. There is an unlimited supply of books, web sites, free classes and resources available. Start at the beginning and get to know a little.

2. Be very patient with yourself and release any expectations that put you under pressure to perform. In meditation you are quieting and clearing the mind but the mind may want to keep right on thinking. Be patient and just keep drawing your mind back to focus upon the meditation.

3. Start with a short time, try five minutes, and increase the length of time over a few weeks. Even a few minutes will make a difference so see step one and just be patient.

4. Before you begin to focus on meditation, I highly recommend the use of a relaxation audio program. You can download podcasts and other resources free, from meditation sites on the internet. Start with some of these and learn to relax and then lead into meditation. When you become adept with your meditations you will continue to commence every meditation with a short relaxation.

5. Try this simple meditation, starting with a short time. Get into a comfortable position; sit on a chair with your feet flat on the ground, try sitting cross legged on the floor or lie on your back well supported wherever you need it. Close your eyes and feel your body relax. Take several deep breaths and release your breath with a deep sigh. Relax more and feel the tension float away with every sigh. Now imagine that your body is a vessel full of water and feel the water draining from the top of your head down through your body to the soles of your feet. Just slowly, let it drain downwards and then feel it moving slowly from the soles of your feet to fill up your body, up to the top of your head. Feel this happening, imagine it happening and let it happen naturally. Should your mind wander off, just bring it back to the water and gently move back into the meditation. Do this for as long as it takes for your mind to give up and just be empty or for as long as you like. Each time, see if you can do it for longer until eventually you find your mind calms and stops thinking. At that time you will find that you can feel every part of your body at the one time. You should just feel that feeling for as long as it lasts or as long as you like.

Keep it simple! This is a great principle when learning relaxation and meditation. Be patient with your self and move to higher forms of meditation when you are comfortable to do so. You are your best teacher when it comes to meditation which is a great way to learn about yourself. Have fun and create yourself a little head space.

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Very often, I hear business leaders – I mean ‘normal’ business leaders, not the people whose names we all know – talk about ‘thinking outside the box’. This phrase is frequently used in business, whether it relates to problem solving or innovation. Lots of business people talk about it – very few ever rise to what is in fact not much of a challenge at all. What very few of them have realised is that there is no box!

Only special people, unusually successful people – in other words, not normal people – realise this fact. That’s why we all know their names – they stand head and shoulders above the rest of us.

There is no box – other than the box we create for ourselves. From a very early age, society and education fashion a box for us – and because we’re all in the box together, it seems OK. “Get yourself a good education” (Bill Gates dropped out of university) or “Get yourself a good job” (Richard Branson left school when he was sixteen and started Student magazine).

When you do get yourself a good job, you’re taught how to be a “team player” – that really means “Don’t do anything that would upset anyone else on the team, play by the rules and, for God’s sake, don’t do anything unusual or innovative.” And, of course, organisations have a “corporate culture” – that means “this is how we do things around here – conform”.

So the box – that you’ve effortlessly slid into – is all around you, supported by the mindless behaviour of all the other clones. And when I hear people talking about “thinking outside the box”, I know for a fact, that most of them never will.

Never mind “thinking outside the box” – what about living outside it?

The Buddha knew there was no box – it just took him a while to experience it. And the people I’ve already mentioned had some inkling too – although, perhaps, only in relation to certain aspects of their lives, where they were more driven towards the achievement of their goals.

The box that you live in – the box that you think inside – was created for you during your formative years – at home, at school, at college, in your first job or two. It’s based on what other people told you – and, like a sheep, you’ve conformed – you’ve followed. The blind have been leading the blind.

It’s time to step outside the box.

But, actually, you already know how to do that – we all do it from time to time, without realising we’re free! For example, I mentioned problem solving earlier. When are you most likely to think of the solution to something that’s been bugging you? When you’re not thinking about it, of course! When you’re in the toilet, the bath, or brushing your teeth.

Of course, you’re not being a team player in the toilet – corporate culture is never squeezed onto your toothbrush! You solve problems when you accidentally wander outside the box. What you need to be able to do is wander outside the box when you decide – who knows, you might even stay outside and, in doing so, realise that, in reality, there never was a box.

Artists, scientists, inventors all wander outside the box too – Picasso called it inspiration, Thomas Edison cultivated his ability to wander when he felt like it. You’ve got to do the same.

How? Well, does ‘sitting on the toilet’ give you a hint? We need to make space in our lives to do nothing – to daydream (which is completely different from being distracted or letting your mind wander – but other articles deal with this). The Buddha became enlightened when he was sitting under a tree. Newton discovered gravity while he was doing the same thing.

The best way to be inspired, of having ground-breaking ideas, of innovatively solving problems, is to take a step back from what you’re doing, to slow down, to give your mind the space it needs to be inspired. And, to do this as an integral part of your daily life.

I’m not talking about power napping, nor am I talking about meditating in the conventional sense, nor am I suggesting you go for a walk to think things through. I suggest to you – to all my clients – that you set aside a little time most days to sit down – by the river or canal, at a pavement cafe, on your patio or balcony in the evening – and do absolutely nothing.

You might be surprised by what dawns on you.

Copyright © 2009 Willie Horton

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Everything is made up of energy – you, your body, the chair you’re sitting on, the air you breathe, the trees, this planet, the universe. Your thoughts are energy and they have a measurable impact on all the energy that synthesizes together to create your life. Scientific experiment has proved that thought and intention affects a computer’s generation of random numbers. It’s also been proven that expectation affects the speed at which water boils. I’ve a lot of clients in the power generation business – electrical engineers – and I love teasing them with this particular fact. They always respond that that couldn’t be right – it breaks the first law of thermodynamics – that energy applied to water in the form of heat makes it boil at a predictable rate. They’re right, of course, it’s just that it had never previously occurred to them that mental energy had to be taken into account as part of that equation.

Your energy – your mental energy – creates your life. But to create the life you really, really want, you’ve got to apply more than a normal, everyday amount of energy. So-called normal people – who might be stuck in a job they don’t like, in a relationship that’s dragging them down, suffering from ill health or just plain bored – don’t invest a sufficient amount of energy to alter their reality. Because the normal mind’s energy is turned inwards, into the inner recesses of the subconscious mind. And your subconscious mind has many recesses – dark places that prod at you from time to time. Some of my clients call these the “little voice in your head that says ‘no you can’t'” or “lingering self-doubt”. Doesn’t matter what you call yours, we’re all plagued by thoughts that hold us back – and that’s where we expend our precious mental energy.

You see, normally energy is spent on the retrospective and the introspective. Retrospective because your subconscious mind is obsessed with the misshapen impressions you have of yourself and life in general – the product of your up-bringing and early conditioning. That’s where the vast majority of your mental energy spends its time – playing in a past long gone. Psychology tells us that our every move as an adult is dictated by that early conditioning – that our behaviour happens subconsciously, automatically, reactively. The normal adult doesn’t have a single behaviour, turn of phrase, reaction or habit that is his or hers – they are all the product of subconscious programming.

By definition, therefore, the greater part of our energy is introspective – turned in on ourselves. But the real world is outside. Sure, your inner true self is the power that you must unleash – but it has to be unleashed on a waiting world. It has to be unleashed externally to enable it react with the energy of the universe that is all around you. That can only be done by you taking control of your mental energy and applying it to the real world. And the only place that you will find the real world is here and now. The real world has nothing to do with the past – even less to do with your own past, long gone. The real world has nothing to do with thought – either the distractive thought that annoys us daily or the deep-seated inner subconscious thought that is holding you back from creating the life that you really, really want.

The real world has to do with being in it – experiencing it, applying your mental energy to what is going on, here and now. If that here and now involves a job or relationship that’s getting you nowhere – doesn’t matter, for the time being, you’re going to have to do what you have to do – not through a haze of introspective reactive thought, but in the reality of this moment. If you turn your attention to this moment, you start mixing it up with all the energy that surrounds you, all the energy that synthesizes to create your life. You begin playing with universal energy – and, as quantum physics, molecular science, psychology and particle physics prove – universal energy responds. That’s how you have the normal live that you already have. The response isn’t much because you haven’t applied any mental energy worth talking about to the here and now.

You need to look outside the prison of your own mind. You need to start experiencing what’s really going on – now. You’ve only five ways of doing that – your five senses, your only interface with reality. You can start changing your life today by learning to apply more of your energy to today, by paying more attention, using your five senses, to today. You need to see, feel, hear, smell and taste what’s actually happening, not what your subconscious mind thinks is happening. You need to start paying attention.

There are all kinds of ways you can do this – but here’s a simple tip that has changed the lives of many who have just heard me speak for half an hour (they’re not even my clients). Start doing the little habitual things that you do every day differently. Start with little things – like brushing your teeth with the hand with which you don’t habitually brush your teeth. Little things will lead to great things – because in doing something so simple differently, you begin to hone your ability to pay attention to the here and now. In doing so, you start applying more of your mental energy to the only time and place that actually exists – the here and now. It’s here and now that the magic will start happening.

Copyright © 2009 Willie Horton

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At the age of 42 he still lived with his mother, saying that he did so to help take care of her since she is slightly impaired. When I asked him how he saw that fitting for him, he said “I am waiting for her to die so that I will be free.” He had remained in very low-paying work even though he has accomplished very high results in his work. His dream is to travel the world but he has never owned a passport. He is out of shape physically and feels ashamed about this. He admits that he “tries to restart himself but then begins to feel hopeless.” And finally, he admits to an inner voice that is extremely self-sabotaging.

So, what to do? I see this person as someone who is bright, capable, funny, talented, and aching to find his path in life. He has very little money to spend on self-development right now, and no money to spend in creating a new business. As we talked, my strongest energetic sense was that he needs to address far more in his life than the loss of his job. He needs help to dream, and to take steps toward his dreams, too!

Here is our plan:

1) 15 minutes each morning in mediation or prayer, asking for insight and guidance about his perfect work.

2) Wait in the quiet of this time for the voice of the self-sabatoger to show up.

3) Write down every single thing the self-sabatoging voice says and thank it for every point it makes.

4) Walk 15 minutes each day.

5) Get pictures made and apply for a passport.

6) Check a book out of the library about the country he most would like to visit.

We plan to meet in a month, but a check after only 10 days revealed the following:

“My biggest change has been the self-sabotaging talk. I spend about 5 minutes in the morning writing down my limiting thoughts, then, when they pop up during the day, I gently say “nope, you had your chance to speak out this morning. You’ll have to wait until tomorrow.” It has made a world of difference. The first day I listened to my self-sabotaging thoughts, they were pretty tame. The second day, the thoughts were mean and harsh. Thursday and Friday, it was almost difficult getting those thoughts to come through. Today, they were a bunch of “what ifs” and actually had some good points. I write them down and say thank you for sharing. It is awesome.” “I love the meditation time.” “I’m parking my car farther away from the grocery store and walking 10,000 steps in a day.” “I checked out a book on Africa and got passport pictures made. I can’t believe how excited I am just to get a passport!”

These actions are small daily practices that take about half an hour a day. But look at the big changes, in only 10 days! It is so important to set our feet on the path of truth and freedom, which for each life is different. I can hardly wait to see what has happened when the entire month has gone by!

Small actions in one’s life can lead to big changes and big results. Sign up to show up, and see what you get!

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Let me explain. I first met Billy three years ago. At the time, he was seriously stressed about his job, he suffered from chronic lower back pain, was constantly tired and, as a result, his home life was, to say the very least, less than satisfactory. More recently, Billy spent three days with me in my part of the world, the French Alps. It was the fourth time we’d worked together in three years. In those three years, he’d been promoted to what would potentially be an even more stressful job – right at the very top of his organization. His back problems had vanished and, in fact, he told me he could now do thirty minutes on his local gym’s rowing machine, a couple of times a week – beforehand, he couldn’t even bend down to sit on the rowing machine. He’d also just booked a three week holiday for himself and his family, having spent ten days on holiday at Easter – he, his wife and children were having a great time.

When we first met, I had explained to Billy that the normal adult mind is in constant turmoil – it is “entertained” by roughly 50,000 random thoughts each day. You know the kind of useless stuff – “I wish this guy would hurry up or I’ll be late for my next meeting!” “I wish I was on the beach, instead of the office, it’s such a lovely day!” “I don’t know if I unplugged the toaster!” “I really am too shy to walk up to that guy and say what I feel!” And, the ones that wake you at four o’clock in the morning “What if I don’t get that sale, will I be out of a job, will I lose my house, what will happen the kids?” (‘Cos the ones at four o’clock in the morning often take us on a train of thought to imaginary ruin – more like an express train to hell!).

I also explained that Billy’s subconscious mind was even more distracted – it’s just that, because it’s subconscious, he’d never be aware of the fact that, like all normal adults, his subconscious mind was incapable of paying attention to the here and now, the task in hand, obsessed, as it was, by his childhood conditioning, the snapshots of his formative years which all normal minds dwell on subconsciously. As a result, it was little wonder that he was stressed – the World Health Organization believes stress will be the biggest killer of the 21st century. It was little wonder that he’d been crucified by lower back pain for years – your mental state is at the root of most, if not all, physical illness. And, certainly, you wouldn’t have to be a genius to work out why his home life was spinning out of control.

But Billy not only understood, as most of my clients do, the importance of changing his mind – he actually put it into daily practice – hence, the results that he could so excitedly tell me about. Billy and I worked together to enable him stop the random noise in his head, to enable him calm his mind. Most importantly, Billy practiced and learned how to pay more of his attention to the here and now, dragging his subconscious mind’s attention away from the past and enabling him be more focused on the task in hand. Billy understood that, when you’re more present, you have more presence and that makes you more impressive to the normal people around you. As a result, he’d been handpicked for his new corporate role – without even realising that he might have been in the running – he was more focused on doing just what he was supposed to be doing.

In short, Billy learned how to meditate. And it made such a practical difference in his life that he committed not just to doing it every day – but to doing it for one hour solid every morning. He told me that he realised that if he wanted to change his life, he needed to change his daily life first – get up at six o’clock instead of seven – go to bed at ten o’clock instead of eleven.

If you’re not the success you want to be, your life is not going to change without you doing something practical about it. If your life doesn’t turn you on, you’re doing something wrong – you’re going to have to do something right instead. You’re going to have to find a way to turn yourself on – to focus your attention in the here and now – so that you will stop paying attention to useless thought and so that your subconscious will stop tripping up your today by focusing on your yesterdays. Your success – your effortless success – is entirely within your own control – but you’re going to have to act.

Copyright © 2009 Willie Horton

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Stress free living includes all areas of your life. When your mind is not active, it tends to lose its functionality. Your simply not as alert as you use to be. Feeling dull and confused can be stressful. If you keep up this inactivity for a long time, you could cause you to suffer from conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, brain fog, and memory loss. One advantage of stimulating your mind regularly, you have a better outlook in life.

Here are some activities that are sure to prevent your mind from being idle:

1. Play some games that require you to analyze shapes, puzzles, and pictures. Several examples are picture puzzles, card games, optical illusions, strategy games, visualization puzzles, crossword puzzles, and deduction games.

2. Read regularly and often. This helps improve your problem solving skills and memory retention. What you read depends on what your interests are. A favorite of many readers are self-help books, which stimulate the brain and let you figure out the solutions.

3. Exercise is known to bring oxygen to the brain with better blood circulation. Exercising doesn’t only have physical benefits; it also increases brainpower by creating neurons.

4. Meditation is believed to relieve stress, increase IQ, and allow your brain to function at a higher degree. It stimulates the brain’s prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for complex thinking and performance.

5. If you’re having difficulty concentrating on the task at hand, try some deep breathing for about 10-15 minutes. This increases the flow of oxygen into the brain, increasing brain functionality.

6. Take fish oil supplements. Studies reveal that the 2 major fish oil components are EPA and DHA. They boost focus and strengthen the part of the brain that is responsible for emotions.

7. Listen to soothing music as it strengthens the brain’s right hemisphere and studies show that structure even changes from listening to this type of music often. It also boosts your emotional intelligence.

8. Write to improve your memory and stimulate your thought processes. Making articles, blogs, and journal entries are ideal for keeping your mind alert.

9. Get sufficient sleep. If you’ve slept well, you do not get brain clutter and your memory is improved too.

10. Many people swear by painting as a tremendous brain booster. It also sparks creativity. You might have a creative side that you have yet to discover.

11. Have a full breakfast. It is effective in supplying energy to the entire body. Don’t skip breakfast, you are placed at disadvantage mentally and physically.

12. Go for a walk. It allows you to rid your mind of worries and it’s a terrific form of exercise for the body too.

13. Take at least one serving of fruit juice a day. Fruit juice has nutrients that refresh and revitalize the brain. For enhanced focus and high energy, try cranberry, pomegranate or blueberry.

14. Caffeine. You may think of caffeine as something good but it’s on this list because it does stimulate the brain and leads to better focus as well as thinking ability. A word of caution is needed though, since it can be harmful if you take too much of it. So one of two cups a day is fine. Consuming 300 mg (3 cups) of caffeine is generally considered safe

15. Take up drawing as a hobby. This activity also stimulates the brain. Bring out your colored pencils to start stimulating your brain.

You don’t have to do all of these to reap the effects. Choose several that you know you can do well and those that are fun for you to do. You can do a few of them with a friend. Remember that the brain needs to be taken care of too.

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Emotional Intelligence is increasingly relevant to organizations and businesses today, since it has been proven to help understand and assess people’s behavior.

Although Emotional Intelligence became popular after the publication of Daniel Goleman’s Book, “Emotional Intelligence”, in 1995, it was researched and developed during the 70′s and 80′s.

What is Emotional Intelligence?

Peter Salovey and John Mayer defined EQ (Emotional Quotient) or EI (Emotional Intelligence) as made up of 5 elements:

1. Self-awareness – Observing yourself and recognizing a feeling as it happens.

2. Managing emotions – Handling feelings so that they are appropriate, Realizing what is behind a feeling and Finding ways to handle fears and anxieties, anger, and sadness.

3. Motivating oneself – Channelling emotions in the service of a goal, Emotional self control and Delaying gratification and stifling impulses.

4. Empathy – Sensitivity to others’ feelings and concerns and taking their perspective, as well as Appreciating the differences in how people feel about things.

5. Handling relationships – Managing emotions in others and Social competence or social skills.

Can an individual increase emotional intelligence? Can a business organization increase its emotional intelligence?

Absolutely.

Coaches and counselors and solution oriented therapists teach or remind us of our skills in this area routinely.

The one thing that the coaches and counselors and solution oriented folks do not teach us is that we need to recreate the optimism that Seligman talks about in our minds frequently, in order to stay optimistic, and if enough people in the organization do that, then the organization stays optimistic.

I first learned this from an AA friend who used to routinely repeat the phrase to himself, “What is the next right thing to do?”

Folks who come into AA know that urges to drink or use happen in very short periods of time, and they know that they must do “the next right thing” fast in order to dispute the craving that says, in so many words, “Go ahead, just this one time, you won’t get caught today.”

When I heard my friend talk about the “next right thing”, I thought he meant doing something outside his body, like a workout, or going to a meeting, and then it occurred to me that the next right thing might be a thought, and then it occurred to me that I could create a pattern of thoughts that left me feeling content, like I felt after a 20 minute Transcendental Meditation where I repeated a mantra while sitting quietly.

Emotional intelligence does mean keeping myself feeling good, like after a meditation or workout, but in an organization, I also need to interact with other people, and those interactions are going to require my awareness of my feelings and thinking and those interactions are going to require skilled use of listening and assertive communication techniques, so I am going to need to think the next helpful thought and do the next right thing many times per day.

What tools are available to help in that thinking and feeling endeavor? Does brain fitness play a role?

Facial Expressions and Emotional Intelligence and Business

Paul Ekman,Ph.D. has been working to categorize facial expressions for a long time, and I find his work fascinating because it helps me to understand why I respond to certain facial expressions so strongly, for example, I have a very quick and powerful response to a look of contempt, and Ekman explains why.

All humans respond to a look of contempt very powerfully, across cultures, and that expression happens in 1/25th second according to Ekman. I blink my eyes in 1/10th second, so I respond hormonally to a nonverbal communication twice as fast as I can blink my eyes.

Does my response to facial expressions have a bearing on my emotional intelligence and my organizations emotional intelligence?

Again the answer is absolutely.

Increasing Emotional Intelligence in Business

I like experiential learning. I think we can learn emotional intelligence faster from an experience than we can from reading a book, although book reading is in integral part of learning.

The tool that has made my emotional intelligence effective in response to the non-verbal communications of others in any kind of relationship is HeartMath, which is a biofeedback tool that allows me, after a few pratices, to cue an affiliative and cooperative heart intelligence inside my body on any given heart beat or to sustain a coherent heart beat so that I do or say the next right thing in my business environment and increase the emotional intelligence of my business.

HeartMath has grown out of the study of the heart’s own nervous system. The heart has a brain of its own, which can learn and make decisions independently of any other brain I have, and it can do this heart beat by heart beat.

By the way, this tool has been tested in my domestic violence and anger management program.

I have used it with couples to help them understand that they can self-soothe when upset, and then the individuals, with a little bit of practice, can establish a heart beat for their marriage, by using computers and holding hands.

Cannot coworkers and companies establish a heart beat for their working relationship and cannot companies ask employees to attend to the heart beat of the company?

If employees are doing that, which has the benefit of feeling good, the company EQ will go up, and employees will have a tool to use when they find themselves responding to a customer or co-worker’s non-verbal communication.

Another helpful side effect of HeartMath? It opens the higher perceptual centers in the brain for brain storming. Solutions appear to previously intractable problems.

Can an Organization Increase its Brain Fitness Too? Absolutely.

However, each individual will have to work on that. The good news is that their are a number of software programs which can be used at an employees PC. (There are some Mac versions available too).

I really like the the programs that increase IQ, that wonderful tool to have along with EQ. You can improve your fluid intelligence too. It is an addictive experience, so you should volunteer to be the first VP in charge of corporate brain fitness.

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