In 2007, a group of scientists validated for the first time ever, evidence of heart-to-heart bio communications. Eric Leskowitz, M.D., a psychiatrist from Harvard Medical School’s Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, joined other scientists at The Institute of Heart Math. While Leskowitz was blindfolded and meditating, his heart rate and heart coherence were continuously monitored by the lab technicians.
Heart coherence is associated with increased alpha brain wave activity. It is a state in which the interval between heartbeats is regular and constant. It’s produced by positive emotions such as love and compassion. Negative emotions disrupt heart coherence and create irregular and jagged heart rhythms. At random intervals unknown to Leskowitz, expert meditators standing behind him were given a signal to enter heart coherence themselves. As they did so, Leskowitz’s heart coherence also increased (Leskowitz, 2007). Without touching him, they were able to shift his heart-brain function.
A follow-up study measured the same effect in 25 volunteers in a series of 148 ten-minute trials, and it found the same phenomenon of heart entrainment at a distance (Morris, 2010). The director of this last study, Dr. Stephen Morris stated that “a coherent energy field can be generated and/or enhanced by the intentions of small groups of participants. . . . The evidence of heart rhythm synchronization across participants supports the possibility of heart-to-heart bio-communications.” Our bodies and brains are synchronizing with people around us all the time.