Heart Intelligence: Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart

by Doc Childre

Heart Intelligence, Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart provides readers with a new, high definition picture of the energetic heart as a unifying, creative, intuitive intelligence that we can learn to draw on for moment to moment guidance. Heart Intelligence links the physical heart to the spiritual (energetic) heart. Through its extensive communication with the brain and body, the heart is intimately involved in how we think, feel, and respond to the world. Expanding on their breakthrough book, The HeartMath Solution, the authors offer heart-based techniques and guidelines for living from the heart, which connects the puzzle pieces of our purpose and fulfillment. The book provides information and simple practices for accessing our heart’s intuitive guidance to connect with our highest choices for better outcomes. Our choices are especially important through these changing times because they constantly create or disrupt our peace, happiness and self-security. Our thoughts and feelings influence the chemistry that regulates much of our health — how we feel, for better or worse. Our thoughts, feelings, emotions and attitudes are just frequencies that we can learn to change — once we put our heart into our intention. Heart Intelligence provides practices to replace fear with the attitude of intelligent concern (managed concern) which leaves us in charge and more attuned to intuitive direction. We learn the benefits of practicing simple coherence techniques a few times a day for boosting resilience and emotional balance; making appropriate choices; and clearing our mind from anxiety or overwhelm when needed. It is through deepening our heart intelligence, coherence and connection that humanity will be able to shift from separation to cooperation resulting in higher solutions to our personal and global problems.

Genres: Spirituality, Psychology, Nonfiction, Self Help, Health, Personal Growth, Personal Development

272 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 14, 2016

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book, with multiple authors and contributors, including researches, outlines the practice of "heartmath," a meditation technique that emphasizes concentration and control of ones mental emotional state. In the practice, you literally concentrate to maintain a positive emotional state.
This is the opposite, if you will, of the ever popular mindfulness meditation in which you sit back and observe the mind without controlling it. I not only read the book but did the practice and, practically speaking, heartmath did deliver for me the promised results: a more balanced positive emotional state, more peace, and more intuitive decision making and discernment through alignment with my hearts wisdom. The writing style in this read could have been stronger with more examples, images, metaphors and less abstraction and generalization without supporting information. My favorite part of the book was looking at scientific studies of how are heart rhythms come into harmony and balance when we are connected to our beloved animal companions in our lives.

[Christina Nguyen · Rating 5 out of 5]

The greatest teachers always say “follow your heart” but do you ever really wonder what that really means. This is a scientific-based exploration to the deep wisdom of the heart. It provides rhetoric on the guidance to heart-based living & building trust with your intuition....necessary practices to improving the overall connection and health of your mind & body.

[Josh Knebel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this book because I thought heart math had interesting research. Turns out good research doesn’t mean they can write a good book.

I’ll save you a read. The summary is listen to your heart. If you’re interested in more watch a 45 minute YouTube video and skip the book.

Main complaint is it was way too vague. Love and compassion and heart intelligence and breathing into the heart is all Mumbo jumbo. There isn’t enough specificity to distinguish the terms well. The explanations doesn’t explain how it works.

Spiritual or metaphysical books also lack explanation but they at least provide a theory for how the world works and create a good story arc.

Last 30 or so pages had more of the exercises or useful parts.

[Pnina · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5
Encontré que la manera de abordas temas considerados esotéricos o espirituales desde una perspectiva científica (Con citas al pie de la página y todo), le da una credibilidad súper buena al libro, y que los autores no por eso dejan de ser esperanzados ni toman actitudes arrogantes.
Igual lo sentí vago a ratos, si bien no son libros para memorizar, y que la idea del libro es dejar súper claro "TAL" mensaje ( el de enviar amor, compasión, y la pila de emociones positivas para beneficios no solo de nosotros o nuestros cercanos, sino que para la humanidad), creo que pudieron haber adentrado más en algunos temas, que quedaron básicamente en nada, ni siquiera encaminados á.
Ojalá poner en práctica lo que aprendí, leerlo en general me llenó de tranquilidad y lo dejé con varios post-it para ir a lo largo del tiempo las partes que encontré importantes.

[Norman Baxter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating look at the science underlying the coherence of the heart and the mind, and an insightful discussion of how coherence can have a positive effect on our personality, our relationships with others and the world round us. The heart's energy field is actually larger and extends much further beyond the body than that of the mind. When these two fields are in coherence, the mind is informed by the intuition of the heart. The book offers practical and simple means of achieving that coherence, free of ideology.

[Sana Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Valuable and practical

I really enjoyed this easy read, which for me offered some scientific grounding and articulate language to wrap around my own experience and intuitive knowing.

[Maria Kolomiets · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great advice

Loved it!
Very interesting studies, I enjoyed especially the breathing techniques provided in the book. Very inspiring. Perfect train ride read.

[Diane Dreher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Illuminating combination of mindful heart-centered practice with the latest science. Highly recommended.

[Deb · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating essays about research and findings from HeartMath Institute. Includes simple ways to get into a heart coherent state. I don't understand all of it, but I'm intrigued to know more. They offer hope about elevating human consciousness. "Collective compassionate care is the next level of love." "The ability to manage our emotions, not suppress them but enable them to transform into higher quality feelings and perceptions, is essential for the advancement of individual and collective human consciousness." "The power to transform thoughts and emotions into new perceptions is facilitated by learning to listen more deeply to our heart's intuitive guidance and wisdom." "The healing of separation is essential for a shift into the next level of I telligence for humanity". This same conclusion is what I've been reading from religion, social constructionism, forward thinking business and environ,environmental, activists.

Their findings align with what I've learned about quantum physics and from studying Clean Language as a coaching approach. "When heart, brain, mind and emotions aren't resonating as a team, and have opposing desires and agendas, this generates much (or most) of our stress accumulation. These diversions cause incoherence. "

As pockets of coherence form, "this momentum can quicken the positive, evolutionary change to help society reshape itself. " ...a transition towards a new consciousness based on care, cooperation, and acceptance."

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is great for gently nudging me back to center, truth and beauty when I get off-kilter. I try to read a little bit about Heart Math every day when I can.
The more I keep reading other books about energy medicine, the more I'm breathing lower into my body than the heart (even down into my feet and exhale up from the earth). However, my first two heart math books were important and helped me to get out of my talking head and back into my body and heart.
I am tired and don't feel this review does the book justice. Let me just leave with the thought that this is a profound and potent book. Just take a sip a day and watch things change in your world...

[Shahnaz · Rating 3 out of 5]

- Pros: Bukunya ringkas
- Cons: Bertele-tele dan membosankan, pantas untuk diloncati
- Direkomendasikan untuk: Nggak ada sih ini.

Buku ini kubaca gara-gara melihat channel bermain jiwanya Tri Handoko. Dia menyarankan untuk masuk ke 3 website, yang pertama adalah tentang hubungan gelombang elektromagnetik bumi dan gelombang elektromagnetik manusia. Di buku ini, sebenernya apa ya yang aku cari???

Aku nggak tahu sih, hanya saja, lumayan sih, dapat beberapa fakta trivia ga jelas. Nggak ngulangin lagi deh cara baca yang seperti ini.

[Terri Howell]

Gratitude, opening the heart. Life skills.

[Caro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gorgeous

[David Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another gem from Doc Childre - to understand the role of our inner guidance through our heart is to effect a transformational understanding of our inner design and our inner wisdom to live a calmer, happier and lighter life.

[Marcia Watt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everyone should read this book. Simple scientific practices that can make a huge impact. This is a 2025 goal.

[Barbara St. Dennis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Foundation for change, personal and planetary

Wonderful book with solid exercises for increasing heart-centered living. Updated edition is very current, very relevant. I’ve been practicing and sharing this material for almost 20 years and the overwhelming experience of us all is increased intuition, more peace within and without and better health. Maybe the most important book for our time.

[Saraphir Legind · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great message. Some chapters could do with editing as it’s quite repetitive, so it’s not compelling reading like some other books are.