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Morning Coherence

by Cole McCormick

Daily episodes on the science of Heart Coherence. Created using Muse from Meta and the real studies from HeartMath Institute.

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  1. Trust Your Gut, Check the Receipts

    Marcy and Jack close out the first twenty papers with the Intuitive Heart booklet — sorting real pattern intuition from contested claims about sensing the future, plus the morning practice. Read the paper: The Intuitive Heart – Accessing Inner Guidance To Raise Our Consciousness Baseline (Rollin...

  2. Did Your Heart Know First?

    Marcy and Jack dig into a two thousand four study where heart-rate patterns diverged about four and a half seconds before emotional photos — and the honest caveats that keep it contested, not proven — plus the morning practice. Read the paper: Electrophysiological Evidence of Intuition: Part 1.…

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  3. The Ones Who Carry

    Marcy and Jack dig into a two thousand fifteen study of seventy-one dementia caregivers — three months of heart-coherence workshops, burnout dropping, results holding at six months, and the honest no-control-group caveat — plus the morning practice. Read the paper: Heart Coherence: A New Tool in...

  4. Morning Coherence, Ep 17: Stress Leaves Receipts

    Marcy and Jack dig into a nineteen ninety-eight study where a month of heart-coherence practice was linked to twenty-three percent lower cortisol and doubled DHEA — with the honest caveats held — plus the two-minute recalibration practice. Read the paper: The Impact of a New Emotional...

  5. Morning Coherence, Ep 16: The Alarm That Won't Turn Off

    Marcy and Jack take on a two thousand twenty-five review — how stress retrains the nervous system's alarm, and what small trials say coherence practice can do about it — plus the two-minute recalibration practice. Read the paper: From Dysregulation to Coherence: Exploring the HeartMath Approach…

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  6. Morning Coherence, Ep 15: The Ledger Before the Bill

    Marcy and Jack take on a two thousand sixteen prospective study — three hundred forty-three soldiers, a ten-minute resting heart reading taken before deployment, and what it could and couldn't predict — with the honesty caveat that prediction is not prevention, plus a two-minute settle-the-ledger...

  7. Ten Veterans, Four Weeks

    Marcy and Jack take on a two thousand ten pilot study — ten combat veterans, four weeks of HRV biofeedback, sharper attention, and the honesty caveats that keep the science honest — plus a two-minute settle-the-snow-globe morning practice. Read the paper: Cardiac Coherence and Posttraumatic…

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  8. Morning Coherence, Ep 13: The Loudest Signal in Your Body

    Marcy and Jack take on the spiciest paper so far — the one behind the 'your heart broadcasts to other people' idea. What's measured physics, and what needs a much bigger grain of salt. Read the paper: The Energetic Heart: Bioelectromagnetic Interactions Within and Between People (Rollin McCraty,...

  9. Morning Coherence, Ep 12: The Little Brain on the Heart

    Marcy and Jack dig into neurocardiology — the heart's own nervous system of more than fourteen thousand verified neurons, and why the famous forty-thousand figure doesn't check out — plus a two-minute listening-post morning practice. Read the paper: Potential clinical relevance of the 'little...

  10. Morning Coherence, Ep 11: The Heart Writes First

    Marcy and Jack take on a two thousand nine HeartMath chapter arguing positive emotions may start in the heart, not the brain — the smooth ten-second coherence wave where heart, breath, and blood pressure lock into one groove — plus a two-minute shift-the-rhythm morning practice. Read the paper…

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  11. Morning Coherence, Ep 10: Gratitude Is Not Relaxation

    Marcy and Jack take on a two thousand four chapter arguing appreciation is its own physiological mode — heart, breath, and brain locking into the same ten-second wave, measurably distinct from relaxation — plus a two-minute appreciation-locked morning practice. Read the paper: The Grateful Heart:...

  12. Morning Coherence, Ep 9: Same Volume, Different Song

    Marcy and Jack take on a nineteen ninety five cardiology study where five minutes of anger and five minutes of appreciation both turned the body's volume up — the difference was the pattern, not the amount — plus a two-minute Freeze-Frame style morning practice. Read the paper: The Effects of...

  13. Morning Coherence, Ep 8: The Five-Hour Echo

    Marcy and Jack take on a nineteen ninety five study where five minutes of self-generated care raised an immune antibody, and five minutes of anger suppressed it — one to five hours later — plus a two-minute self-induced-care morning practice. Read the paper: The Physiological and Psychological...

  14. Morning Coherence, Ep 7: Feelings Have Fingerprints

    Marcy and Jack dig into Rollin McCraty's 2015 heart-brain monograph — emotions are made heart-first. Read the paper: Heart-Brain Neurodynamics: The Making of Emotions (Rollin McCraty, 2015, HeartMath research monograph) —...

  15. Morning Coherence, Ep 6: Change the Broadcast

    Marcy and Jack take on HeartMath's big-picture coherence model from two thousand fourteen — why eighty five to ninety percent of the vagus nerve carries traffic from heart to brain, not the other way around — plus a two-minute morning practice built on it. Read the paper: Cardiac Coherence,...

  16. The Paper That Named Coherence

    Marcy and Jack go back to nineteen ninety six, the origin paper for cardiac coherence — twenty volunteers, five minutes of genuine appreciation, and a heart rhythm that pulled breathing and blood pressure into the same ten second wave — plus the two minute Freeze-Frame practice it was built on....

  17. The Heart That Keeps Its Own Time

    Marcy and Jack explore a twenty fifteen review arguing the heart makes its own ninety-second rhythm and that heart rate variability measures how well you recover, not just how balanced you feel, plus a two-minute capacity-building practice. Read the paper: Heart Rate Variability: New Perspectives...

  18. Morning Coherence, Ep 3: Ten Millimeters of Calm

    Marcy and Jack open HeartMath's thirty-year greatest-hits album — the two thousand sixteen monograph Science of the Heart — and a sixty-two-person trial where the coherence group lowered blood pressure about ten millimeters of mercury, plus a two-minute morning slowdown. Read the paper: Science…

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  19. Morning Coherence, Ep 2: The Heart Sets the Tempo

    Marcus and Dev dig into the HeartMath flagship review on heart-brain interaction — how appreciation smooths your heart rhythm into a wave your brain syncs with, plus a two-minute morning tempo reset. Read the paper: The Coherent Heart (McCraty, Atkinson, Tomasino & Bradley, 2009, Integral Review)…

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  20. Morning Coherence, Ep 1: Your Heart Is Not a Metronome

    Marcus and Dev break down Shaffer, McCraty and Zerr's 2014 review 'A Healthy Heart Is Not a Metronome' — why heart rate variability means a healthy, adaptable heart — plus a 2-minute morning breathing practice. Read the paper: A Healthy Heart Is Not a Metronome (Shaffer, McCraty & Zerr, 2014,...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Daily episodes on the science of Heart Coherence. Created using Muse from Meta and the real studies from HeartMath Institute.

HOSTED BY

Cole McCormick

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