Deborah Rozman

That's what makes life worth living.

And so I met him and I was...

studying and teaching gestalt psychology and behavioral psychology.

And I also knew that the heart had a different way of reasoning than the mind or head.

And I wanted to see them brought together.

So when he invited me to help him and others start the HeartMath Institute to research the heart-brain-nervous system connection, I said yes.

And so what was really exciting is we brought together people

the head of Stanford Brain Research for 30 years, Dr. Carl Pribram, the head of brain research at UC Berkeley, Dr. Joe Camilla, both of whom have passed away since.

But he was the one who labeled alpha, beta, theta brainwaves.

and other leading researchers who were really also interested in what they call the problem of the heart.

Because in brain research, they always screened out the signals coming from the heart because they were so strong.

Instead, it was like, how do we look at these signals together?

This was a very exciting time.

And fast forward to 1995, where the research on heart rhythm coherence, and I can explain that, actually was first published the first time we saw the connection between emotional state and our physical heart rhythms in the American Journal of Cardiology.

So that started research, creating training programs and techniques based upon the research results, doing pre and post assessments, outcome data in companies and hospitals with the U.S.

military.

Very much trying to see how we could create a simple user-friendly system for people to awaken and activate their hearts.

Intuitive guidance and intelligence to resolve stress and anxiety.

foresaw in a vision how stress was going to increase tremendously.

And this was in the 80s before the iPhone, before the internet.