Howard Martin: The Purpose of Your Heart
There’s a connection between us and universal source, or spirit or god. These are questions scientists are now looking at. We’re also looking at the energetic connectivity between all living systems. Everything on our planet produces some sort of a field and it goes beyond our planet. It’s a web that’s linking everything together. In my opinion it’s the heart that is our main connecting point to all those energetic connections. This is all new science and new directions that we, at HeartMath and others around the world, are looking at and trying to understand better. Its part of the new intelligence and it’s unfolding through this new dimensional shift. It’s part of the evolution of the human to understand things more from an energetic perspective and to me the heart fulfills a central role in that whole process.
OMTimes: Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” How realistic is it – trying to live a heart-based life in a society that has such a different focus and values?
Howard Martin: The heart-based life that I speak of in the HeartMath mission says: “We’re trying to create a more heart-connected world”. That heart-based life is not just soft and squishy. It is intelligent, it is intuitive and it has a dynamic quality to it that allows us to play the game of life with more intelligence but also with more compassion. So it’s not just a passive kind of thing, that has been associated with Heart in the past, it’s not necessarily weak or sentimental. It really sets it up so that things like the demonstration of some care in a largely uncaring world really has an impact. It isn’t perceived as weak, but it stands out as something that’s different. When we are able to demonstrate more care, especially when there are legitimate reasons to judge, you will catch yourself and recognize “I really don’t want to be that now, I don’t feel like that’s really the true me, that’s not the best Howard Martin in this situation, and instead let’s have some compassion”. I now cross that line to where I move my compassion up a notch or two and use it to replace the judgment. That’s a demonstration of the power of the heart and it has a strong impact.
