On this episode we discuss heart health as it relates to healthspan but not in the conventional manner that you’d think. We aren’t discussing cholesterol, blood pressure, or hardening of the arteries. It turns out that monitoring the beat to beat variation and the time intervals between heart contractions, however, provides an incredibly valuable window into what is going inside our body, possibly AS important as our expected lifespan. This biofeedback healthspan hacking measure is known as heart rate variability.

We will also discuss how we are all connected on a global scale of synchronization through a global information field that has a lot to do with the heart.

My special guest, Dr. Rollin McCraty PhD, has spent his life studying the connection between the heart, mind, body, and energetic fields. He is Director of Research of the HeartMath Research Center at the HeartMath Institute. As a psycho-physiologist, his research interests include the physiology of emotion, heart-brain communication and the global interconnectivity between people and the earth’s energetic systems. Findings from this research have been applied to the development of many educational programs and technologies to optimize individual and organizational health, performance, and quality of life. Dr. McCraty has acted as Principal Investigator in numerous studies examining the effects of emotions on heart–brain coherence and the benefits of self-regulation focused interventions in diverse organizational, educational and clinical populations.