Institute of HeartMath promotes healthy learning December 6, 2007

The Institute of HeartMath http://www.heartmath.org/index.html promotes healthy learning and working which is what we “Good Work” bloggers are all trying to achieve.  They are the leading researchers in the link that connects heart to brain communication, emotions, and cognitive functioning.  They believe in and have proven that synchronizing the mental, physical, and emotional aspects of a student leads to much, much healthier learning.  A healthy environment and HeartMath’s learning strategies lead to better memory retention, overall better school and work performance, and best of all a huge reduction of stress!  Heart imaging and the heart-brain communication are used to show that optimal levels of performance and learning can be attained by using the right tools and techniques, such as those of HeartMath.  They believe that there is such a thing as heart intelligence or as they like to say “the little brain in the heart”.  By connecting lessons taught in class to the students’ values and emotions it creates a healthy learning environment and the students will be prone to paying better attention and better performance.