The Brain-Heart Connection: Breakthru in Measurement and Biofeedback -
Every Spiritual / Consciousness Training / Psychological Counseling + Biofeedback Manual has Reiterated that to EVOLVE and GROW we must learn to link our HEARTS TO OUR HEAD. NOW - for the very first time- there is a dramatic BIOFEEDBACK Environment (the world's first and only) to MEASURE and TEACH this connection : The new Brain-Heart software module JUST ADDED to the complete HeartTuner / BlissTuner System - with TWO ways of TEACHING by MEASUREMENT the Brain-Heart Connection: a) phase lock between measured EEG vs EKG harmonics (simple spectra compared)-top right of picture , and b) observing when the internal COHERENCE history /Cepstrum amplitude PEAKS LINE UP from EEG vs EKG- bottom right of picture.

A New Scientific / Biofeedback BreakThru - from HeartTuner / BlissTuner , invented by Dan Winter. Plus analysis (below) from Heart Coherence Team - frank@heartcoherence.com

now.. The Brain Heart Connection-Breakthru in Measurement

Note- we actually played the famous "Angel Music" from our friend Punit - (CD's of Angelic Healing Music) to MAKE some of these recordings..
We recommend Punit's spiritually inspired music at - to help MAKE the Brain - Heart Connection.

Below we see the precedent, history of measurement of Heart / Brain connection. This is from Bentov's book "Stalking the Wild Pendulum" (biomechanics of kundalini) . Here Bentov is using a capacitive accelerometer (measuring micromotion entrainment) to prove the phase relationship between the low frequencies of the HEART (see the aorta 'pipe' between heart and aortic crotch at the legs-pic-making standing wave).. vs the BRAIN. much deeper discussion of this as wave mechanic of kundalini at goldenmean.info/kundalini , and as the wave mechanic of sacro cranial pumping - goldenmean.info/isthisrecursion/apta.html

Below we see an example of the earlier version of the HeartTuner Pro software showing the MOMENT at which meditation begins- where the beginning of the alpha (red peaks at 10.5hz) correlates with a moment where the COHERENCE of Heart vs Brain links (bottom left waterfall plot graph of cepstrum / coherence compare of EEG /red vs EKG black).

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Note from Dan: we have spoken often with Douglass White , http://www.dpedtech.com/OPdex.htm about "observer physics" . The ability to self refer (observe) is most in essence in a wave of charge able to non destructively self reenter--(golden spiral) exactly like charge compression waking you up in a lucid dream precisely because of what looking at your hand causes electrically... (tightening the slip knot of the electrical toroidal tornado.- see Bentov's pic of the toroid magnetic circuit HOMUNCULUS around the brain circuit fractally in phase to the map on the body - triggering kundalini - above.
1. Charge Self Similarity/Fractality:Cause Gravity/Fusion/Phase Conjugation-THE EXPERIMENTAL PROOF - ObserverPhysics ".. the FRACTAL PHI SPIRAL as the most logical mathematical description of the way electronsemit and absorb photons (OBSERVER PHYSICS, 11.35-39 et al.) David Thomson - Quantum AetherDynamics goldenmean.info/gravitycause/

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Heart - Brain Coherence: the Life-Line of Wellness
background for measurement and entrainment with the Heart Tuner
by Frank van den Bovenkamp, Heart Coherence team - 17-12-2006
(From) www.heartcoherence.com/heartbraincoherence

The practical working area of Heart - Brain coherence lies inbetween the purely physiological functions of heart and brain, and their "subjective" effects of feeling resp. thinking plus the vital aspects. This is where the heart and brain measurably influence one another, and which can be optimized through entrainment with the help of spectrum- and further analysis of the EKG resp. EEG.

Heart - Brain coherence can thus be an adequate help or addition for (psycho-) therapy and biofeedback by measuring the electrical harmonics in those physical organs most intimately related to our inner " I " - feeling in relation resp. to self and the world. (In this connection, the nerval density in the colon area, sometimes called the "belly-brain", is considered another centre but it not much in swing in our culture).

To bring the possibilities of Heart - Brain coherence in perspective, it is helpfull to briefly review their resp. functions in their evolutionary background.

The heart obviously combines the purely mechanical function of circulating blood, with the emergent, subtle ("subjective") function of "feeling", or more precisely "heart intelligence", which is really a combination of vitality and empowerment on the one hand, and awareness-focus and empathy on the other. This should not be confused with the "heart-cakra" (anahatha cakra) of yogic tradition, and neither with the esoteric heart (local "atman"). The heart thus mediates between the mechanical and subtle functions (between "objective" and "subjective") and this is closely related to the immune system (your vital unison). The actual shape of the heart, as it coherently evolved from a distributed system, still reflects its holistic origin and is thought to function as a "vortex-thrower", hydro-dynamically informing the blood, rather than being a plain blood pump. The heart's electro-physiology essentially reflects the synchroneous pulsing of the myocardium (neural muscle tissue) modulated by one central region called the SA-node.

The primary function of the brain is to mediate between sensory-motoric information, and the various internal metabolisms and glandular secretions, rather than between sensory and motor information. This is mostly its function in primitive (e.g. insect, reptilian) species, with barely any emergent subjective feeling. Detached memory evolved later (mammal) allowing awareness of context and events, and with that came primary social behaviour and subjective feeling in the form of "group-mind". Yet later evolved intellect, that is, detached thinking, and the quality of attributing meaning and purpose to events, and that is typically human. So, we could say that thinking is closest to the brain's "subjective" function, creating a sense of time and space, individual body and senses and individual psychology. Brain-intelligence is a combination of action-perception (analytic, using various stages of memory) and the actually perceived, vital reward (synthesis, which is but the evolutionary result and reward of trial and error). Hence, we hear a sound, never a sound-wave. The higher evolved a species, the more the balance leans toward individuality and hence the use of memory in learning, evolving from on-board instincts, to trial-error, to social learning, and finally analytical learning. The brain's electro-physiology essentially reflects detectable amounts of neurons pulse-streaming, synchroneously frequency-modulated by the distributed neural network.

These brief mappings of the heart and brain may provide a practical working guide of heart-brain general interactions and especially coherence and its use in therapy and biofeedback.

Allthough from the viewpoint of physiology, the "subjective" effects of resp. vital force and feeling or thinking are purely emergent, they nevertheless play a crucial role in biology and verily in all life, as right from the onset, through coherent feeling and thinking alone life can emerge, survive and evolve. This is why, allthough they are no doubt physiological effects, they are said to form an "attractor" or pathway out of choas at the same time (allthough not directly for the very same part of physiology they emerged from). The latter we could think of as a subtle controlling or facilitating function. These various subjective effects fall in the category of life-force resp. self-awareness (together referred to as "consciousness"). The precise dynamics of how the flows of expressing life-force and self-awareness interact with the material world (i.e. physiology) is the unique formula for measuring and entraining wellness with the Heart Tuner, including Heart-Brain coherence. This same principle explained in terms of wave-dynamics is called Harmonic Inclusiveness and forms the basis of pattern recognition in EKG and EEG.

Heart + Brain in perspective
HEART:	BRAIN:
PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTION: circulating the blood	PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTION: mediating senso-motoric with internal organic (metabolism, secretion, etc..)
ELECTRO-PHYSIOLOGY: All neurons firing in unison, frequency-modulated from one central node (HRV) Raw data shows: actual peaks (pulses) Nominal pulse rate apprx. 0.5 to 2 Hz HRV bandwidth apprx. 0.5 Hz	ELECTRO-PHYSIOLOGY: A detectable amount of pulse-streaming neurons, frequency-modulated in unison by distributed network Raw data shows: avaraged firing density (note: this is as if measuring the ekg with a low-pass filter, or ekg tacho measured as pulse-density) Nominal firing rate apprx. ? EEG spectrum bandwidth apprx. 40 Hz (note the EEG spectrum is like the tacho-spectrum of the heart, measured as pulse-density)
COHERENCE: Arithmetic component: Internal Cardiac Coherence, mathematically octave controlled (awareness focus, confidence, clear decision making, belonging, empathy) Fractal component: HRV, mathematically Golden Mean controlled (vitality, expansion, resourcefullness, empowerment)	COHERENCE: Octave component: sensory discrimination, instinct, intellect, mental discrimination --> telepathy Golden Mean component: internal sensory reward, sense of context, sense of beauty, sense of meaning --> bliss
SUBJECTIVE QUALITIES a) Self-awareness b) Vitality of self	SUBJECTIVE QUALITIES a) Self-awareness in relation to world b) Vitality in relation to world
HEART-BRAIN COHERENCE: THE LIFE LINE OF WELLNESS a) Self-awareness b) Vitality of self a) Self-awareness in relation to world b) Vitality in relation to world Comments: The heart and brain work together to find, keep, optimize and if needed restore the balance between true individuality (not: private self or ego) and true world (not: private world) Just as the vital resp. focal aspects of either part work together, in the greater constellation the principle remains just the same. Mental focus (e.g. targeted action) activates a vital response in the heart directly (and ideally, focus in the heart indirectly). Focus in the heart (e.g. empathy) activates our mental richness directly (and ideally, mental focus indirectly). At the same time, it appears that high vitality in the heart resp. in the brain are somehow competitive in a direct sense, as is focus in both places. MEASURING HEART-BRAIN COHERENCE WITH THE HEART TUNER Method A - Based upon correlation of internal cardiac coherence (ICC) in the cepstrum display, with brain coherence in the EEG spectrum (energy-exchange). According to the above diagram, it should be expected that strong cepstrum peaks shall encourage Golden Mean ratio's in the EEG spectrum, whereas fractal HRV encourages Octave ratio's in the EEG spectrum. Note that for mathematical reasons octaves in the ECG spectrum could result in some degree of brain-cepstrum effect. Method B - Based upon harmonic inclusiveness (matching frequencies). This is still very preliminary at this point, however in its simplest form it could include the co-incidence of actual frequencies in heart and brain, as viewed in resp. the EKG and EEG spectra.

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