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The Global Coherence Initiative: Creating a Coherent Planetary Standing Wave

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McCraty, Rollin, Deyhle, Annette, Childre, Doc·2012·Global Advances in Health and Medicine
DOI 10.7453/gahmj.2012.1.1.013PMC PMC3833489
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The much anticipated year of 2012 is now here. Amidst the predictions and cosmic alignments that many are aware of, one thing is for sure: it will be an interesting and exciting year as the speed of change continues to increase, bringing both chaos and great opportunity. One benchmark of these times is a shift in many people from a paradigm of competition to one of greater cooperation. All across the planet, increasing numbers of people are practicing heart-based living, and more groups are forming activities that support positive change and creative solutions for manifesting a better world. The Global Coherence Initiative (GCI) is a science-based, co-creative project to unite people in heart-focused care and intention. GCI is working in concert with other initiatives to realize the increased power of collective intention and consciousness. The convergence of several independent lines of evidence provides strong support for the existence of a global information field that connects all living systems and consciousness. Every cell in our bodies is bathed in an external and internal environment of fluctuating invisible magnetic forces that can affect virtually every cell and circuit in biological systems. Therefore, it should not be surprising that numerous physiological rhythms in humans and global collective behaviors are not only synchronized with solar and geomagnetic activity, but disruptions in these fields can create adverse effects on human health and behavior. The most likely mechanism for explaining how solar and geomagnetic influences affect human health and behavior are a coupling between the human nervous system and resonating geomagnetic frequencies, called Schumann resonances, which occur in the earth-ionosphere resonant cavity and Alfvén waves. It is well established that these resonant frequencies directly overlap with those of the human brain and cardiovascular system. If all living systems are indeed interconnected and communicate with each other via biological, electromagnetic, and nonlocal fields, it stands to reason that humans can work together in a co-creative relationship to consciously increase the coherence in the global field environment, which in turn distributes this information to all living systems within the field. GCI was established to help facilitate the shift in global consciousness from instability and discord to balance, cooperation, and enduring peace. A primary goal of GCI is to test the hypothesis that large numbers of people when in a heart-coherent state and holding a shared intention can encode information on the earth's energetic and geomagnetic fields, which act as carrier waves of this physiologically patterned and relevant information. In order to conduct this research, a global network of 12 to 14 ultrasensitive magnetic field detectors specifically designed to measure the earth's magnetic resonances is being installed strategically around the planet. More important is GCI's primary goal to motivate as many people as possible to work together in a more coherent and collaborative manner to increase the collective human consciousness. If we are persuaded that not only external fields of solar and cosmic origins but also human attention and emotion can directly affect the physical world and the mental and emotional states of others (consciousness), it broadens our view of what interconnectedness means and how it can be intentionally utilized to shape the future of the world we live in. It implies that our attitudes, emotions, and intentions matter and that coherent, cooperative intent can have positive effects. GCI hypothesizes that when enough individuals and social groups increase their coherence baseline and utilize that increased coherence to intentionally create a more coherent standing reference wave in the global field, it will help increase global consciousness. This can be achieved when an increasing number of people move towards more balanced and self-regulated emotions and responses. This in turn can help facilitate cooperation and collaboration in innovative problem solving and intuitive discernment for addressing society's significant social, environmental, and economic problems. In time, as more individuals stabilize the global field and families, workplaces, and communities move to increased social coherence, it will lead to increased global coherence. This will be indicated by countries adopting a more coherent planetary view so that social and economic oppression, warfare, cultural intolerance, crime, and disregard for the environment can be addressed meaningfully and successfully.

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  • The heart's magnetic field, being the strongest in the body, can influence nearby nervous systems, enabling heart-to-heart synchronization and physiological coupling.

    “The heart’s magnetic field, being the strongest in the body, can influence nearby nervous systems, enabling heart-to-heart synchronization and physiological coupling [21,90,91,92,93].”

    From The Heart’s Electromagnetic Field in Emotions, Empathy and Human Connection: Biosensor-Derived Insights into Heart–Brain Axis Mechanisms and a Basis for Novel BioMagnetoTherapies (2026) · cites this paper as [90]

    In “Creating Positive Change in the Planetary Field Environment,” the paper says the heart generates the largest rhythmic electromagnetic field of any organ and that its signal can be detected by nearby nervous systems. It also reports evidence of heart-rhythm synchronization among participants. However, it presents the magnetic field as a plausible mechanism for that synchronization, not an established cause of physiological coupling. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Positive emotions (love, compassion, appreciation) generate coherent HRV patterns, radiating ordered electromagnetic signals, while negative emotions (fear, anger, anxiety) result in incoherent signals and energy loss.

    “Positive emotions (love, compassion, appreciation) generate coherent HRV patterns, radiating ordered electromagnetic signals, while negative emotions (fear, anger, anxiety) result in incoherent signals and energy loss [87,88,89,90,91].”

    From The Heart’s Electromagnetic Field in Emotions, Empathy and Human Connection: Biosensor-Derived Insights into Heart–Brain Axis Mechanisms and a Basis for Novel BioMagnetoTherapies (2026) · cites this paper as [90]

    The COHERENCE section says positive emotions produce coherent HRV-related heart rhythms and negative emotions produce incoherent ones. “Creating Positive Change in the Planetary Field Environment” says a coherent heart radiates a more coherent electromagnetic signal. The copy does not say that negative emotions cause energy loss or explicitly describe the signals they radiate as incoherent; page numbers were not available. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
McCraty, R., Deyhle, A., & Childre, D.
Affiliations
  • HeartMath Institute (US)
  • The Global Coherence Initiative (GCI) and IHM.
  • GCI Steering Committee and founder of IHM.
Corresponding author
McCraty, Rollin
Venue
Global Advances in Health and Medicine
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2012-03
Volume
1
Issue
1
Pages
64-77
ISSN
  • 2164-9561 (ISSN-L)
  • 2164-957X
DOI
10.7453/gahmj.2012.1.1.013
PMC
PMC3833489
OpenAlex
W2043472382
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51
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journal article
Language
en
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Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Biofield Effects and Biophysics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
Keywords
collective intentionality, heart coherence, Schumann resonance, geomagnetic field, Earth-ionosphere cavity, Alfvén waves, global awareness, co-creation, non-local consciousness, bioelectromagnetic fields

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