Heartfulness
Heartfulness is a calm awareness of one's bodies feelings, the vibration of consciousness,The united sounding of the sacred word or conscious feeling itself. i.e. compassionate mindfulness.
It can be related to the Hindu idea of transcendence, (Not the process of transindental meditation as TM by Brahmananda Saraswati) the process of moving beyond the bodies limitations created by the mind and to connect the body itself directly with the source.
HEARTFULNESS (Sanskrit: Śruti): -"cosmic sound of truth” is one of the many teachings of shakyamuni where he claims that “hearing, listening, heartfulness” (Sanskrit samyak-srúti) is one of the key aspects of understanding on the path to liberation and subsequent enlightenment. It has been shown that regulating the subtle rhythms of the heart can create a state of harmonic balance within the syncopation of the heartbeats i.e. Heartfulness. A state of peaceful heart meditation.
Scientific research
The American journal of physiology recently published findings that state. read full article
"The effects of different breathing frequencies and patterns on cardiovascular regulation have been investigated extensively in recent years. In this context, various effects of poetry recitation on cardiovascular parameters, especially on heart rate oscillations, have been demonstrated. Bernardi et al. found a frequency adjustment of breathing oscillations with endogenous blood pressure fluctuations Mayer waves and even cerebral blood flow oscillations during the recitation of the rosary and the "OM" mantra. This effect was attributed to the breathing frequency of 6 breaths/min induced by the metric of both religious verses. Furthermore, they noticed an increased arterial baroreflex sensitivity, which is a favorable long-term prognostic factor in cardiac patients. In another study, Bernardi et al. observed a significant increase in arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2) during controlled breathing at frequencies of 15/6/3 breaths/min in patients with chronic heart failure and healthy controls. The strongest increase was found at a breathing frequency of 6 breaths/min. Thus recitation of specific poetry as a means to control breathing patterns was proposed and the rosary prayer to be "viewed as a health practice as well as a religious practice"."
References
- Buddhist Scriptures translated by Edward Conze, Penguin books 1959
- Alice A Baily. Letters on Occult meditation Lucus publications 1922.
- Bernardi L, Sleight P, Bandinelli G, Cencetti S, Fattorini L, Wdowczyc-Szulc J, and Lagi A. Effect of rosary prayer and yoga mantras on autonomic cardiovascular rhythms: comparative study. BMJ 323: 1446–1449, 2001.
- Bettermann H, von Bonin D, Frühwirth M, Cysarz D, and Moser M. Effects of speech therapy with poetry on heart rate rhythmicity and cardiorespiratory coordination. Int J Cardiol 84: 77–88, 2002.
- Von Bonin D, Frühwirth M, Heusser P, and Moser M. Effects of speech therapy with poetry on heart rate variability and well-being. Forsch Komplementarmed Klass Naturheilkd 8: 144–160, 2001.
- Bernardi L, Gabutti A, Porta C, and Spicuzza L. Slow breathing reduces chemoreflex response to hypoxia and hypercapnia, and increases baroreflex sensitivity. J Hypertens 19: 2221–2229, 2001.