What If the Heart Knows Before the Mind? A Deep Dive Into Heart Coherence The heart is by far the master rhythm maker in the body. Think of the heart as the conductor, and the body is the music it's playing. If the conductor gets out of sync and gets frustrated and frazzled, the music becomes very discordant. That's what's playing out in the body. It's a very energy inefficient state. Coherence, on the other hand, is a very energy efficient state. What happens when an enginee

I used to be a total skeptic when it came to intuition.  Having grown up in Texas in an evangelical community, then going through western medicine training, I would say that my “gut feeling,” if I had one, was to steer clear of any such practices. The Other Kind of Knowing The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung defined intuition as a method of perception drawn from inner or imaginative experiences; this was in contrast with sensing, where information was drawn from the external wor

Cynthia Li has written a second book on healing from within that is just as profound and intimate as her first, Brave New Medicine. Any page I turned to offered me a gem of insight and instruction. I’ll turn to it again and again. — Anne Lamott, activist and NYT bestselling author of Bird by Bird Optimize your body’s innate healing abilities...in a seemingly effortless way. Are you one of the millions who suffer from chronic illness? Have you tried everything—conventional or