Background & Intention

HEART BEAT:

Examining our Lives

The Heart Beat Process (HBP) was born into the family of Energy Psychology and has matured into a distinct method of heart-centred, intuitive self-inquiry. It has now become an integral part of the Heart Radiance agenda.

In May, 1999 while training Instructors for my course Heart Radiance, one of my trainees, Robyn Wood, introduced me to Energy Psychology.

As a trained practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture), I was immediately attracted and inspired by this remarkable approach, which uses finger tips to tap on patterns of Acu-points as a remedy for removing various emotional and psyco-physical disorders.

After 5 years devoted to the study, practise, and teaching of the various methods of Energy Psychology (particularly Emotional Freedom Technique), I felt guided to develop a similar method that would be congruent with my course, Heart Radiance.

I experimented and researched for over a year, to no avail. I finally realised that my intellect was getting me nowhere, so I turned to my Heart’s intuition for an answer. Months passed, and then one morning while in deep meditation, a brief progression of movements and hand positions arose quite clearly in consciousness.

I interrupted my sitting and faithfully wrote it all down. Thus, “ The Heart Beat Process ” was born, and has undergone no substantial alterations since that day.

“ Heart Beat ” is the functional name of the system, because the intriguing requirement for getting results depends on proper “listening” to the heart beat, like a hen “listens” to her eggs.

Heart Beat is referred to as a “Process” because, upon submitting issues of self-inquiry, they process through the Heart/Intuition in a metamorphic series of statements and movements. Thus, healing (“making whole”) occurs as a result of what we call “The Serendipity Principle;” that is, achieving happy, surprising outcomes without mental contrivance.

In the first months following Heart Beat’s inception, much research was conducted.

Many students of Heart Radiance stepped forward to put their issues through the Process, enthusiastically participating in some of the original discoveries. In addition, we formed a special study group which researched more intensively over a period of several months.

These volunteers became the first group of Certified Practitioners. Conclusions are still maturing, but useful consensus is already emerging from ongoing observations.

Heart Beat is primarily intended as an adjunct to personal growth, oriented toward inner discovery and the integration of all parts of ourselves.

The hallmark of Heart Beat is the insistence on “heart-listening” as a way of arriving at an intuitive resolution. The optimumapplication is the broad category of Self-Inquiry.

My intention in making Heart Beat available to the community is to assist individuals with the mastery of Intentional Compassion by directly addressing the ordinary issues of doubt, alienation, and negativity, which leave the average person feeling perennially unresolved and unfulfilled. Heart Beat works quickly and effectively with a facilitator, or as a self-help tool.

The beauty of Heart Beat is its brevity and, at the same time, its comprehensiveness.

Socrates stated, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Heart Beat offers a fresh opportunity for compassionate self-inquiry, and a new ray of hope for that vast majority of people who live the unexamined life simply because they’ve somehow forgotten the rhythm of love that naturally beckons us… with every heart beat.

--Mas Rogers