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including temperature, changes in policing practices, and
overall violent crime trends. The data yielded some
astonishing results. Overall, the violent crime rate in
Washington DC fell by 48% during the time of the
experiment and the biggest drop came when the most
people were meditating.

Another study looked at the impact of the 9/ 11 terrorist
attacks. Princeton University?s Global Consciousness
Project (GCP) maintains a network of 40 random event
generators (REGs) in cities around the world. Think of an
REG as a computerized coin flipper that spits out 0?s and
1?s instead of heads and tails. In theory an REG should, as
the name implies, produce an unpredictable series of
events regardless of what is happening in outside world.
And like a coin toss, if you flip a coin 10 times, at the end
of the experiment, there will likely be an equal number
heads vs. tails (5-5). The same if true for the REG. It will
produce an equal number of 1?s and 0?s almost every
time.
A team at the GCP examined the data in the period after
the attacks and found a high level of deviations during
that same period. Essentially, the REGs started to ch urn
out number strings in a much more orderly way. Patterns
started to develop where normally there isn?t as more
and more people heard the news and had an emotional
response. This response is believed to be what triggered
the change in the REGs.
These findings support the notion of a global collective
consciousness. The HeartMath Institute has been
investigating this idea for a number of years and they
suggest we?re all connected by a global information field
that sends and receives information.
Not only are we always plugged into this field but we can
also impact how it works. How is this possible? Think
about it for a moment. We know that all frequency
carries information. We see this every day in the form of

our radios, televisions, and cell phones. These
devices all receive invisible electromagnetic
signals across different frequencies that are
sent by a signal of some kind (think an
antenna) and that frequency signal is
translated into sounds or pictures.
What most people don?t know is that our
bodies are capable of doing the same thing.
There is a measurable field of energy that
comes directly from the heart (there is in fact a
magnetic field around our hearts) when we
create loving elevated emotions. Therefore,
by becoming heart-centered, and cultivating
the higher energy emotional states of care,
love, and compassion we are able to generate a
greater level of coherent energy that benefits
both ourselves and the world.

There?s a really simple way to visualize this
idea. What happens when you throw a rock into
a lake? The first thing that happens is a splash
followed by a rippling that spreads across the
smooth surface. The results change depending
upon different variables like the size of the
rock you throw, how high you and how hard
you throw it. Research shows that when you
become heart-centered your heart area
actually creates a broader, more enhanced
magnetic field that can be up to nine meters in
diameter. Put another way, your elevated
emotion is now able to send out more
information, and the longer you can sustain
that emotional state, the more this coherent
energy is broadcasted into a measurable field.
Therefore, by maintaining a heart-centered
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