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GREGG BRADEN: My name's Gregg Braden.

And I'd like to welcome you to this very special presentation

of "Missing Links, the Deep Truth of our Origin, History,

Destiny and Fate".

In the last episode, we discovered

how the best science of the 20th and now the 21st century

has overturned the key tenet of Darwin's idea of evolution,

survival of the strongest.

Now we know that nature is actually

based upon a model of cooperation and mutual aid, not

the competition and conflict and the struggle

that we've been led to believe in the past.

Well, in this episode we'll take this idea one step further.

We'll explore the science, the new science that

takes our personal connection to the earth to the most

intimate level yet.

And it all begins with what you've already learned,

the harmony between our heart and our brain.

Throughout this series, there have

been some common themes that have

woven each episode together.

One of those themes is that we are living a time of extremes,

a rare convergence of cycles that are changing our world

and the way that we need to think and live in our world.

Another theme is that those who have come before us,

our ancestors, they understood these cycles of time

and they understood that they would

need to change their lives in order to embrace

that change in a healthy way.

And they left us the keys to help us to do that in our time

today.

And another one of those themes is

that we are the product of something that

is so mysterious in our past.

It is the union, the merging, the fusion

of DNA, the DNA that makes us who we are,

human chromosome number 2, and the fusion of those telomeres

that created within us the ability to experience life

in this world in a way that no other life can experience

in this world, the ability to tap our intuition on demand,

to access our subconscious on demand,

to turn on our immune response, to tap that anti-aging hormone

response, and much, much more.

One of the pieces that we have not yet talked about

is something that I want to share with you right now.

And although that we're sharing it

at this point in the program, it is

a principle that applies to every episode that we've had

so far.

It's all about resilience.

Resilience is our ability to embrace big change

in a healthy way.

When we talk about personal resilience,

you can actually think of it as the batteries.

You can think of it as the emotional batteries,

the psychological batteries, even the physical batteries

in your body, and the charge that

needs to be maintained so that you can respond to life

in a healthy, in a healthy way when the universe brings

change right to your doorstep.

Now we don't always know what's going to happen in the world.

And we can't always determine what the world

is going to bring to us.

But we can, with absolute certainty,

determine how we respond to what the world shows to us.

Because as we master the potential

for tremendous super resilience within ourselves,

we feel confident.

It gives us the confidence that we

can embrace whatever change the world brings

to us in a healthy way and we can do it again and again

and again.

So I want to be really clear with you

about where I'm coming from on this.

You already have resilience in your life.

We all do.

You have the resilience that's helped you,

to this moment in your life, to deal with whatever changes life

has brought to you.

But if you can think of resilience as a curve,

what researchers tell us is that we embrace change typically

in a way that follows a curve in a very specific way over about

a 60-day period.

When we're faced with a new challenge in our lives,

something unexpected comes up, the caring for an aging parent,

for example, the loss of a loved one,

those are negative experiences, but it

can be positive experiences.

The embracing of a new job, the embracing of a new discovery

and carrying that discovery out in the stages all

over the world.

All of those require resilience.

Here's what the researchers tell us.

In that curve of resilience, typically when

we're faced with a new challenge, good or bad, what

we do is about the first 10 days of that challenge,

we're up for it.

We've got the emotional, the psychological

and the physical energy.

And the curve is a steep curve.

It looks like this.

Something begins to happen after about that 10 days.

Because we cannot sustain that level of intensity for long

periods of time, typically-- everyone's different--

typically, we begin to plateau.

We see that plateau and our energy levels even out.

And if we are not trained, if we don't

know how to manage that resilience,

our energy levels begin to drop off very quickly,

and we call it emotional exhaustion.

Now I know this personally in my own life.

My mother's health has declined.

And it happened faster than I expected it to happen,

and it happened sooner in life.

I always thought we'd have a lot more time together.

I'm a researcher.

I'm a scientist.

I'm a scholar.

So when I first saw the signs of what was happening with my mom,

I was all over the information.

I was on the internet every night,

researching what's been discovered, what can we do.

Is there anything that we can do?

And I followed this curve almost to a T.

That first week or 10 days, my energy levels,

tremendously high.

Then I began to plateau.

And I could feel it in my body.

But here's the key.

Where some people would drop off quickly

with emotional exhaustion, I had the benefit

of the tools that you now have, as well.

Because the heart-brain harmony that we have already

experienced and that you've learned the techniques

for in previous episodes, that is

the harmony that also gives us greater resilience in life.

I practice, in my life, what I share with you.

And because I did, this is the result.

While you still have a curve of resilience,

the heart-brain harmony allows us to raise

that curve in our life.

It allows us to sustain, in a healthy way, the way

that we are dealing with that change.

And it all comes down to how we deal with resilience

and what it actually means in our lives.

And this is what I want to talk to you about right now.

Because this idea of resilience, it means different things

to different people.

I want to get right to the heart of resilience.

Not surprisingly, resilience begins in your heart.

It begins in the human heart.

If you've ever been to a doctor and you've

had an electrocardiogram, used to be called an EKG,

today they're called ECGs, but they are still

the electrocardiogram.

It's the electrical printout of your heartbeat.

And that printout will show you a series of patterns.

The pattern has a little squiggle

and then it has a big spike and then it

drops and some more little squiggles, a big spike,

and then it drops.

Those little squiggles, that big spike, and the drop

is called the QRS complex.

Q, the letter Q, letter R, and the letter S complex.

And the R is the spike, the R wave.

Typically, if we don't know what we're looking for--

and I see people do this all the time--

if we don't know what we're looking for

and you're lying there on the cot in the doctor's office

and you turn your head, because you

want to see what your EKG looks like,

and we typically are expecting this very regular rhythm.

We're saying, is my heartbeat regular?

What you're looking for is how much time

elapses from the peak of one R wave to the next.

How much time, how quickly one spike happens

and then the next spike and the next spike.

Well, we typically are looking for this regularity.

But the truth is, that's probably the last thing

that you really want.

And here's the reason why.

Resilience is all about the variability, not

the regularity.

The more variability that you have

from one R wave to the next, from one peak to the next

to the next, the more variability

you have, the greater your resilience to life.

The more heart rate variability you have,

the greater your resilience to life.

And it is actually called heart rate variability,

or abbreviated H-R-V.

So this heart rate variability, this idea of heart rate

variability, it changes throughout our lives.

It changes over time.

But I want you to know right now,

you are not locked into that change.

You are not bound to the change that we commonly see in people

as they get older.

It can happen if we do not do anything to change our heart

rate variability.

So when we are young, when we first come into this world,

we have to figure out things really quickly.

We've got to respond to the world really quickly.

And nature gives us a way to do that.

And we do it by having high heart rate variability.

When you first come into this world,

you've got to figure stuff out fast.

You have to figure out, for example,

that not every dog in every living room is as friendly,

maybe, as the dog in your living room.

And you've got to figure out when a stove top is hot

and when it's not.

Because sometimes it's hot, but it's not glowing red,

and you don't always know when that's going to be.

You've got to figure that stuff out really quickly.

So nature gives you high heart rate variability early in life.

And this is typically what we see.

The younger that people are, we generally

see more of this heart rate variability.

But here's what happens.

As we get older--

and I know you've heard this term before--

as we get older, the tendency is that we become set in our ways.

Or another way to think of that is we

become rigid in our thinking.

We expect the world to behave in certain ways.

We expect people to do things in a certain way.

And that expectation, the emotional expectation

of the world being the way it has always been,

translates into the rhythm of our heart.

When we become rigid in our thinking and our expectation,

our heartbeat becomes more regular

and we lose the variability.

We lose our heart rate variability.

And this is why change is often hard for older people.

Not always, but it can be.

Tell you, one of the most amazing examples of this for me

was my grandfather.

I was very close to my grandfather.

My father left my family when I was 10 years old.

I didn't know him very well.

And I became closer to my grandfather

than I ever was to my father, because I knew him longer,

and we shared deeply, deep talks,

deep conversations about the world

and the experiences of life.

And my grandfather lived until he was 96 years old.

And I wasn't with him the moment that he

died during his 96th year, but I was with him the week

that he passed.

I didn't know that he was going to pass.

He seemed OK when I saw him.

But I had a sense, maybe something was going on.

And I asked him.

I happened to ask him on that last visit,

I said, grandpa, you're 96 years old,

you've seen 96 years of change in this world.

What has it meant to you?

What can you tell me?

And he looked at me with this look that he always had.

And when he would smile, his ears would wiggle.

I remember it.

And I miss that.

But what he said to me, smiled, his ears wiggled a little bit,

and he said, Gregg, there was a time when this world made sense

to me.

He said, there was a time that I felt like I belonged.

I understood the world.

I understood how things worked.

I understood the people around me and the way they think,

because they think the way that I was thinking.

He said, but then something changed.

Something began to happen.

And it was right around the time of World War II.

And I wasn't surprised when I heard the timing,

because war typically propels us with innovation

and new technology and new discoveries

and new inventions that quickly are

embraced by the general public.

And that's exactly what happened in World War II.

All of a sudden, we had technology

we had never had before.

And my grandfather could never keep up with that technology.

He couldn't understand, for example, simple things.

He couldn't understand how you put a piece of paper

into a fax machine in an office in one city

and that piece of paper comes out,

and all the information is there on the fax

machine in another city.

It didn't make sense to him.

Because digital data never made sense to him.

Lasers didn't make sense to him.

Coherent light waves didn't make sense.

The way that jet planes fly, in his lifetime,

he went from no planes to jumbo jets,

and he could never understand how something that big

could move in the air and contain the fuel that it takes

to move fast enough to do that.

He said, I got lost.

He said, Gregg, I got lost in my world.

He said, I'm no longer a part of this world.

It doesn't make sense to me any longer.

And at the end of that week, my grandfather died.

And he died feeling like a stranger in his own world.

And then maybe that feeling contributed

to why he was no longer here.

He didn't have the feeling and the connection

and the will to be here any longer.

So I'm saying this to you, because change was hard

for my grandfather, always very hard for my grandfather.

He was so rigid in his thinking.

He wanted the world to be the way it was before World War II,

before all those changes happened.

And he used to fight that change.

His heart rate variability, no surprise,

when I went with him to the doctor

and I would see that EKG, his heart rate variability

looked like endless squiggles.

They weren't the big, deep heart waves of someone

who's younger can embrace the change in a healthy way.

It was the heartbeat of someone who's lived to see a long life

and is struggling with accepting and embracing the world

as it is now being presented to him.

So heart rate variability.

How do we change that?

Well, the good news is you can.

You can change at any time in life.

My grandfather, if he had chosen,

could have embraced that heart rate variability

in his life and the ability to change his own heart

rate variability.

And how do you do that?

As I mentioned just a moment ago, you already know how.

When we harmonize our heart and our brain

together, when we shift our awareness and know our heart,

number one, when we slow our breathing to about five

seconds in, five seconds out, and we

breathe as if that breath is coming from our heart, number

two, and we begin to feel the feelings of coherence,

the feelings of gratitude, appreciation, compassion, care,

those kinds of feelings, and we establish

the communication between the heart and the brain--

0.1 Hertz is the talk between the heart and the brain--

when you can feel the feelings create 0.1 Hertz,

you're harmonizing your heart and your brain.

And in addition to everything else that we've already said,

in addition to all of the other benefits of intuition

and subconscious access and all of those things,

super learning, triggering the immune response,

triggering your anti-aging hormones,

in addition to all of those things,

you are creating more resilience in your life.

The more you practice this technique, the greater

resilience you have in your life.

So I'd like to take this conversation now

to an even deeper level.

By going deeper, it's going to also go global.

Because what we now know is that the act of us having

this experience, this heart-brain harmony, not only

does it create coherence within our bodies,

it is also the key to creating coherence

in the field that connects all things.

And as you'll see in a moment, that

can be a really good thing.

Personal coherence is good.

We're talking about global coherence,

and that's really good.

There is a magnetic field that surrounds our planet.

And this magnetic field, the magnetic field of the Earth, it

permeates all things.

Everything is part of this magnetic field, every blade

of grass, every hamster, every goldfish, every CEO

of every corporation, every leader of every nation,

when it comes to the magnetic fields of the Earth,

there is no them and us, there is only we.

And that means we are all connected by this field.

And what happens in this field is

really important for all of us.

It's important to you and to me.

And it's important to the scientists of the world who

monitor these kinds of things.

So right now, there are two satellites

in the northern hemisphere.

And these are satellites whose sole purpose

is to monitor the magnetic fields of the Earth that

connect all things.

We want to know what's happening to those fields.

The fields ebb and flow over time.

And we're also discovering now that these magnetic fields

of the Earth that influence life on Earth

are influenced by things that are not

on Earth, like solar cycles.

Earlier in this program, in our very first episode,

you saw this.

You saw how scientists were able to determine,

as the solar cycles ebb and flow over time,

that human ingenuity, human creativity, and big things

that humans have created are directly

linked to the solar cycles.

The cycles of innovation parallel the cycles of the sun

as they ebb and flow.

So you saw this.

But what you did not see is why this happens.

Now that we've talked about the magnetic fields of the Earth,

it's going to make perfect sense.

Because the solar cycles are also

based upon magnetic fields, but they're on the sun.

When we talk about sunspots, what

we see as sunspots from the earth,

those spots are actually magnetic fields on the sun.

The sun, our sun, does not have a north and south pole,

like the Earth does, like Mars and some of the other planets.

Our sun doesn't have a single north and south pole.

What it has is many north and south poles

that are specific to each magnetic field,

or what we call magnetic storm that is happening on the sun.

So when the sun goes through a period of time

where the sunspot cycle is high, it

means there are a lot of magnetic storms on the sun,

so it's not surprising that would

influence the magnetic fields of the Earth.

This is where the biology comes into it.

The strongest magnetic field in your body, the strongest

biological magnetic field is not in your brain,

it's in your heart.

Your brain has a magnetic field.

The heart is much, much stronger.

So now we're seeing a link.

Magnetic fields of the sun, magnetic fields of the Earth,

magnetic fields of the heart.

Now you can see why we would be influenced

by these solar cycles.

So this relationship is one of the reasons

that scientists are interested in tracking

what it is that's happening in the magnetic fields

of the Earth.

Well, this is another place where

our conversation about the false assumptions of science

is going to be really important and it

comes into play with why what I'm about to describe to you

was a mystery originally to scientists.

It took a tragedy, unfortunately,

for scientists to really wake up to how deep this connection is

between us and the magnetic fields of the Earth,

between our hearts and the magnetic fields of the Earth.

The information that comes back from these satellites,

it is charted every day, two satellites,

called the geosynchronous orbital satellites, or GOES,

G-O-E-S, for short.

We have GOES number one and GOES number two.

What you're seeing on your screen

is a chart that shows these magnetic fields being

plotted as a result of what the satellites have sent to us.

And each box represents a 24-hour period of time.

So you can see, every 24 hours, they ebb, they flow, they ebb

and they flow.

Scientists know this.

One of the satellite's data is in red,

the other one is in blue.

One day, as scientists were watching this data,

there was a huge spike that happened.

And the scientists are saying, we've never seen that before,

what on Earth?

And what on Earth is happening to the magnetic fields

of the Earth to create this spike?

So they took the data and they overlaid it

onto a calendar of time.

So they could see what date that spike occurred.

And it's probably no surprise to you,

because I've referenced this in the past.

It was a big surprise to the scientists.

That spike happened at 9:00 AM Eastern Standard

Time, September 11, 2001, 15 minutes

after the first plane hit the first tower of the World Trade

Center.

The reason this is important is because scientists believe

it took about 15 minutes for the images of the tragedy

to travel through the media, through the satellites

and the televisions, all around the world for people to see,

and that the magnetic spike that we

were seeing from the satellites measuring Earth's field

was actually the result of hundreds of thousands, probably

millions or even billions of people

watching the data in the same moment in time simultaneously.

Hundreds of thousands, millions or billions of people

are watching the tragedy through the media,

and they are having a heart-based response

to what they're seeing, an emotional response.

Now a lot of different responses, some were angry,

some were afraid, some were saddened.

The key is they were all heart-based experiences.

All of a sudden, from a purely physics point of view,

we have hundreds, possibly millions

of human magnetic fields from the heart

that are now collectively feeding

the greater magnetic field of the Earth, spiking that field.

Now this is a surprise to scientists,

because their conditioning, as you

saw earlier in this episode, or earlier in this series,

is that we are separate from the Earth.

And if we're separate, there's no way

that humans could influence the magnetic field of the planet.

So scientists weren't expecting this.

This was the wake up call that said, my god,

look, not only are we connected, but we're

so deeply connected that we can influence the magnetic field

of an entire planet.

Here's why that's important.

If you remember what happened on the Earth,

in major population centers all over the world, at least

for the first few days after 9/11,

there was more cooperation, there was more harmony.

We were truly a family, at least for a couple of days.

People looked at one another on the streets of major cities.

They made eye contact.

They hugged one another.

We felt like families, one of the most peaceful times

in recent times, in modern times,

in the history of the world.

Why did that happen?

Scientists attribute that harmony

to the spike in the magnetic fields of the Earth.

And here's why.

When the magnetic fields are strong,

people are less aggressive, people are more cooperative,

they're more willing to work together

to solve their problems.

When the magnetics are weak, people become more aggressive,

conflict becomes more available.

Doesn't mean it has to happen, but there's

more of a tendency toward that.

When those magnetic fields are low, we are more aggressive.

So the elevation of the magnetic fields

created a temporary aura of peace upon the Earth.

And that was the trigger to scientists.

They said, can we duplicate the effect

without having the tragedy?

Can we create a strong magnetic field on the earth

without having something sad and horrible

to elicit this experience in people's hearts?

Well, the answer is, yes.

And that's where we're going with this whole exercise

that we're talking about here.

I mentioned earlier the Institute

of HeartMath, the pioneering research

institute in northern California,

studying the human heart in non-conventional ways

that typically aren't even acknowledged

in many universities and medical schools.

They're the ones that discovered the magnetic field of the heart

is so much stronger than the brain

and that the heart has this intuitive ability

to learn and think and sense and feel and remember,

separate from the brain itself.

So it's not surprising that the Institute of HeartMath

would be the ones to pioneer the study

that I'm about to share with you.

And for transparency, I want to be very, very clear

on my relationship to HeartMath.

I am not their employee.

I have been closely affiliated with HeartMath

for almost 20 years now, almost since their inception

on the West Coast.

We are friends.

We've toured together.

We share information together.

They've given me permission to share their research with you

in this program.

And I am on the steering committee for a project

that I'm going to share with you right now, because I believe

in it and I think it hold perhaps the greatest

hope for peace and harmony in our world today.

It is called the Global Coherence Initiative,

or shortened to GCI.

Personal coherence is good.

Global coherence is really good.

What the Global Coherence Initiative is telling

us is that strong collective emotion

has a measurable impact on the magnetic fields of the Earth.

That's a fact, and we know that now.

So what HeartMath opted to do was two things, two phases.

First, to build a project, and I'm

going to read the mission statement word for word

to you for this project, to build a project

to create that coherence and to be

able to measure the coherence in a scientific way,

so that we know when we're effective.

Here's the mission statement for this project.

The Global Coherence Project is the first

of its kind science-based initiative

that is designed for only one purpose.

The purpose is "to unite millions of people

from varied beliefs and varied cultures,

from all over the world, to shift global consciousness

from instability and chaos to balance and cooperation."

This is the first of its kind, science-based initiative that

is designed solely for the purpose of what I've just

shared with you.

Its only reason for existing is to create harmony and balance

in the conscious fields that connect all things.

And that begins in the magnetic fields that connect all things.

The thinking is this-- it's a very simple model--

but HeartMath's thinking is that when

we can create personal coherence in our own lives, in our homes,

in our families, with our children,

in the workplace and the classroom,

that we begin to build social coherence,

because that harmony is reflected in those around us.

And if we do this on a large enough scale,

it becomes the global coherence that

gives us the environment to keep this

going in our personal lives.

It's much easier to live this kind of coherence

when we are surrounded by other people that

share the same belief.

So the Global Coherence Initiative was born.

GCI.

It is two phases.

The first phase is the scientific documentation,

the instrumentation that allows scientists for the first time

to measure these fields independently

of any other organization.

This is not linked to a weather satellite or communications

satellite or a military satellite.

We wanted to build the sensors to be

able to tell us what the fields of the Earth are really doing.

Satellites are expensive.

So HeartMath opted to build ground-based sensors.

And what you're seeing on your screen right now,

this is the image of one of the first sensors,

as it was large, about four feet tall, and a little awkward.

It worked very well.

But as happens so often, the innovation

moved quickly to much smaller sensors.

And now the sensors are actually based in the ground.

And the image you're seeing on your screen

is the ground-based image of what that actually looks like.

The sensors are still being built, the network,

but right now, there's one in northern California,

one on the East Coast in New York.

There's one in the UK, one in Saudi Arabia,

and there is one right now in New Zealand.

This is the network so far.

Additional sensors are proposed, but with what we have so far,

we're able to bring back data every day, just like you're

seeing on your screen.

And this is telling us when the fields of the Earth are quiet

and when they're active.

This is telling us when we are in coherence

and when we're not.

The beauty of this entire project

is that we now have a tool, using the best

science of the modern world, based

on the wisdom of 5,000 years of human experience, that hearkens

back to our most ancient and cherished spiritual traditions,

that tells us if we can find a way

to marry our heart and our brain together,

in doing so we create the field of peace and harmony

in our world that actually encourages

the cooperation that it takes to bring nations together

in our time of extremes.

I can't think of anything more beautiful,

a more beautiful symmetry.

The knowledge of our intimate connection

with the Earth that's come from the Global Coherence

Initiative, it empowers us in a way that's never been possible

in the modern world.

And for me, this is what gives me a reason to be optimistic.

It gives me the realistic hope that together, we'll

create the best possible world and that we'll

see that world in our lifetime.

I hope you have enjoyed watching this program as much as I've

enjoyed creating this program.

And I want to thank you for joining me

for "Missing Links: The Deep Truth of our Origin, History,

Destiny and Fate".

[THEME MUSIC]

Hello, my name's Gregg Braden.

I want to take this opportunity to thank you for watching

this very first season of Missing Links

and I just hope you have enjoyed watching it

as much as I have enjoyed putting this together

I have spent a tremendous amount of time and energy

sifting through a tremendous amount of information,

weaving it into the story that I just shared with you

through this series.

It's our story. It's about you and me.

It's the new human story, and we are just beginning.

So I'm going to invite you to stay tuned

for these future episodes.

We're going to do more of the Q&A where you get to ask me

the questions about what you have just learned

through this series means to you and your life

So until next time, I want to thank you

for joining me on Missing Links.