The Vertical Energetic Axis: At the Heart Center (Part 3 of 8 in the "Living a Higher Octave" Series)
The center of the chest is at the mid-point of a subtle, yet real, vertical axis and is influenced by the heart. When it comes to studying and understanding the heart’s contribution to sensing the energy field in and around us, there was groundbreaking research through The Institutes of HeartMath.
HeartMath’s research spans decades, validating what mystics and healers have long intuited: that the heart is not justas an organ, but its equally important as a source of intelligent energy and measurable coherence.
Here’s what they found:
- The human heart generates the largest electromagnetic field in the body—one that can be detected several feet away.
- When we enter states of appreciation, compassion, and gratitude, our heart rhythm becomes coherent—producing harmonious, sine-wave-like patterns.
- These coherent heart signals send feedback to the brain, improving cognitive clarity, emotional regulation, intuition, and resilience.
- Heart coherence also appears to influence those around us—suggesting that our internal state is interpersonal.
HeartMath’s Core Premise
The heart and brain are in constant dialogue, and that by consciously shifting into heart coherence, we activate a higher intelligence—one that harmonizes mind, body, and environment.
HeartMath’s mission was to demystifying this natural process so we can get a handle on how to allow it to uplift our life experience.
They offer reproducible, scientifically-backed tools that help us navigate stress, elevate emotional wellbeing, and enter coherent states of being—for our own benefit and the benefit of the collective.
Their work opened the door to something profound:
Our emotional frequency affects not just our mood, but our physiology, cognition, relationships, and even the larger energetic field in and around us.
Why Heart Coherence Matters
If you’ve never heard of HeartMath, start by placing your hand on your heart. Try this:
- Breathe slowly. Invite gratitude, compassion, or care to suffuse your awareness.
- Notice how your entire energetic field shifts.
- This is heart/brain coherence.
As you repeat this throughout the day, and make it a practice, HeartMath’s research shows profound physiological, mental, emotional, and spiritual changes begin to become established. They’ve practiced this method with all ages across the world for decades, with reliable, life-enhancing results.
The HeartMath Institute has shown that when we enter heart-coherent states—gratitude, compassion, care—the electromagnetic field of the heart becomes ordered and harmonious. It radiates with more amplitude and more clarity. It entrains the brain, calms the nervous system, and can even influence those around us.
This bio-electromagnetic and measurable data explains what we feel while in heart-brain coherence.
As this process becomes natural and is repeated as a new baseline, many people report that they feel an energetic shift into an elevated harmonic which begins to settle into their daily experience. HeartMath’s research is a beautiful bridge to support this kind of shift. It confirms that what’s happening in our bodies—our intuition, deep sensing, and subtle knowing—is not an experience arising from an over-active imagination. It's real, measurable, and deeply connected to the intelligence of the unified field of all-that-is.
This harmonic elevation isn’t just about regulating stress. It’s about awakening coherence with the Unified field as a way of living.
A Symphony is Playing and You Are Part of It
Imagine your heart and mind as a musical instrument. When you practice things like meditation, breath work, or heart-brain coherence, you’re tuning that instrument. You feel calmer, clearer, and more connected.
But once you’re in tune—what are you playing into?
The next movement of this symphony isn’t about personal alignment anymore. It’s about how your song joins the music of life itself. This gets interesting.
1. From Personal Peace to Field Awareness
You begin to feel that your inner state touches more than just your inner world. Your joy brightens the space while your sorrow dims it. This is resonance. You're not just a person with energy—you're part of a shared field. Your presence helps tune the emotional and energetic environment around you.
2. Your Thoughts Are Sound waves
At deeper octaves of awareness, thoughts aren’t just private whispers inside your head—they ripple like waves, interacting with the world around you. Some harmonize while others clash. You begin to feel how clear, loving intention shapes your relationships, your day, and even time itself. Life responds to inner harmony.
3. Life Becomes a Fractal Mirror
Patterns begin to reveal themselves.
- A conversation echoes a dream from the night before.
- A chance encounter feels like a response to a question you hadn’t asked aloud.
- A song lyric answers a question.
- An ordinary object triggers latent memory about your connection to the natural world.
Rather than “signs” in the mystical sense, they are part of a deeper rhythm.These arefractal reflections. Your life starts to echo itself at different scales. You see how personal patterns reflect into family, community, and even collective movements.
This is what we call nested layers of participation. You’re not just living life—you’re resonating with it, on all levels of reality.
4. You Are the Tuning Fork Now
At this point, your role shifts. You move beyond seeking balance for yourself; you're becoming a stabilizing tone (signal) in the collective. Your language, your choices, your attention—these are all ways you shape the field. This does not happen by force or belief. Resonant integrity has come to the foreground of your reality.
You are no longer seeking peace… You are peace, becoming action.
5. Living by Resonance, Rather than Control
Instead of pushing to make things happen, you begin to listen. You feel when something is in harmony, and when to speak, move, and rest. You navigate life through attunement—like reading the waves of a sea, or the harmonics of a song you can’t quite hear, but deeply feel.
In Everyday Life:
- Relationships feel like musical duets. You notice when you're in tune—and when the tuning needs your attention and care.
- Decisions become less about right or wrong, and more about what deepens alignment with the whole.
- Spiritual practice expands from inner healing to outer coherence—as you become a source of resonance that gently supports others.
Why This Emerges After Heart-Brain Coherence
Heart-brain coherence is like learning to tune your instrument.
What follows is not a level of frequency to climb or any other hierarchal system. Instead, it’s accessing an expanded field to play within..
You begin to:
- Harmonize with wider layers of life,
- Read the subtle rhythms of meaning in your experience,
- Offer your resonance in service of something larger than self.
You can see this as participation in wider, deeper layers of consciousness.
How Does Love fit into This?
Love is a unifying resonance—it harmonizes systems, reduces entropy, and restores connection. It’s the field that draws atoms together into molecules, people into communities, and galaxies into spirals.
In quantum terms, you might say love is coherence across distance. In spiritual terms, love is the force that reminds us we are not separate. And in living systems, love is what allows a forest to breathe as one organism.
So yes—love is a part of the science I study. Not because it reduces mystery, but because it reveals that mystery has structure and our longing to belong is mirrored in the very fabric of the cosmos.
When we feel pure love—unattached, awake, and alive—we are participating in the most intelligent force the universe has ever known.
Coming Next
This post is the second part of our exploration of 3-layers of your invisible Vertical Axis—the central channel of inner alignment and harmonic intelligence.
In the upcoming post, we’ll dive deeply into the Belly as part of the Vertical Axis—your instinctive interface with quantum timing and spaciousness.
This is all part of the Living a Higher Octave series—a journey toward embodied presence, subtle coherence, and relational resonance with the living energy field of all-that-is.
Until next time, consider applying HeartMath techniques or anything in the post that you feel will build coherence with the field and elevate your sense of steady presence within it. There are activities for kids (and inquisitive adults) below.
Allow your exploration to trigger inherent memory of who you are at your core… notice how this subtle axis is already with you—rather than a learned technique or something you cannot tune into naturally. You are simply engaging in a return to coherence, quiet power, and to your unique tone (the signal you emit to the infinite quantum energy field).
You don’t need to become more. Just allow for more coherence with the field to rise naturally and watch for the expansion of your life experience that follows.
See you soon,
P. S. For parents who want to introduce today’s subject to children ages 5 to 8-years-old (activities for ages 9-12 can be found further below). This packet can also be a tool for homeschooling practice.
Heart Coherence & Tone Activity Packet for Ages 5–8
Created by Lee Kemter
Introduction for Parents & Educators
Welcome to this playful and soulful resource designed to help children ages 5–8 explore their innate energy, presence, and “tone” in the world. This resource offers “science that sparks wonder”—ideas your child can feel, not just memorize.
The activities, illustrations, and guided games in this packet are rooted in both child-accessible science and mystical wonder—centered around what HeartMath calls “heart coherence,” a state of calm, compassion, and emotional balance. When children practice simple awareness of their heart and breath, they begin to feel safe, empowered, and tuned in to something greater than themselves.
You can use this packet as part of homeschooling, spiritual education, emotional development, or family bonding. It supports:
• Emotional regulation and self-awareness
• Parent-child connection
• Creative exploration of energy and tone (the signal to and from the energy field around them)
• A grounded introduction to energetic presence and subtle awareness
Group or solo: These activities work beautifully one-on-one or in small family or learning pods.
What is “tone”? Your child will come to understand that tone is the unique feeling of who they are when they are calm, kind, and in harmony with their heart. Like a musical note they carry with them, their tone touches the world around them.
Activity: Heart & Breath Connection
What You Need: Just your hands and a moment of quiet.
1. Sit with your child and place your hand over your own heart.
2. Ask your child to place their hand over their heart.
3. Breathe in slowly through the nose, and out through the mouth, like you are blowing out birthday candles.
4. Say softly: “Can you feel your heartbeat?”
5. Invite them to think of something or someone they love.
6. Breathe together for 3–5 minutes.
What They Might Notice: A warm or calm feeling, a smile, a sense of quiet inside.“Color the Feeling Field” (Group Drawing Game)
• Each child closes their eyes and thinks of a heart-feeling (calm, love, courage).
• One at a time, they draw a swirl, shape, or doodle representing that feeling in a
large shared circle (on paper or board).
• Watch how everyone’s shapes blend into a shared “feeling field.”
“Heart Signal” Tag
• A quiet game like freeze tag, but you can only unfreeze someone by placing your
hand gently near their heart and saying a kind word.
• Children become aware of how kindness changes the “field” and helps others
come alive again.
🖍 Coloring Pages: The Heart Center
“Glowing Heart”
“My Heart Is a Lighthouse”
Each sheet shows the heart glowing and radiating waves of light. These visual metaphors help children focus on heart-based awareness. As they color, ask:
“What color feels like your heart?”
“Can you imagine your heart sending love like light?”
“If you were a “lighthouse of love,” how bright would your light be?”
“What happens when your heart glows quietly inside you?”
Family Bonding Game: Magic Forest Walk
Go outside together for a slow, silent walk. Tell your child:
“We’re walking through a magic forest. Every tree, flower, and stone can feel our tone. Let’s walk with soft steps and happy (calm, or any other feeling you choose) hearts.”
Encourage them to notice how their breath and heart feel as they move. Ask them afterward:
• Did anything feel different today?
• What kind of feeling did you give to the trees?
• Can you feel the trees smiling back?
Family Game: “Glow Together”
What You Need: A dim room or evening light and a flashlight (or paper “glow wand” that kids make)
1. Each person takes turns “lighting up” someone with the flashlight while saying something kind about them.
2. Then, the receiver closes their eyes and imagines their heart glowing brighter with each kind word.
3. The light is passed until everyone has had a turn.
Why This Matters: It teaches children how love and attention affect their field—and that their words are energy. Bonus: it’s fun and emotionally bonding.
Guidance for Parents & A Homeschooling Aid
This resource is meant to bridge child-accessible science (like HeartMath’s decades of research) with the mystery of children’s innate energy field. It gives you simple ways to:
• Support your child’s emotional and energetic awareness
• Cultivate family practices of presence and coherence
• Introduce energy literacy through play
A Few Scientific Touch Points
• The heart emits the strongest electromagnetic field in the body
• Feelings of gratitude, compassion, and calm create harmonious heart rhythms (coherence)
• Coherence improves resilience, brain function, and emotional regulation
Your child’s tone (their unique signal) influences you, their environment, and the shared family field
Keep This in Mind
These activities are invitations to explore coherence, connection, and inner steadiness.
This is a hands-on, collaborative way for your child to begin their lifelong relationship with tone, resonance, and their unique light. The unseen quantum field can become more accessible, real ,and fun… with a little open-hearted play and wonder-filled exploration.
May the vertical energy axis and our heart become more meaningful for all of us.
P.S.S. For ages 9 and older: Explore the heart of the vertical energetic axis with this guidebook:
Introduction for Parents & Educators
Children ages 9–12 are developing emotional independence, abstract thinking, and a growing sense of identity. These activities help strengthen resilience, emotional awareness, and energetic integrity in playful, practical ways.
This packet offers tools that support:
- Emotional self-regulation and reflection
- Energy awareness and creative expression
- Empathic relationships with family, nature, and animals
Guided Practice: Heart Coherence + Thought Awareness
Introduce the idea that thoughts and feelings can ‘tune’ the heart’s signal. Offer this 5-minute practice for self-regulation:
1. Sit quietly and place one or both hands over your heart.
2. Breathe slowly, in and out.
3. Think of something that makes you feel grateful or calm.
4. Notice how your body and thoughts begin to shift.
5. Journal responses to these questions:
- What does my heart feel like right now?
- What kind of thoughts bring me peace?
- When I breathe slowly, what changes in my body?
Creative Activity: Draw Your Heart Signal
Draw what your energy feels like when you’re kind, peaceful, or excited. Use metaphorical images—like a glowing forest, lighthouse, river, or sunburst.
Exploration: Your Brain Listens to Your Heart
Did you know your heart sends more messages to your brain than the other way around?
When your heart is calm and coherent, your brain works better and your body feels better. Even animals can feel your heart energy.
Group Game: Heart Signal Detective
Sit in a circle. One child silently sends a calm or caring feeling to the group. Others guess what it is. Like ‘charades’ with emotions—this builds subtle empathy and energetic sensitivity.
Outdoor Practice: Listening Walk
Go on a quiet nature walk. Encourage children to tune into the environment. Afterward, journal:
- What did I feel from the world around me?
- What was my tone today?
- Did the forest/sky/creek feel different after our walk?
🖍️ Coloring Pages (Four Options)
“My Heart Signal Travels Far”
- If my heart could send a message to the world, what would it say?
- How can I help someone feel peace using only my presence?
Family Game: Heart Signal Journal Share
Each family member writes or draws how their heart feels today. Take turns sharing or guessing each other’s ‘signal.’ This activity builds family resonance and emotional closeness.
Guidance for Parents & Homeschoolers
Children in this age group love to feel capable and trusted. These practices support emerging emotional maturity, self-awareness, and the desire to contribute to a larger world.
HeartMath’s research shows:
- The heart produces the strongest electromagnetic field in the body
- Gratitude and calm create harmonious heart rhythms
- Heart coherence supports better decision-making, empathy, and resilience
- Children’s energy and tone affect the whole family system
Wishing you tons of fun in your exploration,