Contemplative investigation into Christ consciousness with Heart Prayer and HeartMath practices

Stephen D Edwards,David J Edwards

doi:10.4102/hts.v73i3.4537

Abstract

An exploratory pilot study with a small homogenous sample of Christian English speaking participants (four men and four women, with a mean age of 48 and age range from 27 to 70 years) provided support for an alternative research hypothesis that a Christ consciousness contemplation with Heart Prayer of HeartMath techniques was significantly associated with increasing psychophysiological coherence, sense of coherence, spirituality and health perceptions. Participants described feelings of a peaceful place in oneness and connection with Christ. Integrative findings point towards Christ consciousness as an ultimately non-dual process of sensing vibrational resonance radiating from the human heart. Implications for further research are discussed.

Highlights

The English Biblical term ‘Christ’ derives from the Greek, ‘Khritos’, the anointed one, or ‘Messiah’ in Hebrew
Findings from all measures provided support for an alternative research hypothesis that the Christ consciousness contemplation with Heart Prayer of HeartMath techniques was associated with increasing psychophysiological coherence, sense of coherence (SOC), spirituality and health as perceived by participants
This is an extremely small sample and no great value can be attached to these findings, the fact that all participants individually increased in all dependent variables and increased significantly as a group on all dependent variables, except for Cohere Achievement Sense of C

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Introduction

The English Biblical term ‘Christ’ derives from the Greek, ‘Khritos’, the anointed one, or ‘Messiah’ in Hebrew. When ‘Christ’ is coupled with ‘consciousness’, perspectives extend with infinite variety, height and depth. These range from orthodox Christianity to integral Christianity and are inclusive of various other interfaith spiritual and religious movements. Teleological, omega point of creative evolution towards which the loving consciousness of the cosmic Christ continually draws all (de Chardin 1959). From this spiritual perspective, the value of contemplation and action on Christ consciousness seems as relevant today as ever

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