News at IAM: 1998

Dear fellow-traveler on the heart's path,

Name Change

The organization that you knew as the "PSI Institute, Inc" has changed its name. We are now the Institute for Applied Meditation. We feel this change will better describe what we do - we apply meditation to the challenges of life, helping us to improve our health, our relationships and our accomplishments.

In a few days our email address will change to:
www.appliedmeditation.org

(A little long, but easy to remember.) Our old address, www.psi-institute.org, will continue as an alias.

Our Mission

How does Heart Rhythm Practice differ from other meditation methods? What is the aim of the Institute? Is this a therapy, a business, a religion?

Heart Rhythm Practice is a life-long educational tool for living your life authentically. The Institute for Applied Meditation is a school that teaches the method and explores the results of Heart Rhythm Practice. Our mission is to teach Heart Rhythm Practice to the public so that eventually everyone knows how to:

  • access their heart on demand,
  • heal their heart's wounds,
  • understand what their heart feels,
  • experience the greater heart in which they live, and
  • direct the power of their heart to their relationships and work.
We can bring these ideas to life using a reliable method that feels right and makes sense.

Heart Rhythm Practice is about transforming your world by applying the wisdom of your heart and radiating peace. We teach both that your heart is alive within you and that you live within your heart. The idea is not difficult to understand, but understanding is not enough; we seek to experience it.

Weekend Courses

Since the publishing of the book, "Living from the Heart," we have had an international response and interest in our courses. Consequently, we have augmented our traditional one-night-a-week course in Ipswich with a new weekend course. This course allows you to fly into Boston, get the complete training in Heart Rhythm Practice, stay at a fine, Sheraton resort, and return home before they miss you at work.

We just finished our first weekend course, with new meditators from places like Chicago and Tucson. Our next weekend course is November 14-15, 1998. There won't be another course until 1999, so if you'd like to have this training soon, this is your opportunity. Call 888-310-7881 to discuss it with us.

Web Course

Starting in November, we're launching a new way to learn Heart Rhythm Practice: on-line! If you can't come to Ipswich, then join us on the Internet for a daily check-in and weekly class. The objective is to provide the support and encouragement that a class offers, an orderly presentation of the method, and personal attention to respond to your problems, with maximum convenience. It's inexpensive and it's going to be fun. Virtual travel is no substitute for the real course, but it's much better than going down the path alone. See our web site for more information.

Research on the Heart

We have designed a research experiment about the effects of Heart Rhythm Practice to lead to a publishable paper in a medical journal. The research will focus on the effect of Heart Rhythm Practice on the regularity of the heartbeat. Previous experience has shown that Heart Rhythm Practice causes the heartbeat to become extraordinarily stable, without even the normal variations in rhythm, which results in a great strengthening of the heart. The effect of this state is what we call "Mind-Heart Convergence": a powerful melding of the consciousness of the mind, sensation of the body, and emotion of the heart. The computerized equipment we'll be working with can display a plot of amplitude vs. the component frequencies of the heartbeat. We expect to use this equipment to further develop the course -- honing how we teach to achieve the strongest effect for the heart.

The Institute of Applied Meditation is a tax-deductible, educational organization. Your donation toward the cost of this research would allow it to commence quickly.

I hope your meditations go well, and bring you closer to your goal.

Puran Bair

P.S. Please respond: send us your comments, suggestions, problems and breakthroughs with Heart Rhythm Practice, etc.