Sam Liebowitz – From Chaos to Coherence with Bruce Cryer
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From Chaos to Coherence with Bruce Cryer
The Conscious Consultant Hour
This week, on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes adjunct professor, author, and CEO/Co-Founder of the HeartMath Institute, Bruce Cryer.
Bruce has had a diverse career spanning musical theater, biotech, personal development, health and well-being, and executive mentoring. He began as a singer/dancer/actor on Broadway, including two years in The Fantasticks. Since the early 80’s, Bruce has been teaching innovative approaches to optimal health, business success, personal balance, and human performance.
Bruce has been adjunct professor at Stanford University since 1997 and was named CEO of HeartMath in 2000, having helped launch the HeartMath Institute with founder Doc Childre in 1991. Bruce’s clients include Mayo Clinic, The World Bank, Kaiser, NASA, Unilever, Shell, Cisco, Cathay Pacific Airways and the NHS (UK).
Bruce is co-author of From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance and the Harvard Business Review article “Pull the Plug on Stress”. He has contributed to four books being released in 2020.
Show Notes
Segment 1
Sam begins the show with the weekly quotes from Abraham and the Universe. Then he introduces the guest of the show: Brucer Cryer. Named CEO of HeartMath in 2000, co-author of From Chaos to Coherence, starring in The Fantasticks on Broadway, along with many other ventures. Sam himself is a huge fan of what HeartMath has done. Bruce transitioned from Broadway to the field of science slowly as he met Doc Childre in 1980 — who he would later begin HeartMath with.
Segment 2
Bruce met Doc in 1980 (pre-internet, pre-cellphone), but did not see him again for seven years. When they reconnected, it was clear Doc had advanced his thinking about wanting to start a company focused on the human heart. Doc and Bruce agreed that mainstream science must be used in order for the company to be respected, although he did not have a background or deep knowledge in that topic. Everyone involved learned as they went and came to understand that the changing speed of your heart offers a huge insight into your health and well-being. Before their research, it was believed that you cannot change the pattern of your heart and everyone involved was awestruck when they realized that this was not true.
Segment 3
Sam asks what the biggest surprises were during his research period. They were stunned to discover that the heart functions in the same way as the brain, with a similar neural structure. According to Bruce, the most fundamental misconception around the heat is that it is just a pump. The electromagnetic output is about 60x stronger than the electrical signal from the brain, and HeartMath believes that the heart is the dominant part of the body. Gratitude is a particularly powerful signal that the heart puts out. Bruce went through a very tough time involving his health and which forced him to reflect on his life. He decided to leave the organization amicably. However, he still teaches the methods in seminars and with his clients.
Segment 4
Now, Bruce is the CEO of the Graduate Institute which focuses its energy around holistic studies. Bruce’s love of photography and dance has flourished as of late, and he shares that if he is not involved in some form of creative process, his life feels less full. He is “loving being a learner again” after he has stepped down from giving the HeartMath presentations. Bruce chokes up as he talks about how important it is to love others and your life.