The following is an article written by Deborah Rozman, describing the Global Coherence Initiative and how it relates to the Winter Feast for the Soul. You can also find information on GCI's personal tracker, a beneficial meditation tool.

Winter Feast for the Soul and the Global Coherence Initiative
By Deborah Rozman

The Global Coherence Initiative (GCI) was started by the non-profit Institute of HeartMath®, a recognized global leader in researching heart-brain interactions and emotional physiology, to help individuals and groups work synchronistically and strategically together to increase the impact of their efforts to create positive global change.

HeartMath has researched a psycho-physiological state called internal coherence that helps bring mind, emotions, nervous system and spirit into alignment and synchronization.

GCI is providing simple practices for people to enter this coherent state and to reduce daily stress, so that our meditations can be more energetically effective for the planet. This will have a cumulative effect over the 40 days that should be palpable in the energetic field of the Winter Feast.

GCI is also offering a Personal Tracker that can be used to track individual and global community progress in five aspects of well-being: physical vitality, emotional vitality, social connectedness, spiritual connectedness and overall well-being. Winter Feast for the Soul participants can register (membership is free) to track their progress and see the trends of everyone else in the community on a Google World Map over the 40 days.