All the talk about heart-centered leadership is confronted by heavy reliance on rational and logical thought dismissing intuition and the heart’s intelligence as something in the ‘flaky’ department or as a fickle and undependable guide.

Yet everyone has had an experience that they could not explain, a bit of serendipity, a hunch, a sense, a gut-feel. Successful entrepreneurs rely on it. If your intuition has not served you well, it is likely to be because you simply aren’t tuned in.

In our interview with Dr. Rollin McCraty, research scientist with the Heart Math Institute, he reveals the results of a study that illuminates the role the heart plays in processing intuitive information and demystifies exactly how that information is conveyed.

At a time when decision-making is increasingly complex, rapid, with either not enough or way too much information, his findings provide a framework for understanding how the gift of highly energy sensitive people and the occurrence of random flashes of ‘knowing’ create a powerful and reliable tool – that is, if you are aware enough to know what you place your trust in.