#029: Creativity, Heart Math & Becoming a Renaissance Human with Bruce Cryer

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Bruce Cryer has had a diverse career spanning musical theater, biotech, personal development, health and well-being, and executive coaching. He began as a singer/dancer/actor on Broadway, including two years in The Fantasticks, the world’s longest running musical. Since the early 80s, Bruce has been teaching innovative approaches to optimal health, business success, personal balance, and human performance.

He was named CEO of HeartMath in 2000, having helped launch the Institute of HeartMath with founder Doc Childre in 1991. Bruce has worked with leaders at Stanford University, Mayo Clinic, Kaiser, NASA, Unilever, Shell, Cisco, Dropbox, Vistage, and many other organizations including the NHS in the UK.
In our interview we unpack his work as CEO with Heart Math and his recent health scare that helped him reactivate his creative spirit and launch his new platform, The Renaissance Human. Bruce is a new, yet dear friend of mine. And we haven’t even met in person! There are so many golden nuggets in this episode. So after you tune in, check out his work over at www.RenaissanceHuman.Co. Enjoy!

Show Notes:

• 3:12 - what it means to be a renaissance human
• 8:35 - Bruce’s personal story with creativity
• 13:55 - accepting and owning our creativity
• 21:31 - Bruce’s health experience dealing with cancer
• 23:59 - what HeartMath is and it’s mission
• 33:22 - what is heart rate variability and coherence
• 39:33 - practices that one can implement that both Bruce and HeartMath teaches
• 45:07 - the ‘neutral’ technique
• 52:40 - how appreciation and gratitude can actually affect your brain
• 57:20 - health hacks Bruce is excited about right now
• 1:03:40 - why it all comes back to love and gratitude

Links:

• HeartMath
• Heart Rate Variability - get my book to learn more about this as well: HealthHackerBook.com
• I Am
• Renaissance Human
• Revolutioner.com audio programs and soundwaves for healing
• Bulletproof coffee
• Organifi green drink
• Ka’chava tribal beverage
• Dr. Sue Morter - Energy Codes

Quotes:

5:46 - “The way I look at humanity, of what it means to be human is that we go through a bunch of births throughout our lives.”

6:38 - “Being human means continuing to birth new parts of ourself.”

52:59 - “The heart and the brain are talking to each other all the time. It’s not one way communication just brain to the heart.”

1:04:42 - “If we don’t elevate the state the new ideas won’t come.”