Peace comes when the self is in harmony with the heart. This is accomplished in silent meditation by entering the life stream in the heart. The form of concentration used is first getting into the rhythm of the heart by feeling our heartbeats and harmonizing with them. This is an ancient practice with Sufi origins which was brought to the west in the early 1900s by a Sufi mystic and musician named Hazrat Inayat Khan. Heart meditation has also been part of Christianity since the time of the Apostles. It was called the Prayer of the Heart by the desert fathers. Studies in the past two decades have been confirming that there is indeed a brain inside the heart. Neurocardiology is an emerging field which looks at the relationship between the brain and heart. The method of Heart Rhythm Meditation has been taught and refined for the past two decades by Puran and Susanna Bair of the Institute for Applied Meditation. They have been my personal teachers and role models.