Experiments show that the human body can detect randomly delivered stimuli that occur 1-10 seconds in advance. In other words, the human body seems to know of an event and reacts to the event before it has occurred. What occurs in the human body before these events are physiological changes that are measured regarding the cardiopulmonary, the skin, and the nervous system. Studies by the HeartMath® Institute tracked the autonomic nervous system, physiological changes, measured participants’ brain waves (EEG), their hearts’ electrical activity (ECG), and their heart rate variability (HRV). Each participant sat at a computer and was instructed to click a mouse when ready to begin. The screen stayed blank for six seconds. The participant’s physiological data was recorded by a special software program, and then, one by one, a series of 45 pictures was displayed on the screen. Each picture, displayed for three seconds, evoked either a strong emotional reaction or a calm state. After each picture, the screen went blank for ten seconds. Participants repeated this process for all 45 pictures, 30 of which were known to evoke a calm response and 15 a strong emotional response. The participants’ brains and hearts responded to information about the emotional quality of the pictures before the computer flashed them (random selection). This means that the heart and brain were both responding to future events. The results indicated that the responses happened, on average, 4.8 seconds before the computer selected the pictures. Even more profound was data showing the heart received information before the brain. It first registered from the heart, then up to the brain (emotional and pre-frontal cortex), then finally down to the gut.