Family

Family and Families dealing with special needs including autism

At Intelligent Heart, we believe in family. We are part of several related families through which we have learned how to keep our family relationships healthy and how to transform the stresses that we bring into our families or that are created by needs within our families.

Introducing our families:
David McArthur and Sue Clemans are twins. Our parents were inspiring role models as parents who cared about their children, their family, their own relationships and their communities. Our individual lives have been committed to our families while we have each pursued successful careers and had to overcome major challenges in our personal and family lives.

We are joined in Intelligent Heart by two of our teachers from the next generation. Amy Clemans is Sue’s daughter and Peter McArthur is David’s son. In our life long study and pursuit of the understandings of human transformation we have explored both the world of physical science and spirituality. While both of us have excelled in those worlds (Sue as a nurse and David as a minister) and explored at depth most of the teachings of personal transformation both ancient and those that have developed over the past forty years, what we are bringing you is what we have found to be head and shoulders more effective than any other discipline or technique, ancient or modern.

Our discovery of and involvement with the Institute of HeartMath and its related organizations gave us and our families techniques and scientific knowledge of human transformation that are profoundly effective. It has worked dramatically in our live, our family’s lives, our clients’ lives and in many other areas. In these areas which include business, education, medical institutions, health and well being HeartMath has scientifically measured and quantified the changes accomplished.

Because we have extensive experience across many disciplines, we do not limit ourselves to the HeartMath technology in working with our clients. We do use it as our core set of techniques and understandings because it has proven its outstanding effectiveness to us.

We know the experience of family has changed dramatically over the last decades. To us, family is that group of people who are committed to helping each other meet life effectively. We are committed to assisting you as a crucial part of your families’ well being to find your emotional balance and innate intelligence of your heart. This ability brings healthy interaction to your family and is the basis for meeting the challenges of our lives effectively.

We also know from our experience that it is often very challenging to artistic individuals within the family to find balanced and rewarding expression both personally and professionally. Peter’s acting career gives us a deep realization of both the value and challenge involved in succeeding in the creative world. We are grateful he has the commitment to support other artists with these empowering life skills.

Families dealing with autism
What drew us into the intentional support of families was the experience of Amy’s daughter Meghan experiencing autism. The huge impact on their family of the special time, care and attention needed impacted every part of everyone’s lives.

Sue and Amy realized that they, their spouses and extended family and particularly Meghan were positively impacted by their ability to stop the experiences of stress, frustration, impatience, powerlessness and imbalance that naturally occurred as a result of meeting Meghan’s needs. Sue and Amy made the commitment to help other families with the skills that had made such a difference in their lives. They offer their extensive skill and experience to you in support of finding your own balance and well being as you bring that balance and care to your own family.

If you have a child with autism in your family, you know that the additional demands of that child’s care and support often are in conflict with the needs of other people in your family for your time, attention, nurturing and money. These conflicting demands create stress reactions that inhibit your ability to respond from the level of care that you really desire to give. They inhibit the functioning of your mind reducing your ability to think of effective ways to deal with the people and demands. These conflicting needs tend to escalate and the result is debilitating to you and those you care about.

We know these techniques can make a huge difference in those situations. You can switch from frustration to emotional balance within sixty seconds. That means you can respond from the care you wish to express instead of defensive emotional postures.