The HeartSmart program is a program that will guide you through a process that will help you to learn how to respond to life more efficiently, effectively and appropriately. You will learn how to respond to situations, crises, problems, and opportunities better. I like to refer to these events in our lives as challenges The HeartSmart program will help you to better understand and be more aware of your body, your mind and emotions. Once this happens you will become more peaceful, calm, focused, clear, motivated, energised and generally happier. In other words you will become HeartSmart. Life is a process with a series of challenges that we are confronted with on a regular basis throughout our lives. Each one of these challenges presents us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow. How we respond to each of these challenges will determine how successful we will be in our lives. (If we welcome these challenges and learn from them they will be helpful) As we grow and develop we learn skills and knowledge that we can use in the next challenge before us. It is like building a house or learning mathematical formula; we need to build a foundation. Unfortunately, along the way we may learn skills and gain knowledge that no longer works for us and may even work against us. They weaken our foundation. So we need to learn new skills and gain new knowledge. Before, we embark on this exciting new journey of change and growth we need to recognize the need for change. You are fortunate that you have become aware of this need. Fortunate because there are those who will continue to go through their lives doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. Why or how you became aware is not important. What is important is that you are at this point in your life where you recognize the need for a change and are willing to make the change. You do not have to become a monk to get peace of mind. Anyone can achieve peace of mind. How much of peace of mind you want is up to you.