Five Years Of Star Matrix

Silvia Hartmann

As I write this in May of 2025, it has been five years since my first research group took the journey to their Stars.

In November of 2019, I put out the call and 55 brave souls answered.

I had a theory, and it went as follows.

In the all-encompassing cult of trauma, the best moments of our lives had been overlooked – the Plus Ten moments, our Star Moments.

It was a fact that when we ask someone about their best memories, they “light up” - they respond positively, their energy state shifts up the Modern Energy Chart, they become animated, speak more freely, and the stories they tell uplift the listener, too.

Their memories are full of clean, clear information and the stories they tell (their Star Stories!) are not only in perfect order and sequence, but rich with sensory detail, making it natural and easy to step inside that story and live it together with the person who tells it. Compare that to the awful effects of telling a trauma story!

But there was even more. These Star Stories contained important life lessons, messages of the first order, real lived experience that we can transmit among each other – how wonderful is that!

So my theory was that if we ditched the trauma for a period of time, in this case, for 12 weeks, and focused exclusively on pur Star Events, this would be a valuable thing to do be doing. We would learn more about “who each one of us really is” (you can't learn that from trauma, every human being will fall to the ground if struck in the head by an axe!), we would be raising energy, and it would be a interesting, educational and start to re-balance the scales of justice after decades of relentless trauma quests.

I was excited to get started, and so we did.

The Unexpected Side Effects

What happened next was astonishing.

I had not predicted at all how many “side effects” became apparent from the simple act of consciously remembering our own Star Stories. All the participants, myself included, were surprised, sometimes shocked, by what we discovered.

As we systematically went through a process of remembering Star Events in different contexts, not only did the personal “Star Matrix” start to build with every Star added, and our ability to remember and connect with Star Memories improve.

There is this term “communications confidence” but that doesn't begin to explain the reports that came in. A shy lady took control of a Christmas party with her relatives and turned it into a wonderful evening as she shifted the conversation from a political debate to shared Star Memories.

Another reported that she found herself stuck with a grumpy elderly man, started to ask him about what he loves and the most wonderful conversation ensued.

There was one person who decided to contact their father after years of silence; another made peace with their brother.

One lady brought me to tears by reporting she had sought out an elderly lady who had helped her in her profession decades ago, to tell her how much she appreciated the guidance.

A number of participants reported transformational experiences with elderly relatives, and others, transformational experiences with their children.

Many participants told of being able now to shift conversations with friends and loved ones from draining, endless litanies of complaints, to joy, laughter and renewed connection.

To me, this was a revelation and I began to understand that Star Matrix was indeed, not only the cure for the misery of low self esteem, not only the fastest, quickest way to raise energy “in the field” ever, but absolutely the way forward into a better future.

Star Matrix is the way …

There was one thing that I could not predict with certainty, and that was the long term effects of Star Matrix thinking, being and doing.

Would literally “re-training our brains” to go in the opposite direction, away from trauma and towards the Stars, make us go crazy?

Become over-confident? Unbearable in social discourse? Taking too many risks? Becoming deluded?

I did not know, and neither did anyone else, because as far as we can tell, nobody has ever done that – a direct, personal study, structural, logically organised, documented enquiry into our Star Events – before my research group went ahead and did it.

I joked that we were “boldly going where no human had gone before” but that's a fact.

I learned later that for the last 20 years, someone at Southampton University UK had become fascinated with the immense benefits of happy memories, and assembled a vast array of studies into “nostalgia” - the pain experienced when thinking about the past. They did not have the concept of Plus Ten, or Star Events, nor the methodology to explore memories using the SuperMind system, but even there, the benefits of connecting with our best lived experiences are entirely incontrovertible. I am glad they did this; Star Matrix gained 20+ years of “scientific proof” for its “efficacy” right there.

Now we have to be clear that Star Matrix is Modern Energy, it comes from the Third Field, and has literally nothing to do with “Positive Psychology.” I understand Star Matrix as conversational energy work; energy nutrition and energy healing for our living energy bodies. That's what it is, that's what it does, and it does that splendidly.

It was immediately obvious that Star Matrix was perfect for client work, and in 2022, I added Star Matrix Professional, aka Star Matrix for two, and then StarLine Therapy in 2023, to create a cohesive conversational energy healing system, which allows for any trauma work to follow on later, once the stable baseline and ability to deal with memories and emotional regulation has been established, which is Star Therapy.

The Study

And here we are, five years later, in 2025.

I decided to contact the original research group from 2019 for a longitudinal study.

This has just been concluded and we now have a data set to answer my questions about the long term effects of Star Matrix.

Like the “communications confidence” which hides an entire realm of creating better experiences for everyone concerned, the topics in this data set are all like that.

Of course, I've been watching the progress of the original research participants on social media, so I wasn't surprised.

What I found particularly encouraging was that the participants had not forgotten about Star Matrix. They were still using it, and it had become a part of their lives, even if they no longer made regular entires in their Books of Stars.

I had to soften and flow on the gratitude expressed for introducing the concept, but that's a story for another day.

I was right about Star Matrix. It is really something; a heresy to the all-encompassing trauma cult which is now driving people insane, and has no solution for the crisis in emotional health and mental well being that is the direct result of the events during and after the 2020-2022 period.

Star Matrix is perfect for this. When we connect our StarLine before, during and after, we get our individual path back; we re-focus on what's truly important in our lives, namely the Star Events, and we can set our beautiful minds to wondering where the next Star can be found.

And you know our adage:

“Look for your stars, and they will find you.”

Five years on, and I am happy to say now officially and publicly, “Star Matrix is the way.”

With immense gratitude to all who assisted in my research and without whom none of this could have ever happened – you are in my Book of Stars!

Silvia Hartmann

Creator, Star Matrix

May 2025

A Longitudinal Review of Star Matrix: Changes in Emotional and Mental Well-being Between 2020 and 2025, Including a Comparative Analysis

This review presents an analysis of self-reported data evaluating the change in emotional and mental well-being among individuals engaged with the Star Matrix framework compared to a control group over the period spanning 2020 to 2025. This timeframe is particularly relevant as it includes the globally impactful years characterized by significant stressors. Participants in both groups were asked to rate their emotional and mental well-being in 2025 relative to their state in 2020, using a scale where a positive value indicates improvement, zero indicates no significant change, and a negative value indicates a decline.

Methodology: The data analyzed originates from survey responses from a cohort of Star Matrix users and a separate control group consisting of individuals interested in personal development who did not participate in the original Star Matrix program. Both surveys captured retrospective self-assessments of changes in the following dimensions of mental well-being and emotional state between 2020 and 2025.

• Confidence
• Resilience
• Well Being
• Energy Levels (Average)
• Clarity
• Relationships
• Positive Conversations
• Joyful Moments
• Control
• Perspective
• Reality Connection
• Mental Clarity
• Emotional Challenges
• Self ConceptMission Purpose

The rating scale employed (-1, 0, +1) was designed to capture the direction and magnitude of perceived change over this five-year interval. Quantitative analysis focused on comparing the mean reported changes between the Star Matrix and control groups across key metrics. Qualitative feedback from the Star Matrix group provided supplementary context regarding their experiences.

Findings:

Analysis of the quantitative data reveals a substantial difference in the reported change in emotional and mental well-being between the Star Matrix user group and the control group over the 2020-2025 period. The mean scores represent the average perceived change across the respective groups:

• Resilience: Star Matrix users reported a mean change of +0.89, indicating a strong improvement in resilience by 2025 compared to 2020. The control group, in contrast, reported a mean change of +0.05, suggesting very little overall change in resilience.
• WellBeing: For well-being, the Star Matrix group showed a mean increase of +0.95, demonstrating significant improvement. The control group's mean change was only +0.15, indicating a much more limited improvement.
• Emotional Challenges: In terms of emotional challenges, the Star Matrix group reported a mean change of +0.97 (meaning a significant decrease in challenges by 2025), while the control group's mean change was 0, indicating no overall change in the level of emotional challenges experienced between 2020 and 2025.
• Clarity: Mean change for Star Matrix users was +0.97 (significant increase in clarity), compared to +0.18 for the control group.Mental Clarity: Star Matrix users reported a mean change of +0.97, indicating a large improvement in mental clarity, while the control group's mean change was +0.25.

These differences in mean scores across multiple indicators of emotional and mental well-being highlight a markedly more positive trajectory of change reported by the Star Matrix user group compared to the control group over the 2020-2025 period. While the control group, representative of a general population sample during a time of significant external stress, showed minimal average change in well-being from 2020 to 2025, the Star Matrix group reported substantial improvements across the board.

Integration and Sustained Engagement:

Qualitative data from the Star Matrix users provides further insight into these findings, with many individuals describing the framework's role in facilitating their positive change over the five years. Testimonials suggest that the sustained application and integration of Star Matrix practices contributed to their improved emotional and mental states, particularly in navigating the difficulties that arose during the 2020-2022 timeframe.

Conclusion:

This review indicates that individuals using the Star Matrix framework reported significantly greater improvements in emotional resilience and mental well-being between 2020 and 2025 compared to a control group. The data suggests that during a period encompassing significant global stressors, engagement with Star Matrix was associated with a positive shift in self-assessed psychological states, contrasting with the more static or minimally changed state reported by the control group. These findings support the potential of the Star Matrix framework to contribute to enhanced well-being and resilience over time, even when facing challenging external circumstances. Further research will be valuable to explore these correlations in more depth.

• Complete study to be published in The Energist, The Journal of The Third Field