HeartMath Techniques

HeartMath techniques help to integrate the body, mind, and soul. With regular practice, you can increase self-regulation, resilience capacity, and learn to manage stressful situations. The techniques help bring the heart and the brain into a state of coherence by regulating heart rate variability.

Heart Brain Coherence and Heart Rate Variability

Heart Brain Coherence

Several research studies on heart-brain coherence and the field of neurocardiology have shown how the heart communicates with the brain. The research revealed how the heart influences our emotions, intuition, and health.

Research has found that the neural pathways from the heart send more information to the brain than the brain sends to the heart. Therefore, learning to connect to your heart will help you feel more balanced. Furthermore, coherence is related to an increase in parasympathetic nervous system activity and Vagal tone.

Additionally, scientific research suggests you can rewire your brain to a new level of consciousness and joy. Neural pathways can grow or atrophy. The ones you use the most will grow, while the regions of the brain you use less will shrink.

Specifically, the heart communicates with the brain in four ways:

• Neurological Communication through the nervous system
• Biophysical communication (the pulse)
• Biochemical communication (the hormones)
• Energetic communication (electromagnetic)

Cultivating uplifting emotions like love or appreciation combined with breathing techniques are key components in many HeartMath techniques. Learning to increase a continuous state of positivity increases neural circuits that elevate your mood and lower your stress. This process trains your mind to live in the present moment of possibility. At the same time, it deactivates the stress response and activates the relaxation response. In essence, we can help the mind and the body heal by focusing on uplifting emotions while cultivating a state of coherence.

Uplifting emotions open our hearts and minds to unity, forgiveness, and the release of judgment. We do that through self-awareness and compassion and by living in the divinity of the present moment. Placing your attention on the present frees you from focusing on ruminative loops that lead to dysregulation. Practicing HeartMath techniques can help you live your life to the fullest.

Heart Rate Variability

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) measures the beat-to-beat changes in heart rate. It is a point of reference for health and fitness. HeartMath techniques teach you to achieve a more coherent and balanced HRV. The HRV biofeedback technology can help you improve your HRV by analyzing your current HRV and heart rhythm patterns and by tracking your improvement over time.

Benefits of HeartMath Techniques:

• Help to neutralize and replace stressful emotions
• Increase Self-regulation and Resilience capacity
• Regain vitality by reducing energetically draining thoughts and emotions
• Increase Emotional Resilience
• Improve clarity and the ability to implement suitable solutions
• Engage in coherent and effective communication
• Learn to establish a new baseline pattern or set point of individual coherence