In the handbook that I give away on this site, “How To Find Wisdom and Take Control of Your Health Care,” I lead you through a couple of powerful heart-centered exercises that can literally change your life.
Here’s a condensed version to get you started right now:
In many ways, your heart is incredibly powerful. Your brain can control it to a certain extent, but the influence runs both ways. There are a number of nerve pathways that run from your heart to your brain. These pathways can change the way that your brain processes information.
Without the heart’s influence, your brain will see a garden hose lying on the side of a path and jump into fight/flight mode with the thought- “SNAKE!!” If the heart is coherent, however, that fight/flight pathway isn’t as strong. Your frontal cortex can quickly assess the lack of danger from the garden hose and your panic will be very short, if at all.
It’s the same way with a co-worker who really ticks you off. Without the heart’s influence, you steam and vent and want to kick something. With the heart’s influence, you quickly realize his crap has nothing to do with you and that there is a way to get your job done without having to interact with him.
Just follow this link to the free services page on the Heartmath website. Just click on the “Quick Coherence Technique” and you will be off and running. They do ask for your email, but you can opt out of the newsletter pretty easily if you want.
If you were successful in feeling love or appreciation for 30 seconds or more, research by the Heartmath Institute suggests that you changed the way that your heart beats which changed the electromagnetic functioning of your brain. You also changed the amount of bacteria and virus-fighting immunoglobulins produced by your immune system.
And if you’d rather go back to the way you were, just do the same exercise with the emotion of frustration. But I wouldn’t suggest it.
Heart_Man said,
February 18, 2007 @ 4:46 pmFor over 30 years I experienced several life threatening chronic illnesses. Through the Grace of God I was lead to several people and organizations that aided me in understanding, positively dealing with and transforming these illnesses. For the past few years I have devoted my life to sharing what I have learned with others. The two most impactful organizations I was lead to are The Institute of HeartMath (www.emotionalmastery.com) and Landmark Education (www.landmarkeducation.com).
The American Institute of Stress and The Centers for Disease Control have both reported that up to 90% of all illnesses are due to stress. I was lead to The Institute of HeartMath in 1997 and discovered that all of my illnesses were due to stress I had been experiencing in my life. Through learning and practicing HeartMath’s tools and technologies, I am able to prevent, manage and reverse the effects of stress, in-the-moment, achieve better health, more energy, improved mental and emotional clarity, and improved performance and relationships. HeartMath’s tools and technologies are scientifically substantiated; they literally saved my life.
Landmark Education provided me with the knowledge and tools to identify and put in my past, barriers that were stopping me from living a powerful life and a life I love. Through this Education, I have reached an unshakeable Faith.