Today the environment we live in is so stressful that it brings the risk of health problems and premature mortality. Most of us are working out our life from our brain/mind. To reduce the stress-induced wear and tear of the nervous system and facilitate the body’s natural regenerative process, a practice of heart-brain coherence is very important.
The ego mind is full of fear, doubt and worry. Working from the mind has created a lot of chaos. We forgot the art of living from the heart. A link between the mind and the heart is important to create harmony and peace. Our inspiration and deepest compassion comes from this harmony. In their 19 years of research, the HeartMath institute have found that heart-brain coherence facilitates cognitive functions, facilitates positive feelings and emotional stability. It benefits not only the entire body but also profoundly affects how we perceive, think, feel, and perform.
Creating a bridge between the heart and the brain has been a sacred practice in may ancient culture and traditions. The HeartMath institute has found 3 basic simple steps to achieve heart-brain coherence.
Steps to Heart-Brain coherence:
1. Shift awareness from mind to heart by simply touching your physical heart with your finger or the palm of your hand, and put a gentle pressure. Your awareness follows your touch so this will shift awareness to the heart.
2. Slow down your breathing to safe breathing, this tells your body that you are in a safe place. For safe breathing take 5 seconds/5 counts to inhale and 5 seconds/5 counts to exhale.
3. The next step is creating a feeling. The feeling may be Care or Compassion, or Gratitude, or appreciation for anything or anyone. These are 4 key feelings trigger the coherence between the heart and the brain. The feelings can be felt separately or combined.
The safe breathing needs practice for some people, the emotional shift is the key element.
Once we grow accustomed to the rhythmic breathing and become familiar how the state feels, we can begin to practice breathing the positive feeling through the heart area. With continuity of the practice, we become able to shift into coherence by activating a positive emotion.
This coherent pattern of the heart rhythm oscillates at a frequency around 0.1 Hz. This frequency can be sustained by the positive emotion.
Many of the positive bodily function and changes occur during the coherence state.
Every ancient culture explained the heart as a source of wisdom, and spiritual insight.
A new field of research called neurocardiology have confirmed the heart to contain about 40,000 neurons, they call it a ” little brain” in the heart capable of independently processing information, making decisions, learning and memory!
HeartMath institute say that the heart appears to play a key role in intuition.
It is wonderful that we are revisiting the capacity of this powerful amazing organ in our body.
Practicing the art of living from the heart and sustaining a positive emotion helps to bring harmony and peace to ourselves and to our beautiful Planet!
Blessings!
©PRajkumar,2018
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