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. To reduce the stress-induced wear and tear of the nervous system and facilitate the body’s natural regenerative process, the 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 the harmony through heart-brain coherence.
In their decades 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. Please google the HeartMath Institute’s page and read their science based research articles on synchronizing your heart and brain.
Creating a bridge between the heart and the brain has also been a sacred practice in may ancient culture and traditions around the world.
The HeartMath institute has found 3 basic simple steps to achieve heart-brain coherence.
Steps to Heart-Brain coherence:
1. Attention to the Heart : 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. The next step is Heart- focused breathing: Imagining that you are breathing in and out of the heart area.
3. Finding a slow down, comfortable rhythm: Slowing down your breathing tells your body that you are in a safe place. to slow down your breathing HeartMath suggests breathing in for 5-6 seconds and breathing out for 5-6 seconds, and finding a rhythm that feels natural and comfortable for you.
4. Continue to do the Heart-focused, slow down comfortable rhythmic breathing.
5. The next step is creating a feeling: The feeling may be Care or Compassion, or Gratitude, or appreciation for anything or anyone. Make a sincere effort to express these feelings. 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, the emotional shift is the key element here.
Once we grow accustomed to the rhythmic breathing and become familiar with how the state of emotion 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.
According to HeartMath Institute.Heart-focused breathing can help you center yourself, reduce stress, and access a state of coherence, which is a state of emotional, mental, and physical alignment. It can also help you feel more calm, uplifted, and connected to your intuition, 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 our powerful heart.
Choosing to live from our heart, we bring peace and harmony to ourselves and for our beautiful Planet.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
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