Heartmath is a healing modality that helps to bring the physical mental and emotional bodies into balance and alignment. It is a system that uses intentional breathing while focusing your attention on your heart or chest area.
It is not commonly known that the heart sends more signals to the brain than the brain does to the heart.
These heart signals have significant effect on our brain function influencing emotional processing as well as higher cognitive faculties. So During stressful times, when the heart rhythm is erratic, the neural signals travelling from the heart to the brain inhibits higher cognitive function limiting our ability to: think clearly, remember, learn, reason and make effective decisions.
Emotional stress causes incoherent heart rhythm patterns, which causes our bodies to operate inefficiently, depletes our energy and produces extra wear and tear on our whole system. This is especially true for prolonged stress.
This could explain (but not excuse) some of the behaviours we are seeing out in the world today.
On the other hand, a more ordered and stable heart rhythm pattern during POSITIVE emotional states has the opposite effect. It facilitates cognitive function, reinforces positive feelings and emotional stability and not only benefits the entire body, but also profoundly effects how we perceive, think, feel and perform.
Heartmath is a beautiful way to gently bring your cortisol levels back into balance, create emotional stability and build resilience.
