Heart Healthy Tips to Integrate Heart and Mind.
Image courtesy of Heartmath Institute. Try these heart healthy tips to integrate your heart and mind. Most heart diseases are results of lifestyle that can be prevented by eating a healthy heart diet, not smoking, exercising, managing or neutralizing stress and anger, and nurturing emotional relationships. For stress relief, try yoga, tai chi, meditation, and measured breathing. Regular aerobic exercise helps ease depression. If you can't shake negative emotions and they are interfering with your functioning, seek professional counseling. Breathe. Become a breather. Practice breathing consciously every day, throughout the day. Take two slow, deep breaths right now. Sigh as you exhale. Feel the relaxation response in your body right away! Move. Movement is so important. Walking is always a winner. Stretch, dance, sing, make sounds, and feel. Connect with the earth. It supports you. Get some sun on your skin and eyes (not directly) 15 minutes before 10am or at sunset each day. Drink good water. Eat healthy food. More heart healthy tips! Meditate. Be in silence and vastness daily. Immerse yourself in Oneness. Become present. If you focus on your inhales and exhales and can be present to the breath, you are being present! Create community with others committed to happy, healthy lifestyles. Learn how to have sacred fun. We are all evolving, transforming, expanding consciousness and awareness. Learn integrative practices like meditation, yoga, tai chi. Learn How to Meditate. Numerous studies have shown that regular meditation can produce lasting reductions in blood pressure. According to an observational study published in May 2005, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, that benefit may translate into a lowered risk of heart attack and stroke. Focus on your heart. Put your hand over your heart and take a few breaths, breathing in and out of your heart. Learn to feel your heartbeat and pulse. Learn about Heart Rate Variability and Heart Rhythms. Heart Rhythm Meditation can help with arrhythmia. Heart Rhythm Meditation creates orderly and harmonious heart rhythms as measured by a Heart Rate Variability device. This orderly rhythms are associated with positive emotional feelings. These rhythms send signals to the brain that reduce stress, improve brain function, hormonal balance and immune response. There's a tremendous amount of research on HRV and the heart-brain connection that has been done by the Institute for Heart Math over the past twenty years. Decreased heart rate variability is an indicator of mortality. Increased HRV is associated with coherence, which is an optimal state for your heart. Our meditation practices create resilience in your heart. Like a tree bending in the wind, your heart can be made to be more supple, open, and resilient. In this openness is an energetic, emotional healing, a connection with your heart's desire, and a better sense of your life's purpose and meaning. Spend 20 minutes a day practicing and you will see positive changes in your life. Don't overlook these Heart Healthy Tips either... Use bio-feedback. Heart Rate variability devices are affordable and can be used to record and display your heart rhythms. On this site, you can learn the Heart Rhythm Meditation technique, which creates coherence in your heart rhythms and increases heart rate variability. Heart Rate Monitors give you additional data about your heart and can be used for weight loss, cardiovascular fitness, reducing body fat, and increasing your endurance. Don’t isolate yourself. Get some laughs. One of my favorite quotes is from George Burns: God is a comedian playing to an audience who's afraid to laugh! Follow a path of Heart. Learning Heart Rhythm Meditation! will put you on a path to this one!
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