Keeping Heart Healthy Through Meditation

If you take cholesterol medication, eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly, you may think you are keeping heart healthy practices. But have you ever considered the benefits of meditation, especially specific and focused types of meditation, when it comes to making sure your heart is in optimum condition?

The body and mind are truly one and research has shown that even people with no signs of heart disease can actually have heart attacks when under extreme stress or going through a frightening situation. Stress can actually disrupt heart patterns and it needs to be reduced as a part of keeping heart healthy.

Meditation can be learned and used to supplement cardiovascular recommendations, diets, or other healthy programs. For those without heart disease, healthy heart meditation may be enough to change Type A, stressed out personalities into relaxed and happier people.

Special practices and techniques can be learned which focus on the breath and heartbeat and work best at preventing or controlling heart disease.

Using meditation for keeping heart healthy is not a new or revolutionary idea but - until now- hasn't been widely used, in spite of research showing its effectiveness. But, many cultures have long-embraced the heart as the center of consciousness and focus for meditation.

Did you know that the heart actually functions independently of the brain and transcends the ego? Extensive studies of heart intelligence reveal that the heart has its own central nervous system and doesn't just receive orders from the brain as previously thought.

Studies show that the heart actually sends messages to the brain. The heart also generates its own electromagnetic field which is much stronger than the brain's. The heart sends signals to the brain. That is why meditation which focuses on the heart is so effective.

It truly works at the heart level, with amazing benefits that are physical, emotional, and even spiritual. Having an open heart is such an important element to keeping heart healthy.

Heart focused meditation should ideally be taught by an experienced person. You can allow me to be that person! And it can be learned online quite effectively, through the use of audio, video and written instructions and practices.

For those familiar with meditation, expect this to be a unique addition to your existing practices.

Heart Rhythm Meditation values our emotions. It is perfectly normal if you experience different emotions while practicing. They can range from fear to sadness to joy and peace during the heart healthy meditation practice. There is an emotional, energetic healing which takes place during HRM

Tension may ebb and flow from the body and new, perhaps unfamiliar, emotions may take their place. In a world where it is all too easy to build defenses, compassion and love can be buried as well. In our healthy heart meditation practices we seek reality. We move towards emotion, instead of away. And remember that you are always in control of the experience through control of your breath.

Allowing meditation to open your heart can also bring wonderful possibilities in its wake. Peace, love, compassion, joy and even a certain vulnerability may be present.

Instead of engaging in thought patterns that stress the heart, you can learn to create coherent heart rhythms that will change the way you think.

We've been educated to believe that our thoughts affect our emotional states. And that is true. But consider that if you learn how to create heart rhythm coherence you will literally be changing what those thoughts are.

It is a lack of understanding of how to address emotions that is a major cause of today's stress epidemic. We think the mind rules. But most of the time it is our emotions that determine our choices and behaviors. Heart Rhythm Practice works from the core of our emotional body to transform stress into healthy, positive feelings and creative energy.

One way of keeping track of all the feelings and changes is by keeping a journal. Those who practice heart healthy meditation are often surprised to read of the transitions that take place. Months later, they may go back and read their journal in grateful amazement at how much better they feel and the new peace found through meditation.

Learning how to meditate can be a vital addition to keeping heart healthy and transforming your stress, making it easier for you to let go of unhealthy behaviors. You'll feel better because you are better.

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