WHAT DOES MY HEART HAVE TO DO WITH MY STRESS LEVEL?
Stress poisons us. Every stressful event floods us with stress hormones, as harmful to our bodies as rivers of acid.
The more stress we have, the more difficult it is for our cardiovascular system, our immune system and even our brains to function well.
Chronic stress ages us long before our time, and if left unchecked, can kill us.
Although we may be unable to escape from stressful events in our modern world, we can learn to transform the effects of these events. The Institute of HeartMath has discovered something remarkable, and remarkably simple: a positive attitude creates stress relief, but only temporarily. However, by also engaging the heart, positive feelings create stress relief that not only lasts but also actually reverses the physical damage of stress.
When you experience stressful emotions such as tension, anxiety, irritation, or anger, your heart-rhythm pattern becomes irregular and incoherent, negatively affecting your health, brain function, performance, and sense of well-being.
When you experience stressful emotions such as tension, anxiety, irritation, or anger, your heart-rhythm pattern becomes irregular and incoherent, negatively affecting your health, brain function, performance, and sense of well-being.
Heart rhythms when stressed
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When you experience positive emotions such as appreciation, care, joy, and love, your heart-rhythm pattern is more ordered and coherent. When we consciously shift to a positive emotion, our heart rhythms immediately shift. This electrical shift in the heart creates a favorable cascade of neural, hormonal, and biochemical events that benefit the entire body. Blood pressure drops. Stress hormones plummet. The immune system pumps up. Anti-aging hormones increase. We gain clarity, calmness, control, and the effects are both immediate and long-lasting.
Heart rhythms when feeling a positive emotion
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Ordered and harmonious heart rhythms are an indicator of your “coherence level.” High coherence is a state associated with positive emotional attitudes, which sends signals to the brain that reduce stress and improve brain cognitive function, hormonal balance, immune response, coordination and reaction times, and your overall sense of well-being.
Thrive Health & Wellness is proud to provide training in HeartMath’s system of powerful, easy-to-learn, easy-to-use tools, and technology to prevent, manage, and reverse the effects of stress. We can help you learn to meet life’s inevitable challenges with poise and resiliency. These tools allow our bodies and minds to be nourished for optimal health and performance. We convert “stress lockdown” into free-flowing energy for fueling creativity, productivity, and personal fulfillment.
A change of heart changes everything.
“Wow, talk about a miracle. It is like magic. Not like a magic-pill that makes it all better all at once, but like a magic flame inside of me – the more I look at it, the stronger it gets. And the most wonderful thing about it is – it’s mine. No one but me truly controls it. The wonderful mother, wife and person that I have always wanted to be, I am! My appreciation of life and my experience grows into a huge flame that surrounds me. I could go on and on about HeartMath. It is something every person needs. I am so grateful to be one of the ones who gets to learn it. It is truly the greatest gift of information I have ever received. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” – Anonymous
