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Why I Replaced Meditating with HeartMath
You should try it too | Spiritual Saturday
HeartMath technology is an innovative approach to improving emotional wellbeing. Learn to change your heart rhythm pattern to create physiological coherence; a scientifically measurable state characterized by increased order and harmony in our mind, emotions and body.
R. McCArty, Ph.D., Dir. of Research, HeartMath Institute
From Meditating to Heart Math
I thought I wasn’t good at meditating. I didn’t feel the benefits. I didn’t have any way to concretely measure my progress. Maybe I didn’t give it a good enough try. When I found out about the benefits of HeartMath and how the sensor could be used to chart my progress —I was sold.
HeartMath Benefits
As I began to research HeartMath I realized I had a major misconception. I thought the brain was the main source of command throughout the body. It is true that the heart does respond to messages from the brain. But, I also found out that the heart sends more messages to the brain than the other way around.
The messages that the heart sends to the brain impacts our emotional processing and our higher cognition, including: attention, perception, memory and problem solving.
