242: HeartMath: How to Listen to & Train Your Heart
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 16 February 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Most people assume that a healthy heart is beating slowly and steadily. The truth is a healthy heart is agile, highly variable, and changing with every inhale and exhale.
The measurement of your real-time, beat-to-beat variance is called, Heart Rate Variability, and it's something every yoga student should learn. In a matter of minutes, you can "see" what's going on in terms of your nervous system and emotional self, and more importantly, you can breath and visualize to change it when needed. On this week's show, you'll meet, Howard Martin, a leading voice at HeartMath.
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What You'll Learn:
- How a heart-based approach to daily living can create positive change to meet global challenges
- The importance of neuro-cardiology, the study of the heart's own nervous system
- How the heart is sending more signals to the brain than it receives
- Why the heart is an electrical organ, the strongest source of bio-electricity (40x's more than the brain) and projects its electromagnetic field 3-4 feet around you
- How emotional activity can impact your electromagnetic field
- Why "coherence" is a state of psycho-physiological balance, the goal of much of our mind-body wellness
- How heart rate variability (HRV) can tell you more about your nervous system status and emotional health
- 3 steps to heart-based breathing
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Howard Martin is one of the original leaders who helped Doc Childre found HeartMath and has been with the organization since its inception in 1991 serving as a key spokesperson and executive.
In 1999 he co-authored with Doc Childre, The HeartMath Solution. Howard is also a contributing author of the new book, Heart Intelligence, Connecting with the Intuitive Guidance of the Heart. During his career with HeartMath and the Global Coherence Initiative, Howard has delivered educational programs to tens of thousands of people including: Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, all four branches of the U.S. military, and school systems in over 50 cities on four continents.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a concept called autogenic inhibition, and this is when you apply pressure to a muscle |
| 0:07.3 | to tone down its electrical activity. I'll give you a real world example so you understand exactly what I mean. |
| 0:13.2 | If you're out for a run and your calf muscle cramps and it cramps really hard, the first thing |
| 0:18.1 | you do is you sit down and you grab that calf muscle with your hands and you squeeze, squeeze, squeeze on it. And what you're doing |
| 0:24.7 | is you are utilizing autogenic inhibition here by pressing on the muscle. It |
| 0:31.1 | tells your body to turn off the electrical |
| 0:33.4 | signaling. It's just this phenomenon that has been discovered |
| 0:36.5 | since the beginning of time that everyone knows when you get a cramp |
| 0:39.4 | you put your hand on your side, you grab your calf wherever the cramp is, you touch it, and it decreases |
| 0:44.6 | the electrical activity. |
| 0:46.4 | If you imagine a muscle that's spasming, that's an electric pulse going, doz, |
| 0:50.0 | jh, and the way to turn that off, one of the ways is to squeeze that area, put pressure on that area, and release. |
| 0:58.0 | So, autogenic inhibition is very useful in the context of mobility training. |
| 1:03.6 | This is typically thing flexibility training, mobility training is typically things |
| 1:07.2 | you'd want to do after your yoga class or your gym workout or your run or whatever you do to stay active. |
| 1:13.0 | And what you can do is in your really tight areas, |
| 1:14.9 | for example, your soas muscle or your hamstrings |
| 1:17.7 | really common areas. |
| 1:18.9 | Maybe on your peks on the, you know, right near your shoulder, |
| 1:22.1 | maybe even on your rotator cuff, if you apply |
| 1:24.6 | pressure and then release and you do that again and again, it allows you to do mobility training |
| 1:30.7 | on a much deeper level because it turns off the stretch reflex and it in the |
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