This is episode 2068 of the daily guided meditation.

I'm Mary Meckley and here you are as you get ready to give yourself permission to slow down.

In today's episode, we launch into a brand new series where you will explore your heart brain connection.

This week you will discover meditation techniques and insight to help you navigate

your way through some of the disruption that you may see going on around you,

especially as you find a new normal in the days of this coronavirus pandemic we're experiencing.

Your heart-brain connection has been studied extensively recently.

And I want to share with you a little insight.

There is research that shows that the heart communicates to the brain in four major ways. This is from Heart Math.org and this is a company dedicated to the

heart brain connection. So the Heart, Brain Connection.

So the Heart Math Institute shared the research results

where the heart communicates with the brain neurologically through the

transmission of nerve impulses, biochemically through hormones and and neurotransmitters, and also biophysically through pressure waves

and energetically through electromagnetic field interactions.

We'll be exploring this throughout this series and the reason why this is important is because you may realize that heart disease is the number one

killer of both men and women in many Westernized countries, especially in the United States where I live.

Yet there's so much we can do to calm the heart and calm the mind using meditation techniques.

And with a lot of uncertainty happening around you. We really don't know what's going to

happen next it seems these days and that can be hard on your brain

brain because it's hard to reach any kind of clarity

when there's so much uncertainty going on for so long. We don't really

know when the coronavirus will end and we're still muddling our way through how to live a fairly normal life in the midst of a pandemic.

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