Welcome back friends.

friends. Yesterday we spoke about the physical heart and today we move forward with the second heart

which most people don't talk about looking at the heart as the seat of emotions.

We know that emotions affect our heartbeat and there is a very sensitive measure of that heartbeat

called heart rate variability. So heart rate variability doesn't mean an irregular heart, which would be

unhealthy. It just means that there is variation in the beat to beat interval.

The beat to beat interval is the pause

between every heartbeat. And the more variable it is and that's called heart rate

variability the healthier you are in fact heart rate variability is the most sensitive measure in the opinion of a lot of people,

not only of physical health, but of emotional health. So if you're stressed and there is what we call a

sympathetic overdrive which means your sympathetic nervous system is overactive as a result of stress,

then heart rate variability decreases, which means that it is more fixed there's less variation there's less flexibility it's like

an army marching to war boom boom, boom, with no variation.

If you have an argument with your spouse, if you didn't sleep well,

if you feel anxious, if you feel angry, if you feel hostility, if you feel

guilt or shame or depression or fear, then your heart rate variability will go down.

And that's why your emotional heart is actually your physical heart responding to your emotions.

If you're relaxed, if you're adaptable, if you're flexible, if you go with the flow then your heart rate variability will be increased

and this by the way can be measured through instruments and through biofeedback devices.

So that's your emotional heart

or your physical heart you can say

and how it responds to emotions.

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