Qigong for Health - Heart Coherence

In March we will be focusing on Heart Coherence.

Heart coherence occurs when our breathing, heart rhythms, brain rhythms and hormonal response, are in sync with each other. The heart speeds up on inhalation and slows down on exhalation.

Heart coherence not only affects physical processes, but also our mental and emotional balance and composure.

This shift in the heart rhythm in turn plays an important role in facilitating higher cognitive functions, creating emotional stability and facilitating states of calm.

Over time, this establishes a new inner-baseline reference, a type of implicit memory that organizes perception, feelings, and behavior.

Without establishing a new baseline reference, people are at risk of getting “stuck” in familiar, yet unhealthy emotional and behavioral patterns and living their lives through the automatic filters of past familiar or traumatic experience.