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Energizing Your Life Through Your Heart
A new book, "Energize Your Heart in Four Dimensions," written by the co-founders of the 20-year-old Institute for Applied meditation, Inc., shows how a meditation called Heart Rhythm Practice can yield numerous physical-and emotional-health benefits. This meditation has been shown to lower blood pressure, reduce your heart rate, help control your weight, stave off heart disease, overcome anxiety disorders, improve the quality of your sleep, reduce fatigue, and enhance fluidity of motion and lung function. While this may sound like a lot to accomplish, there are physical reasons why meditation works. "Our method includes meditation, movement and lifestyle changes," says Susanna Bair, co-author of the book. "By drawing attention to the heart, which lowers the heart rate, we increase our circulation, the immune response and produce an expansion in consciousness." Breathing exercises help increase lung capacity, which increases oxygenation, energy levels and metabolic rates. The Heart Rhythm Practice synchronizes breath and heartbeat to a pattern associated with a calm, restful state. It also decreases the production of stress hormones and increases production of anti-stress hormones. "The body has clocks within itself and these clocks dictate the pace of metabolism, movement and even thinking," says co-author Puran Bair. "When the strongest and most basic rhythm in the body, the breath rhythm, becomes stable, the heartbeat adopts the rhythm too and then the emotional state becomes calm." The husband and wife co-authors have personally changed tens of thousands of lives over the past three decades, having led numerous meditation workshops, conducted seminars and co-founded the Institute for Applied Meditation. Their prior book, "Living From the Heart," was praised as being "one of the most important texts ever written on meditation." The new book contains dozens of exercises to stimulate the heart in a way that will produce physical and mental health. It also features guidance on how to approach life's challenges. "Energize Your Heart in Four Dimensions" is available where books are sold. Change can come with your next heartbeat, says a new book, if you learn the basics of a heart-oriented method of meditation. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com |
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