Yoga Good for Heart Health
Yoga Boosts Heart Health, New Research Finds ScienceDaily (Nov. 25, 2009) — Heart rate variability, a sign of a healthy heart, has been shown to be higher in yoga practitioners than in...
View ArticleMeditation and Cardiovascular Disease: 30% Mortality Reduction
Yesterday’s post suggested that as one takes pills, it is a good idea to breathe deeply, relax, and visualize the expected effects of the medication/supplement/vitamin. This suggestion is based on the...
View ArticleWarm Hands, Healthy Heart
Relaxation techniques — including Yoga, meditation, mindfulness and prayer — all have in common that the reduce the flight-fight response and increases the “relaxation response” of the body. Research...
View ArticleWarm Thoughts…. Warm Images… Warm Hands…
Yesterday’s post suggested that if you warm your hands by holding a cup of hot coffee, you will have “warmer” thoughts about the people you meet. Even more importantly, you can train your hands (and...
View ArticleWarming Your Hands and Heart: Autogenic Training
When the idea behind biofeedback of training people to warm their hands to reduce their migraine headaches was developed at the Menninger Clinic in the 60′s, the technique they taught people was...
View ArticleYoga Reduces Risk for Atrial Fibrillation
Yoga Reduces Atrial Fibrillation Risk Considerably April 3, 2011 Medical News Today People who regularly practice yoga have a significantly lower risk of having episodes of atrial fibrillation –...
View ArticleBreathing Slowly to Reduce Blood Pressure…
Has your cardiologist talked to you about breathing? Associated Press July 31, 2006 Breathe deep to lower blood pressure, doc says Experiment suggests slow breathing helps break down the salt we eat...
View ArticleReducing Heart Attack Risk Through Meditation
[In the 60's, when meditation become more mainstream. the phrase I would often here is: "If you are too busy to meditate, you are too busy." -- And today the phrase I came across was, "It is important...
View ArticleYogabasics: Heart Chakra Meditation
(Daily meditation reduces heart attack risk by about 50%..) from yogabasics.com This heart chakra meditation is a simple technique to release sadness and fear and to bring compassion and love into your...
View ArticleHeart Meditation II
from www.freemeditations.com Heart Centered Meditation Begin by finding a quiet spot where you will not be disturbed. Take the phone off the hook. Turn off your mobile phone, radio, and television, as...
View ArticleHeart Meditation III
from www.care2.com Meditate on the Heart The purpose of this exercise is to give you the experience of making your heart pure enough to witness spirit. Pure here doesn’t mean good and virtuous; it...
View ArticleHeart Meditation IV
Heart Chakra Meditation | Guided Meditation Practice The following is a dictation of the practice of a heart chakra meditation taught by Swami Sivajnanananda. This practice is designed to help open...
View ArticleHeart Meditation: Videos
How To Do A Heart Chakra Meditation 4th Chakra Clearing Meditation How to Open Your Heart Chakra Karunesh: Heart Chakra Meditation Heart Chakra Meditation: Tibetan Sound How to Open Your Heart Chakra...
View ArticleArrythmias and Stress
Note the emphasis on: “social support, relaxation therapy, yoga, meditation, controlled slow breathing, and biofeedback” Acute Emotional Stress and Cardiac Arrhythmias/strong> Roy C. Ziegelstein, MD...
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