Hands up who wants to vastly increase their likelihood of heart disease, cancer and a premature end to their life!

Hands up who wants to vastly increase their likelihood of living a happy, healthy, fulfilling life![1]

I’ve recently been delving into the HeartMath Institute’s body of studies and research. In their book, Science of the Heart, volume 2, they point out that “60% to 80% of primary care doctor visits are related to stress, yet only 3% of patients receive stress management help”[2].Why?! [3]‍

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BEING THE EXAMPLE

Whatever the reasons, you and I have this information now. The question now becomes: what are we going to do with it? It’s very easy to look outward and spread the news. Nothing wrong with that. But the most powerful use of this knowledge is self-application. We first need to be the change we’d like to see in the world. Be the example. So how about we make the commitment to take our development of resilience and ability to manage life’s stressors into our own hands?

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SNAIL SHELLS OF PAST HEAVINESS

The subconscious mind is the store house of past memories which, when projected onto the present or dragged around like a massive snail shell of weighty baggage, inform and negatively impacts our ability to handle outer stressors with ease. The buzz word around this these days is ‘resilience’, right? When our natural ‘resilience’ is inhibited by past experiences which are unresolved in our subconscious, life can feel overwhelming, we can feel burdened, anxious and stuck on a seemingly never-ending treadmill. Can you relate? Once we remove that snail shell of weight and stop projecting the past onto our present, we’re in the position to live according to conscious choice. We’re able to choose to regulate our state and choose more empowering and positive behaviour and responses. Our natural resilience is restored, and it feels wonderful! Then, in order to maintain this resilience and strength, we simply need to continue to regulate our state.

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HEARTMATH’S FREE TOOLS

HeartMath’s tools are fantastic for this! They give us simple, powerful techniques which we can easefully incorporate into our day to day lives. They also offer us the technology to observe and understand what’s really going on in us, from physiological, neuro-cardiological and energetic viewpoints. I’ve been playing with it. It’s fascinating AND it’s fun!

I highly recommend HeartMath’s series of videos, “The HeartMath Experience”  in which you’ll quickly learn some great techniques to help you regulate your state and increase your resilience. As you start using them, you’ll notice a difference very quickly.

If you feel you first need to toss away that snail shell of heaviness from the past that you’ve been dragging around, feel free to book a complimentary strategy session with me.

We’re in this together. Here’s to the living of a happy, healthy, fulfilling life! Why on earth not?

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Allison, T.G., et al., Medical and economic costs of psychologic

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Eysenck, H.J., Personality, stress and cancer: Prediction and

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61(Pt 1): p.57-75.

[2] Nerurkar, A., et al., When physicians counsel about stress:

results of a national study. JAMA Intern Med, 2013. 173(1):

p. 76-7.

Avey, H., et al., Health care providers’ training, perceptions, and

practices regarding stress and health outcomes. J Natl Med

Assoc, 2003. 95(9): p. 833, 836-45.

Cummings, N.A. and G.R. VandenBos, The twenty years

Kaiser-Permanente experience with psychotherapy and medical

utilization: implications for national health policy and national

health insurance. Health Policy Q, 1981. 1(2): p. 159-75.

[3] Nerurkar, A., et al., When physicians counsel about stress:

results of a national study. JAMA Intern Med, 2013. 173(1):

p. 76-7.

Avey, H., et al., Health care providers’ training, perceptions, and

practices regarding stress and health outcomes. J Natl Med

Assoc, 2003. 95(9): p. 833, 836-45.

Cummings, N.A. and G.R. VandenBos, The twenty years

Kaiser-Permanente experience with psychotherapy and medical

utilization: implications for national health policy and national

health insurance. Health Policy Q, 1981. 1(2): p. 159-75.

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