Taking care of your nervous system is to heal your whole body
Practice Mindfulness
Mindfulness practice sessions are here to help you build your own personal resilience as well as help you recharge your 'inner battery' when needed. Designed by the HeartMath Institute, the Building your personal resilience program will help you reconnect with your heart's intelligence which contributes in creating balance within your physiology through your nervous system. You will find week after week that you better respond to your daily life events thanks to your flexible nervous system response. Together we will see to your specific needs and establish your goals as well as practice HeartMath approved techniques. Offered virtually or in my clinic. Can be followed individually or in groups, through punctual one hour sessions or through a four week weekly program. Please write to me if you have any questions.
Practicing Coherence with the science of the HeartMath Institute
Many profesional corps such as policemen, firemen and health care workers work with the tools taught in the Building Personal Resilience program and they have practiced building their capacities to deal with all sorts of heat of the moment situations. With practice it is possible to set yourself up for success in all the areas of your life.
Through this program you will learn how to access your heart, your most precious resource, to dial down the 'noise' and to feel at your best before, during, and after, any given the situation or interaction. Thanks to human evolution we all have subconsciously learned psychological patterns that exist to protect us from harm. However you have the power to use your heart in a conscious way to decide where you want to be on the feel good scale.
Over 300 Scientific studies performed on heart coherence
Feeling Ease & Contentment
The HeartMath institute have been studying for over 26 years how the heart impacts our health. Mutiple scientific studies have shown how it is possible to live a healthier life through coherence. Many of the changes in bodily function that occur during the coherence state revolve around changes in the heart's pattern of activity. While the heart is certainly a remarkable pump, interestingly, it is only relatively recently in the course of human history—around the past three centuries or so—that the heart's function has been defined (by Western scientific thought) as only that of pumping blood . Historically, in almost every culture of the world, the heart was ascribed a far more multifaceted role in the human system, being regarded as a source of wisdom, spiritual insight, thought, and emotion. Intriguingly, scientific research over the past several decades has begun to provide evidence that many of these long-surviving associations may well be more than simply metaphorical. These developments have led science to once again to revise and expand its understanding of the heart and the role of this amazing organ.
Heart rhythm patterns and Emotions
During stress and negative emotions, when the heart rhythm pattern is erratic and disordered, the corresponding pattern of neural signals traveling from the heart to the brain inhibits higher cognitive functions. This limits our ability to think clearly, remember, learn, reason, and make effective decisions.
In contrast, the more ordered and stable pattern of the heart's input to the brain during positive emotional states has the opposite effect – it facilitates cognitive function and reinforces positive feelings and emotional stability.
More than a relaxation program
Not only are there fundamental physiological differences between relaxation and coherence, but the psychological characteristics of these states are also quite different. Relaxation is a low-energy state in which the individual rests both the body and mind, typically disengaging from cognitive and emotional processes. In contrast, coherence generally involves the active engagement of positive emotions. Psychologically, coherence is experienced as a calm, balanced, yet energized and responsive state that is conducive to everyday functioning and interaction, including the performance of tasks requiring mental acuity, focus, problem-solving, and decision-making, as well as physical activity and coordination. Be ready to face any situation and feel good in the process.
