HeartMath

The HeartMath approach offers powerful, easy-to-learn, easy-to-use tools and practical solutions that are highly effective for reducing stress, anxiety, depression and sleeplessness. Practicing HeartMath’s simple techniques on a regular basis, increases creativity, clarity, resilience, contentment, productivity, and energy; while decreasing blood pressure levels and symptoms of stress.

Did you know that the number one word Googled is Stress? It is known as the silent killer and will create havoc in one’s life if it is not addressed and dealt with. Just imagine what Your life would be like with less stress! Perhaps you would be calmer. Maybe you'd not worry as much or feel as anxious. You might have more time for the things you enjoy doing, with the people you care the most about. Or, for some of you, you'd finally get a good night’s sleep! Well, relief is closer than you think! In fact, it’s right under your nose and according to the HeartMath Institute it’s just a breath away and a heartbeat away.

If these are not good enough reasons to start doing something about the stress in your life, here's another one: Every time you experience a stressful event, even if it is just being startled by a loud noise, more than 1400 biochemicals, including the stress hormone Cortisol, are released throughout your body. Cortisol in particular, can accelerate aging and intensify the affects of stress. One burst of Cortisol stays in your body for over 8 hours. Eight minutes of recalling an angry event or getting angry, takes our body 13 hours to recover from.

Cortisol in particular, can accelerate aging by decreasing the vitality or anti-aging hormone DHEA. Have you ever noticed how much older folks look and act who are under continual stress? Perhaps you have noticed it in yourself. Bags under your eyes, falling asleep during the day, lack of energy and enthusiasm. These are just a few of the signs of too much stress and cortisol in your system.

While stress is a natural part of life, too much of it, too long can cause irreversible imbalances in our bodies systems. Every stress-related burst of cortisol in response to the economy, financial issues, traffic, deadlines or that guy in your department who drives you crazy accumulates in your system. And eventually, over time, the ratio of cortisol to DHEA gets out of whack.

So, recognizing all that is at stake regarding stress; the next time you feel angry, frustrated or irritated, wouldn’t you love to use instead quick and easy ways to give your DHEA levels a boost and decrease you cortical levels? Let HeartMath help. Doing so is quicker, cheaper and longer lasting than a couple of hours at the spa!

HeartMath is it is based on the sound principles of human physiology and emotion, this approach repeatedly has been proven to work for people of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels.

HeartMath is recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on the physiology of emotion, stress and optimal performance. For 17 years HeartMath has made significant contributions to both the scientific and practical understanding of the physiology of stress, heart-brain interactions and performance. This research has led to a deeper awareness of how emotions impact every aspect of our lives, affecting everything from the quality of our health and well-being to our relationships and the decisions we make each day.

HeartMath’s programs have become the gold standard in stress intervention and performance-enhancing solutions for individuals, as well as in corporate and healthcare settings. HeartMath’s clients include Duke Medicine, Stanford Business School, Stanford Hospital, Mayo Health System, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Sutter Health, Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, BP, Cisco Systems, Redken, Kaiser Permanente, Boeing and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.


Would you like to enhance your life in the following areas:

• Manage emotional responses to people and situations, maintain better emotional balance
• Improve health – decrease physical symptoms of stress such as sleeplessness, high blood pressure, indigestion, headaches
• Increase life balance – experience more joy, less exhaustion and sense of being overwhelmed.
• Gain greater mental clarity – make faster, better decisions.
• Get more done in less time – manage priorities efficiently, without a sense of panic.
• Increase creativity – identify more and different creative solutions to problems, projects and assignments.
• Reduce anger and arguments – be less reactive and understand problems from another’s point-of-view.
• Improve relationships – be authentic, have heart-to-heart conversations, inspire trust, deepen connection and intimacy.
• Resolve/manage conflict – communicate more effectively in conflict situations and resolve differences without destroying the relationship.
• Increase change flexibility – be resilient in the face of change, think outside the box, increase willingness to try new ways.
• Increase energy and motivation – eliminate negativity, drained energy and create a positive, energized approach to life and work….go more lightly through life.

What difference would it make in your life to resolve just one of these issues?

HeartMath helps people achieve dramatic benefits in the workplace and at home with easy, practical solutions. HearthMath is one of many Healing Techniques that can be used in Group, Individual and Family Counseling.