In Every Beat Of Your Heart. 'Fight or Flight' versus 'Rest & Digest'. Dear Friend,
Here's a little encouragement to get your heart rate down, which will do wonders for your overall health.
You can't directly control your heart rate. It's an automatic response that rises when you're in 'fight or flight' mode due to stress and anxiety. And falls when you're in 'rest & digest' mode ie. being chilled out and relaxed.
Heart rate is measured in 'beats per minute' (bpm) and the resting heart rate for the average adult is between 60-100bpm.
The lower your bpm, the more healthy you are because your heart has to do less work to pump the blood around your body.
You could get your heart rate down by training to be an elite athlete like Usain Bolt, whose resting heart rate has been recorded at 33bpm.
Or, you could maintain your daily practice of the meditation, which is the ultimate 'rest & digest' (see:Sahaja yoga and heart rate variability - Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy & Pharmacology).
Your heartbeat is also the audible expression of your life force - 'prana rupini shakti' ( feminine divine energy), which is visualised on the centre heart chakra as goddess Durga. More below.
Also below: putting power into your heart by listening to 3 minutes of African tribal drumming; and, when life feels like being trapped in a shopping program, how to break out of it. Best wishesP. PS. Photo collage of Sahaja yoga around the world, further down. October Lunar Calendar shown at end. |
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