How it works

HeartMath meditation is a heart-focused breathing meditation that can help you quickly change from feeling stressed to feeling calm. Science-based and used worldwide, HeartMath meditation uses breathing techniques to bring about coherence — the alignment of your physical, mental and emotional systems to work in sync.

Benefits

• Reduced stress: HeartMath techniques can help replace stressful thoughts and emotions with more positive ones.
• Improved mood: Regular use of HeartMath can help decrease anxiety, fatigue, and depression, and improve sleep and focus.
• Better performance: HeartMath can help improve mental acuteness, coordination, and reaction times.
• Improved learning: HeartMath can help improve the ability to learn and achieve higher test scores.
• Better intuition: HeartMath can help increase access to intuition and creativity.
• Improved hormonal balance: HeartMath can help create favorable changes in hormonal balance.
• Improved relationships: HeartMath can help improve family and social harmony.
• HeartMath techniques typically involve deep, slow breathing into the heart space while thinking of a positive emotion. The goal is to achieve a state of coherence, which can be done by practicing heart-focused breathing.

When it’s used

The HeartMath System of techniques and technologies is used by hundreds of thousands of individuals worldwide, thousands of health professionals and hundreds of companies, health-care systems, educational institutions and governm

How it compares to other therapies

The major difference between HeartMath and Meditating is the state of your heart when practicing. During meditation there is more of a focus on a state of rest in the body and a focus on the mind. In HeartMath there is a higher level of activity in the heart muscle.