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Hi, and welcome to your Daily Mindfulness. Today, I'm going to share with you an evidence-based practice that can help you cultivate a peaceful and loving heart. Once you know the steps to this practice and then give it a try today, it's something that you can use whenever you need to or whenever you'd like. So the HeartMath Institute in the USA has done extensive research into the connection between your heart rate variability and your emotional wellbeing. Heart rate variability is a measure of the variation in time between each heartbeat.
A smoothly changing variation in those intervals changes your brain waves, regulates your nervous system and also helps you to feel more peaceful and more happy. So what they found at HeartMath is there is a very specific three step method that can improve your heart rate variability. And I'm going to just talk you through the steps here and then we'll practice them in today's meditation. So step one is that you begin to breathe in a way where your inhale is the same length as your exhale. Step two is you put your focus on the center of your chest, and you imagine that you could breathe into and out from your heart area.
And step three, as you breathe in this way, you then begin to bring to mind a feeling of gratitude or love. So you might just have a sense of allowing yourself in this step to be filled with those positive emotions, breathe them into an out of your heart space. Or if it's helpful, some people might really enjoy actively bringing to mind how much love you have for certain person or for all of life. And that can bring on that emotion of love. Some people are very visual, so they might visualize.
Or you might just dwell on certain good things in your life and bring to mind that feeling of gratitude really strongly. So these are the three steps and even doing this practice for a few minutes a day can really help you to lower stress and cultivate more peace, happiness, and good health. So let's give this a try. Let's settle in now for meditation. I'll guide you through this practice, see how it feels for you.
And if it's something that really resonates, you can take that and continue this practice in your life. Let's settle in.
Melli O'Brien
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Hi, and welcome to your Daily Mindfulness. Today, I'm going to share with you an evidence-based practice that can help you cultivate a peaceful and loving heart. Once you know the steps to this practice and then give it a try today, it's something that you can use whenever you need to or whenever you'd like. So the HeartMath Institute in the USA has done extensive research into the connection between your heart rate variability and your emotional wellbeing. Heart rate variability is a measure of the variation in time between each heartbeat.
A smoothly changing variation in those intervals changes your brain waves, regulates your nervous system and also helps you to feel more peaceful and more happy. So what they found at HeartMath is there is a very specific three step method that can improve your heart rate variability. And I'm going to just talk you through the steps here and then we'll practice them in today's meditation. So step one is that you begin to breathe in a way where your inhale is the same length as your exhale. Step two is you put your focus on the center of your chest, and you imagine that you could breathe into and out from your heart area.
And step three, as you breathe in this way, you then begin to bring to mind a feeling of gratitude or love. So you might just have a sense of allowing yourself in this step to be filled with those positive emotions, breathe them into an out of your heart space. Or if it's helpful, some people might really enjoy actively bringing to mind how much love you have for certain person or for all of life. And that can bring on that emotion of love. Some people are very visual, so they might visualize.
Or you might just dwell on certain good things in your life and bring to mind that feeling of gratitude really strongly. So these are the three steps and even doing this practice for a few minutes a day can really help you to lower stress and cultivate more peace, happiness, and good health. So let's give this a try. Let's settle in now for meditation. I'll guide you through this practice, see how it feels for you.
And if it's something that really resonates, you can take that and continue this practice in your life. Let's settle in.
Melli O'Brien
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