Why Your Heart Rate Monitor is Wrong (they all are)
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Did you know that your typical heart rate monitor measures an "average" rate per minute? In reality, your heart doesn't beat a solid 55 bpm, it beats 50, then 80, then 43 and then 81. Your monitor just calculates the mean.
This is an interesting metric, but heart rate can teach you much, much more.
Most people assume that a healthy heart is beating slowly and steadily. The truth is a healthy heart is agile, highly variable, and changing with every inhale and exhale.
The measurement of your real-time, beat-to-beat variance is called, Heart Rate Variability, and it’s something every yoga student should learn. In a matter of minutes, you can “see” what’s going on in terms of your nervous system and emotional self, and more importantly, you can breath and visualize to change it when needed.
On this week’s show, you’ll meet, Howard Martin, a leading voice at HeartMath.
What You’ll Learn:
- How a heart-based approach to daily living can create positive change to meet global challenges
- The importance of neuro-cardiology, the study of the heart’s own nervous system
- How the heart is sending more signals to the brain than it receives
- Why the heart is an electrical organ, the strongest source of bio-electricity (40x’s more than the brain) and projects its electromagnetic field 3-4 feet around you
- How emotional activity can impact your electromagnetic field
- Why “coherence” is a state of psycho-physiological balance, the goal of much of our mind-body wellness
- How heart rate variability (HRV) can tell you more about your nervous system status and emotional health
- 3 steps to heart-based breathing
This is one of my favorite shows of 2017. Listen in here:
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Lucas Rockwood is the founder and Managing Director of Absolute Yoga Academy and the Yoga Teachers College. He has personally taught over 10,000 students and certified over 2,000 teachers through his training programs internationally. Lucas is also the founder of YOGABODY Naturals and YOGABODY Fitness Studios. His #1 rated weekly yoga podcast for students and teachers is available here: Yoga Talk Show