Researchers from Heartmath believe that stress and anger create the most powerful imbalances between the brain's heart connection. That's why rage makes you stupid or very smart people make ineffective choices. It results that negative emotions create serious health problems. If we feel that time is pressing, we feel frustrated, worried - it creates cortical inhibition. That means we can not think clearly, we can not move as fast, coordination is affected. Here the heart can intervene and through the connection it has with the brain, it can calm the situation: by focusing attention in the heart's area, the mental state improves, we go into a positive emotional state - the brain receives the signal for the change of the emotions, sends action signals to his usual level.
How do you make this passage, concrete? Heartmath has developed an exercise that helps. Freeze Frame.
Freeze Frame - is an exercise that takes only a minute and helps change perception. More than positive thinking, he creates a definite, felt feeling in the heart of how we look at a situation, a person or ourselves. Here's the exercise:
- Change your mind's attention to the heart area. Keep it there for 10 seconds. Breathe normally.
- Remember a good situation in your life and the positive feeling you had. Try not only to visualize, but especially to feel those pleasant moments again.
- Ask, from the heart, "what can I do in this situation to straighten it?"
- Listen to your heart.
You may not hear anything, just feel calmer. You could just check this out for something you already knew. Maybe you will see the moment of the crisis in another way.