Heart Rhythm Meditation for Physical and Psychological Well Being

Heart Rhythm Meditation (HRM) is a collection of embodied practices that build resiliency and improve one’s physical, psychological (mental, emotional) and spiritual heath.  Daily HRM practice, results in reduced blood pressure, improved immune response, increased lung capacity, an increased ability to regulate your emotions, and increased capacity to focus on what matters to you in life. Central to HRM practices is embodiment: identification and activation of sensations in your body; perceiving the presence of physical and energetic breath, embodied heart, and mental and emotional states in the body. Embodied heart refers to the physical heart, its heartbeat, your emotion, your energetic state, and connectedness to others. Mental states refer to our intellect, reason, and capacity for the symbolic and conceptual thinking. We use the term energy both symbolically and literally. Anything you do takes energy – all of life is a constant flow of energy. When we focus our conscious minds on the posture, breath, and heartbeat, the unconscious flows into our awareness and our sense of reality expands beyond the physical to include the imaginal. HRM practically applies mystical principles of heart, centered purpose directed life through application of intention, attention, posture, sensation, inspiration, and invocation. Material used in this 4-week are primarily from the book Living from the Heart written by Susanna and Puran Bair: based on teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, a musician and mystic born in India; taught in America and Europe. His mystical writing strongly correlates to depth psychology, in particular Carl Jung, James, Hillman, Robert Bosnak with central message of divinity residing in every heart of humanity.

What you will Receive:

• 4 Live Webinar Sessions with Q & A
• 4 Links to the Recordings
• 4 CECs

This Course is Ideal For:

• Individuals engaged in high stress work and personal situations
• Parents dealing with child raising needs
• Educators
• Nurses
• First Responders
• Individuals who feel stuck in unproductive patterns of behavior
• Individuals desiring shift their relationship with their bodies and emotions
• Individuals desiring to reframe how they perceive reality and related to others

Course Overview:

• Connecting with the Body, Sensations, Posture, and Breath
• Connecting with the Heartbeat and Heart Rate Variability
• Conscious, Rhythmic and Full Breath
• Self-activated interventions: Breathing to create and assimilate

Course Outline

• Week 1:
  • Opening and Welcome
  • Presentation: Heart Rhythm Meditation Interventions
  • Application of 2 interventions via Meditation
  • Reflection and Q/A on Presentation and Meditation

• Week 2:
  • Opening & Re-connection to Day 1
  • Presentation: Heart Rate Variability and Heart Energy Field
  • Application of 3 interventions via Meditation
  • Reflection and Q/A on Presentation and Meditation

• Week 3:
  • Opening & Reconnection to Weeks 1 & 2
  • Presentation: Full and Rhythmic Breath
  • Application of 5 interventions via Meditation
  • Reflection and Q/A on Presentation and Mediation

• Week 4:
  • Presentation: six self-activated powers
  • Application of six activated powers via mediation
  • Reflection, Q/A & Closure

CE Learning Objectives:

By the End of This Course, Attendees will be able to:

• Identify and apply three interventions to achieve physical, mental and emotional coherence
• Compare four body states before and after 30 minutes of Heart Rhythm Meditation
• Explain the six self-controlled powers of a Heart Rhythm meditator
• Apply the six powers to shift your physical, mental and emotional states

Course Addendums:

Bair P and Bair S. (2011. Follow your heart: The map to illumination.  Tucson, AZ: Living Heart Media.

Bair S and Bair P. (2019). Living from the heart: A guide to heart rhythm meditation for energy, clarity, peace and inner power. Tucson, AZ: Living Heart Media.

Basso J, McHale A, Ende V, Oberlin D, Suzuki W. (2018) Brief, daily meditation enhances attention, memory, mood, and emotional regulation in non-experienced meditators. Behavioral Brain Research. doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.08.023

Burch J. Alexander M, Balte P, Sofge J, Winstead J, Kothandaraman V, Ginsberg J. (2018) Shift work and heart rate variability coherence: Pilot study among nurses. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. (2018) doi.org/10.1007/s10484-018-9419-z

McCarty, R. (2017) New frontiers in heart rate variability and social coherence research: Techniques, technologies and implications for improving group dynamics and outcomes. Frontiers in Public Health. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00267

McCarty, R. (2022) Following the rhythm of the heart: HeartMath Institute’s path to HRM biofeedback. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. doi.org/10.1007/s10484-022-09554-2

Riley K and MCarty R. (2023) Exploring the effects of shared heart-focused intention in music performance on musicians and audience members. Biofeedback. (2023) doi:10.5298/1081-5937-51.02.02

Slyapan S, Nair A, Jayanna K, Mallipeddi S, Sathyanaranyana S, Kutty B. (2020) Meditation, well-being and cognition in heartfulness meditators – A pilot study. Consciousness and Cognition (2020) doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.1033032

Tisdell E, Lukic B, Banjerjee R, Liao D, Palmer, C. The effects of heart rhythm meditation on vagal tone and well-being: A mixed methods research study. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (2024) 49:439-455. doi.org/10.1007/s10484-024-09639-0

Your Heart is More than Pump Science Today: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmGyKoJosk