#heartratevariability #meditation Last week at @osteostrongla, @biostrap Presented their product on HRV. HRV is one of the greatest ways to measure the impact of meditation and even help with the practice. The problem with meditation is many people struggle with it initially and fail to build a consistent habit of doing it. A big reason for this is because they don’t have any direct biofeedback on how well they’re doing it. This is where heart rate variability (HRV) comes in. Using any heart rate monitor and the app, you can easily get real-time feedback on how your meditation practice is altering your physiology and relaxing your body. This real-time biofeedback is very helpful for many people with the intention of building a long-term meditation practice. It allows them to visualize their improvements over time. HRV measures the time variance between heartbeats. With this heart rate variability, you can actually get a good picture of the resilience of the heart organ, which is a good predictor of both well-being and longevity. The heart is a muscle, which means it has muscle “memory”, which can be systematically trained to achieve greater coherence. Heart actually sends about 60 times more signals to your brain, than your brain sends to your heart. This means if you want to improve your mental health and well-being, an ideal way to approach this is by improving your heart’s coherence. How do we improve heart's coherence? By training your mental state using mindfulness meditation and breathing to balance the autonomic nervous system. Simple yet fascinating! (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvpG9g0gdty/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ippb2lpqjsh
