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New Info About Heart-Brain Communication Opens Window of Opportunity For You

We had believed our heart is constantly receiving orders from brain. Actually, your heart sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends to the heart! This communication from your heart to your brain influences your emotional experience, attention, perception, memory and problem solving.

What does this mean for you?

Different patterns of heart activity accompany different emotional states. During stress and unpleasant  emotional experience, when the heart rhythm pattern is erratic and disordered, the corresponding pattern of neural signals traveling from the heart to the brain inhibits higher cognitive functions.

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Therein lies a window of opportunity for you to develop the ability to work with your emotional experience. Learn to 1) allow the emotional feedback to do its job for you, which is to provide you with information to help you navigate your life and 2) shorten the duration of unpleasant emotions  and pro-long the duration of pleasant emotions which create an internal 'chemical bath' conducive to well being.

Now you see the point of the Feel AWE posts you will find on this blog from time to time. As you Feel AWE you are manufacturing good medicine for yourself. You are directly influencing HRV (heart rate variability.)

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To learn specific techniques for working with Mind Power to enhance health take the Power Up Your Mind Teleseminar offered by Phenomenal Mind Studios, September 18th, http://bit.ly/16sTBB2 

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