Quick Coherence helps you find a feeling of ease and inner harmony that can be reflected in your heart rhythms. The heart is a primary generator of rhythm in your body, influencing brain processes that influence your nervous system, mental functions and emotions. More coherent heart rhythms facilitate brain function so you can improve your focus, creativity, intuition and decision-making. When you're in heart-rhythm coherence, you perform at your best.
Practice Heart-Focused Breathing. Imagine you are breathing through your heart or chest area -- putting your attention here helps you center yourself and get coherent. Take slow, deep breaths.
Suggestion: Inhale for 5 seconds and exhale for 5 seconds — or whatever is comfortable.
Activate a Positive Feeling — recall how it felt when you were appreciated or when you felt appreciation for something or someone. Or you can focus on a calm, neutral feeling.
Focusing on positive emotions helps to create the coherent alignment between your heart, mind and emotions. As you increase your time in coherence, you increase your intuitive ability for choosing the most effective way to handle each situation.
Quick Coherence is especially useful when you start to feel a stressful emotion (anxiety, frustration, overwhelm, etc.). Practice using it as soon as you start to feel stressful emotions to keep them from escalating into something worse.
Use the Quick Coherence Technique to re-establish your emotional balance and mental clarity. You can use the technique anytime, anywhere and in less than a minute.
You can also use the Quick Coherence technique like many athletes do to get in sync to improve your coordination and reaction speeds.
*Adapted and shortened from the original Quick Coherence technique
Heart coherence describes the degree of order and stability occurring in heart rhythms over time. A smooth consistent HRV pattern reflects optimal function in our nervous system and communication between our heart and brain. By contrast, an erratic HRV pattern denotes an incoherent system reflecting stress and energy drain. A wide range of benefits result from sustaining a coherent state (even for short periods) and have been validated in numerous independent research studies.
Contrary to popular belief, our heart rate changes with each and every heartbeat and the measurement of these beat to beat changes is called Heart Rate Variability or simply HRV. HRV is much more than measuring our heart rate because it reflects the interactions between the heart, brain, and nervous system. Having an adequate amount of HRV is important as it is considered an important indicator of both physiological resilience or vitality and mental and emotional flexibility – our capacity to adapt effectively to stress and challenges.
Accumulated stress over time can reduce our HRV but more importantly stress-related emotions such as anxiety, fear, anger and frustration cause our heart rhythm patterns to become disordered and erratic – we are literally out of sync. The heart has its own nervous system which sends far more signals to the brain then the brain sends to the heart! These signals especially affect the brain centers involved in decision making, creativity and our ability to maintain composure.
More coherent heart rhythms facilitate mental functions, allowing more access to your higher intelligence so you can improve your focus, creativity, intuition and decision-making. After being in heart coherence, you perform at your best! You feel more confident, positive, focused and calm yet energized.
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