When your brain is aroused and living in survival mode, you generally keep shifting your attention to things in your external world very quickly text messages, FB, insta, job, husband, child, tv, news, shopping. When we have cortisol and adrenaline pumping through our bodies, we tend to be living on high alert and our brains become overly vigilant, trying to predict, control and force outcomes in an effort to increase our chances of survival. When you are living by the hormones of stress, your focus tends to become quite narrow. Your blood travels more to the periphery, your immune system shuts down (because it is not a time for growth and repair) and when this happens over prolonged periods, it sets your body up for the right environmental conditions for disease. When you are “being” in fear, you are basically living in survival, with the sympathetic nervous system dialled up to allow you to be on alert, ready for action, ready to run. In other words, you have conditioned your body into a state of fear. The moment you feel fear, that emotion influences you to think more fearful thoughts. Those thoughts trigger the release of even more chemicals in the brain and body that makes you continue to feel fear. So you get caught in the loop where your thinking creates feeling, and your feeling creates thinking. Once you notice you are feeling a particular way, you generate more thoughts equal to how you’re feeling, and then you release more chemicals from your brain to make you feel the way you have been thinking.įor example, if you think an anxious thought, you then start to feel fear.
These chemicals make your body feel exactly the same way you were thinking.
When you have a thought (or a memory), a biochemical reaction happens in your brain causing it to release chemical signals. What you think and what you feel creates your state of being.
Thoughts are the language of the brain and feelings are the language of the body. Living with an anxious brain and a fearful heart was horrible. However, this was not the way I wanted to live my life. In fact, most of the time I just wanted to get away from myself. And, after 12 months of chronic sleep deprivation and a few major life stressors/crises, you could definitely justify that this was “normal” for me. Sure, that certainly is a common experience for a new mother and could be deemed “normal”. Now some might say that is just normal for a new mother. Has she stopped breathing….heart races and you feel fearful and anxious. Joy experienced, immediately followed by that sense of doom. Like you look at your beautiful child sleeping, feel a sense of pure love and peace and the immediate next thought and feeling is what is going to go wrong? She’s going to die in her sleep. I lived in a state of fear and anxiety, I certainly couldn’t make a logical decision, I definitely couldn’t remember anything and any joy experienced was what Brene Brown terms “foreboding joy”. This is how I felt for some time after the birth of my first child. In other words, the brain becomes incoherent. It is much harder to remember things and it is certainly much harder to communicate effectively, rationally and calmly. We also know that when the brain is stressed, when it is overwhelmed, when there is chaotic thinking, it is much harder to make rational and logical decisions.
#Heart coherence free#
We know that elevated emotions such as joy, compassion, love and appreciation feel much better and usually encourage more productive, caring and stress free lives. Whereas, emotions of anger, frustration, hate and lack, produce states of mind that feel much worse and produce more stress and unkind behaviours, to both ourselves and others. This information is very new in terms of our current evidence based medical paradigms, however, it is ancient wisdom in terms of what we intuitively and historically know about human function and behaviour.
#Heart coherence professional#
Learning the science and application of heart coherence and brain coherence has been the most important and profound lessons in my professional and personal life thus far.
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