Feldenkrais® and HeartMath®
By Gary Waskowsky
We are excited to offer a link to HeartMath products. The empathy and connection you feel with Feldenkrais can be amplified with the use of their tools. I particularly recommend their new portable unit, the EmWaveTM.
One way to think of Feldenkrais is as a way to increase coherence in your life. To paraphrase a famous saying of Moshe's, we are using sensory explorations to "know what we're doing" so we can "do what we want." We eliminate the "static" of parasitic tensions, thus synchronizing our intention to our movement.
HeartMath's EmWave presents an intriguing use of technology to improve this coherence and synchronizing at very basic levels of the autonomic nervous system, namely the relationship between the heart, brain and breath. Sensors measure your heart rate variability ratio, the beat to beat variation in your heart. This measure of well being in heart function improves quickly with HeartMath's Quick Coherence techniques of stress transformation.
By shifting your awareness to your heart area and consciously building a positive emotion, it is possible to drastically change your emotional and physical health for the better. The EmWave provides the feedback needed to know how to shift to this heart-centered awareness in a sustained way. Best of all this technology has now been unleashed from the computer and put in this small portable unit.
Feldenkrais stimulates your brain with novelty. These newer centers of the brain are also activated by positive emotion. As with Feldenkrais, by using our awareness to change how we organize ourselves, we can use the EmWave to improve our ability to live a harmonious and effective life. Please take a look at HeartMath's various tools and let us know how you like them.
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