Inhale, filling up your heart and broadening your chest. Breathe a little slower and deeper than usual. As you exhale, imagine the air living through your chest and returning to your nose. Imagine your breath flowing into your heart and filling the space as you inhale. Place your hand on your heart if you wish. Now, while we usually focus on our lungs when we engage in breathwork, this time, we focus on the heart, the heart space. I’m going to play some music to help slow your nervous system down now, but you can always practice without music, anywhere you can take a breath, which means you can use this practice anywhere, at any time. This is a practice that can be done actively as well as a process of slowing down, so do what works best for you now. During this experience, you can close your eyes if safe and comfortable. You want your body extended to allow the maximum air to enter your lungs and leave with each inhale and exhale.

Place your feet on the floor and sit up tall. So, if that sounds like something you are ready for, make sure you are in a quiet space where you will be uninterrupted for just a few minutes. When you are coherent, your thoughts and emotions are balanced, and you experience ease and inner harmony. In addition, by reaching this state, we release stress and stop draining emotions such as frustration, irritation, anxiety, and anger. And it is so easy to do that after you practice this for just a few minutes each day, you can find coherence within about 60 seconds. Getting into “The Zone” or bringing your attention to your heart rhythm and breath patterns allows us to tap into the heart’s intelligence. While the technique is simple, this is not something we learn-though we should. After the brilliant conversation around Heart Coherence and living a heart-centered life, I wanted to give you the ability to get into coherence yourself.

Heart coherence exercise