Heart-Focused Breathing Technique

Heart‑Focused Breathing is a simple technique developed by HeartMath that helps calm your body and settle your nervous system. You gently focus your attention on the area around your heart and breathe a little slower and deeper than usual. This shift in focus and rhythm helps interrupt stress reactions and brings you into a more balanced, steady state.

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This is the HeartMath Heart-Focused Breathing Technique. This technique can be practiced as a part of this meditation, However, I encourage you to see this meditation simply as a practice and to take this technique and apply it in your daily life. This is a simple-to-use, Self-regulation strategy designed to help you reduce the intensity of a stress reaction or a trauma reaction and establish a calm but alert state. Focus your attention in the area of your heart. Imagine your breath is flowing in and out of your heart or chest area. Breathe a little slower and deeper than usual. Find an easy rhythm that's comfortable. That is the Heart-Focused Breathing Technique. You can use this to help draw energy away from distressing thoughts or feelings and interrupting your body's mechanical stress response. Take this technique and practice it in your daily life.