Originally published June 4 2005
Heart coherence helps body manage hormones for mental health
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Apparently, the human body is already built to manage stress. The sympathetic nervous system is the stress accelerator, the parasympathetic nervous system is the brake. Through a system called heart coherence, David Servan-Schreiber, is helping people manage their stress, and regain their focus. The system utilizes a computer heart-rate monitor, and technique that involves concentrating on heart coherence. Schreiber also uses stimulated eye movements, akin to the rapid eye movement people experience while asleep, which can help the brain process memories of great trauma. Studies have shown that the effects of heart coherence on lowering blood pressure, lowering the damaging stress hormone cortisol and raising levels of the "youth hormone" DHEA (dehydropiandrosterone) are significant.
It is all in the interests of reducing my stress levels, but it feels as though it is going to put them through the roof: mental arithmetic has never been my strong subject, and I am panicking.
Fear not, says David Servan-Schreiber: his technique, something called heart coherence, really does work.
The heart coherence software isn't measuring my heart rate per se, it is measuring the variation in the rhythm of my heart rate, which alternates between what is referred to as chaos and coherence: the aim being to learn how to keep the heart in a state of coherence.
The body's ability to manage this fluctuation is key to both good mental and physical health which has long been known but, crucially, is now easier to learn with a simple technique like heart coherence.
One of these natural methods of treatment Servan-Schreiber came across was EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), where the stimulation of eye movements while awake, that are similar to the Rem (rapid eye movement) stage of sleep during which the brain processes material, helps the brain connect and process remnants of traumatic experience.
But that doesn't happen in France or the UK, where generally it is only available privately," he says.
And it is not only our own physical and mental health that can be at risk if we don't deal with trauma, but that of our unborn children, if new research from New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine is to be believed.
I think we all learn how to count, and read and write, but we don't learn the very basics of how to manage our own emotions and then how to manage other people's emotions," he says.
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