Lesson 10: HeartMath Assessment, Interpretation, and Integration

• “Every beat of your heart is the Rhythm of your soul.”

• Beats Per Minute (BPM) Your current heart rate is displayed in beats per minute. The BPM is constantly changing, consistent with your heart rate variability.

• HRV is Heart Rate Variability This is the normally occurring beat-to-beat changes in heart rate. Analysis of HRV is an important tool used to assess heart-brain interactions and autonomic nervous system dynamics (function, synchronization and balance). HRV is considered a key indicator of aging, cardiac health, resilience and overall well-being.

• Heart Coherence Coherence refers to your internal order or harmony. You don’t maintain harmonious frequency in the body unless you have heart coherence. Increased Coherence enables better balance, greater health, and new levels of creativity, resilience and productivity. A Coherent heart rhythm is a stable regular repeating rhythm resembling a sine wave. The more stable and regular the heart rhythm frequency is, the higher the Coherence Score.

• Spectrum Graph Displays a mathematical transformation of the heart rhythm data into its frequency components. The slowest (low) frequencies are shown on the left hand side of the graph and faster (high) frequencies on the right. As the heart rhythm becomes more Coherent the frequency distribution becomes more concentrated into a signal peak. The Spectrum is updated every 5 seconds.

• Power Spectrum The blue bars in the differently colored regions indicate different states of activity in the autonomic nervous system. There are three colored regions - 

  • The VLF (very low frequency) dark colored region on the left shows sympathetic activation. Most people initially will have a large peak to the left in the VLF region due to sympathetic activity. 

  • The LF (low frequency) region in the light colored middle is sometimes called the "baroreceptor region" which reflects the blood pressure control mechanisms between the heart and the brain. When in a coherent mode this indicates a synchronization of the sympathetic and the parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system. As you shift towards high coherence, the bars will focus around 0.1 Hz in this region.

  • The HF (high frequency) region on the right indicates parasympathetic activity. A peak around .2 Hz to the right in the parasympathetic region can appear when the user is in relaxation mode.

• Inner Balance Assessment: Set challenge level to level 2

  • HRV Lifestyle Assessment - 5 min assessment that covers 5 areas of life: Home environment and personal relationships (friends and family), work environment and co-workers, relationship to self, hobbies and personal activities, finances. This will show a reflection of how the clients nervous system is functioning regularly.

  • HRV Self Regulation Assessment - This assessment shows the client's capacity to self regulate when they focus on their breathing and follow a 12 second breath pacer. Allow them to close their eyes and breath deeply in and out while following the 12 second breath pace (you can guide them when to inhale and exhale so that they can relax during this assessment). 

  • After both assessments explain the difference between how their body reflects stress in relationship to their lifestyle compared to when they can calmly breath. 

• Personal Exploration: Practice the HeartMath 5 Minute Lifestyle Assessment and 5 Minute Capacity Assessment on a friend or family member and explain how they can use the information.

  • Inner Balance Assessment Procedure

  • Resonant Frequency Procedure

• Video: HeartMath Documentary

• Reading: Science of the Heart Chapter 3

• Additional Materials: 

  • Heart Math Inner Balance

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Lesson 11: How Music Brings Us Back to Harmony

• Ancient Vedic mystics crafted the phrase Nada Brahma, which means “the world is sound.” In the shamanic traditions it is told that the vibration and energy of words and thoughts formed the entire physical world. Everything is vibrating. 

• We now understand that the body has resonant frequencies for each organ, tissue, cell, or even thoughts. The health of our whole system is each individual cell vibrating at its resonant frequency and reaching a harmony or consistency between all of the systems in the body. (heart, mind, body, spirit)

• Psychoacoustics

  • Hearing sounds influence the mind, emotions, and nervous system.

  • Calming/Activating Sounds

  • Binaural beats and entrainment

• Vibroacoustics

  • Transferring sound directly into the physical body to shift frequencies on a cellular level.

  • Frequencies of nerves, muscles, bones, tissue, etc.

  • Nature has every frequency we need to heal

• Intention

  • Everything in the physical world is an extension or expression of the state that the creator was in. Business, music, relationships, food, art, children, etc.

• Transformation Journey with Sound

  • Beginning - Drop in/Clearing/Heart/Coherence 

    • Music that activates the heart, calms, relaxes, and creates safety

    • 20 minutes

    • David Gibson - Unconditional Divine Love

    • Crown Chakra Bowl

    • Volume and amplitude level 6-8 on a scale of 1-10

  • Middle - Process/emotional release/sensory exploration 

    • Music that stirs up emotions or releases energy, repetitive rhythm that allows the client to “tune out” the music and reach a trans state or state of hypnosis. 

    • 1 hour 30 minutes

    • Add activating music, sounds, or instruments to help release

    • Volume and amplitude 3-5 on a scale of 1-10

  • End - Integration with higher self and embodiment of new feeling state 

    • Music that supports their intention for expansion (joy, love, support)

    • Home Note - in the note or frequency that brings your body back into resonance with your natural harmony or soul. 

    • 10-20 minutes

    • Volume and amplitude 7-10 on a scale of 1-10

• Personal Exploration: Create a 2 hour music journey for your transformation sessions that includes:

  • Positive/loving/pure/divine intention

  • relaxation/safety/meditation/trans/hypnotic state

  • Emotional healing/release​​
  • Integration of positive feeling state/connection to their soul

• Video: Sound Healing

• Reading: The Complete Guide to Sound Healing - Use as a reference for additional information

• Additional Materials: ​

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Lesson 12: Light and Color Healing​

• Light waves and particles are energy vibrating just like sound.

• Light can be absorbed through eyes, skin, energetic field.

• The sun has all of the light wavelengths we need!

  • Daylight Spectrum: 

    • Morning: red > Orange > Yellow > 

    • Day: Cool White > Green/Blue > Indigo > 

    • Evening: Warm White > Amber > Orange/Red

• We need different light and sound frequencies like we need vitamins and nutrients!

  • LEDs are the best for light therapy, photon delivery, and isolated light waves as “vitamins”.

• Coherent Light: 

  • Monochromatic

  • In Pase

  • Identical Amplitude

• Visual Trance for Transformation Sessions

  • “When your brain waves slow down you move beyond your analytical mind and into a trance so that you’re more suggestable to information. “  - Dr. Joe Dispenza

• Personal Exploration: Create a light healing experience for one of your client’s intentions that includes:

  • Light colors that align with their feelings, chakras, or intentions for healing

  • Visual trance video from youtube

  • Be able to explain to the group why you chose these elements and how they will add to your client’s transformation session.

• Video: Light Therapy

• Reading: The Complete Guide to Sound Healing Pg. 175-178 Light and Color

• Additional Materials: 

• ​The Secret Language of Color Book

• Let There Be Light Therapy Book

• Color Medicine Book

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