protect your heartbeat, yoga can help

hearts matter

You believe in your heartbeat. You live by it unconsciously, but more importantly, you trust it. It is a gage for how you feel. It's a symbol of livelihood. It's the engine for your life's blood.

When you inhale deeply to the top of your chest and feel the euphoria of your day—or stress, and then exhale deeply to the bottom of your solar plexus—as far as you can go held as long as you can go, you feel yoga.

You also feel your parasympathetic nervous system in action. Befriend it for stress-reduction and a healthy heart.

On the flip side, the sympathetic nervous system, which releases the adrenaline hormone when you are stressed, is predominate in sufferers of disease.

Your heart always beats though

Yes, it does but it matters how it beats. The ability of the heart rate to change its beating reflects its health. A healthy heart will undoubtedly mirror the health of your nervous system.

As quoted by Dr. Joel Kahn, Medical Director of Preventitive Cardiology at the Detroit Medical Center,

by training the nerve supply to the heart and arteries to be more responsive to your breath, the very function of your heart may improve.

Protect your heart. Love your heart. Do more yoga.

© 2013 Yoga Robin^®