Your brain is the command center of your body but your heart is the organ that keeps it in motion.
Keeping the heart healthy is crucial to an impactful and fulfilling lifestyle. And your stress can affect how your heart functions.
The American Heart Association noted that stress can cause secondary behaviors that can lead to heart disease like high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Stress can quite literally kill you. Ways that we may use to cope with stress like excessive drinking, smoking or physical inactivity can also lead to problems with your heart down the line.
To be sure, there are many things you can do to keep your heart healthy and consulting with your doctor on any medical issues and other heart-related ailments is one of the best things you can do for your health. Meditation and mindfulness is another. If you're looking for ways to help your patients self-manage stress, consider Healium for a drug-free, immersive media product shown to reduce self-reported anxiety in as little as four minutes in multiple peer-reviewed journals.
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Here are five ways Healium can help your heart:
Use meditation to downshift your nervous system.
When the brain feels stressed, it shifts from a higher level of cognition to a primitive level that’s ready to rapidly respond. It’s often called your “fight or flight response.” When using Healium, you are guiding from the fast Beta activity to the slow brainwaves through neurofeedback and biofeedback techniques. Healium will measure your baseline biometrics like your EEG brainwaves or your heart rate via a smart watch. From there, you'll see your aura glowing green around you. As you begin your experience and start to calm your mind, the color will change to a beautiful gold. The aura personalizes the experience by providing visual feedback.
The sympathetic part of your nervous system, which floods your body with energy, decreases and the parasympathetic part of the nervous system kicks in. Why do you immediately feel stress relief? In part, because your mind thinks it’s somewhere else.
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Healium transforms your heart rate from a ring or a number on a flat data dashboard into something responsive and beautiful you can interact with. Lower your heart rate and watch your aura sparkle in different colors around you.
You’re not just tracking your biometric data, you’re learning how to control it in near real time. Or through a compatible smartwatch or EEG headband, your brain patterns are controlling the experience.
Healium is more memorable than regular 2D meditation.
Sometimes, maybe often, we try to mediate. Trying to get into some sort of Lotus position, focusing the mind…sort of. Before we know it, OMMMM becomes ZZZZZZ.
Mediating with your eyes open, full present in the environment around you, always brings tangible benefits. Focusing on an object or a story can have the same relaxation effects of sitting in a closed space with your eyes closed.
Healium is virtual nature
Research has shown being outdoors or near nature has profound positive effects on your heart. But for those who cannot go outside (say due to stay-at-home orders), that shouldn’t stop you from bathing in nature’s beauty. Research shows that even looking at images of trees and greenery has a therapeutic impact. Healium kits surround you in nature in virtual reality. Through peer-reviewed research, Healium has shown to reduce the fast activity in the brain.
Healium allows you to see your feelings and discover your power.
Inside Healium apps, you can see your feelings through the biometric data from your wearable, displayed as your aura. What you see, you can control. Once you recognize the power of your thoughts and feelings in relieving stress, you begin to gain the power to help your heart and improve your life.
