Dear Puran and Susanna,
Thank you for your work on the Four Dimensions of the Heart. I am interested in coming to one of your workshops. My question is have you worked with people with heart arrhythmias? I have atrial fibrillation and it seems to be moving now from “transcient”, where most of the time I was not having episodes to “persistent” (more and longer episodes). It is possible if I sign up for the workshop, I will be having an AF episode. I read and enjoyed your book, “Living from the Heart”.
Best Regards,
Marilyn

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My husband has a heart pacer and it will be triggered if his heart rate goes below 50 beats. Will this be a problem for him during meditation? He is thinking that as he relaxes his heart rate will go down, inducing a deeper state, but which will be made obsolete by the start of his heart pacer. Is this correct?
I would appreciate an answer on this subject as we are very interested in exploring this meditation technique.
Thanking you for your time and attention,
M.-A. Cardinal
Ottawa, ON

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One of the developments in medicine and biofeedback that we’re excited about is the study of Heart Rhythm Variability (HRV); HRV is a measure of the minute differences in time between the beats of your heart. While your heart rate measures the average number of times your heart beats per minute, HRV measures change in the time between beats. HRV is one of the hottest areas of health and biofeedback research because studies have found that a low HRV is an important leading indicator of heart disease.[1] Heart Rhythm Meditation is a very effective way known to increase HRV.
The pattern of your HRV also shows the state of your emotional-energetic heart. The below graph shows the HRV of a subject who experienced 4 periods of emotional distress (a, b, c, and d), due to being asked about a stressful subject (his finances).

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