What is Heart Rhythm Therapy?
Revolutionary in its energetic model and methods of intervention, Heart Rhythm Therapy is a heart-centered, experiential process using breath work and imagery. Easily integrated into your practice, HRT helps clients to integrate their hearts and minds and bring balance into their lives and relationships. Included in Heart Rhythm Therapy are a model of character development, both objective and self-assessment instruments, and safe and reliable tools for in-session interventions and at-home use to help clients apply what they have learned in therapy and make powerful shifts in their lives to live congruently.
This is a paradigm-shifting advance for therapists.
-- Shari Sippola, MA, LPC
Not only has Heart Rhythm Therapy revolutionized my practice as a therapist, it has been a dynamic catalyst for my own personal growth.
-- Jeanie Underwood, MFT
With Heart Rhythm Therapy there is a sweet tenderness in my office that helps my clients heal.
-- Cindy Bowman, MFT
I have been using Heart Rhythm Therapy in my practice and now clients often refer their friends who specifically request Heart Rhythm Therapy.
-- Linda Turner, MFT
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
ASSESSING THE DIMENSIONS OF THE HEART
- Describe the magnetic field of the heart in three dimensions.
- Observe HRV measurement and its indication of the heart's dimensions.
- Recognize challenges, distortions, blockages, and growth potential related to the four dimensional model of the heart.
- Identify the development of the heart's strengths as the main objective in therapy.
- Use feedback from the heart to objectively gage progress.
COPING SKILLS FOR MANAGING THE PHYSICAL HEART'S RESPONSE TO AFFECTIVE STATES
- Reduce heart rate, blood pressure, and other physical stress indicators by breath and visualization practices.
- Maintain calm openness through noise and confrontation.
- Develop flexibility and tolerance through appreciation of the heart's processes.
- Demonstrate heart-centered attitudes and behaviors as a model for clients.
EMPOWERING CLIENTS TO BECOME SELF-ACTUALIZED: GREATNESS PRACTICES
- Interpret dysfunction as indication of potential in the same dimension.
- Use observable facts in complimenting the client, for irresistible impact.
- Recognize the mirroring of one's heart qualities in one's vision of others.
ASSIGNING HOMEWORK: THE EXERCISES FOR LIFE
- Use "Exercises for Life" to demonstrate heart-centered behaviors.
- Reinforce in-session discoveries by practical challenges.
- Describe the stages of progress in behavioral heart-mind integration.
- Inspire clients with descriptions of exemplary styles of meeting life's challenges.
The dimensions of the energetic-emotional heart can be measured in the magnetic field, Heart Rate Variability and self-assessment and therapist-assessment instruments.
By consciously energizing the heart through breathing practices and visualizations, one creates a balanced energy in the four dimensions which allows a natural affective response, without distortion, through a beautiful and functional per-sonality. Recognition and appreciation of the great emotional strengths of others leads to self-discovery of the same strengths. Emotional distortions and deficiencies transform into positive and then exemplary qualities as the therapy progresses from alleviation of dysfunction to building positive self-images, optimistic inter-pretations of life events, and self-confidence, and finally to a noble and generous character. This progression is monitored by the measurement tools for the dimen-sions of the heart as the emotional states create specific physiological changes.
