The level of coherence you experience during feelings of appreciation can be measured by sensitive instruments. Coherence also can be measured using heart-rate variability (HRV) – the naturally occurring beat-to-beat changes in heart rate, which can be seen in an electrocardiogram (ECG).
Measuring coherence can accurately show heart, brain and nervous-system interactions that are sensitive to changes in emotions.
While an individual is experiencing coherence, the heart rhythm appears as a smooth wavelike pattern on an HRV graph. Contrast coherence with incoherence, created by negative emotions such as frustration and anger, which can often disrupt the synchronization of the body’s systems and create jagged or chaotic patterns on a graph.
Advanced research at the Institute of HeartMath and elsewhere has provided evidence that gratitude is not simply a nice sentiment or feeling. Sustained feelings of gratitude have real benefits, including the following four benefits:
- Biochemical changes – Favorable changes in the body’s biochemistry include improved hormonal balance and an increase in production of DHEA, the "anti-aging hormone."
- Increased positivity – Favorable changes in the body’s Daily gratitude exercises can bring about a greater level of positive feelings, according to researchers from the University of Miami and the University of California, Davis who studied this process in 157 individuals over 13 days.
- Boost to the immune system – The IgA antibody, which serves as the first line of defense against pathogens, increases in the body.
- Emotional “compound interest” – The accumulated effect of sustained appreciation and gratitude is that these feelings, and coherence, are easier to recreate with continued practice. This is because experiencing an emotion reinforces the neural pathways of that particular emotion as it excites the brain, heart and nervous system.
Thankfully, gratitude and appreciation can create their own positive psychophysiological holiday in your body – without the necessity of a feast. Sincere self-evoked feelings of gratitude and appreciation are explained in-depth by Institute of HeartMath founder Doc Childre and Director of Research Dr. Rollin McCraty in their e-book, The Appreciative Heart: the Psychophysiology of Positive Emotions and Optimal Functioning.
One of the HWTM-12 speakers, Panache Desai is dedicated to awakening in you your infinite potential and cultivating in those around him the same vibrational transformation he experienced. Some pearls of wisdom from his presentation:
- We have been taught to judge our emotions.
- Divine love is transmuting the emotional layer. The soul wants to expand, awaken. Divine love or grace is the catalyst.
- Awakening is an inner call to transmute emotional density into light an luminosity of our spirit so the soul can be reflected in every area of our life.
- Humanity is awakening to its divinity - to self-love and acceptance - to the life we love.
- The spiritual dimension exists within us at all times. It has become covered over by emotional stuff. People don't see themselves as divine; this is the emotional layer covering the soul.
- Painful feelings prevent you from accessing your divine aspects.
- The emotional content feeds every aspect of your being.
- Awaken to a miraculous life by releasing emotional content.
- External issues are indicators to go within.
- Vibrational transparency is the goal; it's the 'I AM" presence.
- Be available for emotions that come to you.
- The path to your divinity is through your humanity.
- Stop personalizing and accept with the spaciousness of spirit.
- Resistance to emotions creates suffering.
- We can shift the way we meet life. Be available, not overwhelmed; remain centered within.
- People are too little for themselves. (people see themselves as inconsequential and unimportant)
It is best to listen to Panache's presentation. He is delightful. These pearls of wisdom only begin to express the power of his message.
