Deborah Rozman

Probably a lot of you who are listening are feeling that or know somebody who is.

And that's exactly the issue that we foresaw and wanted to resolve, wanted to give people tools to release the stress as you go and not accumulate it.

Or if it's built up, how do you release it from your cells and recalibrate, reset your heart and your brain and especially your immune system response and hormonal response?

In our research in the early days, we were looking at different forms of biofeedback, brainwave biofeedback, galvanic skin response, even the EKG to see if we could see any changes based upon our emotional state.

When we're feeling love or care or appreciation, what happens?

And finally, we couldn't see anything statistically significant until Dr. Childry said, look at the spaces between the heartbeats.

And we went, what?

And so we looked in the literature and fetal monitoring used what was called heart rate variability, which is looking at the beat to beat to beat changes in heart rate.

And those changes

changes in heart rate happen in every single beat.

Your heart rate isn't like 65 beats per minute.

That's an average.

It's like 50 beats, 70 beats, 64, 84.

And so it's got a pattern as those beat to beat changes.

That's why it's called heart rate variability.

And that pattern creates a heart rhythm.

And when we began to measure that blow away, we could see very sensitively how this heart rate variability responded to our thoughts and feelings.

So when we feel frustrated, angry, upset, impatient, any of these stressful feelings

that we all experience from time to time, the heart rate variability or HRV gets very jagged and irregular, like riding your car with your foot on the brake and another foot on the accelerator.

It's a herky-jerky ride and burns a lot of gas.