HeartMath: A Simple Technique for Managing Stress When TTC

We’re digging into the research on how to manage stress with heart rate variability.

We all know that stress matters when we are TTC.

But how do we quickly identify and address the stressors in our lives?

Right now, you may be meditating, visualizing, practicing breathwork, doing yoga, progressive muscle relaxation, acupuncture and more to reduce stress.

And while we like all of those modalities, and we can use them to move us from the sympathetic (fight or flight) to the parasympathetic (rest and digest), many of these techniques may not be truly effective.

You can meditate and still experience an incoherent heart rate because you may be dealing with frustration, impatience, anger, and sadness that keeps you stuck in a pattern that drives cortisol production.

That’s why we love this simple technique that uses heart-focused breathing that moves us from stressed to calm in only a few minutes. And when done consistently, we can see improvements in energy, sleep, focus, calmness, anxiety and depression.

The goal is to bring the brain, body, mind and emotions into balanced alignment.

I know you may be cleaning up your diet and throwing out the toxins, but if we don’t address our stress, we miss a significant healing opportunity.

Today I’m excited to welcome Sheva Carr to the podcast. Sheva is the Founding CEO of Fyera! / Heart Ambassadors, the Fyera Foundation, and a Co-Director of HeartMath Healthcare and HeartMath’s Heart Mastery program.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why heart rate variability is so crucial for health and hormonal balance
How to move from the stress response to the relaxation response using a simple yet powerful technique
What research tells us about this technique and why it is so effective for overall health (i.e. 25 years of research and over 400 peer-reviewed studies)
How we can move from impatience to trusting our intuition that everything is working for us

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HIGHLIGHTS:

04:38 WELCOME SHEVA CARR

05:19 THE QUICK COHERENCE® TECHNIQUE FROM HEARTMATH

How you can use this heart-focused breathing exercise on your fertility journey and beyond
HeartMath Institute | Quick Coherence® Technique

12:38 SHEVA’S JOURNEY

Living in a war zone and coming back with amenorrhea and numerous physical, mental and emotional issues
Acupuncture was the one thing that got me out of pain.
How a spring break job at HeartMath helped Sheva restore her period after over six years without it
Research Study | The Impact of a New Emotional Self-Management Program on Stress, Emotions, Heart Rate Variability, DHEA and Cortisol
The role of DHEA in the body
How Sheva incorporated HeartMath into her practice with her patients
Practising these skills can improve the efficacy of allopathic interventions like IVF.

21:21 BUILDING THE CAPACITY TO SELF-REGULATE

Simple techniques can have a massive impact on your health.
The vast majority of human beings are maladapted to stress.
When living in a stressed state is all we know, we don’t recognize that we’re out of balance
What is familiar and what is optimal are different
For many people, when they find ways to reduce the stress of infertility, that’s when they get pregnant
HeartMath gives us the science to explain seemingly miraculous events
People get excited about their labs, but the mental and emotional aspects are essential.

31:25 DEPLETION TO RENEWAL

Watch now: The Depletion to Renewal™ Grid
Depletion to Renewal™ Grid
How our emotions drive our autonomic nervous system and endocrine system
Depression is relaxed stress.
Motivation and relaxation aren’t the antidotes to stress; coherence is.
Understanding the coherence side of things
Emotions and Heart Rhythms
When we feel things like appreciation, calm, patience and confidence it stabilizes the heart rhythm

36:05 YOUR HEART’S BLUEPRINT

You must listen to your inner compass.
HeartMath teaches us that healing is an inside job.
Don’t wait for conception to feel the feelings you seek

41:00 DEALING WITH IMPATIENCE ON THE FERTILITY JOURNEY

Impatience is one of the ways we lie to ourselves
Remembering that there are many ways to mother
You can’t let anyone tell you you’re not a mother.
Mothering is a frequency and energy from the heart, not a biological event

48:17 HOW HEARTMATH CAN SUPPORT YOU ON YOUR FERTILITY JOURNEY

Free HeartMastery Consultation with a Certified HeartMath Professional

49:40 FINAL THOUGHTS

Love is everyone’s birthright.

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RESOURCES:

Fab Fertile Method - https://fabfertile.com/pages/what-we-do

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