Heart Hacks

Last weekend I did an in-depth consultation with a Canadian guy with a serious lifestyle issue that most people don’t take very seriously. I think we came up with a really good multi-vector biohacking strategy to address his issue, perhaps you have the same issue. Namely, bad quality and insufficient quantity of sleep.

Here’s the thing that frustrated the Canadian guy, he was following a lot of mainstream sleep hacking advice…

Is Pterostilbene better than Resveratrol?

Next time you’re at a dinner or cocktail party find a person sipping on a glass of red wine and say, I heard that red wine is healthy. And they will invariably respond, Yeah, thanks to Resveratrol!

You may be thinking...

Oh, meditation... That's like thinking about not thinking, right? I already tried meditation, I suck at meditation! I just get irritated with myself for thinking when I shouldn't be thinking.

Well, you probably haven't had success with meditation yet because your mind needs to warm up, your mind needs some foreplay to meditate. The Blue Sky Protocol is a process that will lubricate your mind like it's in a candlelit, jacuzzi filled with KY jelly with a Barry White album playing in the background.
The Blue Sky Protocol will give your mind the foreplay it needs.

You've probably heard of the myriad benefits of meditation elsewhere; antiaging, memory, neuroplasticity, stress management, and "being present" in social interactions. But what are the immediate, day-to-day benefits? If you are going to devote 10-20 minutes a day to a mindfulness practice you probably want to know what you can expect to get out of it in the short term...

We would all like to spend more time in flow.

Flowstate is the cognitive state of Hypofrontality that enables extreme athletes to flirt with death, artists to draw inspiration from that great bottomless well of human cleverness, and the religious to experience a visceral fellowship and connection to something divine. If you’ve ever faced near-certain death and experienced a vivid slowing down of time in concert with a heightened sense of things while your life flashed before your eyes you’ve experienced flowstate — maybe it even saved your life.

How much more productive and happy would that make us? If you’re not lucky enough to live in a tiki hut next to a beach where you can go surfing daily I’ll suggest spending a little bit of time doing a daily flow practice.

Work can be counter-intuitive to flow; work often involves rote, repeated tasks that are more monotonous than challenging, and often in business we don’t get immediate (or instantaneous) feedback on our performance. It takes weeks, months, or years. Thus I would suggest doing this in the middle of your workday to get yourself into a peak state...

State of the Art Science

There are over 40 scientific papers about Heartmath's technology on Pubmed.

• emWave® technology is used by more than 10,000 health professionals to help patients reduce stress and anxiety.
• 65 VA Hospitals are using emWave to help soldiers deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• HeartMath studies and trials have appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals.

emWave2 vs Inner Balance

The major difference is that the Inner Balance is a Bluetooth sensor that gives you real-time HRV biofeedback with a slick Android or IOS app. The app displays your general state of coherence red, blue, or green along with a heart rate graph. It also gives you a more detailed readout of your coherence score and graphs your performance. I logged into the app with my old Heartcloud account and was pleased to discover that it still had my emWave2 session data from back in 2014.

What I like about the emWave2 is that it's a subtly pleasant and mindful technology, the rising and falling light bar on it is sort of mesmerizing. Unlike my smartphone, it's a zero distraction piece of technology, when I sit down with my emWave I'm not going to get sucked down the click-bait rabbit hole on Facebook or Twitter. When I use the Inner Balance I have to staunchly resist checking social media or being distracted by dinging and vibrating app notifications.

HeartMath Inner Balance™

 

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After doing over 300 training sessions, my conclusion is that the Inner Balance is the better option. It makes it easy to track how other biohacks and supplements affect my heart rate variability.

According to Heartmath

emWave technology is an innovative approach to improving wellness and facilitating personal growth based on learning to change your heart rhythm pattern to create coherence; a scientifically measurable state characterized by increased order and harmony in our psychological and physiological processes.

Whether you are a fitness enthusiast or just concerned about your health, HRV Sense™ assists you in your quest for peak performance and a healthier life.