How to tame the maddening monster terrorizing your heart health

If you’re regularly exercising, avoiding sugar, and getting plenty of sleep, you’re making all the right moves to keep your heart healthy.

But there’s one more thing your heart desperately wants: for you to stop stressing so much.

Now I know reducing stress might seem like a monumental task in the high-paced world we live in (especially during the holiday season). Trust me, I get it.

But there’s a simple fix you can rely on to help you—and your heart—feel better.

All you have to do is learn how to turn on your body’s relaxation response—your built-in stress-relief valve. When you put this to work, you’ll not only feel calmer and more focused, but you’ll also protect your heart.

I’ll tell you exactly how to activate this relaxation system in just a moment, but first, I want to tell you how easily stress can turn into a heart hazard.

Turn on your “Deep Healing Mode”

When you experience stress, your adrenal glands come to the rescue by churning out hormones, like cortisone, to induce feelings of calm.

These hormones also prompt an anti-inflammatory response which is even more crucial for your heart. However, when your life becomes too hectic for too long, chronic stress can develop. This creates an overproduction of stress hormones that block this helpful anti-inflammatory benefit.

And that’s where the trouble starts. When you have inflammation and oxidative stress running high on a regular basis, your arteries suffer and your blood pressure rises—ultimately moving your heart into the danger zone.

If you want to avoid these consequences altogether, or stop the damage stress is currently having on you, simply lean on your body’s relaxation response.

Jim Donovan—a professional drummer, teacher, and therapeutic researcher—puts a special emphasis on this important effect in his Whole Body Sound Healing System Protocol.

In fact, Jim refers to relaxation response as a “Deep Healing Mode” because of the way it positively transforms your physical and emotional responses to stress.

Give your heart a soothing rest

According to Jim, Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School was the pioneer of the relaxation response. He coined this phrase to describe the way the body responds to meditation.

When in a meditative state, your body undergoes several remarkably beneficial changes, including:

  • Increased levels of nitric oxide (which keeps arteries elastic, ensuring better blood flow)
  • Muscle relaxation
  • Reduced blood pressure
  • Slower breathing
  • Slower heart rate

Clearly, these changes can have a profoundly beneficial effect on your heart—and you can acquire them by simply turning on your relaxation response each day.

Let me tell you how…

Self-made sound activates healing

Through his research and teachings, Jim has developed a unique approach that uses self-made sound to initiate this healing response.

His work has been strongly influenced by Dr. Alan Watkins—a neuroscientist at Imperial College London—whose research revealed that “the musical structure of chanting can have a significant and positive physiological impact.”

Dr. Watson has shown that self-made sound:

  • Increases levels of the hormone DHEA (which controls estrogen and testosterone levels, as well as your weight)
  • Lowers blood pressure
  • Reduces anxiety
  • Reduces depression

Harmonizing your heart into coherence

To demonstrate how self-made sounds, like chanting, benefit your heart, Jim cites a study in which researchers discovered that sound creates “coherence” within the body.

The researchers defined “coherence” as the harmonization of blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing rate. They also noted that coherence leads to better physical and mental health. And Jim adds, “This includes improved immune function, and a reduction in inflammation and heart disease.”

And the study results reflect this…

In the study, the respiration and blood pressure rates of 23 study participants were monitored as they chanted along to audio recordings. The recordings were of two spiritual mantras; one from Buddhism and the other from the Roman Catholic Church.

The results showed that both types of chanting created cardiovascular coherence within the participants.

The study also found that silently repeating a mantra or prayer doesn’t produce the same effects—the benefits only occur when the voice is used to make audible sound.

Based on findings from studies like these, Jim has developed a technique he calls “Heart Humming.” This exercise directs sound into your chest to promote cardio cohesion and to stimulate the vagus nerve¾the longest nerve that runs through your body and touches all of your major organs. All this stimulation leads to significant stress reduction.

Jim adds: “By combining sound and gentle physical movements, you can reduce and eliminate anxiety in the chest.

“This combination simultaneously releases your muscles, stimulates feel good chemicals and puts the body in deep healing mode. In just minutes per day, you can decrease depression, lower your blood pressure, and free yourself from the unnecessary discomfort of anxiety.”

Jim’s Whole Body Sound Healing System Protocol includes step-by-step photos and instructional videos that demonstrate how you can put the “Heart Tapping” technique to work to melt away stress and enhance your heart health.

Click here to get started right away, or to learn more about this one-of-a-kind online protocol.