August 02, 2011 1:49:15 AM by
Michael Winters, DC
We now have an awesome new technology known called the Pulse Wave Profiler which measures heart rate variability. What it tells us is:
1. your body's total capacity to respond to stress
2. how out of balance you are in terms of too sympathetic dominant ( fight or flight) or too parasympathetic dominant ( rest and restore)
If a person has a heart rate of 60 beats per minute we would think that means one beat per second but that is not so. In a healthy state of being there will be a certain amount of variable between beats for example - one beat may be at .9 sec and another at 1.1 sec and still average 60 beats per minute. Within certain boundaries this variability is healthy and indicates a body's ability to respond to stress. If you watch a tennis player they do not stand flat footed to wait to receive a ball- the bouncing back and forth actually increases their ability to respond to the ball that is going to be hit to them. By measuring this bouncing back and forth the computer software can tell us your total capacity for responding to stress and the dominance of the two halves of the nervous system which control heart rate : ie . sympathetic and parasympathetic.
July 21, 2011 4:09:24 PM by
Michael Winters, DC
Are you an onion? In the sense I am talking about you are ! Like an onion has many layers we all have many layers of physical, chemical and emotional stress.
The more we can peel theses layers of stress the more we can get to our true potential for health and life expression. Look at the white inner part like who we really are. We just have to remove these layers of stress to get to who we really are.