The Medicine of Frequencies Behind Your Heart’s Rhythm
In this TEDx talk, Dr. Mitchell Abrams, a physician and radiologist, explores the fundamental connection between energy, frequency, and vibration as the basis for future medicine. Drawing on principles from physics, Dr. Abrams asserts that the body is an energetic system where the heart plays the role of the conductor, leading an entire biological “symphony”. The key to optimizing this system is achieving a state known as cardiac coherence.
What is Cardiac Coherence?
Cardiac coherence is a measurable, highly organized, and rhythmic state in the body’s cardiovascular system. It is characterized by:
- Rhythmic Heart Rate Variability (HRV): Instead of a chaotic, unpredictable beat-to-beat pattern (common during stress), the heart enters a smooth, sine-wave-like rhythm where the heart rate gradually speeds up and slows down
- Heart-Brain Synchronization (Entrainment): When the heart enters this coherent state, its rhythms are transferred to the brain, causing the brain waves to synchronize with the heart rhythm. This entrainment causes both the heart and brain frequencies to grow in strength and amplitude, moving the entire body toward an optimal energetic state
Profound Benefits of Coherence
The benefits of maintaining a coherent state extend far beyond immediate emotional relief, impacting cognitive function, health, and even social dynamics:
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🧠 Enhanced Mental and Cognitive Function:
Coherence significantly affects the areas of the brain involved in how we think, perceive information, and respond to our environment. Dr. Abrams notes that coherence programs have led to radical improvement in test scores, citing an increase of 73% in college prep math scores for students who learned these self-regulation techniques.
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🧘 Physical and Neurological Restructuring:
Consistent practice of coherence techniques leads to structural changes in the brain. Research shows that the practice can cause the stress-response center (amygdala) to shrink while the thinking and reasoning center (frontal cortex) expands and thickens.
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⚕️ Accelerated Healing and Resilience:
Since the heart acts as a “conductor” to synchronize all biological organ systems, coherence puts the body in the most optimal state for healing and thriving. In one example, a police officer’s elevated heart rate after a stressful encounter was shown to drop immediately to baseline once he was instructed to cultivate coherence.
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🤝 Collective Impact:
The heart is the body’s largest source of bioenergy, creating a magnetic field that extends 3 to 4 feet in diameter. This means a person’s state of being affects others. Research has shown that when two people sit together and cultivate compassion, their heart rhythms synchronize. This “physiologic coupling” has been linked to powerful results, including a decrease in pain perception by over 50%.
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🚀 Reaching Peak Potential Collectively:
When teams are equipped with tools to access their peak potential, the resulting coherent environment increases productivity, creative problem solving, and decreases healthcare costs.
Dr. Abrams concludes by encouraging everyone to begin a practice of coherence for just five minutes a day, assuring that doing so will undoubtedly change one’s “biochemistry, neurophysiology, and resilience”. Try coherence today!