Being an Active Participant in One's Own Healing

Through Heart Rhythm Meditation

Betsy Hart-McMannis, Counselor

I have been doing Heart Rhythm Meditation for just over 3 years and have had some significant positive changes in my health.

The first area involved my blood pressure - I had elevated blood pressure for several years and was on medication for this. Even with medication my blood pressure would still occasionally run a little high. I took my first webcourse with IAM in September, 2001. Subsequently, my blood pressure started lowering into the 90's/50's. I gradually decreased my medication and was completely off of it within 6 months. Three years later, my blood pressure typically runs low normal and I no longer need any medication.

The second area of healing involved Systemic Lupus Erythematosis. I have had lupus for almost 26 years and during that time have had numerous times with life threatening illness and hospitalization. I had taken prednisone on and off , but since starting Heart Rhythm Meditation, I have not been on prednisone at all. My sense is that Heart Rhythm Meditation has helped me to stabilize my response to stressors by keeping my immune system from going into a hyper-reactive state.

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - I have had this for approximately 5 1/2 years. I settled with the medications that had the fewest side effects for me and chose to use a low dose as it was my belief that, in part, seizure activity indicated an imbalance in me that I could work with. I have been on this dose for approximately 1 1/2 years and when I started with this I would have between 5 and 8 seizures every 2 weeks. With Heart Rhythm Meditation as my guide, my seizure frequency dropped to only 3 every 2 weeks. I continued that meditation practice and have added further practices through consultation with an IAM mentor. I recently went 3 weeks with limited seizure activity. Overall I see a significant decrease in intensity and frequency of seizure activity.

I can say that I strongly believe that Heart Rhythm Meditation has had a definite positive impact on my health and I expect that to continue. I will continue with these practices, not only because of these changes in my health, but also because I feel happier. I had done work with my heart previously using HeartMath without the changes I describe above. I am happy that I found Heart Rhythm Meditation and feel it is my life long practice.

Asatar Bair, Professor of Economics

I've used Heart Rhythm Meditation to heal running injuries such as ilio-tibial band syndrome, Achilles tendinitis, and a variety of other minor chronic and acute injuries. HRM is a powerful method of understanding, assimilating, and dealing with pain, and it has helped me a great deal in my life.

George B., Bond Analyst

I had very bad shoulder pain with my range of motion so limited that I couldn't wash under my arms. After Puran did his Healing by Absorption with me, the pain was completely gone. It reappears in a mild form from time-to-time, and when it does, I do the practice he taught me to connect with him at a distance and send him the pain. This is always effective within a few minutes.

K.P., Anthropologist

I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia four years ago. My search for relief took me from the Western medical world, to a blend of western and eastern medicines to alternative healing modalities such as acupuncture, reiki, yoga and massage. Medications ranged from muscle relaxants to Vicodin. My journey eventually took me to a Native American medical intuitive; she told me meditation would change my life and it quite literally has. Specifically Heart Rhythm Meditation practices have changed my life. I have a suite of practices taught to me over a series of workshops and more particularly in an individual seven-day retreat with Susanna Bair that are at my disposal. Over the most recent group retreat in the Berkshires, I connected one practice in particular that reduces any residual pain I feel to naught.

More importantly than pain management, are the individual practices that are given to me for moving through issues in my life, be it related to a job change, interpersonal relationships or globally to feeling joy. My daily practice is so pivotal to my life that I feel no inclination to skip, all this since I began in 2003. And these practices are not hard!

Doug Johnson, Acupuncturist

As a health care practitioner, I must focus on particular sicknesses and traumas that people present to me, but most importantly I must attend to the person who is suffering. Attention to this underlying "spirit" or emotional attitude is always the first step in moving out of the imbalance or chaos which is expressing itself in their bodies, minds, and emotions. I have found that those people that include Heart Rhythm Meditation into their lives move through their current crisis much more quickly and are more likely to prevent its reoccurrence.

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