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    The Heart-Mind Connection

    Mar 10, 2021 5 minutes
    By Jennie Agg

    You’re already late for work when the email drops into your inbox. It’s from your boss. “Urgent!” shouts the subject line. Is your heart racing just thinking about it? Such is the strength of the relationship between your brain and heart that even imaginary stress can ramp your aortic activity up a gear. It’s an intriguing phenomenon known as the heart-mind connection, and not since lamington chips became a thing has a pairing been so scrutinised – well, by science, anyway.

    It’s all thanks to the latest buzzword in personal health data: a metric called heart rate variability (HRV). Many devices now track HRV, from the newer incarnations of the Apple Watch to the Oura Ring. It measures not only the intervals between consecutive heartbeats but, more importantly, how much these minuscule

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