Greater well-being when awareness of stress aligns with the heart (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

_{By Kelly April Tyrrell, May 10, 2020, uwmadscience.news}

Adapted from original story by Brita Larson, Center for Healthy Minds:

We can feel stress in the body through common sensations: sweaty palms, racing heart and shallow breathing.

Some people cope with signs of stress in their lives by ignoring it. Some may not recognize these as signs of stress. What if the key to well-being during stressful periods in our lives involved syncing our physical and mental experiences of stress?

For the first time, a study from researchers at the Center for Healthy Minds published in Psychological Science suggests that people whose reported stress levels aligned more with their heart rate — called “stress-heart rate coherence”— also had higher levels of psychological well-being and lower levels of inflammation.  

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