Basic Heart Anatomy

Your heart has four chambers and is approximately the size of a fist.  The chambers are: left ventricle, right ventricle, left atrium and right atrium.

The left and right ventricles pump blood out of the heart into your body.  The right ventricle pushes blood to your lungs and the left ventricle pumps blood to all of [...]

The Benefits of Breathing

Often times your body will respond to stress physically as well as mentally or emotionally.  A common physical stress response is your heart will begin to race.  It may feel like once it starts, you cannot get it to stop.  Learning deep breathing techniques can help your heart.  Slow, deep breaths will slow your heart [...]

Sleep Problems = Possible Heartbeat Irregularity

How are you sleeping?  Do you wake up frequently and never reach a deep sleep?
Are you on overdrive and don’t sleep much at all?
Your racing heart beat could be caused by lack of sleep.  We know that everyone has different sleep patterns, but in general, the average person needs between 7 and 9 hours of [...]

My Journey with Heart Palpitations

The stress of trying to work my way up the corporate ladder took its toll on my health. Working long hours and striving to “achieve” caused a lot of stress, which developed into
problems with my heart. I was weak, dizzy and light headed most of the time. I remember going to aerobic class and taking [...]