After her own health struggles led her down the holistic path, she now helps others find their own path and improve their wellness with the help of HeartMath, Chakra Balancing, Reiki, Theta Healing, and other techniques. Lorna Lenigan from Heart Power Wellness was kind enough to have a chat with MysticMag about her work and share a few success stories.
Can you tell me what specific HeartMath techniques you use in your sessions?
In Heart Power Wellness, we love to use HeartMath techniques and technology to teach our clients how to activate and elevate the highest qualities of their hearts – such as Love, Compassion, Kindness, Peace, and Gratitude – while lowering negative feelings and emotions, such as sadness, anger, insecurity, and anxiety. Our most commonly used techniques are Heart-Focused Breathing, Heart Coherence, and Inner Ease.
How do Coaching and Mentoring with HeartMath Tools work in practice?
Our passion is to assist and encourage our clients to incorporate healthy new habits into their daily lives, to learn how to connect their hearts with their intelligence and intuition, and to create more heartfelt heart-based connections with themselves and their loved ones.
In practice, Heart-Focused breathing is a technique we use to turn down the volume of stress. It combines the simple act of focusing your attention toward your heart by breathing a little more deeply and slower than normal while imagining that you are breathing through your heart. We practice inhaling for 5 seconds, exhaling for 5 seconds, and continuing until a comfortable, rhythmic level of breathing has been obtained. During this breathing practice, we use the “EmWave 2” tool to measure the improvement of the heart rate variability and coherence level throughout the session.
Once we’ve practiced Heart-Focused Breathing, our next focus is on achieving Heart Coherence. This technique involves aligning our mind and emotions into a harmonious state in which we build resilience and accumulated energy, rather than wasting energy. Coherence is a high-performance and healthy state — physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually— that brings out the very best in us. This technique can be used anytime and anywhere, and you don’t have to wait to feel emotionally drained to use it. With sincere effort and a focus on positive emotions and feelings, most of our clients find that they can learn to create or experience regenerative feelings whenever and wherever they are desired (while involved in difficult situations, when driving, when out for a walk, before a big event, etc).
Finally, the Inner-Ease™ Technique creates an extra time window for deeper discernment and more competent and conscious choices that can help prevent and resolve many unnecessary challenges and unwanted predicaments. Having an attitude of inner ease can help us remember we don’t have to feed into daily drama or deplete our emotions with worry, fear, impatience, competition, hate, and judgment. Practicing the Inner-Ease™ Technique at the beginning of each day can help us to reduce mental and emotional static, which clouds clear thinking and our reasoning capacity. The Inner-Ease Technique helps us to prevent and eliminate much of our routine personal stress and to recoup faster after unexpected, stressful situations.
These simple and powerful techniques, when practiced each day, can help bring about positive changes in our lives.
What is Chakra Balancing and how can it help a person?
The word Chakra in Sanskit literally means “wheel” and is used to describe seven unique energy centers that hold negative or positive energy. Each Chakra influences the organs, muscles, ligaments, veins, and all other body parts within the energy field.
Chakra Balancing is a deep healing technique that not only removes stagnant energy but also provides fresh, positive energy to restore balance and well-being. When a Chakra becomes blocked, damaged, or muddied with residual energy, our physical and emotional health is usually affected.
When your Chakras are open, balanced, and aligned, your physical body and life are healthy, happy, and balanced. When there is an imbalance or blockage, there will be a disturbance in your body or life. By healing the energetic centers of your body, your overall health will improve.
Just a few of the benefits of Chakra Balancing include helping you feel more grounded, becoming more creative, releasing stagnant energy, reducing stress and pain, thinking more clearly, sleeping better, and achieving more passion in life.
You are also a Reiki Master. Can you share some details about the benefits of Reiki?
Reiki is an ancient Japanese alternative medicine stress reduction technique, which relaxes your body and mind so you feel calmer, more peaceful, and more tranquil. In Reiki, positive energy flows into the body through the intentions and hands of the practitioner, thus helping to balance and heal the energy in the body.
Reiki induces deep relaxation, assists in the body’s natural healing processes, develops emotional and mental well-being, helps people cope with difficulties, and relieves stress. Reiki will help you to be healthier, happier and balanced.
Reiki channels healing energy from the hands of the Reiki therapist to the patient with the goal of reducing stress, pain, and fatigue while enhancing energy. Among many other benefits, Reiki promotes deep relaxation, reduces stress and tension, increases your body’s natural ability to heal, improves sleep patterns, enables pain relief and detoxification, supercharges recovery after surgery and chemotherapy, boosts immune system support, increases vitality, postpones the aging process, raises vibrational frequency in your body, increases focus on making major life decisions, and paves the way for spiritual growth and emotional clarity.
How do you combine different services that you offer to get the best results?
We love to blend the modern science-based tools found in HeartMath with the Holistic and Spiritual techniques passed down through the ancient wisdom of Reiki, Chakra Balancing and Transcendental Meditation. Every client is unique so they will need different techniques and approaches. I analyze what will be the best approach for each of them. While HeartMath and Reiki might be better for one person, for example, another person might find more benefit from a combination of meditation and Chakra Balancing. We customize our treatment plans to maximize the benefits received by each person. We love to help our clients discover the most beautiful unique gifts, talents, and skills that are buried within them and to create new, healthier daily routines.
To learn more about my services, you can check my website at www.heartpowerwellness.com.
How do you measure success and can you share some success stories?
My idea of success is not about what we do or the possessions we accumulate in life. Success to me is to have a loving family, to be surrounded by supportive wonderful friends, to obtain inner peace, to be truly happy, to be able to do what we love to do, to help humanity, to find fulfilling careers, to cooperate with others, to be the best version of ourselves, and to help create a heart-centered world.
Here are some of my success stories, as relayed in the actual words of my clients, who have benefitted from my techniques:
“I’m so thrilled that I found Lorna and her amazing work – she has made a world of difference in my life!
Prior to my recent cancer surgery, I was in search of a way to feel less worried and more relaxed and confident about the procedure. Lorna is truly a godsend – from the moment I arrived at her studio, I knew that I was going to be okay. She is incredibly positive and caring, and her professionalism immediately set my mind at ease. Lorna first provided me with a set of HeartMath coaching tools, techniques designed to help me self-regulate my emotions and achieve inner peace. In my second session, Lorna performed Chakra Balancing and Reiki combined. It’s hard to describe how peaceful the combination of these two techniques made me feel and how relaxed and balanced I felt afterward. I now return regularly in order to maintain my improved mental state as my surgical recovery continues. Lorna’s work has led to huge improvements in my state of well-being thus far, and I’m committed to working with her to make these positive changes permanent. I cannot thank Lorna enough!”
Edith – Toronto, Canada
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank Lorna for a most amazing experience from our Sessions with HMI. During my first visit/session, I was in an extremely difficult time in my life. The HMI electronic device was able to capture and record my level of stress. Once we practiced the HMI techniques and used the electronic device a second time, it indicated positive results with the absence of stress.
I am still without words to describe the difference – all because of these new techniques, and how they are making positive changes in my life in every way. Now I am able to practice equanimity with each challenge. I have a new set of healthy tools to use when stressful situations arise, all because of Lorna and the Scientific HMI techniques and sessions. I highly recommend Lorna and Heart Power Wellness to others! Thank you for the new set of skills and techniques to practice every day!!”
Carolyn, Washington DC
