Longevity, Coherence & Ageless Living

Longevity, Coherence & Ageless Living

This course explores the principles of living agelessly through a comprehensive approach that integrates physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Participants will learn practical strategies to enhance longevity and create a personalized blueprint for a vibrant, long-lasting life. A major focus of the program is the emerging field of brain-heart coherence.  Course Objectives: - Describe longevity and its key components.  - Design personalized strategies and practices for sustainable well-being.  - Assess areas of our lives where we’re living incongruently with our value systems and how those impact living well  - Create a holistic blueprint for ageless, coherent living with daily routines for balanced life - Define heart coherence, its scientific basis, and its application for personal and professional well-being, performance, health, cognitive function, and longevity - Describe the emotional landscape and how to maximize positive emotion and optimal performance, while diminishing negative emotion and low performance - Describe key scientific understandings of heart rate variability and its importance in overall health and well-being - Describe the Heart Coherence mindset and its relevance to client needs and lifestyle. - Describe functions, features and benefits of heart rate variability feedback technology for self and patients - Demonstrate different breathwork techniques into routines that produce various biochemical, biomechanical, physiological and psychological outcomes to improve health and well-being  Course Outcomes:  1.        Assess when behavior is incongruent with value systems and personal goals 2.        Design their own Ageless Blueprint 3.        Apply tools & strategies for living within your Ageless Blueprint 4.        Describe basic physiology for living in heart brain coherence 5.        Apply different breathing techniques for different physiological and psychological outcomes   Week 1: Introduction to Ageless Living 1. Discuss Longevity, Coherence, and Ageless Living - Definition of longevity - Key components: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health - The role of brain-heart coherence in optimal health - The coherence mindset 2. Explain Intentions and Goals - Personal assessments - Goal setting for the course - Strategies for staying motivated - How to adjust the plan over time  Week 2: Physical Vitality 1. Describe & Demonstrate Breathwork for Physical Health  - Introduction to breath techniques - Exercises for enhancing physical vitality 2.  Discuss “Physical” Longevity Principles for a long, healthy life - Routines to support ageless living (doesn’t have to be exercise as defined by fitness industry. Can be dance, playing musical instruments, painting, singing, etc.). In other words, could be hobbies too. 3.  Explain the Stress Equation - The biochemistry of stress and its effect on longevity 4.  Discuss how to Uncover Blocks  - Identifying personal strengths and areas for growth - Creating a supportive environment - Transforming predictable stress into preventable stress - HRV as a fundamental metric   Week 3: Mental Clarity 1.  Describe & Demonstrate Techniques for Mental Well-being  - Understanding the connection between heart and brain - Techniques to improve cognitive function and resilience 2.  Explain Heart-Brain Coherence - The role of a coherent heart in activating a coherent brain - HRV for well-being“It’s not just about the metrics” – why kindness, compassion, love and joy matter  3.  Analyze “Mental” Longevity - Incorporating mindfulness into daily life - Meditation exercises for mental clarity 4.  Discuss how to Uncover Blocks  - Identifying personal strengths and areas for growth - Creating a supportive environment  Week 4: Emotional Coherence 1.  Describe & Demonstrate Breathwork for Emotional Self-Regulation  - Breath techniques to manage stress and emotions - Practices to cultivate emotional resilience 2.  Explain Self-Regulation of Breath and Heart Stabilize Emotional Balance - Coherent Breathing - RSA – respiratory sinus arrhythmia: when heart and breath are synchronized for optimal efficiency.  3.  Analyze “Emotional” Longevity - Tools for emotional intelligence  - Practices for maintaining emotional balance 4.  Discuss how to Uncover Blocks  - Identifying personal strengths and areas for growth - Creating a supportive environment  Week 5: Spiritual Fulfillment 1.  Describe & Demonstrate Connecting with Your Inner Self - Practices for spiritual growth - Journaling and reflective exercises 2.  Explain The Heart as the Seat of Wisdom - The heart has been revered for millennia by every world religion and spiritual system – a slide show of how we’re all more the same than we realize 3.  Creating a Meaningful Life - Finding purpose and passion - Integrating spirituality into daily routines 4.  Discuss how to Uncover Blocks  - Identifying personal strengths and areas for growth - Creating a supportive environment About Bruce Cryer Bruce brings more than four decades of experience in business innovation, heart-centered values, optimal performance, and artistic expression to everything he does. Through roles as diverse as actor, singer, dancer, writer, photographer, facilitator, mentor, business developer, marketing strategist, leadership coach, educator, cancer survivor, double hip replacement survivor, and vitality addict, Bruce has developed tools and life lessons to help anyone in any phase of their growth both professionally and personally.  Bruce was a founding director of the HeartMath Institute and later CEO of HeartMath LLC. Bruce has been on the faculty at Stanford University for more than 25 years, and has mentored executives of Fortune 100 corporations, nurses and health care professionals on four continents, and individuals from all walks of life. He performed more than 800 times in the world’s longest running musical, The Fantasticks, in New York City, and his album of original songs, Renaissance Human, debuted in 2018. Recently, his biological age was calculated at 36. He was 67 at the time.   About Ed Harrold Ed is the Founder & CEO of Go BE Great Inc.  Ed Harrold is an author, inspirational leader, public speaker, coach and educator. Ed’s mastery in the science of mindful breathing has guided him to apply conscious breathing practices in corporate performance coaching, fitness & athletic training, healthcare trainings, stress reduction and overall health and well-being.   Today, Ed blends the fields of neuroscience and the wisdom of contemplative traditions into effective strategies to improve well-being in Corporate America, Healthcare, athletic performance and individual health. Ed’s fluency in mindfulness-based strategies combined with the belief in the human potential gives him the depth and understanding to meet individuals and group needs across industries and platforms. Ed’s Breath AS Medicine trainings are an accredited continuing education course within the health coaching and fitness industries.  The Breath AS Medicine trainings offer CE with NB-HWC, ACE, ISSA, NACM, ACSM. Ed’s Books:  1) Life With Breath IQ + EQ = NEW YOU & 2) BodyMindBusiness: The Business Of BE’ing Within