I created the Blissful Body Method to heal myself from stress, worry, punishing thoughts, and negative loops of self-criticism. It is a simple yet powerful way to re-wire the brain through the intelligence of the heart — and it works.

The method is based on established, published science in neuroscience, psychobiology, and heart research, but what is unique is how I use it. Most people believe the mind alone can solve stress and anxiety. But the truth is: the brain & mind creates the problem — so it cannot solve it.

The Blissful Body Method – Healing Stress Through the Heart

The solution is to activate the heart’s power and let it lead the brain into harmony. Practicing the Blissful Body Method for just 2–3 minutes per day (or whenever you need it) has already helped thousands of people move from stress and struggle into clarity, calm, and confidence.

With the Blissful Body Method, you can with the help of your heart quickly shift and leave the Stress Body — filled with worry, anxiety, and anger — and move into the Bliss Body, where you feel peace, harmony, and balance in both body and mind.

Being able to self-regulate in this way is not only calming but deeply empowering. Imagine being able to interrupt negative spirals instantly and return to a state of centered presence. That’s what this practice offers.

Why It Works

The method combines three elements:

• The Brain’s Neuroplasticity – our lifelong ability to rewire thought patterns and habits.

• The Heart’s Electromagnetic Power – 50 times stronger than the brain’s field, with its own “little brain” of 40,000 neurons.

• Your Higher Will – the conscious choice to guide your system into alignment.

I call these three your Dream Team: Brain, Heart, and Will. Working together, they create harmony and resilience in your ancient biological organism.

The Benefits of Daily Practice is that you:

Coherence: A State of Optimal Function, by HeartMath

• Release energy that was previously trapped in stress and negativity
 • Access a vast reservoir of creative and vital energy
 • Gain inner calm and emotional balance

• Strengthen social skills and connect more easily with others
 • Improve health and well-being on all levels

Because the heart communicates with every cell in the body at the speed of light, changes can happen instantly once you activate it.

The Six Steps to the Blissful Body

Step 1. Awareness
Notice when stress or disharmony begins—punishing thoughts, anxiety, reactive emotions. These can trigger a self-feeding stress loop (Limbic Stress Auto-loop, LSA). By becoming aware early, you can stop the cycle before it drains your energy.

Step 2. Annul the Reactivity
Use your willpower to break the pattern:

• Say out loud: “Stop, stop, let go.”
• As you say this, cross and re-cross your arms in front of your chest, then drop them by your sides.
  Crossing the body’s midline shifts your energy and release negative, stuck memories/energy, like the EMDR-method does. This interrupts and breaks the stress pattern (especially the LSA). Repeat 4–6 times until the emotional charge diminishes.
• If you are at work on in a public place, try to find a private or secluded space to do this. The rest room might be a good place.

Step 3. Activate Deep Breathing
Close your eyes and place the left hand’s middle fingers on the pit of the lower part of the breast bone (sternum). Press that point lightly and massage it softly, because it immediately activates deep breathing. Hold for about half a minute while taking a few deep abdominal breaths using nasal respiration. This calms the system. 

Step 4. Activate the Vagus Nerve
Place the fingertips of your left hand on the base of your neck, and your right hand lightly on your abdomen. Inhale to a slow count of seven, exhale to a count of ten—through the nose only. This activates the vagus nerve, calms the gut-brain (ENS), and soothes the nervous system.

Step 5. Access Instant Heart Power
Move your awareness to your heart and silently repeat five positive and kind words such as: peace, love, joy, harmony, safety, happiness, content, joy”. You can choose five words and repeat them, saying them silently inside for a few minutes. This breaks the limbic stress loop and shifts your body into bliss mode.

To anchor this new state, lightly touch your cheek in front of the ear with all five fingers—like pressing “enter” on your brain’s hard drive.

Step 6. Acknowledge Yourself
Give yourself a hug and smile. Thank yourself for choosing calm and harmony. This reinforces the new pathway with self-love and positive reward.

Why Repetition Matters

Each time you practice Blissful Body, you are creating new neural pathways—literally rewiring your brain. Like any muscle, the brain strengthens what you train. Be patient, as nerve growth takes time, but know this: every single practice creates lasting change. Because the negative will fade away… like it didn’t happen!

Research has shown that the heart perceive and react to the environment, and the brain responds to it. The most powerful is to use the heart together with the brain’s cognitive ability, thus brain and will power.

Consciousness – The Frontier Ahead

Human consciousness is the greatest untapped resource in the Western world today. While Buddhists describe more than 160 states of consciousness, modern science has barely scratched the surface.

I believe the 21st century will bring a revolution in psychobiology and human consciousness, just as the 20th century did for physics and genetics. The Blissful Body Method is part of this awakening—a way for us to not only heal ourselves but to expand and elevate consciousness both individually and collectively.

Dr Sanna Ehdin

Author of 16 health books, in English The Self-healing human, 1999

References 

• HeartMath Institute — “Heart-Brain Communication” (Science of the Heart) This article describe how the heart isn’t just responding to the brain, but actively sending signals to the brain via multiple channels: neural (nervous system), biochemical (hormones, neurotransmitters), biophysical (pressure waves), and energetic (electromagnetic fields). heartmath.org

• The Science of HeartMath shows that different patterns of heart rhythms (which correspond to emotional states) significantly influence cognitive function: when the heart rhythm is coherent (smooth, ordered) higher-order brain functions (memory, decision making, emotional regulation) improve. Conversely, erratic heart rhythms (as in stress) disrupt those functions.

• HeartMath — “Cardiac coherence, self-regulation, autonomic stability, and psychosocial well-being.” (McCraty R & Zayas MA, Front. Psychology, 2014 Sep 29;5:1090) This paper shows empirical evidence that achieving heart coherence (a state where heart rhythm is ordered and stable) has measurable effects: improved cognitive performance, emotional regulation, psychological stability.

• Eric R. Kandel — “The molecular biology of memory storage: A dialogue” Science 2001 2;294(5544) Kandel’s work (with Aplysia and other models) shows how learning and memory are associated with changes at the molecular level in neurons—synaptic plasticity, modulation of signal transduction, etc. 

• Interview with Eric R. Kandel: from memory, free will, and the problem with Freud to fortunate decisions  J Vis Exp  2008 Apr 24:(15):762  This contains Kandel’s insights into how the brain changes and how conscious awareness/s, experiences, and decisions (will-power etc.) play a role in directing those changes.

How Science Support the Blissful Body Method

• Heart-Brain Bidirectional Communication: HeartMath shows the heart isn’t passive—your method’s use of “heart power” aligns with evidence that the heart influences the brain, emotion, cognition. 

• Neuroplasticity: Kandel’s research shows that learning and memory are not static; the brain retains capacity for change and growth. Every thought creates a neuron! This strongly supports that consistent practice (your daily method) can rewire neural pathways. 

• Emotion Regulation / Stress Response: McCraty et al. show that heart coherence, breathing, emotional state changes can reduce autonomic stress, restore calm, improve performance. Your steps (breathing, activating vagus nerve, using positive words) map to this.