Participants
VALVULAR HEART DISEASE, ACUTE MYOCARDITIS
Outpatients aged over 18 years, diagnosed with HF by the Framingham and/or Boston criteria; NYHA classification I-II; Mini-Mental > 16; adherent to at least 80% of the meetings; who were literate or who have a literate caretaker; who agreed to participate in the proposed activities and to respond to the assessment questionnaires; who had a sound device to listen to the audios with daily practices were included in the study.Patients who had concomitant participation in another study/therapy involving mind-body intervention in the last month; with recent clinical decompensation with hospitalization or change in drug prescription in the previous month; who had surgery or percutaneous intervention planned for the next year; with a history of acute coronary syndrome or acute myocardial infarction in the last two months; with clinically significant valvular heart disease; with acute myocarditis; with musculoskeletal conditions that prevented the performance of functional tests such as the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) were excluded.