Control your heart rate

Shootingstars

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Joined : Nov 2013

Posts : 26

Posted 3/23/2014 2:12 PM (GMT 0)

You control your heart rate with your breath. It will take 15 minutes of breathing normally or so, but by breathing normally or slowly you activate your parasympathetic nervous system which tells your stress response to stop releasing adrenaline. Breathe, focus on other things, and tell yourself you're going to be okay. You gotta believe it. Then your body will know things are really alright because it's not getting mixed brain signals.

I'm a psyche major and I barely figured this one out. It's, at worst, low blood pressure. Which you'll know you have from doctor visits.

Edit: I gave your thread a title

Post Edited By Moderator (stkitt) : 3/23/2014 10:02:59 AM (GMT-6)

Merrida

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Posts : 4771

Posted 3/23/2014 3:59 PM (GMT 0)

I appreciate you posting on the positive effects of mindful breathing.

You'll see many of us AP'ers rely on this, and we're always looking for ways to explain just how effective breath control and staying in the moment, being aware of our breathing, really is for us.

Sometimes we may not believe it right away, but eventually, when we see it really works, you're right, we will learn to trust in the power of the breath!

M.

stkitt

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Posted 3/23/2014 4:02 PM (GMT 0)

Shootingstars

I am a wee bit confused - did you mean to post this under a thread by another member?

If you did, just copy and paste it into the appropriate thread and I will delete this thread.

Thanks,

Kitt

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