https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi0_7idqcFI
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When we were out in the lobby you mentioned that you have a breathing exercise, a coherence breathing exercise, that you thought might be useful for us to do now and perhaps for some of the listeners to join in. Yeah, let’s do it.
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And then if you want to talk about it after, we can. Sounds good.
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The reason I started doing this is I have relatively low heart rate variability and you want to have a higher one. So I looked at all the things that can raise your heart rate variability, and I started doing this breathing technique specifically for heart rate variability, and it went up. Awesome. So it’s… Great. tested.
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Great. Let’s do it together.
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Here, I’ll play it.
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It’ll say, “Take a deep breath,” and then you’ll hear the sound of a, if you follow me for the first inhale and exhale, you’ll know what sound means what.
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And you do this eyes closed, typically? I do it eyes closed.
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Okay, we’ll close our eyes.
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[chime rings] [guide inhales] [Rick inhales] [guide exhales] [men exhale] [slow breathing] [chimes ring] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] [slow breathing continues] [chimes ringing continues] That was five minutes. I like that.
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Feels nice, doesn’t it? Yeah.
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I noticed I don’t spontaneously breathe at that cadence. I breathe quite a bit faster.
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Mhm. So especially on the exhale. Mhm.
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So once I got into a rhythm of it, yeah, the mind just goes pseudo random for me. What about for you? Does your mind tend to go one place? I do, now I count. So the reason I knew it was five minutes is because it’s six breaths per minute, and I counted 5, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 1, 6, 2, 1. So I was occupied with a task. How often do you do that? At least once and sometimes twice a day. I aim for 10 minutes a day, but if I get to 20 minutes a day, it’s noticeable in my heart rate variability results. Do you do the coherence breathing at a particular times of day, or just whenever it occurs to you? I think it depends on where I am and what else is going on in my life.
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So it, there was, I had a window of a very specific thing that I was doing. I would do coherent breathing and I would do squats, just air squats.
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And in one location where I didn’t have any other equipment. And then I found a way, like, where I was doing treading water, which you got to experience with me. I would tread water, and then after treading water I would get out of the pool, sit in the sun and do the coherent breathing.
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