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Practical Meditation for Beginners = HRV Breathing

Summary

, 23 min

Heart rate variability breathing as the first essential piece of meditation: how the outbreath lowers the heart rate through the dorsal vagal nerve, and three rules — under seven breaths per minute, a longer outbreath, no pauses. A paced MyCalmBeat app demonstration steps from 7 down to 4.5 breaths per minute, then the four proofs.

In this video

Mentions
Don AngierShidare Yanagi Ryu AikibugeiNeuro-linguistic programming (NLP)NLP ModelingCarbon-oxygen exchangeT'ai ChiQigongMelatoninMeditative mellowsSitting Very Still (SVS)Freeze Response

Key moments

00:00Don Angier and scraping an art down to its essentials01:14Heart rate variability as the first essential piece of meditation02:33What heart rate variability is: the in breath raises the heart rate03:06The out breath presses on the dorsal vagal nerve04:37Slower heart, longer breath: the feedback loop05:32The eighty twenty rule: calm the body to calm the mind06:45Practice morning and evening, when melatonin is higher07:11Three rules: under seven breaths, longer out breath, no pauses09:14Setting up the MyCalmBeat app10:43Paced breathing at seven breaths per minute12:06Six point five, then six breaths per minute14:29Find a comfortable rate, not a magic number; five point five16:21Five breaths per minute17:39Four point five breaths per minute18:53Recap: the key ingredients of heart rate variability20:09Four proofs: hot hands, tingling lips, spine and skin21:35Meditation made simple: the cornerstone to build on