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I've taught most of my clients breathing exercises for the past 5-6 years. It's unnecessary to take it to the level of a formal pranayama practice to make fairly significant differences in physiological state, from which most everything else derives. The "coherent breathing" work that popped up sometime in the last ~15 years is pretty interesting, too.
I only ask because there are several other commenters on here offering breathing tips, and you sound like an expert on this.
> Interestingly, those who felt the greatest boost in mood also experienced the biggest drop in heart rate variability.
A drop in HRV isn't generally good. So I check the paper, and found this:
> No significant changes were found in heart rate variability or resting heart rate over the course of the study in either of the groups (Figures 4C and 4D)
There was a reduction respiratory rate for those an increase in daily positive affect. Bottom line, unclear if this particular study points to a positive health outcome other than feeling happier.
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But you'll need a heeeeeelllaaaa more data before you casually add "psychic powers" to the claims :-)
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Apparently among the other things it develops are a contempt for most of humanity?
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Calling anybody who needs some evidence for psychic abilities a football-watching mindless drone is... Kind of a canonical insulting contempt.
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From the blog post: > Interestingly, those who felt the greatest boost in mood also experienced the biggest drop in heart rate variability. A drop in HRV isn't generally good. So I check the paper, and found this: > No significant changes were found in heart rate variability or resting heart rate over the course of the study in either of the groups (Figures 4C and 4D) There was a reduction respiratory rate for those…
Interestingly, change in respiratory rate was negatively correlated with change in daily positive affect (Figure S5; r = - 0.24, p < 0.05), suggesting that participants who showed the highest reduction in respiratory rate also showed the highest daily increase in positive affect over the course of the study (Figure S5).
From the blog post: > Interestingly, those who felt the greatest boost in mood also experienced the biggest drop in heart rate variability. A drop in HRV isn't generally good. So I check the paper, and found this: > No significant changes were found in heart rate variability or resting heart rate over the course of the study in either of the groups (Figures 4C and 4D) There was a reduction respiratory rate for those…
I've taught most of my clients breathing exercises for the past 5-6 years. It's unnecessary to take it to the level of a formal pranayama practice to make fairly significant differences in physiological state, from which most everything else derives. The "coherent breathing" work that popped up sometime in the last ~15 years is pretty interesting, too.