Dr. Alok Kanojia

And then you exhale for 32 seconds.

If you do the Vashishta Samhita version of cardiac coherence breathing, the subjective experience is completely different.

You will feel prana.

You will feel chi.

With that pattern of breathing.

With that pattern of breathing.

Yeah.

So it's hard to get to.

But like literally the subjective experience that you will have is like a sense of vibration on like at the periphery of your body.

That's what it feels like to me.

It's not BS, but we have to understand mechanisms.

So let me talk about the science bit for a bit.

I have a far, not simpler.

I'm a clinician.

I think there's a reason we have to start with physiology because when a patient comes into my office, if I tell them do yoga nidra, what is the effect size of the intervention?

We need to know that, right?

So here's the problem with studying meditation and the benefit of studying meditation this way.

The problem is that we're teaching people to swim for eight weeks.

That does not show us what an Olympic athlete is.

So our science of meditation is in its infancy.