Dr. Elissa Epel

Yeah. I've learned a lot from monitoring, and I think that's one way to raise awareness as well as, you know, asking ourselves to become mindful of our emotions and our bodily, where we're holding stress in the body, where we're tense.

Yeah. I've learned a lot from monitoring, and I think that's one way to raise awareness as well as, you know, asking ourselves to become mindful of our emotions and our bodily, where we're holding stress in the body, where we're tense.

The heart, you know, heart rate tells us a lot of things, but the heart rate variability we think is more specific to that balance between parasympathetic and sympathetic, so more uh, related to psychological stress, not just, uh, metabolic demands. So it's, it's that super interesting. So Costa Rica leads you to a different yellow mind, um, maybe green mind state, better baseline.

The heart, you know, heart rate tells us a lot of things, but the heart rate variability we think is more specific to that balance between parasympathetic and sympathetic, so more uh, related to psychological stress, not just, uh, metabolic demands. So it's, it's that super interesting. So Costa Rica leads you to a different yellow mind, um, maybe green mind state, better baseline.

The heart, you know, heart rate tells us a lot of things, but the heart rate variability we think is more specific to that balance between parasympathetic and sympathetic, so more uh, related to psychological stress, not just, uh, metabolic demands. So it's, it's that super interesting. So Costa Rica leads you to a different yellow mind, um, maybe green mind state, better baseline.

I monitored my, with my aura ring, I monitored my heart rate variability during a meditation retreat. And we know that when people slow their breathing immediately, they have, they can have a decrease in all the, um, the sympathetic activity markers, and sometimes in heart rate variability during studies.

I monitored my, with my aura ring, I monitored my heart rate variability during a meditation retreat. And we know that when people slow their breathing immediately, they have, they can have a decrease in all the, um, the sympathetic activity markers, and sometimes in heart rate variability during studies.

I monitored my, with my aura ring, I monitored my heart rate variability during a meditation retreat. And we know that when people slow their breathing immediately, they have, they can have a decrease in all the, um, the sympathetic activity markers, and sometimes in heart rate variability during studies.

So it's no mystery that doing these practices and doing them for longer can lead to these improvements. And that those are what we call deep rest states when we're really allowing ourselves to feel safe and to let down and let ourselves go into restorative mode. But I was surprised at how long my heart rate variability, my baseline heart rate variability took to change.

So it's no mystery that doing these practices and doing them for longer can lead to these improvements. And that those are what we call deep rest states when we're really allowing ourselves to feel safe and to let down and let ourselves go into restorative mode. But I was surprised at how long my heart rate variability, my baseline heart rate variability took to change.

So it's no mystery that doing these practices and doing them for longer can lead to these improvements. And that those are what we call deep rest states when we're really allowing ourselves to feel safe and to let down and let ourselves go into restorative mode. But I was surprised at how long my heart rate variability, my baseline heart rate variability took to change.

So it was only two weeks later toward the end of the retreat that my sleeping heart rate variability really improved.

So it was only two weeks later toward the end of the retreat that my sleeping heart rate variability really improved.

So it was only two weeks later toward the end of the retreat that my sleeping heart rate variability really improved.

Hmm. Yeah. We, we have these red mind states that we don't want on all day drains our batteries, stresses our mitochondria. We have data on daily mood and mitochondria showing it is really sensitive to daily affect. This was a, um, a study with Martin Picard of Columbia, and we were measuring the enzymatic activity.

Hmm. Yeah. We, we have these red mind states that we don't want on all day drains our batteries, stresses our mitochondria. We have data on daily mood and mitochondria showing it is really sensitive to daily affect. This was a, um, a study with Martin Picard of Columbia, and we were measuring the enzymatic activity.

Hmm. Yeah. We, we have these red mind states that we don't want on all day drains our batteries, stresses our mitochondria. We have data on daily mood and mitochondria showing it is really sensitive to daily affect. This was a, um, a study with Martin Picard of Columbia, and we were measuring the enzymatic activity.

And so when people woke up with more positive emotion and went to bed with more positive emotion, they had higher mitochondria, which we measured kind of in the middle of the week of monitoring. And when they, you know, particularly at night, so there's this idea of how are we recovering from the day? Can we maintain positive affect at the end of a stressful long day?

And so when people woke up with more positive emotion and went to bed with more positive emotion, they had higher mitochondria, which we measured kind of in the middle of the week of monitoring. And when they, you know, particularly at night, so there's this idea of how are we recovering from the day? Can we maintain positive affect at the end of a stressful long day?

And so when people woke up with more positive emotion and went to bed with more positive emotion, they had higher mitochondria, which we measured kind of in the middle of the week of monitoring. And when they, you know, particularly at night, so there's this idea of how are we recovering from the day? Can we maintain positive affect at the end of a stressful long day?