Dr. Jay Wiles

They said, we're going to measure every single metric that we possibly can.

And then they came across and said, well, actually, now that we've measured it and we have seen, because this is when they came across heart rate variability, that there's these interesting characteristics of people's nervous systems that I think

we're looking at when we look at HRV, but we don't really know for sure.

The only way to test that really is to start introducing different interventions or start introducing different things that we see, you know, in real time are actually moving the needle in terms of people's nervous system response.

And so then back in the 60s, 70s, researchers here in the U.S.

started to team up with these Russian researchers.

They said, OK, we see that there are dynamic aspects of the nervous system that we can measure here.

We also noticed that when people breathe, something kind of weird happens with their HRV.

Something weird happens with all these dynamics, but we can't fully explain it.

So we should start to put it to the test.

So they started to say, well, what if we manipulate that thing?

What if we manipulate things like breathing?

Can that then change how the nervous system responds in real time?

And then later on, of course, the research says, can it start to respond that way in baseline to where people don't have to consciously move the needle?

And that's where HRV biofeedback was kind of like discovered.

And the word resonance breathing, kind of like we were mentioning earlier,

was something that was coined because we saw that, again, we're aligning these physiological mechanisms of breathing and heart rate and also our blood pressure regulation.

When we can align all of those things at the same exact time, we start to create this beautiful symphony, this beautiful pattern, this great relationship.

We start to see that instead of just the throttle of the gas pedal, so that sympathetic nervous system,

being kind of like modulated on and off and the brake pedal being modulated on and off, just kind of at random, if you will.