Dr. Jay Wiles

We're trying to maximize the output of those beautiful, slow sinusoidal rhythms of your heart rate that we know are dynamically changing how your nervous system is responding, making it more efficient at any given time.

And we're watching it across the session.

And if there are these kind of small, minute changes that your nervous system is telling us, we will adjust the rate.

Within the session.

We'll adjust the ratio of the breathing.

Yeah, I never refer to HRV biofeedback or resonance breathing as a relaxation tool.

And that might be people like scratching their head like, what?

But I thought the intention was to help the nervous system relax.

This is kind of going back to HRV as being a byproduct number, right?

Resonance breathing, producing a sense of relaxation for most people, most sessions, is the byproduct of aligning your nervous system.

And so the intention isn't that I come in with resonance and with biofeedback, I never come in with the intention that, hey, this is my opportunity to relax.

I come in with it with this.

This is my opportunity to train.

I am training.

That is my gym right there.

That is my nervous system gym today.

I'm hitting it.

I'm getting in the reps because we know that this has a wide systemic effect on how I respond now and how I'll respond later and how it's translative to how I experience the world after this.

And so for me, when I do it, slowing my breathing down inherently typically is going to make me produce a sense of calm.

You may even feel sleepy.