Do you happen to have links for the studies? Would be very interested to read them.
Even though I have a whoop and love it, I also use eliteHRV with a corsense fingertip measurer.
I do 5 minutes in the morning, 10-15 at night.
You have to sit totally still or lay totally still to get a good reading. If you really relax and you’re weird you can look afterward to see how low you were able to get your HR.
Most of the time I fall asleep. So that’s my accidental relaxation meditation method.
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…people who have done up to 62,000 [!!!] hours of meditation in their lifetime… showed never-before-seen levels of gamma, one of the strongest types of brain waves…The typical person will have a gamma wave very briefly…long-term meditators, however, show gamma all the time as a lasting trait, no matter what they are doing. Their baseline readings…were 25 times greater than those of the control group. “It’s their everyday state of mind,” says Daniel Goleman.
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(FWIW, there are multiple parts to meditation – the focus, the distraction, and the return to focus (there is a fourth but I forget what it is). It has been observed that majority of the benefit of mediation is derived from the ‘return to focus’ phase; it’s what strengthens the brain. In other words, all those errant thoughts are going to make you more awesome…if you don’t get carried away by them…)
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Hehehe
Agreed. It’s only useful if it makes us happy.
I would like to say that happiness comes from a solely internal source, but I have reason to doubt that since today is my last day at work for 6 weeks 
(I work in a school)
If it helps…I get 6 weeks pay taken out of my salary…and worse…I can’t get time of for the BCBR.
Half full glasses.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!
Hi guys, I’m looking for some volunteers for a cycling hypnosis/mind based resource I’m putting together and I wondered if any of you would be interested? All I need is an hour or so of your time for a call to get some more detailed info about what issues cyclists in different disciplines/levels may commonly encounter and in return ill give you the resource (which will be pretty detailed) at no cost.
Im a Clinical & Performance Hypnotherapist based in the UK and would be very grateful for your input!!