According to yoga, energy flows more freely through the heart when we breathe into it and focus our attention on that area – energy flow where attention goes. Breathing is directly linked to and directly affects the heart. The regular practice of diaphragmatic breathing significantly improves heart rate variability and coherence. All dynamics of the heart are improved when we breathe correctly. The more a person improves their heart rate variability (HRV) the healthier they become. This is good for ischemic heart patients who have diabetes. Heart rate variability is indispensable in distinguishing healthy subjects from patients with cardiovascular disease. Heart rate variability (HRV) is an indicator of the cardiac autonomic control. Yogic, or what is known as belly breathing (deep abdominal breathing vs shallow rib cage breathing), modifies the autonomic status by increasing sympathetic activity with reduced vagal activity. Its uncanny how accurately low HRV scores and trends align with illness. HRV is a more useful psychophysiological measure than heart rate alone. The heart rate is controlled by neural as well as other factors. Hence, a decrease in heart rate may be related to an increase in vagal tone, a decrease in cardiac sympathetic activity, as well as other, non-autonomic factors. In contrast, heart rate variability (HRV) spectrum is indicative of beat-to-beat autonomic control.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:57:07 +0000
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