Heart Rate Variability HRV Pt4 3/3 User Manual 4 Humans

into the neurology of this and talk about what what does it really do how

does this really matter and affect and change anything so the first thing that

we need to understand is is what neural plasticity is this was the greatest

discovery of the 1990s it was a breakthrough there was a revolution in

the understanding of the brain that it as plasticity it changes it grows

stronger and it grows weaker and it makes new synapses and it breaks old

synapses and that's how behavior changes we all know this intuitively or at least

through the principal use it or lose it so we understand that if you don't use a

muscle it's going to atrophy if you go to the gym and pump iron is going to get

big and strong if you don't do anything with it your couch potato or you put

your arm in a cast the muscle goes away and that makes a whole lot of sense

because the body wants to allocate resources to the places where they're

being used so if you're using one arm and not the other the body says why

should I waste valuable resources rebuilding a body part that has no

purpose that's just hanging around

astronauts know this because when you send somebody into space and there's no

gravity the body says well in this environment the skeleton is virtually

useless so I'm not going to devote valuable resources to replenish the bone

because here in space I don't need it so astronauts have been believed about a

two percent bone loss per month pretty dramatic but we also have to

understand that brain cells have the same faith that a brain cell is only

going to be replenished it's only going to to be make new protein and stay

strong if it has a purpose so that's how the brain evolves that's how we get

better at the things we do and we forget about the things we don't because the

body is not going to replenish something that has no purpose and the brain cells

that are not used they get weaker and they become unstable and stability in

the nervous system is one of the key features of a functional nervous system

is that the nerve cells are strong and stable and we also heard the expression

practice makes perfect anybody's heard that well I'm afraid it's not true

practice does not make perfect practice makes permanent and anybody with a bad

golf swing can can you can affirm that because anything that you do over and

over and over whether it's right or wrong becomes a pattern in your nervous

system it becomes a habit and you can't break it because that's the only way the

body and the brain knows how to do it that's why bad habits are so hard to

break and what is a skill and a habit well where does a skill reside some

people think that they talk about muscle memory and they talk

Oh will I have the dancing legs or whatever but it's all in the brain and

nervous system every bit of it you have a hundred billion brain cells and the

way that they communicate with other brain cells is through something called

the synapse so it sends out a little tentacle and connect to another brain

cell and the brain starts making patterns and each of the hundred billion

brain cells make about 5,000 connections on average so you figure out the total

number of someone who's a mathematician it's a lot okay but those patterns those

synaptic patterns determine all your behavior all your habits all your skills

resigned in those patterns so now let's talk about this in terms of breathing

and coherence because people say well when I relax and when I do a breathing

exercise and I practice feeling happy I feel really good for the five minutes

that I'm doing it but I feel it's a waste of time because I can't do that I

have a life I can't do it all the time so is it only good during the five

minutes or do I have to do it all the time and here's the answer it's right in

neuro plasticity that during those five minutes you are creating new synapses

you are strengthening those cells that are lying dormant that are responsible

for the parasympathetic outflow for that healing response if you are always

stressed than those cells are virtually never stimulated but if you just take

five minutes a day you're giving those cells literally a workout they get

stronger you creating new synaptic patterns and the

more that you practice those patterns the more likely they are to fire on

their own when you're not thinking about it so the more that you practice these

things and their recommendation is somewhere between I usually say five to

ten minutes once or twice a day and if you can do that for three to six months

you will probably never feel the same again you will probably lift yourself to

a level of feeling wonderful with no return so that is that's the benefit of

all of this and that's how it works long-term that you can actually rebuild

and recreate your nervous system just by practicing these things and that's about

it for the basic presentation and thank you all very much for coming and if you

have any questions will be more than happy to answer those we will also take

and run a small demo so that you can see this in action as well alright