Niraj NaikFounder & CEO of SOMA Breath | Music-Powered Breathwork Pioneer | DJ, Speaker & Author

Learn how to control your heart rate with your breath.

5 Nov 2022 · 1 min

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Niraj Naik shows how to shift your heart rate with breathing alone. Exhale to lower it, inhale to raise it. Hold your breath after exhaling and your heart rate drops further; hold after inhaling while contracting your pelvic floor and you get an adrenaline spike.

Questions this video answers

The sympathetic nervous system.

The parasympathetic nervous system.

Heart rate goes down.

It creates a burst of adrenaline and heart rate goes up.

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When you breathe in, you stimulate sympathetic nervous system. When you breathe out, you stimulate parasympathetic. When you hold your breath after exhalation, heart rate goes down. Okay. When you hold your breath after inhalation and squeeze the sphincter muscles, which is the pulling them up, drawing energy up. Okay? Contracting them up. The ashwini mudra. This is called. Okay. Engaging that. Or the pelvic floor. Even the mulabandha, if you engage that. But ashwini mudra is all you need, which is the sphincter muscles. Imagine drawing something up. And hold your breath on the inhale. It creates a burst of adrenaline. All right? And your heart rate goes up.