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Can You Train Your HRV? A Helpful Guide to HeartMath Inner Balance Coherence Plus

Lunch break. Car seat slightly reclined. Silent Mode on so nothing interrupts. I clip the ear sensor, connect over Bluetooth, and breathe 5-5. On the screen, the jagged line settles into a smooth wave. My shoulders drop. That’s the moment I’m after: a visible shift I can feel

Calming digital illustration of a person with glowing heart and lungs, aqua and lavender waves showing breath connected to heart rate variability.

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How to Increase HRV with Breathing Exercises: the simple technique that actually works

Your smartwatch keeps sending you low Heart Rate Variability alerts. Your chest feels tight even at rest. You get a full night's sleep and still wake up tired. You're not falling apart. You're stuck in a state known as the fight-or-flight response. It'

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The Triggers That Spike Anxiety, and a 5-Minute Breath That Actually Works

You might be familiar with the racing-heart feeling, when your mind accelerates to 100 miles an hour and anything going on around you just seems to disappear. There are certain things that might seem out of our control and change our reality in an instant. Luckily there are things we

Simple illustration showing how anxiety can cause chest tightness by restricting diaphragm movement.

Can’t Breathe? It Could Be a Tight Diaphragm from Anxiety

If you're like me - you might have had times where you can't take a deep breath - you know something is wrong. You might have even gone to your family doctor, got sent for lung tests - only to be told "your lungs are