In this video you’ll see a discussion with Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby and myself about Stress and a Stress Relief technique which not only allows you to manage your stress levels but also can help you train your body to maintain lower stress levels. In addition we talk about how elevated stress levels can also make us more susceptible to sickness and infection.
One of the diagnostic techniques that can measure stress levels and help us learn how to live a less stressful lifestyle is called ‘heart rate variability’. This is a measurement of the consistency of the heart rate over time. It’s actually quite surprising how much info can be gathered from measuring your heart rate variability.
A tip to relieve stress: start by seeing what triggers your stress levels to increase by monitoring it with heart rate variability, then remove the stress aggravations. This is the best device that I’ve found for doing this. In the video I show the pocket version of the stress reliever, there is also a really cool heart rate variability software version which I am making another video for. With the software you can compare each 20min session you run which is a great way of testing your reaction to potential allergen foods and other stressful things.
Figure out a few foods that are stressing you out and you’ll have some quick stress relief!
Check out this video and you’ll learn a bunch about this…
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Very informative and interesting.
I will buy.
totally agree on the stress factor (thanksgiving is one major one every year lol
),was using meditation with biometric feedback based on galvanometric response but the hearth rate is calculated normal at different rates for different individuals how is your tool considering that aspect ?
Hi Michel,
It’s true, the heart rate is definitely normal to be different for different people. The value of HRV (heart rate variability) as a diagnostic is that it measures the consistency (or lack of) in the rhythm of the heart. So everyone can have their own actual heart rate depending on many factors but the consistency in that heart rate is either consistent or inconsistent.
This tool measures the consistency over time and keeps track of this factor so that exercises may be performed (both with and without the tool) to attain better consistency in the heart rate (and therefore lower your stress level). When I say exercises this could even be listening to relaxing music! See how this lowers your stress. Test out other music and see what the effects are. The computer software version of the tool even gives you a graphical reading of a 20 minute session so you can see how consistent your heart rate was and compare it to sessions in the future.
Another way the computer software (and possibly the PSR pocket device) can be used is to determine whether you are allergic to foods. To do this you’d have to do an elimination diet (see the book Diet Wise by Dr Keith Scott-Mumby) and when reintroducing foods use the HRV instrument to see how your heart rate variability is affected. Pretty cool, huh?
Thanks for reading,
Joshua
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I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to post this. I really liked reading through it and am looking forward to more posts from you! Keep up the good work.