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Offline hardy_practice

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Your Heart
« on: April 08, 2016, 05:36:40 PM »
Amazing how long it can keep going as long as you relax between beats.
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Re: Your Heart
«Reply #1 on: April 08, 2016, 06:00:05 PM »
How does breathing affect heartbeats? Sometimes if its too exciting, I forget to breathe ( I know! bad habit..). I'm pretty sure I get a few mini-heart attacks during the concluding passages in the A and coda sections chopin's op. 44.
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Chopin's 4th ballade and 3rd sonata.
Scriabin Op. 42 no. 1, 2, and 3.
Bach Partita No.4

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Re: Your Heart
«Reply #2 on: April 08, 2016, 06:28:08 PM »
Quote from: mjames on April 08, 2016, 06:00:05 PM
How does breathing affect heartbeats? Sometimes if its too exciting, I forget to breathe ( I know! bad habit..).
you can bear down by breathing in super deep and if you build enough pressure  in your chest cavity, you can get a vagal (vagus nerve) response. this can slow it (and in some instances artificial stimulation of this nerve can stop the heart).
ie https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201302/the-neurobiology-grace-under-pressure
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