This is one of the tools I use to help keep my mind and body connected. It is called the Resperate. While it is approved by the FDA for helping to lower blood pressure, that is not the way I use it.
Please refer to the owner manual and precautions that may affect how you use this product. I am not giving medical treatment advice in this blog post. It is merely how I use this product for my own personal way. Please adjust it to meet your life's situation.
The Resperate is a great way to help work not only on the Mind Body Connection, but to help deepen the autonomic nervous system breathing. Autonomic nervous system breathing has to do with allowing your body to go deep into rest and repair healing. It is where you truly connect with your mind and body using the breath to help you become more aware of the felt sense.
Using the Resperate and pulse meter together, I can fully evaluate on my own, the health of my nervous system. I am one of those people that sometimes struggles with a high pulse rate due to daily stress and triggers. It is one area that I continually work on with the
Pulse Meter.
The pulse meter not only shows the pulse rate at that moment, but it gives you a reading for the oxygen level of your blood. For me personally, I try to get my pulse rate down to a consistent rate in the 60's or 70's when I am laying on the table in a rested state. I watch the pulse waves that I can see on the pulse meter and I'm looking for a gentle flow of waves that are consistent from one to the next. The waves should have some substance to them, but be gentle rolling waves is how I picture it.
Here are a few tips that have helped me use the
Resperate more effectively. One of the things that I have found is that it is better if I use it in a quiet room where I won't be disturbed. Since I have a massage table, I often lie down when I'm working with the Resperate. One of the best things I've found is that I use a pillow under my head because if I am propped up a little, it is easier for me to let go and get into the deeper breathing. The pillow helps me feel more in control.
I've found that instead of placing the band on my chest, that I place it
on the upper side of my belly and it feels like it works better. I was
struggling to get the thing to work if I put it too high on my chest.
I'm sure with each person, it is different and you'll have to explore
what location works best for you. It most likely depends upon your breathing pattern.
Before I turn the machine on, I have it all ready to go and then I just lie on the table for a few moments. I take a "before" reading with the pulse meter and just allow my breathing to quiet down a little. If I don't do this, it seems like the machine starts out with too many quick inhalations and exhalations which sort of frustrates me more than it helps me to start relaxing.
In the early days, 5 minutes was a lot for me to do on the Resperate. It took me time to acclimate to the constant breathing inhalations and exhalations. As I've gone, I find that the full 15 minutes is really ideal. It helps me to go deep into the process. If I use less time than that, it is like I'm startled out of the relaxation process before I get that deep and then I wake up with results that are not as good.
I will usually monitor the breath rate on the Resperate in the middle of the time I am using it to see how well I'm doing and how far my body is dropping down. I'll check the pulse meter to also measure just how far my body is dropping into the rest and repair mode.
Another thing I do is that I hold my hands on my stomach, free and clear of the sensor band. When I do this, I am holding the thought in my mind that I want to feel and sense every part of the movement in my body as I breathe. I want to feel the rise and fall of my abdomen and lungs. This can be very therapeutic and healing once you start to connect it with your mind and body.
Some days I can do better with using the Resperate than other days. Sometimes I use it every other day and other times I go several days without using it. It all depends and you just have to listen to your body on what works for you. You will have to find the frequency of how often you use it.
My overall goal is to work on deep autonomic nervous system breathing so I can connect my mind and body with the felt sense. I know that the more I do this, the more I can go into rest and repair and physically alter the stress, anxiety and triggers on my life. The pulse meter is essential in my view to help monitor this because if things are working, the pulse rate should drop down.
At times, I have had headaches and other tension in my body, but after 15 minutes working with the
Resperate in the manner described above, I notice that things ease up. Maybe it isn't 100% better by the time I get off the table, but as the hours go on, I physically feel better.
When you do the deep autonomic breathing where you slowly exhale, you invoke the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is one of the largest nerves in the body and it helps relax you, find balance in your mind and body, and gets you into the rest and repair mode especially if you feel and sense through the felt sense mechanism.
There is a great deal of physical and emotional healing that we can do on our own. Unfortunately we numb and disconnect with a million reasons of why we don't engage the mind body connection or we keep ourselves so busy that we don't take part in our own healing the way we should. This is one tool that I've been playing with for some time and the more I experiment with it, the more healing and effective it is for me.
The more we keep our body and mind tuned up, the greater our life will be and we will be able to more effectively connect with peace and healing. The more we do this on a regular basis, the more life becomes one that we have greater control over in our physical and emotional moments.
The items I use can be purchased on Amazon and I have listed them on my page,
Health Products I Love.
Please feel free to ask me questions on how I use this. I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences if you are using the Resperate.
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Don Shetterly
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