The Rise of Superman - an excellent bookon flow science and application - explains that the religious experience of worship or the personal feeling of connection to a higher power is a classic flowstate.

I interview Dr. Torkil Færø, the author of the most recent (and, in my opinion, approachable and actionable) book on heart rate variability, The Pulse Cure. He's a Norwegian doctor with over 100,000 patient

A few thoughts on the emWave, a screen-LESS piece of #mindfulness tech for mood and energy - that I've had an on-again/off-again relationship with. Read #review 💟 of the Heartmath emWave Shop 💲 #Heartmath

One night, after completing a 92-day period of intermittent sobriety, I smoked a joint with friends in a lovely park overlooking the city. In between laughing, coughing and making plans to get snacks,

I measured my stress simultaneously with an Android stress check app and the emWave2 and I found a decent correlation between my Coherence scores and the app's stress score. So I do recommend trying the

Took a week at 10,000 feet altitude, I’m finally back in the green. whoop #Colorado #HRV #actnearn bob gene Posted from Twitter via Share2Steem

Lest you think (as I did) that the first time was an anomaly or random: And with a second system / measurement device (this one more accurate - the Firstbeat Bodyguard used with their Lifestyle Assessment),

Can you guess which night I was 24 hours into a fast? 113 ms might be my highest HRV ever. I have begun extending my weekly fast to 36 hours (IOW I ate dinner Monday night and did not eat again til Wednesday

Quick note on a comparison I ran over the holidays on 4 (yes, 4 in parallel) sleep trackers: Oura, Firstbeat Lifestyle Assessment, Vital Scout, and the latest entrant, Beddr. Oura is a ring, Vital Scout

Been tweaking the training up a bit lately and shortening my weekend rides, just getting too bogged down and tired on my long-ish loop to Page Mill. Rode last weekend with a pretty fast friend who races

For this backpacking trip I wore the Firstbeat Bodyguard and ran the data through our Lifestyle Assessment ( Here are a few notes from the report. First up is the fact that my HR numbers clearly show the

Čovjek nije drvo, i vezanost je njegova nesreća, oduzima mu hrabrost, umanjuje sigurnost. Vežući se za jedno mjesto čovjek prihvaća sve uvjete, čak i nepovoljne i sam sebe plaši neizvjesnošću koja ga čeka.

One downside with the Relaxator and other breathing training devices is that one has to breath out through the mouth instead of the more natural nose breathing, which is possible to do if training without