HVR Performance

Hey boys and girls, I'm Tim Ferriss. I would It was recommended initially by Josh Waitskin who's a friend of mine He is very well known as a world-class chess player It's also a black belt in Brazilian jujitsu under FINAW, nine-time world champion Marcelo Garcia And he's currently working on many other crafts also happens to be a world champion in Tai Chi push-ance, so he understands a thing or two about high performance He also works with a lot of the best performing investors in the finance world. They all use HRV Why? So let me take a step back. We often think about changing how we feel changing our physiology by changing our content. So can we go to therapy and talk, ask questions, be asked questions such that we change the stories in our minds so that changes how we respond to things which changes how we feel and Voila, we have increased well-being. Now that is not a bad approach But it is one tool Another tool and another approach and another paradigm is to say maybe we can move in the opposite direction So we change our physiology and by changing our physiology We change how we feel and that changes the content. All right. This is actually really important to grasp So in other words, you're working from the body to the mind as opposed to the mind to the body And I believe that both can be really effective. Athletes use HRV all the time. The tools that I have used first are Elite HRV, I believe it's called it is effectively a pulse oximeter So you clip it onto your finger and I use that for calibrating the morning resting HRV Then I use the aura ring, which I don't have on right now. I actually use it exclusively for sleep O-U-R-Aura ring, which is one of the better devices for tracking sleep quality in HRV And the woman I have worked with most closely with respect to HRV is Dr. Leah Lagos LEAHLAGOS and she has a book on the subject so if you search her name on Amazon or elsewhere you will find this book and Really more than anything else because this is a set of tools and this is one approach to working with physiology to change how you feel to change content is to Emphasize and really what I would I have a lot of onset insomnia I was falling asleep within 10 to 20 minutes of laying down after doing brief HRV training for 20 minutes right before bed and I used an app I believe it's called breath or breathe there are many you can use Ultimately by using Leah's book and their other resources online You will determine breathing sequences that you can use to achieve a certain degree of resonance And we can get into the vagus nerve and all sorts of things But there's certain breathing patterns you can use to change your cardiac response in my case There's a certain n It's a very simple practice. I was doing it twice a day and I encourage