Thread: How do you calm your heartbeat?

Slow breathing or holding your breath (but not for too long) calms your breath. I tried different breathing techniques with what I think is called a stethoscope. Even when you breath in, but slow, your heart is fast, stopping your breathing for a few seconds calms the heart rate.

I have a small ticking clock that I put on my chest and I feel like my heart syncs up with it. Well maybe it's in my head but it always calms me

i get that EXACT feeling. numbness, heaviness, tinglies, racing heart.

i think i might actucaly be a phsycological thing. because i didnt so much feel my heart rate speed up (i think it did a bit though).
i feels more like the heartbeats a really strong, bam bam....bam bam.....bam bam.....smasing against the inside of my rib cage.


but i think this is part of the senses acting funny eg hearing sounds, feeling vibrations

I think I've had something similar with my attempts to get to SP and hopefully jump into a LD after. I wasn't really excited but knew that once SP passes, I'll have a LD. I would take Naturally Lucid's advice and either breath slowly or stop your breathing for a couple of seconds

This is exactly what happened to me! I actually looked for this thread that i had seen before to avoid having to do this post but didn't found it.

Anyway, I made exactly the same, I tried calming down the heart beat by controlling my breathing, but then the hallucinations stopped.

Anyway, if most people were getting close to SP at this point, I can understand that I maybe was too. Now I really need to get time to try to WILD

Practice until you master it.

focus on breathing