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Getting the most frequencies into ONE inside your heart is not just the end of chronic disease - it is the BEGINNING OF COMPASSION (perfect compression). Obviously the problem is not - getting only ONE frequency into phase with itself (the "HeartMath Mistake"). The problem is to get ALL frequencies into phase with each other, including both those in the HRV and in the ECG, which HeartMath cannot even see with their device. Since Heart-Rate-Variability(HRV) and Internal-Cardiac-Coherence(ICC) would probably be competitive in less coherent conditions - there MUST be another solution. (HeartMath Rollin McCraty and Gary Schwarz make this mistake- thinking Internal Coherence PREVENTS heart rates from having variability). THAT solution is fractal constructive compression in the HRV optimized by GOLDEN RATIO in the medium of pure frequency physics, PLUS the pure arithmetics of the ECG - Internal Cardiac COHERENCE, optimized by OCTAVE RATIO. REAL Heart fractality - is the same as REAL COHERENCE - because - the limit or perfecting or ultimate condition of COHERENCE - IS in fact FRACTALITY (perfected compression) - allowing both vitality and self-awareness to optimize inclusively.-
See the proof below in 2 ways: 1 output of the new Cardiac Synthesizer software- proof of concept PLUS see the real output waves of Hearts above and below - making REAL MEASURED COHERENCE - AND!! Heart Rate Variability (Harmonics Inclusive- predict disease survival).
Where they got it right:
1. Breath is the largest conscious control we have of Heart Rate
2. Heart Rate controls Emotion
Where they got it WRONG:
1. Immune Health is optimal when the MOST POSSIBLE HARMONICS
ARE TOGETHER 'NON-DESTRUCTIVELY' IN THE HEART..
(ref: harmonic INCLUSIVENESS in HRV predicts survival success
of almost ALL CHRONIC DISEASE.. ref: goldenmean.info/holarchy
- originally inspired by Dr.Irviing Dardik - Olympic Med Committee-
see new book"Making Waves")
2. Coherence is NOT defined by how much ONE FREQUENCY is in phase regularity in the lo frequencies of the Heart ( HRV). Imagine - someone could play music with one tone at 6 hertz , while 100 tones above 20 hertz were OUT of phase - it would sound horrible.
The problem with this "HeartMath Mistake" view is 2 fold:
a) COHERENCE can only be determined if the PHASE RELATIONSHIP
(internal Phase coherence) between ALL the frequencies inside
the heart are dancing together. (not just 1 ). .. the HeartTuner
properly determines INTERNAL PHASE COHERENCE IN THE HEART - using
a sophisticated
mathematics applied for the first time to COHERENCE by Dan
Winter. It is called the CEPSTRUM. It is simply a dynamic SECOND
ORDER POWER SPECTRA (harmonic analysis OF the harmonic analysis).
The amplitude of the first / primary peak of the Ceptstrum dynamically
measures internal phase coherence in the heart. The
dramatic power of this is revealed the first time you watch this
simple peak rise at the instant you feel real love! 
For this invention, Dan Winter is credited in the literature (ref "Instinct to Heal" David Sevran Schreiber) with INVENTING the term HEART COHERENCE. It was Dan Winter who first taught Rollin McCraty and Heart Math how to take a power spectra of an EKG in the first place (even how to take an EKG). Read the history of HEART COHERENCE - at goldenmean.info/heartjournal . When Dan first showed Heart Math how to see the cascade of harmonics which comes from the heart when you have peak experience - they REFUSED to believe it was COHERENCE. It took him years to convince them - then they robbed his invention (full EKG power spectra -used to teach emotional coherence)- trying to steal his original concept HEART COHERENCE. Bad enough to claim to teach coherence - all the while refusing to properly measure it (cepstrum) - they also fail to teach HOW to acheive harmonic inclusiveness (real fractality like the caducceus breath requires Golden Ratio- fractality IS the perfection of coherence). Even at that time Dan knew he needed a more sophisticated real measure of that COHERENCE. (now his 'Cepstrum').
- the second problem with the "HeartMath Mistake" - b) is trying to measure Heart Coherence by looking at just the time between Heartbeats. (the only data available from most cheap transducers like HeartMath's little skiin light sensor - common for simple HRV devices ). The essential LED transducer which is the only significant hardware to "Freeze Framer" can be bought for about 50 cents. By failing to intake the FULL EKG WAVE - they are essentially unable to look at any harmonic in your heart above roughly 5 hertz. ALL the medical literature is now clear that as in the brain, gaining conscious control of internal feeling ( biofeedback's essence) - you need to look at frequencies up to 50-60 hertz. (alpha / beta/ gama etc.). In order to do this you need a full biologic preamp and ekg / eeg sensors like those with the UL and EU approved HeartTuner BlissTuner- full 2 channel EKG / EEG input. (excellent sensitivity down to a millionth of a volt and useable hi frequency harmonic sensitivity).
This means we can take a power spectra of the FULL EKG and use harmonics up to 60 hertz- to check for coherence.
COHERENCE is defined by the internal phase relationship of ALL THESE HARMONICS - not just the presence of 1 harmonic - in the same way coherence in a laser is defined (in the HeartMath Mistake- they only look below 5 hertz. Even those who originally developed this cheap method of measuring HRV did NOT have in mind giving you the tool to CONSCIOUSLY CONTROL IT. Your conscious awareness window of action -judging by EEG, EKG and schumann examples extends up to 40 or more hz.. beyond the reach of cheap HRV sensors..simple pulse detectors.).
and 3. The most serious problem with the "HeartMath Mistake"- The ultimate or climax form of COHERENCE is in fact FRACTAL. This means perfect (constructive wave) compression. This means that to get the MOST number of INTERNAL wave harmonics COHERENT - or IN PHASE inside your heart - the relationship between those harmonics CANNOT be multiples of 2 or octave or 'linear'. This is the more subtle and dangerous part of the "HeartMath Mistake". Here is where shallow thinking scientists like Rollin McCraty and Dr Gary Swartz - tell you that in order to have a healthy heart - it must be CHAOTIC. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It is because they cannot imagine how the heart could get a maximum number of frequecies inside its beat ( the harmonic inclusiveness so medically proven to predict disease survival) - without going into a form of chaos.
This is reminiscent of Ary Goldeberger finding perfect fractal branching in the fibres which electrify the heart. ('divine'). He correcly notes that the heart is electrically fractal. He FAILS to note that what MAKES perfect branching (how to become 'di-VINE') is Golden Ratio. As is the theme of most of the hundreds of articles at goldenmean.info - only this GOLDEN RATIO geometry of perfecting compression permits the efficient DISTRIBUTION of charge called LIFE and CONSCIOUSNESS and PEAK EXPERIENCE. Remember the REASON compassion is identical with constructive wave compression - is because that is the physics of how you get the outside - INSIDE - your heart. This is more than just poetry - fractality is actually the mechanism which electrically invites the outside world (and the FEELINGS of someone outside you) - into your inside!!
Remember the key Einstein never knew-when he predicted infinite compression would solve the UNIFIED FIELD/ 'holy grail' of physics : fractality IS the physics of infinite compression - and the new key - now rocking the world of physics - that Golden Ratio is the key to fractality- AND to biological life force. (...oh ... how attractive!! )
The Refreshing Caducceus
Breath- Harmonic Inclusiveness.
"Breathing: the FM (frequency modulator) of EKG"...So
lets apply this to the problem of HRV / breathing and getting
the maximum number of frequencies folded inside your heart.
Getting the most frequencies into ONE inside your heart is not just the end of chronic disease - it is the BEGINNING OF COMPASSION (perfect compression). Obviously the problem is not - getting only ONE frequency into phase with itself (the "HeartMath Mistake"). The problem is to get ALL frequencies into phase with each other, including both those in the HRV and in the ECG, which HeartMath cannot even see with their device. Since Heart-Rate-Variability(HRV) and Internal-Cardiac-Coherence(ICC) would probably be competitive in less coherent conditions - there MUST be another solution. (HeartMath Rollin McCraty and Gary Schwarz make this mistake- thinking Internal Coherence PREVENTS heart rates from having variability). THAT solution is fractal constructive compression in the HRV optimized by GOLDEN RATIO in the medium of pure frequency physics, PLUS the pure arithmetics of the ECG - Internal Cardiac COHERENCE, optimized by OCTAVE RATIO. REAL Heart fractality - is the same as REAL COHERENCE - because - the limit or perfecting or ultimate condition of COHERENCE - IS in fact FRACTALITY (perfected compression) - allowing both vitality and self-awareness to optimize inclusively.
See the proof below in 2 ways: 1 output of the new Cardiac Synthesizer software- proof of concept PLUS see the real output waves of Hearts above and below - making REAL MEASURED COHERENCE - AND!! Heart Rate Variability (Harmonics Inclusive- predict disease survival.
So providing biofeedback environments which can only measure below 5 hertz - and only look for ONE frequency at a time to measure coherence (the essential 2 errors of the "HeartMath Mistake") - will never teach full self empowering coherence (fractality)- OR peak experience.
... the OPPOSITE of this is the CADUCCEUS breath and resultant Heart Frequency Cascade- Here we have a condition where the heart (and you) is consiously selecting REAL HARMONIC INCLUSIVENESS- REAL FRACTALITY (harmonics in Golden Ratio) - and thereby real implosive compression- and thereby real COHERENCE.
see Caducceus Breathing Trainer - links: goldenmean.info/caducceus
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length and golden mean as the ultimate cell - Posted by:
Volkmar Weiss- "Astonishingly, in NKS neither the ultimate
size of the single cell of a cellular automaton nor the optimal
velocity of the wave travelling within an automaton are a theme.
On the background of experimental data from neurophysiology
and psychometrics we have come to the conclusion that both size
and velocity have to be a function of planck length and golden
mean, see http://www.volkmar-weiss.de/chaos.html
or the online-version of our publication: H. Weiss and V.
Weiss: The golden mean as clock cycle of brain waves. Chaos,
Solitons and Fractals 18 (2003) 643-652 (also found in the bibliography,
citing NKS, see http://www.wolframscience.com/refer...bliography.html
). Behind the definition of the second is the velocity of
light, which is the constant on which size all other physical
constants depend upon and hence represents the inherent speed
limit that any particle information pattern is able to achieve.
In this system of present-day constants the Planck length
has the value 1.6160 x 10-35 m (standard uncertainty 0.0012 x
10-35 m). If we fix instead the Planck length at the value of
the golden mean at 1.6180 x 10-35 m and recalculate consequently
all other physical variables, a major step in our understanding
of the universe may be done, opening the possibility of unifying
the theories by Ashtekar, El Naschie (see the latest review
of his infinity theory in: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 19 (2004)
209-236) and others. We should not quantize and not merely discretize,
but discretize transfinitely, this is the message. The universal cellular automaton seems to be capable of updating its entire memory in a single clock cycle, which according to Occam's razor could be nothing else than the Planck time as the relation between the velocity of light and the Planck length, the latter fixed at the value of the golden mean. If we, for example, look into NKS we see that Wolfram's Model 3 and Model 4 automata are full of Pascal triangles. We all know that behind such a triangle are always the Fibonaccis and hence the golden mean. That means that by encoding and decoding the information of such and any automaton or system no other wave could be more optimal than a wavelet containing the golden mean itself." |
(as Frank - heartcoherence.com - points out)... "In
addition to the general psychology and physiology of increasing
the amount of Harmonic Inclusiveness, it is observed that during
a feeling of open-heartedness and connectedness (empathy) and
thus high internal coherence, the heart often tends to park itself
at a specific frequency (around 1.6 Hz). This is believed hinting
at a "globally scaled" heart rate. Global Scaling (theory)
is based upon the idea that all natural rhythms (and in fact all
measures) are fractally organised, forming an infinitely connected
web of life. Our heart rate, that is rather, our HRV spectrum,
in order to be part of that cosmological order, should therefore
also be fractal. Precisely this fractal condition appears during
high internal coherence. Global scaling theory may may thus be
an explanation why internal coherence is associated with a feeling
of connectedness.
A (momentarily) constant tacho (heart rate), while the HRV spectrum
in the healthy subject is nevertheless high, is the natural base
line of the fractal heart."
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(below exerpt from the goldenmean.info/heartjournal -real history of Heart Coherence measure)- We have thought for years- that the musical fundamental of the EKG/HEART RATE - usefully indicated the QUALITY OF THE EMOTION...(here shown in inverse by the x axis value of the EKG CEPSTRUM-COHERENCE MEASURE in amplitude)-. Having then noted so many persons heart's choosing this musical key, the obvious question to ask was- what EMOTION accompanies which heart signature/ musical key? Here is Winter's data summary. * .618 PHI / touch permissive / membrane bridging emotion - heart centered / empathic? * .79 square root PHI - peaceful balance - centered between in reaching and out reaching..? * 1.0 in-cubeating / conceptual / membrane making emotion.. Describing emotional QUALITY by the geometry cubic versus phi - of heart harmonics?  later Frank appropriately pointed out that this GLOBAL SCALING of HEART RATES - to suggest fractal embedding - would only be significant IF the duration of the SECOND was somehow sacred, or embedable or in phase with fundamental physics scaling. NOW we see that in fact (note above) the second may well be embedable precisely from the Planck length by PHI. Frank has an option in the new software to display this correction to PHI to observe emotional QUALITY? in heart rate scaling.   Hundreds of HeartTuner users agree that the majority of Heart RATES park at 3 specific places - when at rest. These appear to be close to (inverse 1/ in the display) - A: .618 HZ, B: Square root .618 (.79) and C: 1.0 HZ |
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HEART TUNER PRO-04-HS-BETA preliminary user instructions for beta testing date June 19, 2006
The Heart Rate Variabilty Module includes:
DOWNLOAD Therapy - Biofeedback use of Heart Tuner's new HRV Module The new Heart Tuner may dramatically prove that high Internal Coherence or ICC (Awareness Focus, Empathy) and high Heart Rate Variability (Life Force, Vitality) c·n exist together - thus finally dismissing Heart Math's claim that ICC is "entraining low HRV" - it is definitively NOT. A universal formula for optimizing HRV, and generally biological sustainability was already found by Prof. Ary Goldberger to be a fractal. Whereas traditionally merely "high" HRV was found to be a predictor of (cardiac) health and longevity, Goldberger claims that actually the HRV should be fractal. Now we have found that ONLY a fractal HRV (maximum vitality) enables high Internal Coherence (miximum self-awareness) at the same time. Both together may form an alltogether new paradigm of cardiac health, and general psycho-physiological well-being, and therefore a clue to optimal diagnosis and biofeedback training. A rather technical prove of how fractal HRV allows optimised ICC (and vice versa) can be visualized with the Cardiac Synthesizer, which can be downloaded here. Allthough the Cardiac Synthesizer is only intended as an learning and teaching tool, the ECG data generated can conveniently be exported and then imported and played by the Heart Tuner as if it were a normal recording. Screenshots of the Cardiac Synthesizer and a fractal HRV spectrum on the Heart Tuner below. See simplified diagram below: philosophy behind Heart RateVariability versus Internal Cardiac Coherence- in the section -users manual for the new cardiac synthesizer. Screenshots  Screenshot including the HRV Module - click on the image or here to see full size.  Screenshot of the HRV Settings tab  Screenshot of HRV Spectrum, 13 sec. period breathing excersize, no filter  Screenshot of HRV Spectrum, 13 sec. period breathing excersize, Hamming filter switched on  Screenshot with "ideal" fractal HRV imported from Cardiac Synthesizer - click on the image or here to see full size.  Screenshot
of the Cardiac Synthesizer with with settings to generate the
"ideal"fractal HRV - click on the image or here to see full size. ©all rights reserved Heart Coherence team, 2006 |
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Heart Coherence team, june 2006 |
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The Cardiac Synthesizer is in the first place a learning and teaching tool to visualise the effect of Heart Rate Variability on the ECG in general, and in particular on ICC, Internal Cardiac Coherence.
The
Cardiac Synthesizer can be used as a stand-alone application,
but is in particular intended to gain more insight in the therapeutic
use of the Heart Tuner.
The Cardiac Synthesizer can export synthesized ECG and HRV data
which can be played in the Heart Tuner as if it were a normal
recording.
 The synthesized "ECG" time series of the Cardiac Synthesizer - not aiming to exactly replicate the natural ECG, but still having a virtual identical spectrum, perfect for teaching purposes. In this example, the effect of a single HRV wave can be discerned |
The Cardiac Synthesizer is itself not a measuring tool.
The user guide will focus on the newest insights on the homeo-dynamics of simultaneously optimized HRV and Internal Cardiac Coherence, offering revolutionary possibilities for psycho-physiological therapy and biofeedback training. Secondly, it gives a step-by-step technical guide.
 Main screen overview of the Cardiac Synthesizer with deafult settings - click to see full size with explanation |
The
Cardiac Synthesizer is online available. Info and download location:
www.heartcoherence.com/cardiacsynth.
OPTIMIZING HEART RATE VARIABILITY AND INTERNAL CARDIAC COHERENCE
- SOME GUIDE LINES TO THE PHYSICS, PSYCHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF
HARMONIC INCLUSIVENESS
This
part is taken from the preliminary user guide with the new Heart
Rate Variabilty Module of the Heart tuner
The
new Heart Tuner may dramatically prove that high Internal Coherence
or ICC (Awareness Focus, Empathy) and high Heart Rate Variability
(Life Force, Vitality) c·n exist together - thus finally
dismissing Heart Math's claim that ICC is "entraining low
HRV" - it is definitively NOT.
A universal formula for optimizing HRV, and generally biological
sustainability was already found by Prof. Ary Goldberger to be
a fractal. Whereas traditionally merely "high" HRV was
found to be a predictor of (cardiac) health and longevity, Goldberger
claims that actually the HRV should be fractal.
Now we have found that ONLY a fractal HRV (maximum vitality) enables
high Internal Coherence (maximum self-awareness) at the same time.
Both together may form an alltogether new paradigm of cardiac
health, and general psycho-physiological well-being, and therefore
a clue to optimal diagnosis and biofeedback training.
A rather technical prove of how fractal HRV allows optimised ICC
(and vice versa) can be visualized with the Cardiac Synthesizer,
which can be downloaded here.
Allthough the Cardiac Synthesizer is only intended as a learning
and teaching tool, the ECG data generated can conveniently be
exported and then imported and played by the Heart Tuner as if
it were a normal recording. Screenshots of the Cardiac Synthesizer
and a fractal HRV spectrum on the Heart Tuner are below.
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Simplified diagram of HRV and ICC in the human psycho-physiology. HRV emerges as a controlling nucleous , resp. source of life force (vitality); ICC is the principle of pure self awareness or indiviudation, usually resulting in psychic energy, that is, emotions. |
The more advanced diagram shows the precize interactions between HRV and ICC, that is practically between vitality and emotions. We call this a subtle, or subjective control. This means that coherent emotion (the result of self-awareness or individuation) can facilitate more life force, whereas at the same time coherent action (the result of life force) can invite more self-awareness. |
Above
diagrams visualize in a way an "imperfect", but hence
all the more realistic picture of the complex equilibrium of life
force and emotion (in a slightly different context also called
"homestasis" or better, "homeodynamics").
That is, in the normal human condition, each and every action
(and perception) as well as each and every emotion, will have
a certain repercussion on the allover equilibrium. So they always
introduce a (temporary) fluctuation and state of less coherence,
a diversion of the (theoretical) ideal condition. Only this reduction
of coherence causes an energy flow which enables us to act and
feel.
Now, the new and emerging paradigm of optimized equilibrium is
what is called "Harmonic Inclusiveness". This means
maximum coherent action and emotion, that is, involvement with
maximum vitality and self-awareness. Measured in the heart, this
means maximum HRV PLUS maximum ICC at the same time. As we will
see, and already theoretically demonstrated with the Cardiac Synthesizer,
Harmonic Inclusiveness is gained by increasing the fractality
of the heart rate, which is ultimately the result of an allround
healthy life style.
It is the goal and purpose of the new Heart Tuner, together with the Cardiac Synthesizer, to serve as an education, diagnosis and training tool for Harmonic Inclusiveness in all spheres of life.
This
is the first beta release of the HRV Module, as well as the Cardiac
Synthesizer. In due time we hope to build up supportive real life
data.
| In
addition to the general psychology and physiology of increasing
the amount of Harmonic Inclusiveness, it is observed that during
a feeling of open-heartedness and connectedness (empathy) and
thus high internal coherence, the heart often tends to park itself
at a specific frequency (around 1.6 Hz). This is believed hinting
at a "globally scaled" heart rate. Global Scaling (theory)
is based upon the idea that all natural rhythms (and in fact
all measures) in the entire universe are fractally organised,
forming an infinitely connected web of life. Our heart rate,
that is rather, our HRV spectrum, in order to be part of that
cosmological order, is therefore ideally fractal as well. Precisely
this fractal condition appears during high internal coherence.
Global scaling theory may may thus be an explanation why internal
coherence is associated with a feeling of connectedness. A (momentarily) constant tacho (heart rate), while the HRV spectrum in the healthy subject is nevertheless high, is the natural base line of the fractal heart.  The "Global Scaling" fractal, invented / discovered by Hartmut Muller. More on global scaling e.g. at http://www.info.global-scaling-verein.de/ or http://www.globalscalingtheory.com/ |
STEP-BY-STEP
USER GUIDE FOR THE CARDIAC SYNTHESIZER
This
is the technical part which will discuss some basics of the wave
physics of HRV and ECG resp. ICC and how to visualise the different
wave forms and their interactions with the Cardiac Synthesizer.
Understanding of all these technical details may not be needed
in daily practical use of the Heart Tuner, but especially the
part about fractality in the HRV can be quite helpfull as a background
for state of the art, effective therapeutic / bio-feedback practice.
Step-by-step
some theory is discussed, and then some instructions how to visualise
it with the Cardiac Synthesizer (ACTION). It's
best to follow below instructions and avoid playing with other
buttons to get the maximum out of it.
All the steps can also be seen in the 2/3rd. scale step-by-step
movie (gifmation).
1- Synthesizing an ECG look-alike
A natural and more or less coherent ECG spectrum typically
looks like this:
Internal
Cardiac Coherence (ICC) in the ECG spectrum is ideally defined
as the perfect regular (arithmetic) spacing among all contained
ECG frequencies. Practically, ICC as measured directly with the
Heart Tuner, will in some cases also reward a spectrum which may
look less coherent by inspection alone. But even if coherent,
the natural ECG spectrum may vary considerably from person to
person, and from moment to moment.
In the Cardiac Synthesiser, the starting point is the creation
of the "ideal" ECG spectrum, which looks like this:
The synthesized spectrum in this example is composed of 7 frequencies with a proportionally decreasing amplitude, giving the best result for an ECG look-alike (spikes). The basic frequency was choosen just off-integer (1.01Hz) to avoid a too ideal digital effect.
ACTION: Create a synthesized ECG with different heart-rates and a different number of composing frequencies. First click RESET and reduce the HRV effect to zero:
Heart Rate section - click reset (affects ALL settings),
use
the "Nominal Heart Rate" slider bar to set the heart
rate,
"Spectral Count" to change the nr. of composing frequencies.
See how this affects the ECG and Spectrum graphs. Also
see how integer values (e.g. exactly 1Hz) usually produce an
overly digital image. In the tachogram, the beat-to-beat interval
graph is straigth (no HRV) and moving up/down with the
nominal heart rate setting. The "0.1Hz" button can be
used to
reset the heart rate.
Heart
Rate Variability section
- in this test, after
resetting all values, first set the "HRV power" to zero
(to the left).
2-
Applying basic Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
The
Heart Rate Variability was sometimes though to be but a lower
frequency in the ECG spectrum, but this is not correct. The HRV
functions as a frequency modulator for the EGC signal, (that is,
proportionally for ALL the frequencies in the ECG), just like
music is modulating a carrier wave in FM radio. So, it is a different
system in the heart's electro-physiology. Biologically, one could
think of it as how life force (vitality) is modulating emotional
momentum. First, we apply a single HRV wave of 0.1 Hz.
In real life such one single peak in the HRV spectrum could be
the result of what is called monotonic breathing. The breathing
has a direct effect on the heart rate (in - slower, out - faster).
Heart Math Institute uses this as an actual technique even, but
regular breathing is unnatural (allthough it may be opportune
for some purposes) and is in fact the best possible way to distort
and replace both the natural HRV complex (surely the fractal one)
and natural ICC.
ACTION: First
click "Reset". The HRV Power is then at 175 ms., which
means that the heart beat interval has a plus or minus 175 millisecond
variation on top of the nominal heart rate. Set the "HRV
freq's." (nr. of HRV freq's. in the HRV spectrum) to 1 (left)
and the "HRV max. freq." to 0.1 Hz (click 0.1Hz button).
See the 0.1 Hz peak in the HRV spectrum, and the slow wave in
the tachogram. See also parallel to the tacho, where the beat-to-beat
interval is lower, the ECG spectrum is more compressed, and vice
versa. This is the heart rate modulation in the ECG.
ACTION: Now,
while leaving the "HRV freq's." to one single frequency,
play with the other buttons to see the results. See how the HRV
settings are directly visible in the HRV spectrum window, and
how they affect the ECG spectrum. Also check this out for various
nominal heart rates.
A nice feature of the Cardiac Synth is showing how the HRV appears
as sidebands in the ECG spectrum. This is the result of the frequency
modulation.
ACTION: For example,
make the following settings precisely:
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Now, the slow HRV wave is clearly visible as sidebands in the ECG spectrum. This is in essence how HRV distorts the spectrum. |
3 - The ICC - Internal Cardiac Coherence screen
The
ICC function shows how perfectly arithmetic the ECG spectrum is.
It reflects in one single graph (which is also called "cepstrum")
how regular the heart beat is over a certain period, and this
directly relates to our capacity for pure awareness focus. The
general idea is that we consciously perceive that which is neither
changing too fast, nor too slow. The faster the contained change,
the more extrovert (matter for the brain, or emotion for the heart)
is our mental flow. Coherent emotion is measured as the most regular
pace, but this should not go on the account of vitality and involvement.
So, a high ICC graph is a measure of the pure, unqualified flow
of the heart's intelligence, which translates into a feeling of
connectedness, empathy and compassion. Changing arithmetics, on
the contrary, is the motor of externalized emotion. So clearly,
the psychological and physiological difference in HRV dynamics
and ICC dynamics lies in their playfull interrelation, creating
the real life situation of fluctuating vitality and emotion as
described in above introduction, rather than in any fundamental
difference.
Technically, the ICC analysis is a subsequent ECG spectrum. The
horizontal scale is essentially a time scale, but preferrably
measured as 1/Hz as it does not indicate an actual time progression.
The vertical scale is the amount of internal coherence, normalized
to 100%.
ACTION:
Repeat above tests while looking at: A) how the heart rate moves
the ICC peak horizontally and B) how HRV can suppress the ICC
peak.
4- Applying multiple HRV frequencies
The natural HRV spectrum shows many peaks, that is, many frequencies which together affect the heart rate. First, the "magnitude" bar at the right side of the HRV spectrum window is explained:
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The
"magnitude" bar in the HRV spectrum. It serves but
as a rule of thumb to estimate the totally contained magnitude
of all the HRV frequencies together, to easily compare different
settings. The reference value (100%) is the magnitude of a single
100mv HRV wave. Except for the HRV power settings, the software
automatically keeps the contained magnitude on a more or less
constant level. ACTION: Play with the HRV power to see the effect of the magnitude. note: "magnitude" is not the same as power. The spectrum shows the power (hence is called "power spectrum"). The power of a specific frequency is simply its manitude squared. |
At this point we are getting to the key purpose of the Cardiac
Synthesizer, that is to demonstrate how a natural HRV spectrum
affects internal coherence. The effect of monotonic breathing
which was already discussed earlier, and falls outside this category.
The natural HRV spectrum can be completely chaotic ("random"
is a better term) or "ideally", perfectly fractal. Both
forms can be tested with the Cardiac Synthesizer.
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The term "fractal" means "self-similar", which means that a shape or a pattern is built-up of smaller, similarly looking but not identical, copies (fractional parts) of itself. This is a real life (not merely mathematical) principle which means that any physical or etc. system has a higher internal organisation and symmetry than can be explained with normal natural laws (thermodynamics) alone. "Perfect" symmetry gets close to litteral recursion, whereas the opposite is complete chaos. Life (organic, atomic, cosmic..) exists right at the edge of order and chaos, of symmetry and a-symmetry, and that is where fractal patterns emerge. |
 The fractal HRV spectrum in the Cardiac Synthesizer is created by first taking the harmonic (symmetry) composite of a perfectly recursive (repeatedly scaling-up) series of frequencies, and then taking a normal linear (thermodynamic) spectrum of it. The result is a fractal. This fractal is further optimized if the original recursive ratio is precisely Golden Mean ("Phi" = 1.618). This way above spectrum is created with "Harmonic Explorer" (another program of Heart Coherence team). |
ACTION: Click
reset.
The number of HRV freqencies is greater (10) after reset, and
the "HRV style" selection box appears:
The
default style is "fractal". Now first select the "random"
fractal style. The "randomize" button appears. Then,
play gently with the HRV Power bar and see the effects in all
the screens. Also click to get a few randomized HRV spectra. Note:
the software automatically takes care of a reasonable distribution
of the HRV freqencies, arranges their amplitudes within limits
and keeps the total power (resp. magnitude) as preset.
See that if the HRV spectrum is random, the more HRV power
is present, the more it will distort and take down the internal
coherence.
Advise: in order to properly interpret the effect of a
specific setting, it is good to also play a bit with the other
settings so that a more general picture emerges.
ACTION: Click
reset, while leaving the HRV-style "fractal", then test
the effects with the various HRV power settings.
All settings are the same, only this time the random HRV spectrum is replaced with a real fractal spectrum. Note that looking at the HRV spectrum screen alone, the difference may not at all be obvious. But the difference in Internal Coherence is very great.
Note: the number of HRV frequencies is disproportional with the actual slider bar setting, this is the result of the way the fractal is created. The same frequency numbers are actually used for the "random" mode, for easy comparison.
See
that if the HRV spectrum is fractal, no matter how much HRV power
is present, it will not considerably influence the Internal Cardiac
Coherence. This proves that high HRV and high ICC, that is, high
life force / vitality plus high self-awareness can exist at the
same time.
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- Some expert functions
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real time feedback - user finds BREATHING AT ONE FREQUENCY WITH FREEZE FRAMER- NOT REWARDING:
from http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/biofeedback/message/41976
In biofeedback@yahoogroups.com, - <lincomatic@...> wrote
> Gary
I recently purchased the FreezeFramer. I was not particularly
impressed. The software is quite crude. There is a graph of 3 HRV
zones, and you try to keep yourself in the highest zone 100% of the
time. There is a 20sec lag in the calculation of your overall HRV
score, which throws you off very badly. The worst part is the games.
Not only are they boring, but the HRV feedback during games is only in
3 steps: LOW/MED/HIGH. This is simply too granular for monitoring your
progress. The other problem is that it doesn't give you any help on
breath pacing, which affects your HRV a lot. All they give you is
some instructions on how to breath, along w/ some touchy-feely talk
about how thinking of something you appreciate is going to help you.
InW/o a breath pacer, you're all on your own to figure out how to
breath properly. Finally, both the ear & finger sensors (the ear
sensor is extra, but I bought it from lifematters.com, which throws it
in for free) were inconsistent, which made things even harder.
Does it work? Yes and no. Using it, all of my family members,
including young children were able to increase HRV, despite the
frustrations w/ the sensors, which kept throwing us off. But none of
us felt a lot more relaxed than simple yoga breathing exercises would
achieve. My son, who is unable to sit still for even a few seconds,
was able to stop fidgeting for 45 minutes straight w/ this thing. On
the other hand, that long session didn't calm him down enough, and he
still was not able to fall asleep, so I put on his headphones w/ a
binaural beat sleep induction program, and that dropped him in 10min.
Luckily, the FF comes w/ a 30 day money back guarantee. I am taking
advantage of that.
-Sam" end quote.
