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Does Meditation Help Lower Heart Beat Rate?
Can deep meditation lower your heart rate as a few times after my practice I get a little flutter ( or is this my heart rate increasing again on activity!...about an hour after....I'm very fit and healthy, no shortness of breath and exercise every day? ....
Mon, 7 Apr 2014
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A flutter of the heart is due to a sudden change (mostly increase in heart rate ) of the heart rate .So even though deep meditation has a calming effect and can reduce the heart rate but it is mostly a gradual effect and never sudden .Meditation done in the right manner should not give you a fluttering heart .
You should go for a cardiac evaluation like a complete blood counts, an ECG , Lipid profile , Blood sugar fasting and post prandial and a Thyroid function test , an ECHO .Sometime s a holter ECg may also be needed .
Hope this helps , take care .
A flutter of the heart is due to a sudden change (mostly increase in heart rate ) of the heart rate .So even though deep meditation has a calming effect and can reduce the heart rate but it is mostly a gradual effect and never sudden .Meditation done in the right manner should not give you a fluttering heart .
You should go for a cardiac evaluation like a complete blood counts, an ECG , Lipid profile , Blood sugar fasting and post prandial and a Thyroid function test , an ECHO .Sometime s a holter ECg may also be needed .
Hope this helps , take care .
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