Resonance breathwork days

21 Days: Day5 - Day 25

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You will perform 10-mins of Resonance breathwork at your personalized inhale-exhale duration for 21 days from Day 5 - Day 25.

The study team will provide you with your personalized inhale-exhale breath duration and no. of repetitions to be performed daily.

Session Overview

30 mins before starting, ensure your bladder is empty and avoid caffeine, alcohol, smoking or exercise. Make sure the MindMics earbuds are charged.

Step 1: Sit on a chair with your feet flat.

Step 2: Wear your Polar H10 strap and ensure it is connected to the MindMics Heart Health App. To verify a correct connection with Polar H10:

  1. In the Heart Health app go to Settings -> Polar H10 settings -> Polar H10 details

  2. If the Polar is correctly connected, you should see a view with the green 'Connected' information – as shown in the attached illustration below.

3. If you see “Disconnected” or “Polar H10 is not connected”, ensure the strap is moist, in contact with the skin and check the “Polar H10 details” page again.

Step 3: Wear your MindMics earbuds, connect to bluetooth audio and to the MindMics Heart Health app.

  1. Remove the earbuds from the charging case and wear them.

  2. Once paired on, ‘MindMics Audio’ will automatically connect to your phone each time when you remove your earbuds from the case.

  3. Open the MindMics Heart Health app and wait for a few seconds to allow the earbuds to automatically connect to the app. 

4. Ensure you have a good seal, In the Heart Health app go to view Ear tip adjustment, Settings -> Earbuds settings -> Ear tip adjustment.

5. If the earbuds are correctly adjusted, you should see prominent peaks in the signal from both ears that correspond to your heartbeats. You should also see a green 'Good seal' information displayed as in the example below

6. If you encounter issues achieving a good seal, refer to the Earbud fit guide

Step 4: Play music for blood pressure measure and measure blood pressure twice, as described here:  Blood Pressure Measurement. 

After blood pressure measurements, continue wearing the Earbuds, Polar H10 strap and BP cuff. Make sure the Music for Blood pressure measurement has been stopped

Step 5: Resonance breathwork:

  1. The study team will provide the personalized inhale-exhale duration for you based on the resonance frequency identification performed on Day 1 and Day 2.

  2. In the app, select the Resonance breathwork. Tap on the gear icon and set the provided breath duration.

3. Next, set the No. of repetitions as per the instructions provided by the study team. Once set, you will use this breath duration and no. of repetitions for the rest of the study and will not need to be changed.

4. Click on Start Exercise and follow the instructions for the breathwork.

5. Inhale and exhale through the nose throughout the exercise. You may close your eyes and follow audio prompts to inhale and exhale.

6. Remain still and focused during the exercise.

Step 6:  Play music for blood pressure measurement and measure blood pressure twice, as described here:  Blood Pressure Measurement. 

You may remove your earbuds and put them back in the case, remove the Polar H10 strap and BP cuff.