Dr. Fred Shaffer returns to the podcast to share his work on Slow-Paced Contraction to Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Training. Learn more about this exciting research and intervention. Here is information on Dr. Shaffer's free course and register here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvcO6uqDksG9ypptj44Sx33L-qaEJba53N#/registration 

Heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback is a “Swiss Army Knife” intervention with demonstrated efficacy in clinical disorders like depression, diabetes, and hypertension, and optimal performance. This session begins by explaining HRV and its role in health and performance. It provides an overview of the processes that generate HRV, focusing on Vaschillo’s Two-Closed-Loop model. It summarizes the resonance frequency and 0.1 Hz slow-paced breathing protocols to increase HRV. It details how to deliver slow-paced contraction training and explains where it may be more appropriate than slow-paced breathing. Finally, it explains how HRV biofeedback training can combine slow-paced breathing and contraction to enlarge your clients’ self-regulation “tool kits.”

Learn more about Fred here: http://fshaffer.sites.truman.edu/edu/