[Suzi Went To The Bridge This A.m.]

Sleep tight dear Suzi

[Irregular Heart Beat]

Hmmmm.

 

Well, it is my understanding that everyone and everything has an irregular heartbeat with respect to respiration. For example, for stress (I am a graduate student, stress is my middle name), I am doing biofeedback and one of the things they teach you is how to slow your heartbeat with respiration. When you breathe in, your heart beats faster than when you breathe out so the trick they taught me was to take quick breaths in and slooooooow breaths out, it calms me down and slows my heartrate within seconds. (during the sessions, they hook up a billions sensors and watch heartrate vs. breathing rate vs. perspiration vs. skin temperature vs. jaw tension.)

 

Both of my cats and my sweet girl's heartbeat is faster as she breathes in than it is as she breathes out also. I just assumed that it was because all living creatures were like that.