Hi

I've been using resperate for a week now, but find that I want to breathe slower than the machine wants to let me. Once it gets below 5 bpm it seems to want to stop there but I feel I could go much slower as i'm not using my full lung capacity - in fact it still seems like fairy shallow breathing. I am doing 20 min sessions with about 18 mins of therapeutic breathing. Should I just breathe easy at the machine's pace or try to make it go slower? Does it eventually slow down with more use? The sync figure is around 90 as we tend to get a bit out of step as I slow down my breathing quicker than the machine

Al

Al,
Once you start "fighting" the machine, as I call it, you may not see results. The idea of RESPeRATE breathing is to breathe below 10 BPM at a comfortable pace. The device is there to guide you through the tones. It is not necessary to try to go down as low as you think you can go. You will see a reduction in your blood pressure if you breathe at 6BPM.
Breathe Easy!
Marguerite (IMG:http://forum.resperate.com/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)