I love using my resperate, but I'm getting frustrated with it always taking me to a BPM that is lower than where I want to be. I usually start anywhere from 13-18 BPM, and am under 10 BPM in less than one minute. At around 5 minutes I hit 6 BPM and that feels perfect. But it keeps slowing me down. I get down to around 4.8 BPM and it's just not as comfortable.

The advice to "breathe normally" and let the machine adjust-- does not help. If I breathe out of synch, then the voice will come on and try to coach me back in synch. Pretty soon I'm breathing exactly opposite of what I'm supposed to and a voice is squawking at me. It's not very relaxing at that point.

The suggestion to just take off the headphones isn't a very good one either. That defeats the whole purpose of having the machine in the first place.

I just wish there was a way to set a baseline.

The algorithm are set to be more "stubborn" in our newer devices, so make sure that you are not holding your breath on the inhale or puffing out that last bit of air on the exhale. If you are truly keeping up with the tones, then yes, it will try to bring your breathing rate down even lower. To avoid frustration & removing headphones & changing your breathing, I suggest cutting back to a 10 minute session. This way you're less likely to end at a lower rate that may not be as comfortable for you.
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That would probably work and might be the only solution. But that seems like a design flaw in the machine, to not be able to use it for the entire 15 minute session.

Many people have called it a design flaw, yet everytime I go back to our R&D Dept, they insist it is not! There are many people who can easily get down to a lower BR, and as long as you are keeping up with the tones, it will continue to try to bring you down.
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