My wife learned to do this because she was bored in class as a kid.

  • MehBlah
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    24 hours ago

    I think the secret to that revolves around being a little neurospicy. Not that I want anyone to have to be in the hospital hooked to a heart monitor but If you ever are play with it but don’t make it alarm too much. It turns out I could lower my heart rate below what the machine considered acceptable.

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      22 hours ago

      It’s a nice little party trick too. When iphones could first detect heart rates, some of my friends were talking about it, so I said that I could slow my heart rate down. None of them believed me, so I got them to measure it. Once it was done I asked them if they wanted it to be faster or slower. They still didn’t believe me, so I did both.

      It’s one of those silly little things that isn’t really useful, but can shut your friends up for a bit :p

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      22 hours ago

      Oh it’s definitely gotta be because of that. My current record for heart rate is 46bpm before I start to feel faint!