this paper describes and analyzes ways that enable a human to consciously and purposefully manage the frequency of heart contractions "The sequence of the processes developing in the human central nervous system in the implementation of cardio-respiratory synchronization, may be represented by the following stages: (i) the perception of light or sound signal, which speci¯es the frequency of breathing and process evaluation of the signal; (ii) the formation of task to control the rate of breathing; (iii) reproduction of breathing rate in strict accordance with the frequency of the driving signal; (iv) the interaction of respiratory and cardiac centers in the brain; (v) synchronization of respiratory rhythms and cardiac centers; (vi) transmission of efferent signals to the heart from the brain via the vagus nerves; (vii) the interaction of signals arriving via the vagus nerves with rhythmogenical structures of the heart; (viii) heart reproduces rate signals -- the development of cardio-respiratory synchronization."
"...3.2. Heart rhythm management by means of arbitrary abdomen muscle tension. The analysis of the falling heartbeat rate by means of arbitrary muscle tension was observed from a person who claimed to have the ability to arbitrary stop heart activity. During laboratory testing, the testee stopped his heart for 7 s; this was objectively registered on the electrocardiogram"
On the conscious control of the human heart
Vladimir M. Pokrovskii and Lily V. Polischuk, J. Integr. Neurosci. 11, 213 (2012). DOI: 10.1142/S0219635212500161
this paper describes and analyzes ways that enable a human to consciously and purposefully manage the frequency of heart contractions "The sequence of the processes developing in the human central nervous system in the implementation of cardio-respiratory synchronization, may be represented by the following stages: (i) the perception of light or sound signal, which speci¯es the frequency of breathing and process evaluation of the signal; (ii) the formation of task to control the rate of breathing; (iii) reproduction of breathing rate in strict accordance with the frequency of the driving signal; (iv) the interaction of respiratory and cardiac centers in the brain; (v) synchronization of respiratory rhythms and cardiac centers; (vi) transmission of efferent signals to the heart from the brain via the vagus nerves; (vii) the interaction of signals arriving via the vagus nerves with rhythmogenical structures of the heart; (viii) heart reproduces rate signals -- the development of cardio-respiratory synchronization." "...3.2. Heart rhythm management by means of arbitrary abdomen muscle tension. The analysis of the falling heartbeat rate by means of arbitrary muscle tension was observed from a person who claimed to have the ability to arbitrary stop heart activity. During laboratory testing, the testee stopped his heart for 7 s; this was objectively registered on the electrocardiogram" On the conscious control of the human heart Vladimir M. Pokrovskii and Lily V. Polischuk, J. Integr. Neurosci. 11, 213 (2012). DOI: 10.1142/S0219635212500161