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Slower pulse rate = longer life as per article below.
Stretching it further the more we breathe the greater our physical awareness of our bodies.
If breathing = Zero, there is no physical awareness
The mind too plays a role as control of the breath helps in the control of the mind which can then be directed away from physical awareness to spiritual awareness
So secret lies in our breathing patterns.😉
" How is one to explain the subtle ways in which various characteristics of living creatures -- their life spans, their pulse rates, how fast they burn energy -- change according to their body size?
As animals get bigger, from tiny shrew to huge blue whale, pulse rates slow down and life spans stretch out longer, conspiring so that the number of heartbeats during an average stay on Earth tends to be roughly the same, around a billion. A mouse just uses them up more quickly than an elephant.
Mysteriously, these and a large variety of other phenomena change with body size according to a precise mathematical principle called quarter-power scaling. A cat, 100 times more massive than a mouse, lives about 100 to the one-quarter power, or about three times, longer. (To calculate this number take the square root of 100, which is 10 and then take the square root of 10, which is 3.2.) Heartbeat scales to mass to the minus one-quarter power. The cat's heart thus beats a third as fast as a mouse's. "
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