Freediving and Hypnosis

I've decided to start a blog about using hypnosis to prepare for a breath hold/dive. This will just be a sort of experiment comparing my improvement with hypnosis.

I've always felt that self hypnosis wasn't as powerful as someone else hypnotizing you, but I've also always felt that a hypnosis cd/video was just as powerful as the real thing, or very close to it.

I started today using some self hypnosis with a few suggestions to myself to slow my heart rate, and retain oxygen. I noticed a better more comfortable static at 1:30, no contractions, my first static usually has me contracting at :50-1:00. My PB is 3:00 but i always have to work up to that over about 30 minutes. I took my heart rate at about 50 seconds and it was at about 62...about as relaxed as my heart gets when relaxed. This proved very promising to be since I usually have a heart rate of 80+ when doing statics out of water.

I just did a second breath hold spur of the moment at 2 minutes with no problems and a heart rate of 72...which was interesting because when i started it was 82...the second i took that breath it dropped 10 bpm which isn't much but its definately strange....

So I tried it again monitoring more closely.

I relaxed and took my heart rate at 69 and took a deep breath, took the heart rate immediately and it was at 52 instantaneously.

I'd have to say that there is definately some response from the hypnotic self suggestion, and I'm very optimistic about future "sessions".

I'm satisfied with day 1 using self hypnosis. The next thing i'm going to do is write a script for freediving hypnosis and then record it and try it that way. While i'm working on all of that, I will try and post some more details while i continue to use some self hypnosis before a breath hold.