AbuWa'il al-Qass said: We entered upon Urwah ibn Muhammad ibn as- Sa'di. A man spoke to .him and made him angry So he stood and performed ablution; he then returned and performed ablution, and said: My father told me on the authority of my grandfather Atiyyah who reported the Messenger of Allah (saws) as saying: Anger comes from the devil, the devil was created of fire, and fire is extinguished only with water; so when one of you becomes angry, he should perform ablution.
I was in a tough spot and found myself in a hospitals psych unit. The psychiatrist introduce me to this technique. A few days after coming home I found myself having an emotional crash so I tried it. This method 100% works, I was shocked how accurate he was when telling me about the benefits. I plan on doing this again when needed.
The sensation when you emerge the head under water is fantastic. It can be a bit overwhelming to start with but the benefits and results are out of this world... in my opinion
My pulse would be at 149 and that was after laying down with my feet up on pillows for an hour. I tested my monitor against the ambulance 🚑 and my monitor read 10 beats lower than the ambulance monitor!
You can also accomplish this by using firm, even pressure on your forehead. There's a divot right above and inbetween your eyes--the gland is there. I know from experience that it is really hard to hold your breath while panicking
@@djmisskroft8313 put ice pack just barely above & middle of the eyes. If u don't have an ice pack, some ice cubes in a Ziploc or plastic bag will do the job too
Same. It works 80% of the time. When it doesn't, eat some carbs (insuline calms you), and restart submersion with even colder water. I've had daily panic attacks for over a decade. I haven't found the cause sadly, but I try to at least find workarounds and bandaids when it happens. Cold water face dipping is one of my favorite methods, cheap and works most of the time, if not, eat, and retry with colder water.
@@1yoan3 hey Anthony :) Are you still finding that the cold water face dipping is effective? Just discovered it about 2 weeks ago and working incredibly for me when I get panicky/overwhelmed?
According to a minimal amount of personal research, I think it's best to submerge your ear parts. As your embryonic gills migrate all up into audible corridors during developmental processes and become eardrums and what have you. I'm citing either Attenborough or Nickelodeon, hard to say.
Yes, you might be right. For sure it is a very different experience when you inmmerse your head all the way to the back of your head . I love that - and have a feeling that my system and heartrate slows down faster.
Theeffectof fastheartbeat reduction is more effective in Cold water - but it can be done in any temperature....remember if you go to the sea or in a pool to have a buddy to look after you
True, I am well trained in this and you will peobably not have the same fast reduction in heartrate when you start - but the mechanism is in all of us :)
Has anybody done the experiment with just holding their breath? He's doing *two* things that could lower his heart rate: submerging head in cold water *and* holding his breath. Which one has the greater affect?
Yes, holding my breath without the cold water will eventually also lower my heart rate - the cold water only speeds up the process. So cold water has more effect
The diving reflex is accentuated by cold water immersion, but it is obviously more effective when the entire body is submerged. In full-body immersion in freezing water, the bradycardia and peripheral vasorestriction associated with the dive reflex become significantly amplified (as long as you are able to maintain a relaxed state and not panic).
The reason for immersing the face is that the trigeminal nerves in the face are the active temperature sensors for triggering mammalian diving reflex. Breath holding changes your blood chemistry which is a contributing factor in the lowering heart rate response. Cooling the rest of the skin surface leads to peripheral blood vessel constriction which shunts blood with the remaining blood oxygen from the limbs to the more high priority heart, lung and brain tissue needed to sustain survival while submerged. The lowered heart rate and relaxation is in tune with reduced oxygen consumption, kinda like hybernation or suspended animation sort of.
I am no doctor - but I believe the ability to relax your body and mind can be trained well in cold water - but also the opposite - so when you immerse yourself in cold water - do it with a relaxed body and mind - slowly not forcing.. accepting not fighting... then I believe Cold water can be one of the great healers :)
Want to lower your BPM, but don't want to hold your breath for over a minute and dunk your head in a sink of water??? Placing ice cubes under your eyes (or mini ice packs from a Dollarama/Dollar Store) can have the same effect! If you are in a crowded place and think people might look at you strange for pulling out ice packs, carry around a plastic frozen water bottle. Nobody thinks twice about someone who looks hot and is simply placing an iced water bottle under their eyes to cool down. The mammalian dive reflex is located under the eyes and activated by a drop in temperature. This is a survival reflex designed to conserve your body's energy if you are submerged in cold water. So, instead of pumping blood to your limbs, it keeps the blood heated around your chest and keeps your organs warm. This increases your chances of survival. However, as we know, the body is not perfect. The mammalian dive reflex cannot tell the difference if you are submerged under cold water or if you are holding a cold cloth on your face. Either way, placing that cold temperature under your eyes starts to lower your BPM and conserve blood flow. While the mammalian dive reflex sends your body into survival mode, your brain is actually not sure what is going on. Your brain understands that the heartrate is lowering and that the body is calming down, but does not know why, so the brain assumes that we must be calm. That is why this technique also helps with anxiety, anger, stress, panic, flashbacks, nightmares, and more. By calming the body, we trick the mind into think that it is calm too! This is a tool that I used often as a student. I have test anxiety, so by bringing a frozen water bottle with me, I could hold the water bottle under my eyes and settle my anxiety while writing my exams!! Hope this was helpful!
Some people are able to slow their heart rate by taking a full breath, exhaling and holding their breath. And they do it without having to dip their faces in the water. Do you know how you develop this technique?
Hmm - good question - I think the main thing is the difference between the face temperature and the water temperature.. I have one held my breath in around 40 degree Fahrenheit ( approx 4 degrees Celcius) And there my Diving Reflex was very noticable - in the above video I think the water is around 12 degrees celcius.
You need to be consistent and hold your breath before the head dunk and after to eliminate other variables that interferes with Brady cardia for a more accurate experiment.
@@cameronsharp2297 Deep breathing and breath holding alone can also lower your heart rate. The first trial he can hold his breath let's say 1 min and record his heart rate. Trial 2 he can do it the same exact way with the cold water. He can then compare the two numbers and calculate the difference. What he did in this video instead is he compared his normal heart rate to the cold water heart rate. A more accurate way would be to compare his breath holding heart rate to the cold water heart rate to account for that variable. Again why? As I mentioned above, breath holding alone can decrease heart rate. People may get a false sense that the cold water is solely responsible for the decreased heart rate he displayed with the way he did it in the video but that is not the case, there are other variables involved that could be accounted for. That is what I meant by my original post and it appears to be clear to most people except for you. I went into respiratory arrest years ago and I have experienced true Brady cardia. Don't tell me I don't know what this is. And don't call me out like that to throw me under the bus, not cool.
fan1008 making too many assumptions. Who said he was comparing anything? He was simply showing how your heart rate drops. Also assuming that I’m throwing you under the bus, no, you’re just mega defensive. People may get the idea that the cold water was solely responsible for the heart rate drop? So he’s just dunking his head in water for fun? Lmao This isn’t a trial, this is a presentation.
Wtf are you talking about? He's illustrating the "mammalian DIVE reflex." What do you think happens, exactly, when one dives underwater? Your anecdote about respiratory arrest has jack sh*t nothing to do with this. If you don't hold your breath when diving, you're not going to be bradypnic, you're going to f**king asystolic.
So I could have done this all those horrible times that I was having panic attacks instead of calling 911😐. I use medication for the attacks now, but if I ever have one again, I’m trying this method!
I have trained and helped many people dealing g with panic attacks, yes. Breathing and breathhold training is a good way to activate the relaxing nervous system
[For panic attacks] Try filling your mouth with water, hold your breath, sit down and maybe lean down putting your head between your knees. And then take a breath through your nose when you need to. I found that it stopped the onset of a panic attack just several days ago. I was fixing to rinse my mouth and gargle when I felt the panic begin to start up. I sat down and just swished the water, (1/2 peroxide and 1/2 water, be sure to spit out peroxide/water), around my mouth and held my breath until I had to breathe, and my panic began dropping. It worked better for me than breathing into and out of a paper bag. Which never seemed to help my panic attacks. I then went and took a Paxil which I had skipped for a few days as I am trying to wean to a lower dose. I heard that 5mg Paxil can stop panic attacks. The 20mg tab seems to be too much interference with my other med. [For high blood pressure] A man from my neighborhood said to try a teaspoonful to a tablespoon of lime juice with water to bring down blood pressure if it spikes up or is too high. I tried lemon juice in water and it did bring my blood pressure down. It was from the bottle of concentrated lemon juice.
@@burriedabove There is a chart called Resting Heart Rates that you measure your level of fitness. An 18yr old athlete has a resting heart rate of 40. Usain Bolt had a resting heart rate of 33. Try not to generalise, that’s the default response from amateurs
@@burriedabove not true. Many persons with O negative blood type have naturally low resting heart rate of 40 BPM or less. Mine would settle to around 35 BPM when lying in bed although I know that it went much lower than that as measuring it always made me nervous and pushed the rate up a little. Edit: sometimes it would slow so much that my heart would not beat for over 2 seconds
Yes my heart rate was a bit high, this was shot right after dinner and coffee 👌 But the MDR works even then. My lowest heart rate after breathhold is measured. to 27 bpm.. many years ago
Close to no movement so body uses oxygen at lower pace. I can hold my breath in a bowl of water for a little over a minute, but when diving I can barely last 30-40 seconds.
Thats literally the point of the video. Pay attention. It’s the mammalian dive reflex. Lowers your heart rate so you don’t require as much oxygen, and thus you can hold your breath longer.
While it's nice that everyone is saying their experience, the point still stands. He submerged after EXHALING. How in the bloody hell do you stay underwater without breathing for so long after exhaling?
Yes - the breathhold - combined with immersion in cold water makes the heartrate drop faster. But also breath hols without the water part woulkd make my heart rate drop - but it would trake a bit longer to see the effect
