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Boon Lim

Boon Lim

Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust / Hammersmith Hospital and One Welbeck, London — specialising in atrial fibrillation, syncope, and the autonomic nervous system.

Jul 28, 2026

29:44
But when you were saying it can control like emotional regulation, I'm thinking that it could be of huge benefit for people that have anxiety or acute anxiety.
29:56
Exactly right.
29:57
Because when we think about coherent states, we think about a state where your breath or breathing, your heart rate control, your blood pressure control are completely synchronized in the best physiological state it can be.
30:16
to send signals back to the brain to calm that brain down.
30:21
So there are papers that show that when you sit in coherence as a breathing state, you regulate the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala and the interactions between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala, which is the processing or sub-processing center for the sensory information coming in, including stressful information.
30:41
And that regulation, due to the... nervous system, which goes in both directions, Ben.
30:48
So we always think the brain sends signals down and commands the rest of the body.

23 MINS LATER

54:05
So I'd probably use the way that you've approached it.

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