Patent ID: 7117032

Claim:
A method for improving human emotional states comprising: monitoring a subject's respiration; determining one or more current breathing patterns for said subject, said one or more current breathing patterns to include at least one of a current respiratory cycle and a current respiratory sinus arrhythmia pattern; determining one or more optimal breathing patterns for said subject, said one or more optimal breathing patterns to include at least one of an optimal respiratory cycle and an optimal respiratory sinus arrhythmia pattern, and wherein said one or more optimal breathing patterns induce one or more physiological systems to converge at a resonant frequency which varies over time between about 0.0315 Hertz and 0.234 Hertz; prompting said subject to take a breath at a specific time to cause said one or more current breathing patterns to approximate said one or more optimal breathing patterns; and, providing feedback to said subject representative of how closely the one or more current breathing patterns approximate the one or more optimal breathing patterns.