The beat under your fingers
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Press two fingers to your wrist and wait a moment.
There it is, your heart, keeping time.
In yoga and older medicine, the pulse is read as a window into the body. You can feel it quicken after stairs, and ease as you settle. For most adults a resting beat sits between 60 and 100 a minute, and it tends to be lower in fitter bodies, higher under stress.
What moves yours the most?
What you'll need
- A quiet minute, ideally at rest
- Two fingers, for the wrist or the neck
Method
Rest two fingers on the inside of your wrist below the thumb, or on the side of your neck.
Feel for the beat, then count it for thirty seconds and double it.
Try it at rest, then again after climbing stairs, and feel the difference.
Take it once a day for a week, at the same calm moment, and notice where your resting beat tends to land, and what moves it.