Pulse is the rate at which your heart is beating. You can feel your pulse without using any biofeedback equipment, simply by touching some points on your your body, where blood vessels are close to the body surface. Usually, these points are on your wrist, neck, upper arm. Of course, there are more places where pulse can be measured.
HOW PULSE CAN BE STOPPED?
You probably have seen mentalists stopping their pulse during shows. Before performing the pulse stopping, mentalists might tell audience that:
1) Pulse stopping is a very dangerous stunt,
2) While trying to stop his pulse, performer might become unconscious.
None of this is true. In a moment you will see why.
HOW PULSE STOPPING PERFORMANCE USUALLY GOES?
Most of the time, the person who is about to stop his pulse, asks someone to hold their fingers on his wrist to measure pulse and to knock on the table with their knuckles or a stick every time he feels the pulsating of the vessels.
The performance of pulse stopping begins. Person who is measuring pulse knocks on the table...knocks again....knocks again...silence. Performer who is trying to stop his pulse looks very relaxed, as if he was sleeping, while the person who is measuring pulse looks a little bit anxious about what is going on....the crowd is silent...After a few more moments of silence from the person who is measuring pulse (which indicates that there is no pulse), he suddenly starts knocking again and performer starts getting from “sleep like state” to everyday state of consciousness. The end of performance. Applause.
HOW YOU CAN STOP YOUR OWN PULSE?
So, the main question - how you can perform the same stunt that mentalists do?
Does it require meditation? No.
Does it require cardiovascular training? No.
Do you have to do some kind of breathing exercises? No.
The method I am about to tell you doesn’t involve any kind of training. It is based on trickery. Trickery that mentalists use. It has nothing to do with actual pulse stopping, it is about creating the illusion of stopped pulse.
THE SECRET BEHIND THIS TRICK
The only material that is needed to perform this trick can be found in every household. You won’t have to spend a single cent to do this trick.
The “secret” material - a sock.
What to do with it? You simply have to roll it and put it in your armpit. Now, if you squeze your arm against your armpit, you will compress blood vessels and blood flow will be restricted. Because of that blood will not reach the point on the wrist, where another person is measuring your pulse. That’s the all secret. Of course, there might be other methods to perform this trick, but this is one of the methods that works very well.
And if you don’t have a sock (for some odd reason), you can use a rolled piece of paper or something similar, because the only requirement for the material is that you have to be able to compress your vessels using it. You can also put a thread or something like that around your shoulder and attach the sock (or other material) to it. This enables you to move your arms more freely, and you will probably need, if you want to demonstrate it for others.
THE END
Interfering with natural physiological processes is probably not the healthiest habit. But, as I said earlier, it is not as dangerous as performers might tell the audience and you definitely will not become unconscious.
