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Pulse Rate
1.       Karina’s (Subject #1) Normal Pulse Rate: BPM (Beats per minute): 83 STD(Standard Deviation): 4
2.       Kalyn’s (Subject#2) Normal Pulse Rate: BPM (Beats per minute): 115 STD(Standard Deviation): 0
 
Data Categories
Experiments lasting 6-12 seconds each
 
1.       Consciously: Breathing rate (Rapid Vs Calm/Slow)-Subject #1
Calm Data: BPM: 82.9 STD:0
Rapid Data: BPM: 79.3  STD:3.1
 
 
2.       Thoughts (Scary Vs Peaceful) – Subject #2
Peaceful Thoughts: BPM: 97.9 STD:8.1
Scary Thoughts: 107.3 STD: 1.08
 
3.       Music (Soothing Vs Erratic/Rock) – Subject #1
Soothing Music: BPM 70.8         STD: 17.5
Erratic Music: BPM: 91.8          STD: 30.9
 
 
4.       Oxygen Amount – Subject #2
Normal – BPM: 93.6   STD: 3.4
(Less Oxygen) Held Breath: BPM: 90.8 STD: 1.8
More Oxygen: BPM: 101.5  STD:7.2
 
 
5.       Sitting down Vs standing – Subject#1
Standing: BPM: 79.1  STD:2.3
Sitting: BPM: 75.6   STD: 3.3
 
 
Calm Breathing Rate is faster because you’re consciously thinking about many things because you can not shut the brain off. Making yourself calm can have the opposite effect on your nerves and thereby directly effect’s your body’s pulse rate. For a rapid breathing rate the body is possibly responding to a single external stimulus causing your conscious to focus on a specific task. Therefore all the blood rushes to the heart out of fight or flight instinct. The body is prepping you for any needed action.
Peaceful thoughts created a slower heart rate compared to the scary thoughts.
Soothing music lowered the heart rate a lot. This is possible due to the subject’s familiarity with the soothing music. Her association with the song and her idea of “calm” could have triggered calm memories. Ex.) Babies and specific nursery rhymes, AOL voice, movie narrator.  Erratic music had the opposite effect and increased heart rate. This may have something to do with the music’s beat and rhythm. Ex.) Nightclub – Loud and fast music.
As you hold your breath the heart stops pumping blood to the body and this decreases the heart rate. When you breathe deeply you’re taking in more oxygen and this increases your heart rate.
Standing requires the blood to circulate throughout the body causing an increase in heart rate. When you sit down circulation is reduced as less blood is needed throughout the body.
Conclusion
Through our experiments we feel that pulse reacts and is triggered by both your unconscious and conscious. These factors are important because they are the starting point for the information that you feed to your body. For instance, if you experience fear (whether it is real with a life or death situation compared to an imagined fear such as watching a horror film) the body takes that response and acts on it. In certain situations the “fight or flight” tendency takes over in order for the body to respond appropriately to the situation at hand. But the mind has to understand the situation at hand in order to properly interpret the fear. In this way three main factors truly effect heart rate which include internal, external and body mechanisms.