Importance of HRV
Research shows that when you are under stress, lose concentration, or lack
focus, your heart rate is different from the times you are relaxed, concentrating, and focused. Heart rate changes not only from variation in your physical activity or emotions but also when inhaling and exhaling. This application will help players to exercise with the help of HRV.

Shaktimind Instructions
[1] Benefit of ShaktiMind Exercise
The exercise will teach you how to manage your thoughts especially during critical moments of your game, help you to stay calm and also will help you to improve your internal concentration along with ability to focus on task at hands.
[2] Recommendation
Daily spend 5 – 10 Minutes to do exercise on this application, as this will help you to improve your concentration level, help you to stay calm and manage your thoughts in better way.
[3] How to do exercise?
In the application, you will find two options 1) Match Stimulation & 2) Normal Practice session.

* Match stimulation -
- You need to use your visual imagery (i.e. to visualize the situation of your match which is critical in nature).
- Select the time of exercise
- Select the background voice of crowd to give you the feel of the atmosphere.
- The exercise is based on biofeedback HRV, i.e. analysis of heart rate variability, you will be asked to place your finger gently on the back of the camera, once you do that, do not move your finger.
- Please note: DO NOT PRESS your finger hard on the back of camera as it might break the blood flow. Try to keep the finger as still as possible, as system will be measuring your HRV. Also don’t place your finger overlapping flashlight, as you might feel burning on your skin.
- Now, once the exercise will start, you will see a screen reflecting your current HRV in graph, your task is to calm yourself and do not allow graph spikes to go uneven, try to maintain steady spikes and this will be done by staying calm.
- At the completion of the exercise you can save the graph in mobile gallery to crosscheck your performances.
- This will help you to understand how to stay calm during critical moments of the game.

* Normal Practice Session -
- Select the time of exercise
- Select the background voice of different waves sound. To nourish your mind.
- The exercise is based on biofeedback HRV, i.e. analysis of heart rate variability, you will be asked to place your finger gently on the back of the camera, once you do that, do not move your finger.
- Please note: DO NOT PRESS your finger hard on the back of camera as it might break the blood flow. Try to keep the finger as still as possible, as system will be measuring your HRV. Also don’t place your finger overlapping flashlight, as you might feel burning on your skin.
- Now, once the exercise will start, you will see a screen reflecting your current HRV in graph, your task is to calm yourself and do not allow graph spikes to go uneven, try to maintain steady spikes and this will be done by staying calm.
- At the completion of the exercise you can save the graph in mobile gallery to crosscheck your performances.
- This will help you to understand how to stay calm during critical moments of the game.